Daniel Morana Email & Phone Number

Ormskirk, England, United Kingdom

As Head of Membership Services at Edge Hill Students' Union, I am responsible for the strategic development and operational management of the Students' Union’s membership services. As a member of the Senior Leadership Team, I lead on large-scale projects, deliver strategic operational plans and forge critical relationships with key stakeholders, internally, at the University and externally, across the UK and internationally. I am responsible for leading our Advice Service which offers impartial guidance, representation and wellbeing support to students, on internal marketing and communications, policy and insight, societies and activities. I work very closely with our Elected Officers as the recognised representative channel for the student voice on campaigning to achieve positive change driven by students at the University.

Ormskirk, England, United Kingdom

Ormskirk, England, United Kingdom

> Responsible for the delivery of Edge Hill University’s Recruitment, Resourcing, and Reward Strategy and providing services, guidance, and support to recruiting managers, staff, and candidates. Copywriting job advertisements for Edge Hill University vacancies, seeking to promote the variety of opportunities offered across the University. A point of contact, expertise, and escalation for recruiting managers, guiding and problem-solving advertising, recruitment, pre-employment, and general resourcing enquiries in line with guidance, policies and legislation.> A key role in encouraging excellent customer service, coordinating assigned projects and activities to improve processes and enhance the candidate/ recruiting manager experience. Responsible for task allocation of the Staff Recruitment Administrators to ensure service levels are achieved and payroll deadlines are met.

Ormskirk, England, United Kingdom

> Accountability for a Skills Bootcamp in Cloud Computing and Data Analytics in partnership with the Institute of Coding, Bath University. Responsibility for elements of project management and administration for over 200 learners split across 3 cohorts of the Skills Bootcamp, ensuring they have everything they need to be successful in attaining the LV4 qualification, and assisting them in their search for employment on completion of the bootcamp.• Responsibility for managing recruitment of learners for the Bootcamp. Designed an overhaul of the recruitment process following up on feedback from previous cohorts, and successfully increased learner retention to 100% on DfE reporting figures.• Management and submission of DfE monthly reporting package, including data reports, spreadsheets, financial documents and Bootcamp updates.• Ensuring excellent compliance of student records in line with Institute of Coding, DfE, University and GDPR standards. Records audited twice by external teams, and successfully passed both audits.• Responsibility for day-to-day administration of the Bootcamp; checking assignment completion and monitoring learner progress, management of Skills Bootcamp shared mailbox, answering learner and external questions relating to the Bootcamp, referring learners to tutors and professors for support, updating and managing content on Blackboard, management and administration of student forums.• Coaching and mentoring learners in their employability aspirations; holding CV writing sessions, bespoke job search guidance, interview preparation, market and job opportunity searches, organising talks from industry experts in tech/data/employability fields.

Liverpool, England, United Kingdom

> Promoted to Global HR Information Systems Manager and EU HR Manager for 300+ employees at 3 Top-Tier COMAH chemical manufacturing sites across the UK (Liverpool, Workington & Middlesbrough) and the EU Sales team (Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Italy & Netherlands).• Embedding corporate values and behaviours and translating the HR and business strategies for the workforce, across the UK and EU territories.• Coaching and mentoring managers/senior managers within the business enabling them to achieve success and transformational change for themselves and their teams.• Responsible for onboarding and induction of all new EU employees ensuring the core values, behaviours and strategic direction of the company is shared with new joiners.• Lead role in the global performance management program – developed the paper-based system into a highly automated and efficient digital cloud-based system through our HR Information System.• Global HR Information Systems Manager, responsible for implementation, roll-out, training and maintenance of our HRIS (Sage People) Achieved annual company-wide “Delivers Results” recognition award for implementation and global launch of the HRIS system.• Collation of all People Big Data on a monthly cadence including analysis, demographic overlay and insights for presentation to the leadership team. Preparation and distribution of monthly organisational charts and people data to the business.• Global COVID-19 Liaison for Europe, India & China, responsible for helping to create policy and procedures for handling the pandemic as well as giving advice to the site teams, collating trending and government data and reporting up to the Global COVID Team.

Liverpool, England, United Kingdom

> Promoted to Human Resources Manager for Halebank (Liverpool) chemical manufacturing site and HR Business Partner for EU Sales team.• Responsibility for all elements of HR management – trade union relations, employee relations, absence management, discipline and grievance, learning & development, reward & recognition, compensation & benefits, payroll, pension governance, wellbeing & occupational health.• Active member of the Halebank Site Leadership team assisting the Site Director in delivering the Halebank People Strategy.• Managing complex payroll and insurances for EU sales team across Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, France, Italy and Switzerland.• Partnered with internal Recruitment team and external agencies and recruitment resources to deliver the HR People Strategy regarding recruitment and retention of talent for the Halebank Site.• Trade Union Relations – working with the trade union to modernize the 1989 trade union agreement and complete annual trade union negotiations.• HR operational excellence - updating employee files to a robust audit standard ensuring all documentation is compliant and complete, refreshing onboarding and offboarding processes to reduce waste and increase levels of service, automation and efficiency.• Modernising UK HR policies for absence management, discipline and grievance, leave, performance management, incorporating continuous feedback for improvement and re-distribution.

Liverpool, England, United Kingdom

> Assisting the UK HR manager in delivering the people strategy across the three Vertellus UK sites.• Responsibility for payroll submission and administration for the Halebank and Workington sites.• Absence management, and discipline and grievance cases for Halebank and Workington.• Responsibility for supporting all recruitment administration, including leasing with 3rd party agents, preparing and agreeing terms of business, interview and competency testing, preparing contracts of employment.• Onboarding and offboarding administration for UK sites.• Occupational health activities.

Liverpool, England, United Kingdom

> Promoted to HR Professional on completion of CIPD Level 5 - Supporting UK-wide project management with full responsibility for helping to deliver the people strategy at Liverpool plant.• Played a key role in the testing, implementation, roll-out and training programme for HRIS System Workday, across the UK• Supporting HR Manager on all aspects of recruitment for the facility.• Implementation of corporate values and behaviours – transforming from a passive to a high-performance workforce capable of delivery on future requirements.• Culture Change – Key change agent in the major brand transition from Johnson Controls to Adient in October 2017 – supported full communication and engagement for all employees in order to achieve Adient’s strategic objectives.• Coaching and Mentoring of Senior Leaders - supported the transition to a high performing, coaching culture.• Absence Management – key role in implementing a new absence management system through policy design, TU negotiation, IT system implementation, training, coaching and development of line managers. Contributed to reduced absence from 8% to 3% in 18 months.

Liverpool, England, United Kingdom

> Core HR Generalist – in this role I developed my skills in all areas of HR Administration – supporting a very busy, high-pressure 24/7 automotive seating manufacture plant.• Corporate & Audit Compliance – delivered the expectation of excellence in all areas of HR standards compliance - passing numerous stringent audits with excellent feedback and many areas of best business practice.• Transforming the site payroll situation from plant in crisis to stability – real experience of effectively coordinating a re-baseline of payroll activities at an established manufacturing facility working 24/7 – within months stabilised Union relations, payroll, time and attendance, management buy-in, agency labour management.

Liverpool, England, United Kingdom

> Responsible for a full range of HR administrative tasks supporting HR Business Partners, Payroll & Pension team & Office Administrators.> Project management of JLR Workwear distribution service ensuring uniforms for new staff and laundry service for existing staff were administered efficiently and safely.

Level 5, Chartered Institute Of Personnel Development

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Archaeology