Designing and implementing compensation and benefits programmes across Europe, Middle East and Africa. This incorporates: • Providing expertise to the business in job levelling and job evaluation, peer assessment, benchmarking and competitive analysis. • Annual compensation planning for merit review and the annual bonus scheme, including system testing and improvement, advising managers and payroll submission. • Analysis of compensation including UK Gender Pay Gap, gender reporting in Spain and Sweden and EMEA and development of the graduate and internship programmes. • Researching market trends and legislative changes, undertaking cost benefit analysis, implementing and communicating any changes. • Harmonisation of benefits post acquisition and legal entity rationalisation. • Defining and implementing strategies to enhance the employee experience e.g. employee wellbeing and new global recognition programme. • Annual renewal of benefits, negotiating cost efficiencies in conjunction with brokers, undertaking full market reviews and RFPs e.g. UK pension and risk benefits. • Ensuring regular governance for UK pension scheme and other UK benefits.

• HR Business Partnering – advising and coaching managers on all HR-related issues, including absence management, performance issues, talent management and development. • Managing the recruitment process from benchmarking salary data, building relationships with recruitment agencies to online advertising, interviewing candidates and providing feedback. • Compensation planning specialist for EMEA for merit planning and benchmarking. • Benefit renewals, benefit plan design changes and implementation e.g. UK pension salary sacrifice. • Project managed auto-enrolment for the UK pension scheme. • Established a Governance Committee for reviewing key benefit and policy changes. • Supporting HR activities in mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. • Keeping abreast of statutory changes and best practice to ensure policies and practices are compliant and communicated within the business.

• Advising managers and employees on HR policies including flexible working, maternity leave and employee relation issues.• Policy design, ensuring legal compliance e.g. established and implemented redundancy, grievance and disciplinary procedures for UK.• Recruitment activities including benchmarking salary information, interviewing and managing relationships with recruitment partners. Launched i-cims (an online vacancy requisition system) and online offer pack throughout EMEA.• Established the industrial placement student scheme, ran assessment centres and coached the interns, trialled a new apprenticeship scheme.• Managing the starter and leaver processes – creating offer documentation, holding HR inductions, conducting exit interviews and co-ordinating the Company Induction week.• Submission of payroll changes for 19 countries across EMEA. • Benefit scheme administration including responding to employee queries and communication. Improved employee take-up of UK pension scheme from under 50% to 67%. Launched new benefits e.g. Cycle to Work, Employee Assistance Programme and implemented Wellness Programme. • UK compensation benchmarking survey submission.• Headcount and statutory reporting and introduced HR metrics to analyse trends. Also supported the HR Director in managing the HR department budget. • Key member of the global ERP project implementation.

Full range of HR administration responsibilities including:• Absence monitoring and analysis • Payroll submission • Managing the annual flexible benefits renewal • Recruitment advisory and administration service from advertising and briefing agencies, scheduling interviews, producing job offers, arranging pre-employment checks, acquisition of references. • Coordinating performance reviews, identifying training needs and sourcing training courses to implement the company’s Training and Development plan. • Project work including employee surveys and bonus scheme administration.

This was a stand-alone HR position working for a newly established secondary school. • Co-ordinated the recruitment process – from advertising and writing job descriptions to obtaining references, drawing up interview schedules and undertaking CRB checks.• Liaising with payroll regarding new and current staff changes.• Responsible for the administration of the Governor’s Staffing Committee.• Development and implementation of policies and procedures and consulting on best HR practices. • Key achievements in this role were: establishing a new absence reporting system, helped gain Investors in People status, introduced online recruitment, exit questionnaires and an employee handbook.