Frank Gilbert Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

Roehampton

Supporting clients on a wide range of employment related matters including disciplinary, grievance, redundancy and unfair dismissal.

Roehampton

Part time Volunteer Assessor/Advisor-Supporting clients on a wide range of issues including benefits, employment, housing and legal matters.

London, United Kingdom

Supported the organisation design and implementation of a revamped international Group Supply Chain. This also involved directly supporting the development of an international communication programme and defining role requirements.

London, United Kingdom

Interim HR business partner for Group Information Management, approximately 400 employees and Group Shared Services, 690 employees. The role involved providing international HR support covering performance management, talent management, resourcing including search and general HR advice. Part of both Group's senior management teams and liaised with HR colleagues in a range of international locations.

London

Returned to Anglo American to provided ongoing HR support for Group Exploration and the Group Geoscience teams and to assist the implementation of a new organisational structure

London, United Kingdom

 HR business partner for international Group Exploration and the Group Geoscience teams. Providing generalist HR support for approximately 350 employees in a number of international locations. The assignment involved travel to Chile, Canada, DRC, Finland, Peru, Singapore and South Africa and HR support for expatriates  Provided HR support for restructuring changes including staff reductions and prioritisation of vacancies to support the achievement of the 2013 budget Implementation of senior management changes Recruitment of senior managers & geoscientists HR planning for the integration of DeBeers-approximately an additional 400 employees Direct support in the development and implementation of a new worldwide Geosciences technical competency programme Actively involved in the running of development centres for high potential geoscientists Ensured that all main HR processes were effectively implemented: performance reviews-annual and mid- year, talent management assessment and salary & bonus reviews

Provided Interim Human Resources Management support mainly for the Exploration team.  Devised and implemented a recruitment programme to support an expansion plan for the Exploration team –geologists and geophysicists -. The programme included the selection of search and contingency firms along with newspaper and technical journal advertising campaigns.  Visited Ghana to assess and recommend human resources policies to support the recruitment of national employees. This visit included meeting other oil and gas companies.

December 2010 to June 2011- Interim Human Resources Manager for Eclipse Petroleum Technology- £7 million acquisition in July 2008. Developed and implemented a comprehensive human resources strategy which included supporting an organisational restructure, an employee retention programme and a revised recruitment approach for full time employees and the development of new processes for engaging associates. These activities significantly improved business performance with Eclipse moving into profitability for the first time since its acquisition.March 2010 to November 2010-Interim Romanian Human Resources Manager for the outsourcing of 920 employees from a leading Romanian Oil and Gas company. The outsourcing 15 year arrangement represented an initial investment of $21 million.  The development and implementation of a human resources project management plan to support the business transfer  Actively working with the transferring company to ensure that all necessary Romanian Law requirements were met The selection of a payroll provider and the project management of the payroll transfer for all 920 employees Project management of all employee relations aspects including communications with employees and trade unions. A highly regulated & complex labour relations environment Recruited a permanent Human Resources Manager in Romania

Representation (pro bono) at employment tribunal on unfair dismissal and redundancy cases.

Providing human resources support to the Charity which included the development of diversity and retirement policies

The initial contract was for 9 months and this was extended on 3 occasions. . Provided general human resources support to the Vice President of a new international commercial group including advice on organisation design and restructuring, recruitment of senior international commercial staff with a strong focus on search via head-hunters, the development and implementation of commercial competencies supporting a career framework for commercial employees and the organisation of an international commercial conference (March 07-to December 08)Project managed the recruitment of 60 long term engineers to support a $1.3 billion plant upgrade in Algeria (May 06-March 07)Established new recruitment processes and actively supported the recruitment of highly skilled technical expatriates and local personnel for a $1 billion strategic investment in Egypt (November 05 –May 06) The assignment involved travel to Algeria, Egypt, Malaysia, Singapore and the United States

(Fashion Retail) Interim Human Resources Manager to lead and plan a major restructure of their UK operations. Leading international fashion retail and wholesale organisation, $5 billion turnover. The restructure programme involved planned annual savings of £1.5 million.

PC Games) Interim Project Manager on Resourcing to support the expansion of their Danish Studio. Eidos employed 750 employees with international sales of £79 million. Developed a recruitment campaign for 45 roles in a highly competitive industry for their leading Danish games studio. The campaign included a headhunting search for a number of key managerial and operational roles.

Head of Personnel for the UK’s leading wholesale distributor of home entertainment products-games, cd’s and videos - to major high street retailers including Woolworths, Tesco and W.H.Smith. Managed a personnel team of nine covering multi site distribution centres and a central head office for an organisation employing approximately one thousand employees and £1 billion turnover. Supported the organisation through its first major downsizing which resulted in annual savings of £1.1 million, restructuring of the personnel team to a business partner approach and the recruitment of a Personnel Director.

Interim Director of Human Resources for the European & Middle East Region covering operations in U.K, Denmark, Germany, Poland & Saudi Arabia. Achieved $2 million reduction in expatriate staffing cost savings through localisation and repatriation programmes; implemented job reduction programmes in Germany and Poland; managed a headhunting search for a European Sales director and European sales managers; managed the HR aspects of a major organisational restructure; the integration of a joint venture in Denmark and managed the evacuation of expatriate employees and families from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Introduced a new grading scheme for senior management roles. The new scheme was a key part of the integration of a significant business acquisition and involved benchmarking and the development of a communication programme.

Provided a business area employing 500 staff with generalist HR support. The assignment was extended to project manage the resourcing and training for approximately 100 key staff in Credit Control operations - £5 million contribution - and a Direct Savings Unit.

Project managed the recruitment programme for a new multi-lingual European Customer Support Centre Designed and implemented a recruitment strategy for 36 high-quality multi-lingual European customer support and technical staff within 4 months, a tailored induction process and training for team leaders. Developed performance management systems, including a pay policy, to support this $1.2 million investment.

Development of the HR strategy to support an aggressive growth plan – 20% turnover increase per annum; substantial reduction in staff turnover from 28% to 14%; management of a recruitment campaign of 107 staff over a 12 month period and a new salary and benefits approach

Established and operated a human resources consultancy, working independently and with larger consulting practices.•Comprehensive review of personnel practices at a £13 million high-technology greenfield manufacturing site•Compilation of Human Resources Action Plans – Across a Range of Industry Sectors and the public sector- Lead consultant for London Underground in the introduction of Investors In People

Held a variety of human resources and training and development roles.