Alison Thomas Email & Phone Number

Ipswich, Gb

Ipswich, Suffolk, Gb

As the company grew, I was responsible for policy writing and implementation including Wellbeing, flexible and Hybrid working. I would benchmark our well being employee benefits against other software companies to see how we compared. I would suggest recommendations of initiatives that we could incorporate within budget to ensure that that the company remained attractive to new joiners and would help to reduce attrition rates. Supported the business in finding training opportunities for both company wide and specialised training programmes through online and external training vendors.I have also coached and mentored new and junior employees within the company helping to formulate training and development plans and to be a supportive and empathetic manager.• Managing complex relations including absence , dispute resolutions, disciplinaries, grievances, TUPE transfers, retirement and redundancy.• Responsible for talent and succession planning including internal and external recruitment within the company including the interview process for all employees.• On / off boarding including preparing employee documentation, induction training and exit interviews.• Assisting with preparation of payroll on Xero ( through both internally & external partners ).• Continually monitoring and reviewing HR policies, processes and documentation to ensure these are reflective of both employment law legislation and company policy and are implemented within the business.• Identifying training and developing needs of employees and undertaking Performance Management where necessary.• Setting up of employee HR surgeries and consultation meetings.

Ipswich, Suffolk, Gb

I was responsible for all the recruitment and education engagement events through University careers fairs and local colleges, schools and councils as well specialised recruitment agencies when needed.I designed the company recruitment process and used a ATS for candidate selection and interviews, engaging with team leads on their candidate requirements.I was an advocate in the company in promoting STEM, through running education events such as British Science Week, educational presentations at schools and colleges along with engaging with girls at schools to encourage a greater interest in careers in technology.

Ipswich, Suffolk, Gb

I worked closely with the co-founder of Coderus, supporting the business in various activities from strategic planning on both our HR and recruitment strategy. I supported the business with ensuring that we secured our ISO certifications ( 9001, 27001 & 14001). I attended various regional business development events, sponsorship events, awards events, and exhibitions and promoted the Coderus brand and services. I have taken responsibility for multiple areas of the business including daily HR, Recruitment strategy, outbound engagement and managing those relationships. Event management and supporting recruitment processes. I have managed the Payroll both internally and through external partners as well as undertaking the Office Manager role.

Ipswich, Suffolk, Gb

As the company expanded I helped look after the day-2-day office activities. This included:• Health and Safety including DSE compliance• Office manager roles - tracking of both purchases and stock within the company.• Client sample tracking • Managing site and landlord activities such as faults and access.• Mentored and trained junior members of the Business Administration team to manage workloads and ensured timescales met and growing team.Transitioned the company on a short time scale to a fully remote model during the COVID 19 pandemic and then subsequently a Hybrid working model.

Ipswich, Suffolk, Gb

I supported the business with onboarding its first employees and helping to get all contractual documentation, company insurances and policies in place. I reviewed various HR vendor suppliers to ensure that the company had a HRMS that suited the operational needs of the business.

During this time I was bringing up my young family. However, I did undertake various voluntary work during this time as I wanted to keep my HR and business administration skills updated and get involved in supporting these causes, as I was planning on returning to workforce once the children were at school.

London, Gb

Responsible for implementing the ED & I strategic objectives including diversity awareness training within BTexact Technologies (as was) within BT Group.

London, Gb

I was Personal Assistant to the HR Director of BTexact Technologies (as was) within BT Group, covering all aspected from diary & mailbox management and various other HR activities within the HR team.

London, Gb

I was the personal assistant to Unit Manager of the Testing, Customer Support department covering all aspected from diary & event management, mailbox and Office Administration with the team.

London, Gb

I was responsible for all the company training which was needed to implement this company wide training initiative which included scheduling events and trainers and organising training invitations and evaluating attendee feedback.

London, Gb

I was responsible for providing engineering reports of the Engineering Activities within the BT Group,. This would require me to extract data from the computer system and provide this data within given agreed templates needed by the business to enhance operational efficiency.

London, Gb

I was responsible for supporting with project administration generating user user ids and profile access for a new CRM system as well as general office administration.

London, Gb

I was clerical assistant, looking after all the vehicles of BT Motor transport ( Now Openreach ), looking after all aspected of the vehicle lifecycle from taxing, MOT, and vehicle commission & decommission.