About

Euler Hermes is a credit insurance company headquartered in Paris and a global industry leader with over 6,000 employees in more than 50 countries; Euler Hermes Deutschland is Germany’s leading credit insurer with a market share of 40 percent. Katharina Heller’s position as legal advisor (HR) is the only such position in the entire company and she is in charge of employment-related measures from inception until implementation. Career highlights include ‘those moments when I see happy staff members after a measure has been implemented, such as after the introduction of flexible working hours’. A milestone for her has been the realisation that ‘even the tiniest employer contribution can have an enormous effect, something that we usually don’t measure economically’. Her credo is therefore ‘to always keep an eye on the small details’. Law firms should bear in mind the company culture. ‘The legally most sound and perfect advice won’t be a success if the company is on a totally different wavelength’.