David Bowes Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

• Serve as an integral part of a Board (remotely), including 8 executives.
• Positioned as Non-Executive Director, offering oversight for governance and strategic decision-making.
• Review and approve strategic initiatives, business plans, and budgets to ensure alignment with organisational goals
• Maintained operational continuity during the COVID while achieving strategic growth objectives.

United Kingdom

• Delivered strategic leadership to oversee employee lifecycle, HR operations, culture building, organisational design, rewards and recognitions, internal communication, and learning and development initiatives.Key.
• Grew headcount from 180 to 380 during tenure through acquisition initiatives.
• Managed end-to-end operations and headcount across the U.K., US, India, Romania, and Benelux.
• Drove cultural changes and facilitated leadership development by leading organisational design initiatives.
• Redesigned and aligned HR strategy with growth plans, optimising HR investments.
• Halved recruitment costs by developing EVP and creating in-house capability.

Southampton, England, United Kingdom

• Positioned as an Interim Chief People Officer to empower and maintain HR operational capability.
• Led the HR team to oversee all HR and people management aspects, including culture building, rewards / recognitions, employee lifecycle management, and learning and development.
• Contributed to sourcing and onboarding a permanent CPO to streamline and manage overall HR operations.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Rendered strategic direction to steer HR operations for PhlexGlobal with a headcount of 500 across the U.K., US, India, Poland, and Germany.
• Acted as an integral leadership team member that orchestrated the sale to a Private Equity-backed trade, PharmaLex, in Jan 2022.
• Supported the sale of PharmaLex to AmerisourceBergen in Sep 2022 while leading the PMI.
• Drove over 8% improvement in revenue per employee (productivity) by restructuring roles and organisational design.
• Elevated operational efficiency by implementing new HR systems, including HRIS, LMS, and employee recognition platform.
• Created greater clarity and accountability in the product function by simplifying organisational design.

Bournemouth, United Kingdom

• Partnered with the CEO and CMO to co-establish Talent Fit, an initiative focused on leveraging personality types in leadership groups.
• Developed and applied a psychometric model to enhance business performance while maintaining a strategic alignment between the leadership team and the overall business objectives.
• Ensured the testing and validation of the newly built model in coordination with research clients.
• Contributed to the development of a model that mapped C-suite personality profile with the business lifecycle.
• Enabled clients to align people strategies and culture through data-driven insights.

• Played a key role in successful company sales, comprising a workforce of 2,500+ employees across seven countries (U.S., U.K., Singapore, South Africa, Australia, Dubai, and Germany).
• Acted as a part of a 5-member Board that steered the deal process, which led to the $MM acquisition by Xerox in 2012.
• Scaled the business from 150 employees in 2 countries to over 2,500 in 7 countries across 5 continents.
• Contributed to developing a highly profitable business with margins three times higher than the acquiring company (Xerox).
• Executed operational framework that served as the template for the Xerox Services business, later adopted by Conduent.
• Prepared the company for sale, ensuring data readiness and smooth due diligence processes.

United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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