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Edinburgh, GB

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

• Lead a team of Barclays and Cap-co consultants to assess Barclays ‘current state’ measures and metrics and make recommendations to improve them e.g. Exco scorecard.
• Lead a team of Barclays and Deloitte consultants to deliver global organisational design for Barclays HR function, including change management and full transition plan.

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

• Worked with PWC to develop high level design for new Cyber security function for Scottish Power
• Organisational Design review, option case and implementation of new Distributed System Operator (DSO) TOM, High level design, detailed design and transition plan to deliver against ED2 strategic plan.
• Develop organisational design framework and upskill HR team in mind-set and approach, with particular focus on systems thinking.
• Deliver organisational design review,operating model and change management for SP Corporate functions in Internal Audit, General Services, HR Learning & Development

St Andrews

• St Andrews university is a premium university for teaching and research and is the third oldest university in the United Kingdom. As organisational design and change specialist, the role is focused on introducing.
• Delivered full organisational design review in the Medical School. Project successfully delivered remotely on time and in budget, exceededing stakeholder’s expectations.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Interim work supporting the build of QED Naval for medium to longterm business development

Whitley

• Organisational Design Manager supporting the entire business as an internal consultant in Organisational Design, Change Management and Transformation. The role is focused on large scale projects that go across.
• Lead for Organisational Design and Change Management project to drive centralisation and collaboration across 3 cross functional workstreams globally in IT, Finance and Transformation.
• Enabled the launch of 200 people Finance shared service in JLR.
• Delivered the Change Management approach to transfer engineering activities from UK to China.
• Delivered cost saving and re-design activities for Finance and Corporate Strategy functions.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• I worked with Scottish Water to deliver part of their technology agenda.
• Delivered people change implementation plan and transferred capital project teams to new Microsoft Office 365 working environment on time and on budget. Gold Award for employee engagement approach taken.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• I worked as a Change Manager in central transformation team which focused on large scale transformation projects.
• Lead for BCD controls team changes working with Director and HRBP community to integrate new IT system
• Effectively engaged national union teams
• Delivered customer service initiative across BT Openreach which drove improvements in customer service and employee engagement.
• Delivered business re-structure which involved the creation of three new director’s patches
• Delivered on time a systems upgrade and patch re-balancing for 16,000 employees

Scotland

• I worked as an HRBP supporting Leadership teams in Scotland and Controls /Planning teams nationally.
• Built strong and trusting relationships with Senior Leader to deliver the people plan
• Design, develop and delivered new manager induction programme
• Managed and delivered total labour resource and total labour cost budget
• Delivered several departmental closures through the entire project cycle
• Built strong and productive working relationships with union representative in Scotland.

United Kingdom

HR Business Partner Support to all Abbey’s Retail Branch network in Scotland and North England.

Grangemouth

Organisational change, managed IT department TUPE outsource project Supported the site leaderBuilt effective relationships with the sites unions

Motherwell, United Kingdom

Project managed the downsizing and TUPE transfer of 25 staff Played lead role in a Green Belt project which reduced absence by 0.5 % in 6 monthsManaged the successful re-assessment process for Investors In People accreditation Built centre of excellence for Environmental Controls

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Played central role in facilitating the companies partnership ER forum Managed SAP HR Administration & Payroll upgrade from 4.0B to 4.6C

Organisational Design

Graduate Certificate, Organisational Development

Post Graduate Certificate, Employment Law

Certificate in employment law

Master’S Degree, Human Resources Management

Degree in Business Studies and Postgraduate Diploma in HR

Bachelor’S Degree, Business Studies