Update from April 13, 2026:
SAP has announced that it is extending the current contract with Chief People Officer Gina Vargiu-Breuer (51) for another three years until January 31, 2030. In her role, she optimized the processes in the areas of personnel recruitment, development and management and thus “set an important course for the long-term success of SAP,” according to the press release.
Report from August 29, 2023:
The software developer SAP is appointing Gina Vargiu-Breuer (48) to the board as Chief People Officer and Labor Director on February 1, 2024. The company announced this today. She succeeds Sabine Bendiek, who is leaving the company at her own request at the end of December 2023. Bendiek was labor director and chief people and operating officer. Strategy chief Sebastian Steinhäuser will take on the latter position (COO) in addition to his current role. In contrast to Bendiek, Vargiu-Breuer will concentrate on the human resources department in the future.
Vargiu-Breuer comes from Siemens Energy, where she has set up the global human resources department as Global Head of HR since the spin-off from Siemens in 2019 and was responsible for a significant part of the company’s transformation with the group human resources strategy. Their focus was on involving managers and the workforce who should help shape the transformation.
In her new role at SAP, 48-year-old Vargiu-Breuer will lead the HR organization and drive the transformation of the HR strategy. According to the company, this includes creating a more powerful growth and learning environment that enables inclusion, diversity and agility.
“In Gina Vargiu-Breuer, we have found an outstanding manager who can further advance our ongoing digital transformation on the human resources side and provide decisive impetus,” said Professor Hasso Plattner, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of SAP SE.
