Supporting clients to achieve their strategic goals by making data-driven recommendations to increase employee engagement, create compelling cultures, develop authentic and inspiring leaders and solve complex business challengesEngagement and Employee Experience (eX):• Activating strategic employee listening • Designing and implementing tailored interventions to drive both top-down and bottom-up action to enrich the day-to-day eX, from on-boarding and development to recognition and performance management Culture and Change Management:• Identifying, articulating and activating the target culture• Facilitating leadership visioning and alignment workshops to identify priority culture styles and craft supporting values statements• Creating a cultural narrative including a framework for delivery, establishing an outcome-focused measurement approach to drive continuous improvement and determine impact• Crafting a detailed change management plan, communications plan and culture change roadmap of targeted interventions across leadership, talent, and infrastructure to reinforce desired behaviours, values and bring the target culture to life at all levels of the organisationLeadership Assessment and Development:• Running future-focused leadership development and assessment programmes• Designing and facilitating virtual and in-person workshops with leaders globally to build shared understanding and develop capability to lead high performing teams and the wider organisation

The role encompassed employee engagement, communication, project and events management and employee experience as well as driving our D&I and Environment, Sustainability & Governance agenda. Develop and lead key activities across the full depth and breadth of our organisation in support of our enterprise-wide business transformation that aim to create the climate and culture in which employees’ can truly thrive and fulfil their potential. Design, recommend and implement a suite of evidence-based initiatives to drive positive cultural change and improve our employee experience / strengthen our EVP.Evaluate and further evolve our core company behaviours and values, ensuring alignment to our mission, purpose and strategic goals. Work in partnership with the board of directors to create a cultural narrative for the business, including a framework for delivery and associated metrics to determine impact.Through different mechanisms such as focus groups, workshops and pulse surveys, listen, understand and act on how our employees experiences’ align to our company, vision, mission, values and behaviours. Design creative, engaging and authentic comms materials to influence, gain buy-in and drive change.Lead global teams to deliver creative and impactful employee engagement events to capture sentiment, develop capability and inspire high-performance. Provide access to senior-leadership teams and facilitate collaboration with peers across the global business through workshops and interactive elementsAs the Head Office ‘MindSet’ Lead and a Mental Health First Aider, develop new initiatives to promote employee wellbeing. For example, delivering workshops on how to adopt a growth mind-set and webinars on eating and exercising to support good mental health.Lead the implementation and adoption of Dual Reporting - one of the key enablers to our organisational transition.

As the world around us continues to evolve, our people remain at the heart of what we do. People want to work for companies where their work has impact and meaning, where they can grow and develop, and where their efforts and unique talents are recognised and celebrated.We recognise our people managers play a critical role in helping us to achieve this vision and to build a workplace culture where individuals are inspired and empowered to fulfil their potential. This will in turn drive accelerated performance and help attract and retain the very best talentCreate and launch a set of defined People Manager Responsibilities with aligned performance objectiveDevelop managers confidence and capability to lead high performing teams through a suite of initiativesSupport and equip managers with the skills, knowledge and materials they need through enhanced future-focused training, technology-enabled tools and accessible, user-friendly resourcesEncourage managers and teams to take joint accountability for fostering a workplace environment in which individuals can thrive and in which we continue to deliver excellence for our customers

Leadership Development:Support the development and ongoing management of a new flagship global leadership programme Design and develop a new innovative leadership programme mobile App and a global intranet site as part of a wider strategic communications planFunctional Learning and Talent Management:Launch and facilitate virtual ‘BiteSize Awareness sessions’ to encourage cross-business knowledge sharing, collaboration and development of business acumen and commercial awarenessCoordinate the delivery of functional development programmes, identifying opportunities for growth and adopting a continuous improvement mind-set to ensure programmes remained relevant and impactfulImplement a new effective strategic workforce planning process to encourage internal talent mobilityEarly Careers:Launch and own the Commercial Early Careers Network, supporting members through new initiatives such as reverse mentoring, running career workshops and leading personal effectiveness sessionsDesign and implement the new UK Graduate Programme Assessment Process. This involved developing detailed supporting materials and training graduates on lean six sigma techniques to identify and solve problems and drive tangible business improvementsDevelop new resources such as an ‘On-Boarding Guide’ and a ‘Guide to Personal Development Planning’Events Management:Lead the planning, marketing, execution and evaluation of a range of events (in-person, hybrid and virtual) with global audiences of over 1,000. These included key senior leadership conferences, talent engagement events, award ceremonies and development centres.

Delivered monthly reporting requirements including Contract Status Reports, Sales and Margin Trading Plans, Monthly Forecasts and Budgets in addition to ad-hoc reports. Utilised a range of systems such as SAP and tableau to interrogate data.Built innovative reports to facilitate cross-functional briefings and enable all stakeholders to be able to understand and utilise key figures to support data-driven decision making.

Day to day activities included financial management reporting, data analysis and validation, root-cause research, planning, budgeting and forecasting. Active STEM Ambassador and led the end-to-end recruitment process for Finance early careers.