Darrell Guy Email & Phone Number

Lancashire, England, United Kingdom

A senior HR professional with over 30 years experience in a range of businesses, from large corporate organisations to family run businesses. I can help businesses and specialise in the following areas. - Organisational Restructuring - Recently led a large scale organisational restructure, saving £3m per annum. - Employee Relations - Have developed disciplinary and grievance procedures for companies and have supported businesses in dealing with case work. - Performance Management - Implemented new appraisal and performance systems, including competency frameworks.- Talent Management - Developed and implemented succession and talent processes and systems - improving talent pipelines and managing people risk more effectively.- Recruitment - Helped businesses to develop recruitment plans and systems to attract diverse and high performing employees.- Apprentices - Have chaired Trailer Blazer groups to develop apprentice frameworks across industries. Supported businesses to maximise use of the Apprentice Levy . - Learning and Development - Supported organisations to develop individual development plans up to implementing L&D policies and strategies.

Lancashire

Role AccountabilitiesLeading the HR and Training Function in the Group. Senator International is the UK's largest design and manufacturer of office furniture with over 1300 employees worldwide and a global order book.Accomplishments - Developed an HR Strategy and Plan which is aligned to the business strategy and will support business expansion. - Talent Management - Introduced a new performance and talent system which has identified key talent and relevant development interventions and will enhance the performance system for all employees. - Succession Planning- Developed a new succession planning system in order to manage business risk more effectively and identify key successors for key roles. - Developed and implemented a training and development strategy to improve the alignment, focus and ROI of training systems and processes- Developed a new recruitment strategy which brought permanent recruitment in house with targeted savings of £100k per annum.- Project Lead for the organisations compliance with the new GDPR regulations.

Warton

Head of HR International/Future Combat Systems – 2012 to 2016 Leading the HR function in the Combat Air, International/FCAS businesses. The international business is responsible for the sale of Military Air and Information products and services to international markets. The FCAS business is developing next generation products and services for the defence industry. Accomplishments• Developing People strategies to win international business and supporting bids to the value of circa £3bn.• Setting up the new HR operating model in the business, and working with the Centres of Expertise and Shared Services to deliver the people strategy and business plan.• Developed employee relations frameworks to support effective engagement with employees and stakeholders, both in the UK and abroad – including induction for new starters. • Restructured the international business to more effectively align the structures to customer markets.• Developed resource strategies for the International business to ensure we had robust succession plans both at home and abroad.• Managed an OD restructuring exercise across MA&I, saving the business circa £30m per annum and improving organisational structure effectiveness.• Provided enhanced coaching interventions to the senior leadership team, to support ongoing professional development and address performance improvement initiatives. • Implemented international development centres, to assess and develop potential candidates for successful work briefs in international markets• Implemented international resource attraction strategies across the business and externally (UK and Europe) to ensure contractual requirements could be delivered• Developed and implemented performance and coaching workshops across the business (People Managers), to improve performance and employee engagement identified in employee opinion surveys.

Warton

A senior manager responsible for developing the transition strategy for a large HR transformation and outsourcing programme. Programme Apollo was devised to re-tender the outsourcing of HR services and restructure the HR operating model. Accomplishments• Completion of a leading edge HR service framework to take to market for outsource services• Development of transition policy to migrate employees to the new HR Operating Model• Creation of a new HR Operating Model concept to support the Apollo Programme objectives• Developed employee engagement strategies and frameworks, to enhance the outcomes and perceptions of senior leaders in relation to the new HR operating model. • Carried out extensive benchmarking across leading edge organisations to develop proposals consistent with successful outcomes.• Led my work stream in the contractual talks with outsourcing suppliers leading to a successful contract agreement worth £10m per annum.

Warton

A senior manager leading the HR function in the Tornado business, developing policy and strategy to drive the business objectives and a member of the Tornado senior leadership team. The Tornado business supported the RAF in maintaining and upgrading the Tornado Aircraft ready for operational use. Accomplishments• Developed and implemented a local HR Strategy and Plan to underpin the key business drivers. The business achieved all its strategic goals and targets.• Put in place key process improvements resulting in savings of over £600k per annum.• Was a key member of a project team which developed and implemented a new on base grading structure which improved employee retention and career development. • Supported the MD in restructuring the business to deliver significant cost savings and create greater customer focus.

Wolverhampton, United Kingdom

A senior leader, part of the senior management team, responsible for aligning people performance and development to deliver Business Unit and PLC strategies. Accomplishments• Linking all key training and activity to NVQ standards/frameworks and successfully securing £250K support funding from the LSC. • Reducing employee attrition from 20% to 10% across all disciplines.• Improving employee feedback indicators by 15% across the board.• Developing a truly aligned HR strategy which is driving business plans and objectives. The business exceeded all its key strategic goals. • Successfully outsourcing the business HR function to our strategic partner Accenture and implementation of a new Management Integrated System (Oracle).

Wolverhampton, United Kingdom

A senior manager reporting to the Managing Director, leading the HR function and developing and deploying HR strategy and planning. Accomplishments• Developing and implementing a succession policy across the transport business to improve the talent pool. This initiative reduced attrition rates by 10% in white collar disciplines.• Implemented a skills based pay policy, bringing more work in house, with projected savings of £250k per year.• Successfully implemented a joined up performance management system which linked performance, reward and career progression. • Successfully completed the people integration of the ex Mowlem major projects business post acquisition.

Manchester

Accomplishments• Producing a suite of new people policies, aligning them to best practice and drive up business performance• Led the HR elements of an outsourcing proposal to sell the cash handling part of the Post Office to Securicor, including TUPE and ER proposals.• Led bids to sell cash handling products and services to the external market, winning key contracts with Asda, Morrison’s and LTSB

Stockport

Master’S Degree, Human Resources Management, Pass

Cipd, Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration, General, Pass