I took a short career break while seeking my next role.

Veolia is the UK leader in resource management, providing a range of waste, water and energy management services designed to build the circular economy and protect the environment.I was a member of the HR Leadership Team, reporting directly into the Chief HR Officer, focussed on setting, and delivering the HR Strategy for Veolia, with a key focus on attraction and retention of the workforce. I led a sizeable HR Strategy Team and was responsible for: - Resourcing - including: fulfilling all permanent recruitment needs for the UK, early careers recruitment and managing the employer brand, careers website and social channels.- HR Relationship Management - including: talent management, succession planning, workforce planning, maintaining the critical roles register and employee engagement.- Inclusion - including: setting and delivering the Inclusion Strategy, focussed on attraction & selection, awareness & upskilling, development, communication and customers.- Reward, HR Systems and Data - including: cyclical reward processes, reward and benefits management, reward compliance and reporting, maintaining key HR systems and provision of HR data.

Cadent owns, operates and maintains the largest gas distribution network in the UK, transporting gas safely, providing people with the energy they need to stay safe and warm, and protecting them in an emergency. With a 200-year legacy, Cadent ensures gas reaches 11 million homes and businesses, from Cumbria to North London and the Welsh borders to East Anglia. As a member of the HR leadership team at Cadent, I:- led the HRBP team who partnered the senior leadership team, providing support right across the business with a full range of HR initiatives & activities, including the delivery of large change programmes. - took a lead on D&I, supporting the development of the strategy and identifying areas of focus.- managed the talent management and succession planning framework and process for Cadent.- led the Resourcing Team; an in-house team who supported hiring managers with their recruitment needs for high-volume roles, experienced hires and entry talent programmes.

Following our separation from National Grid, I joined the HR leadership team at Cadent and was responsible for setting up and leading the resourcing function. The set-up activity included: building a new team, implementation of a new applicant tracking system, creating and launching our new careers website and social media presence, forming our supplier/partner relationships and establishing our ways of working & resourcing processes.As we set-up the function and completed our separation from National Grid, the team have continued to support our hiring managers to fill a wide range of roles across experienced hire & support roles, operational & field force roles and entry talent programmes.

I joined National Grid as a HR Business Partner supporting the Gas Distribution business. Specifically, I partnered Operations and Strategic Partnerships - an area of over 2500 employees, many of which are field based. This role covered the full range of HR activities and strategic projects. I worked with senior leaders to agree and implement the HR plan within their functions and collaborated with the HR Centres of Expertise and HR Services to deliver the agreed priorities.I was promoted to the role of Senior HRBP from January 2016. I led a team of 4 HR Business Partners who directly supported the Gas Distribution business - over 3500 people, across a range of functions and a wide geographic area. I worked in partnership with the Director of Gas Distribution and the Executive Team to develop and implement the people plan within this part of the organisation.

I took the opportunity for an extended career break following maternity.

My most recent role was as a Senior Strategic People Business Partner, which I held for two years. During this time, I had sole responsibility for the HR agenda for Engineering and Technical Strategy and Architecture. I developed and implemented the strategic HR plans in partnership with senior leaders. In this role I operated across the full HR remit and I coached the directors and their teams through a wide range of HR activities - from one-off and cyclical HR processes and through to more strategic projects. I also delivered cost reduction and a simplified organisation design through significant business change and reorganisation activity. Prior to that I completed a number of other roles - a Reward Secondment, Technology Transformation People Team Lead, Strategic People Business Partner for Technology, Strategic People Business Partner for Credit and Collections.

I joined Barclays on the Business Leadership Programme, following graduation. Initially, I completed a short project role within the HR Shared Service Centre and then I transferred across to Barclaycard where I undertook a number of HRBP roles.I gained very broad experience as a result of business partnering a variety of areas - from Functional Areas (such as Finance and Legal), through to Customer Sales and Service.I also delivered significant business change activity - dealing with TUPE, redundancy programmes and reorganisation.

I completed an industrial placement with Vauxhall Motors. I worked on a wide range of activities and also managed some larger projects, which allowed me to gain experience in recruitment and events management.