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Reporting to the Principal & Chief Executive and an active member of the Senior Leadership Team, deliver a professional HR service that meets the needs of South Lanarkshire College, building capacity and capability with regards to all HR and people management functions. Covering the full HR spectrum, the role includes: 1. HR Leadership including: the development and implementation of HR strategy, policies & procedures; planned delivery of all HR activities; enhancing the employee experience, talent management and employee engagement activities; champion equality & diversity and health & wellbeing practices; participation in the Joint Negotiation Committee meeting with Union Representatives; and providing strategic, legal and operational guidance and advice to the business. 2. Resource Management including: the organising and participation in an effective and efficient recruitment approach; advising and supporting workforce planning, ensuring that solutions meet business and legislative requirements and maximise employee utilisation; ensure an efficient and effective HR service provision; and undertake & contribute to HR projects.3. Employee Development including: the planning and management of employee & leadership development to enhance capabilities; team development for the leadership team; develop and maintain an effective Career Review system which feeds into learning needs and objective measures of success; and deliver effective staff development to maintain and enable employee knowledge and skills of internal and external requirements.4. Data Management & Systems which includes: developing and managing the overall HR processes, systems and capabilities, including an enhanced reporting & management information capability; develop and provide management & employee access to appropriate HR information and resources; ensure timely delivery of administrative and data collection needs in accordance with internal and external requirements.

Reporting to the Chief HR & Transformation Officer and working in close partnership with the Chief Revenue Officer and the leadership team, responsible for hands-on Human Resource leadership across the Sales, Admissions and Marketing teams who are based in over 35 countries and which resulted in the enrolment of over 30,000 students from 142 countries in 2018.In addition to this, active participation in the Global Senior Leadership Team and the Executive Leadership Teams for Sales, Admissions & Marketing and for Human Resources.Responsibilities include the enablement of the business through our people whilst ensuring strong connections across the business. Leadership responsibility for the Value Stream review and transformation of the Employee and Customer experience journeys. 1. Enablement:> Talent Acquisition including the design, implementation and management of assessment centres, recruitment campaigns and targetted headhunting.> HR Operations including the process re-engineering and implementation of customer-focussed KPIs and processes. > Strategically aligned performance management.> Talent Management including onboarding, development plans, acceleration, succession planning.> Learning & Development incl. instructional design, development and implementation of face-to-face, e-learning, on the job training, coaching & mentoring.> Organisation design and development.> Compensation and Benefits management across multiple countries to ensure competitiveness.2. Connecting:> Engagement and communication activities to ensure the voice of the employee is heard and that alignment is achieved for achieving company success as a team.> Employee Relations across multiple countries to ensure fair, consistent and legal approaches are taken for all employee relations matters.> Managing stakeholders through business reviews, reporting and presentations.

CB&I is an Engineering, Procurement and Construction company to the Energy industry. Reporting to the International HR Director (based in The Netherlands) and the Director of Operations (based in Singapore), I was responsible for transforming the Singapore organisation through the development & implementation of HR & Talent processes and capabilities across the organisation. Increased the Singapore headcount from 200 to 800 employees over 12 months to support a significant increase in workload. Opportunities included change management and engagement of the existing employees, who had been part of a steady headcount of 200 people, whilst implementing accelerated talent acquisition, onboarding and development of new hires, compensation & benefits, organisational design and development, leadership development, new talent management initiatives for the business, and enhancing the HR capabilities.

C-MAR is a global Marine Services Company, providing technical expertise to Marine and Oil & Gas organisations through training, consultancy, crewing and engineering. Reporting to the Group Chief Operating Officer, the purpose of my role was to decentralise the business to Asia to increase customer experience and proximity and then localizing the Value Stream of each business unit to it was appropriate to the region. After implementation, I was responsible for the running of both HR & Operations for the Asia region as well as other International locations. • Operational Management responsibility across Asia including Profit & Loss responsibility. • Management of the DP Training Centre in Singapore.• Business Development & Job Costing of Training, Marine Crewing and Engineering Services. • Managing customer relationships. • Scheduling & resource planning for Marine Crewing, Dynamic Positioning Training Centre, Subsea Engineering, FMEA Engineering and Consulting. This included the management of the Company’s most profitable project, which was won and delivered in Singapore. • Managing the international HR & payroll function for our employees based in UK, Brazil, Singapore, India, China, Dubai and other remote locations.

Working as a Resourcing Consultant (on an international basis) for a specialist Oil & Gas recruitment consultancy, this role encompassed a full resourcing/recruitment role, including: candidate registrations; targeted business development; advertising online, in the press and in trade publications; invoicing and credit control; providing advice to clients regarding recruitment and employment legislation and arranging the payroll of contractors / temporary workers.

Developing the Technical Recruitment division during this “start-up” situation.