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Marex is a leading global commodity broker offering market coverage across Metals, Agriculture and Energy products. It operates out of 10 offices globally with over 500 employees.Group HRD role develops and leads the global people strategy to help grow the business. Accountable for initiatives for learning and development, talent management, engagement, reward and benefits and HRIS as well providing strategic counsel on all people matters.

ASSA ABLOY is the global leader in door opening and security solutions. EMEA Division has an annual turnover of Euros 1.8billion and 10,500 employees. Accountable to Executive Vice President to support operational and business strategy and convert into plans for organisational design, employer branding, training and development, improved productivity and engagement.

HSBC Plc provides global banking/financial services with 48 million customers over 4 business groups, Retail Banking & Wealth Management, Commercial Banking Global Banking & Markets and Global Private Banking. It is present in over 70 countries. Accountable to the Programme Director for Phase 1 to devise strategy, review and design infrastructure/systems to ensure compliance with the Financial Services (Banking Reform) Act 2013 which impacts all UK banks holding deposits of £25bn or more, and requires them to make structural changes to create a ring-fence bank for retail and small and medium sized enterprise. The aim is to make it bankruptcy remote and in the event of another financial crisis the bank can be recovered or resolved quickly. The new structure has be in place before January 2019.Key activities: organisational design, workforce data & systems capability, reward and pension structures, legal entity review, governance and compliance, stakeholder and engagement management., risk and impact assessment.

Accountable to CEO Global Retail Bank. Member of the global retail bank executive team with responsibility and strategic oversight for 100,000 employees worldwide in a complex matrix delivering retail banking in 80 countries (branches, call centres, back office/front line staff).- Created people retail banking strategy element for transformation and merged design of Retail Bank, Wealth Management, Insurance and Asset Management into one cohesive global revenue structure.- Led people work stream as part of culture change and new global retail bank incentive framework.- Drove talent and succession agenda with specific focus on supporting digital strategy. Key activities: strategy, culture/change management, coaching, reward and analytics, talent & succession, digital strategy, organisational development, remco, governance and regulation, organisational design, executive recruitment, transformation, performance management, leadership development, customer experience, restructuring, behaviour and values training.

Accountable to CEO and member of executive team. Delivered people agenda of global ‘thousand day’ strategy to grow business revenue to achieve 20% of HSBC pbt. Remit to create a streamlined global insurance community (10,000 employees) for growth.- Transformed people infrastructure, created HR shared service model and up-skilled the managerial population with a focus on increasing engagement. - Led HR team on disposals of non-core businesses in broking, offshore, actuarial and general insurance.- Hired new senior team and created development roles for graduates.Key activities: strategy, stakeholder management, organisational design, employee engagement, learning & development, cultural transformation, disposals, redundancy, TUPE, leadership development, communication, negotiation, remco, executive resourcing, employee proposition, coaching, launched academy, cost reduction, virtual networking, managed global teams, business growth.

FTSE 100 global Insurer with 23,000 employees worldwide, serving 24 million customers incorporating life insurance, pensions and healthcare.During this time People Director Operations led for HR on £720 million deal with Capita to outsource back office (3,000 employees) and the sale of the India business. Also co-ordinated the integration of Egg Bank and Prudential prior to Egg Bank being sold. When Prudential India operation was started People Director role led on major redundancy programme in the UK and led on Union negotiations with UNITE. - Provided comprehensive HR service with team of HR business partners and Specialists (Learning & Development, and Reward)- Launched India business and migrated work out of UK.- Activated union negotiations to complete redundancy and TUPE strategy.- Created development strategy to re-engage workforce, refresh skills and focus on customer experience.Additional responsibilities- Interim HRD, UK & Europe (covering absence in 2007)- Project lead for HR Egg Integration & Global Audit project (2006-2007)Key activities: Change & transformation projects, redundancy, TUPE, outsourcing, acquisition integration, union negotiations, coaching, performance & reward, retention and recognition strategy, executive recruitment, leadership development, talent review, M&A, assessment with psychometric and personality questionnaire, strategic HR review, employee engagement.

- Created and implemented HR provision to specialist unit compensating customers for mis-sold pensions in line with targets set by the regulator.- Established bespoke incentive scheme for 600 employees and governance to ensure regulatory approval. Key activities: employee relations and engagement, redundancy, redeployment, training, coaching, regulatory compliance, reward, pensions, performance management, resourcing, crisis management, communications strategy, budget management, .

AXA is a world leader in financial services, operating in 59 countries in wealth management, insurance and healthcare. AXA UK acquired GRE, PPP Healthcare and Sunlife Provincial Holdings, UK revenue was £150 million.- Supported Business Development on numerous acquisitions to ensure effective bid process and implementation strategy.- Conducted executive recruitment and sourcing selection with Paris head office for senior roles.- Integrated PPP Healthcare into AXA and retained specialist skills in the Long term healthcare business whilst relocating to Bristol.- Achieved target savings of £5m (via redundancy & systems integration).Key activities: HR strategy and transformation, M&A, redundancy, performance management, sales incentive schemes, reward, pensions, learning & development, organisational design, union negotiations, managing stakeholders, cost reduction, mediation, development and assessment centres, talent & succession planning.

Established effective relationship with Directors and Unions to introduce an automated system to provide the Agency/Government with accurate and informative data on 10,000 employees and roles.Key activities: Managing stakeholders, organisational design, Employee relations, Unions, governance, change strategy, procurement, integration.

Commercial organisation providing air traffic services in UK and Europe. Held various roles:Head of HR, London Airports (1992-1996)HR Manager, Engineering & Future Systems (1989-1992)Reward Analyst (1987-1989)Key Activities: HR & Business strategy, assessment using psychometrics and personality questionnaires, performance management, workforce planning, job evaluation, reward, pensions, union negotiations, organisational design, succession planning, change management, resourcing, leadership development, coaching, stakeholder engagement,