David Laight Email & Phone Number

Belfast, United Kingdom

Intergrated Branch Manager for the Northgate Vehicle Hire (NVH) and Auxillis (ASL) Brands in Belfast. NVH Providing B2B van rental both short term and long term whilst ASL provide short term Hire Car's via insurance providers during the Accident Management process.Accountable for complete performance across all aspects of the branch including rental activity, workshop performance and customer relationships, developed a results-focused team that maximises revenue opportunities, innovation and improvement to whilst minimising vehicle downtime and, above all, delivers on the company's service commitment to customersManaging an annual Profit & Loss Budget of £1.5m with 20 staff and 1000 vehicles.

Lisburn

I was the head of department for the Garrison Transport Support Unit (OC TSU) in the role of Business Manager/Defence Transport Manager.• Managed a diverse team of 60 personnel (drivers, administrative staff and management) and all HR requirements devolved from our centralised HR Department.• Lead the team delivering transport support (services, vehicles and maintenance) to all Ministry of Defence units and locations in Northern Ireland.• Ensuring that the TSU managed and maintained over 300 vehicles (65% of all vehicles in NI) across Northern Ireland.• Responsible for ensuring that leased fleet vehicles were being utilised to ensure value for money against leased costs.• Ensuring the services, the TSU provide were fully compliant with current MoD policies, specifically the Defence Road Transport Policy Document. • Ensure that the TSU provided high quality key services to a varied and demanding collection of Customers;o With Driver Services Executive transport for high profile staff and visitors. Normal none executive transport to meetings and airports. Multi-passenger services (Coaches) within NI, ROI, GB and Europe.o Regional Pool Vehicles – provision of Self Drive Vehicles from a regional pooled fleet of cars, MPVs, Minibuses, Vans and Pantech to customers.o Rental Vehicles – provision of self-drive rental vehicles in NI, GB and Europe.• Subject Matter Expert for my Line Manager on transport and entitlement.• Monitoring vehicle usage using on board Telematics and managing driving behaviour across Northern Ireland.• Provide guidance and direction too departments and drivers identified speeding and deliver Road Safety presentations similar to the national speed awareness course.• Implemented a number of Transport Management Information Systems (MIS) to the TSU including Roadrunner Professional (Commercial Off the Shelf) in the TSU and Phoenix Booking System, Fleet Care Online and Clarity (Bespoke) to all units in NI.

Lisburn, Co Antrim

I was employed in the role as an HR Generalist Manager for HQ 38 (Irish) Brigade. I was primarily responsible for:• Managing all the processes required to amend the Personnel Structure of the departments in Northern Ireland• Scrutinised change programmes to ensure that there was a business requirement for any personnel structure changes• Secretary for the management committee responsible for the provision of Allocated Vehicles (Company Cars)• Secretary for the management committee responsible for the closure of Military Hospital located in Musgrave Park Hospital.Notable Achievements: identified that assumptions made in 2006 for personnel structures by 2012 were incorrect and wrote the business case to secure long-term funding for additional personnel.

Lisburn, Co Down

I was seconded into the HR Business Partner team and I was responsible for the following:• Restoring the Human Resources Management System (HRMS) which had become corrupted and incomplete following a large redundancy programme during 2007 and 2008.• Rebuilt the HR Structures to ensure that all personnel had both a Line Manager and Senior Line Manager.• Created the Personnel Appraisal Report and Reward architecture for all Civil service personnel in Northern Ireland.

Lisburn, Co Down

Responsible for the provision of Primary Healthcare services in across Medical Practices, Physiotherapy departments and Community Mental Health facilities in Northern Ireland. I was directly responsible for:• Initiating a change programme with the Medical Practices after they had been transferred to the Primary Healthcare Service• Introducing Clinical Governance processes.• Management of a new clinical management IT System and the data cleansing prior to migration.• Setting up contracts for the provision of temporary clinical staff from agencies.• Recruiting new practice managers.• Business Case for funding to built a new medical practice in Lisburn.• Business Case for funding to refurbish the medical practice in Holywood.• Daily management of Practice Managers and their teams.Notable Achievements: Secured funding for a new Medical Centre in Lisburn that had been in portacabins since 1996 and was not considered a priority spend.

Lisburn, Co Down

Responsible for the introduction of the Freedom of Information Act into the Ministry of Defence in Northern Ireland. I was responsible for the following:• Recruiting the permanent staff (10 team members) for the FOI Team. • Identify the IT Requirements for managing FOI Requests.• Business Case for addition IT Infrastructure.• Training the staff on the management process for handling FOI Requests using SharePoint.• Presentations/roadshows to all units on the requirements of FOI and the need to release information.• Developing and publishing information of the military’s role in Northern Ireland since 1969 on the World Wide Web.• Managed the team during when the FOI act went live.

Lisburn, Co Down

Project Manager for the introduction of a Human Resources Management System. The system chosen was Peoplesoft as it was a Commercially Off the Shelf Product. I was responsible for:• Writing the Business Case to secure funding for the project £1.5m• Cleansing the legacy system to ensure data integrity for migration to the new system.• Writing and delivering the communication plan.• Writing and delivering the implementation plan.• Delivering presentations to all HR Departments on the new system.• Delivering presentations to all personnel on the Self Service element of the system.• Migrated the data from the legacy system and conducted data integrity assurance checks.• Delivering the training to the HR Staff on the new product.• Managed a team of 4 Admin Staff.Notable Achievements: Delivered the entire project under budget and on time with a smaller team than other HR departments in GB.

Lisburn, Co Down

I was responsible for External and Internal Recruitment for all Civil Service positions in the Ministry of Defence in Northern Ireland. Specifically;• Creating Job Advertisements for local press.• Sending out application packs.• Managing applications.• Identifying suitable staff to conduct Short listing and Interviewing.• Preparing Short listing packs.• Sending out invite to interview letters.• Preparing interview packs.• Notifying candidates.• Conducting pre-employment checks.Notable Achievement: developed a new in-house Management Information System using MS Access for the management of recruitment campaigns.

Dublin

Head of a new Pharmaceutical Recruitment section in Headhunt Recruitment Dublin. Responsible for:• Identifying new clients.• Discussing with Clients their specific person specifications for any role placed with me.• Sourcing new Candidates using Recruitment websites.• Conducting registration interviews with new candidates.• Matching Candidates to Clients specific requirements.• Preparing candidates for interview with the clients.• Managing any pre-employment and post offer documentation.• Preparing client invoicing documentation.Notable Achievements: Placed my first candidate 2 weeks after relocating to Dublin.

Belfast, Co Antrim

Employed as the Permanent Engineering desk Recruitment Consultant in Blueprint Recruitment. Responsible for:• Discussing with Clients their specific person specifications for any role placed with me.• Interrogating the recruitment MIS for suitable candidates.• Advertise in local press and Job Recruitment sites for new candidates.• Conducting registration interviews with new candidates.• Matching Candidates to Clients specific requirements.• Preparing candidates for interview with the clients.• Managing any pre-employment and post offer documentation.• Preparing client invoicing documentation.• In house Trainer for a new Recruitment IT System brought in by Grafton.Notable Achievements: Sent only three CV’s to a client for a role, they hired one and offered the other two roles in GB if they wanted to relocate.

Uk & Germany

Served in the Royal Air Force Dental Branch for over 13 Years as a Dental Surgery Assistant, Dental Practice Manager and finally Regional HQ Support Staff

Diploma In Healthcare Management, Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, General

Diploma In Personnel Management, Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration, General