Amanda Harrison Email & Phone Number

Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

Leeds, West Yorkshire, Gb

Leeds And Wakefield, West Yorkshire, Gb

https://www.turninglivesaround.co.uk/

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Ludwigshafen, De

Sunderland, North East, Gb

Hr Consultant available for interim work in any of specialist areas. Recent projects include:1. Generalist support for a financial services organisation – production of both an employee guide and health and safety manual. Introduction of a new structured recruitment process that includes competence based interview questions along with ability tests and personality questionnaires. Advised on structural change including redundancies.2. Rail industry – Worked for VCV for 10 months as HR Manager on the Modular Switch and Crossings Programme. Responsible for researching and producing strategies encompassing change management, organisational design (including recruitment and selection best practice), training needs analysis, training design (on and off the job) and communication. This programme is an innovative project that will reduce the time taken to replace line switch and crossings from 54 hours to 8 hours. The programme when implemented will have a major impact on the working practices of 3rd party contractors as well as Network Rail. 3. Delivery of training programmes on behalf of The Co-operative College to Boards of Directors on topics such as Corporate Governance, Chairmanship skills and Appraisal skills.4. Recruitment Consultancy – Recruitment for IT, Retail and financial services industries. This included the preparation of tender documentation. Roles recruited varied from £22K to £100K.5. Generalist support for a manufacturing organisation until a permanent replacement was found. The organisation is a well known food brand based across 2 sites with 350 employees and a 365 day, 24 hour per day operation. Managing a team of 3 dealing with all day to day HR issues. Producing a report about the department strengths and weaknesses as well as best practice ideas for the Company to consider in the future.

Wakefield, Yorkshire, Gb

Businesses operated by Leeds Co-operative Society during my tenure were: Food, Travel, Funeral, Optical, Pharmacy, Garage Services, Furniture, Photography and Property Management. Reporting directly to the Chief Executive and working closely with other senior management colleagues my role covered a wide range of HR strategy ranging from personnel, training, corporate health and safety, employee relations, employee communication through to remuneration. In addition for a period of 2 years I ran 6 Optical branches. Key experiences in this role were: Able to successfully manage change from an H.R. perspective Regularly advise managers on the legal and H.R. issues associated with change Determining business strategy ensuring H.R. strategy forms an integral part of the business planning process Worked closely with the senior management team to develop practical H.R. solutions Worked with managers to identify cultural changes required and subsequently alongside managers at all levels to produce action plans for change. Produced remuneration and benefits strategies including the introduction of family friendly policies. Undertook salary surveys and produced new salary packages including bonus schemes. The latter placed emphasis on over achievement of targets. Experienced in formulating, scheduling and managing learning activities that meet the Society’s business and succession plans Reviewed human resources policies and practices and developed new ones taking into account best practice e.g. lifelong learning, senior management development etc. Implemented cultural surveys and monitored the change process Devised and implemented strategies to help reduce labour turnover from 68.7% to 36.4% within the Food division since 2001 Devised and implemented strategies to reduce sickness absence to 4.18%

Bradford, West Yorkshire, Gb

Leeds, West Yorkshire, Gb

Leeds, West Yorkshire, Gb

Leeds, West Yorkshire, Gb

Leeds, West Yorkshire, Gb

Leeds, West Yorkshire, Gb

Leeds, West Yorkshire, Gb