Charles Welsh Email & Phone Number

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

I had day to day responsibility for maintaining training standards and the overall quality of the JI’s portfolio of products.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Active member of the RBS learning & development leadership team that was top quartile in 2017 global staff engagement survey. Leading L&D compliance with new ring-fencing regulations. Recent working includes: Scoping, costing and agreement of L&D function service catalogue, liaising and agreeing with internal customers’ scope and cost of global L&D.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Secondment in Conduct & Regulatory Affairs (C&RA) to help establish Future Williams & Glyn challenger bank.Leading on the C&RA 2nd Line of Defence oversight of the responses to the Williams & Glyn (W&G) Banking Licence application regulators’ feedback. Co-ordinating oversight across Internal Audit, Legal & Risk of responses to FCA and PRA questions on.

Edinburgh

• Lead for L&D on confidential regulatory HR Programmes:
• To establish ‘ring-fenced’ bank and ‘non-ring-fenced’ bank in response to Independent Commission on Banking’s 2011 final report in response to 2008 financial crisis.
• Working with Conduct & Regulatory Affairs colleagues to ensure compliance with the new Individual Accountability Regime. Provided strategic advice on Professional Qualifications policy for the bank and advising on.

Edinburgh

• Providing excellent support for and trusted advisor to banking executive responsible for global L&D and leadership strategy, development and delivery across complex multinational. Enabling others success through.
• Responsible for drafting comms strategy and all executive comms to global teams.
• Brief and advise executive ahead of committee, board and day-to-day meetings on L&D, leadership, culture change, talent and professional standards.
• Quickly developed strong relationships and credibility across HR Directors and their offices to ensure successful delivery of L&D priorities within HR 2015 People Plan.
• Plan, track and facilitate execution of key pieces of work on behalf of executive as part of leadership team.
• Effectively manage executive’s inbox and daily correspondence.

Edinburgh

• Responsible for developing a UK-wide strategy to create and grow Apprenticeship opportunities in global bank. Influencing senior staff to commit funds to develop Apprenticeships; working with practitioners to create.
• Designed and delivered the first RBS Apprenticeship professional training and development proposition through influencing senior stakeholders across the bank. 400 Apprentices hired on programme in 2015 proving the.
• Designed, co-ordinated and delivered award-winning 6 days of pre-start ‘Bootcamp’ training for 60 Apprentices simultaneously across four locations in the UK.
• Briefed large hotel chain client on hospitality Apprenticeships with Bank Relationship Director.
• Matrix managed of a team of 12 professional programme consultants and recruiters.
• Delivered the key note speech at BPP’s 2014 Apprenticeship Week Breakfast event in London.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

I was a Lay a member of the Law Society of Scotland's Education and Training Regulatory Sub-Committee. The committee provides support and challenge to the Law Society's Education & Training function as it regulates the university education and initial professional training of Scotland's solicitors.

• I was an entrepreneurial business development manager and key client contact across Legal Services, Courts, Prosecution, Forensic Science and Victim Services. Developed and grew relationships with organisations across.
• Instigated the development and design of Legal Apprenticeships generating significant value for the business in terms of revenue, client credibility, opening up new markets and product development/ proposition.
• Senior Manager in innovative SME charity continually and successfully seeking and exploiting new opportunities for business growth.
• Designed strategy, client proposition, operating plan and delivery for 3 different business units.
• Quickly grew different business units from zero base to six-figure revenue.
• Planned and managed c£500,000 worth of projects and resource on my P&L account, delivering to time and quality and under budget, and securing repeat business.

Working closely with the Scottish Country Manager I managed our relationship with key government and agency stakeholders in the Scottish skills arena.

• Working in the Strategic Policy branch, I serviced the Committee allocating strategic funding to Universities and Colleges and facilitated the approval of several projects across different industry sectors.Key.
• Led research and drafted report on provision of learning across Scottish universities and its impact on the supply of talent to the labour market.
• Led development of single support structure for Universities and College on diversity & inclusion.

I produced policy briefings on the Scottish Skills arena for the emerging network of Sector Skills Councils in Scotland.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Front line telephone customer service role sensitively handling customer inquiries into contentious guaranteed annuity rate pension changes.