HR Director for the UK and Ireland. Supporting cira 1300 staff with a team of 11 HR professionals. Part of the UK Director board team and an active member of director management team to embed HR strategies to support business growth. Key successful projects>Brought in a high performing culture programme with a successful roll out to all staff, established a structured KPI driven HR department to support employees, introduced digital processes into the team, established paybands, performance management tool, Re organisations and union negotiations and focusing on making the HR team digital.Company nominated pension trustee for our closed DB scheme.Part of the boarder HR director team for Europe (Spain, Netherlands, Belgium, Italy and Germany) International role within HR.

HR Business partner supporting the Industrial part of the business. Part of the industrial management team. Supported the business in absence, retention, cultural programmes, employee surveys, re organisations and automation of the factory. Promoted within 10 months of joining the company to HRD

• My role covers all aspects of HR managerial support from talent management through to strategic decision making for one of the largest established plants in Derby• Reduced the absence rates from 12.2 to 4.2% in the space of 5 months• Contributed to the success of embedding additional hours, flexible working and bank holiday working agreements • Support managers through the process of MER, Performance management of employees• Relationship building with local union though to Derby works convenors/Unite external union • Embedded “bring your boss to work” programme to support the cultural chnage plan for the facility• Future for the facility – supporting the exec with the future strategy for the plant and Turbines • HR support for the Turbines exec (management of headcount ,Turbines KPIs, High potentials)• Manage exec people plans and development strategies. • Manage the Talent pipeline for Turbines and hold leadership team accountable for this

• HR Manager support for 3 plants in Turbines (Ross Ceramics Denby, Ross Ceramics Trentham, ABCF Rotherham) and function support for Manufacturing and Design Engineering in Derby.Ross Ceramics (Denby and Trentham)• My role covers all aspects of HR managerial support from administration through to strategic decision making for both plants • Supporting the Managing Director with the reduction programme for Denby, including all communications, union relationship with Unity, employee briefings and the transfer of12 heads to the Rotherham facility.• Supporting all absences cases from home visits to progression through to the Shared Service • Identification of development gaps in the management team and supporting them through these to become better equipped to do their role in line with Rolls Royce standards• Lead for the implementation of Workday (New HR people information tool) for Ross ( providing all validation data, testing and developing workday for Ross, lead in ensuring the processes and technology will support Workday)• Part of the leadership team to determine the future of the Ross Ceramics business – Potential closure of plantAdvanced Blade Casting Facility (ABCF) Rotherham• Supported the facility in their Team Member recruitment taking them from 21 team members to102. • Launched a culture programme in Rotherham to develop a world class facility. Working parties included Working Together, Reward T&Cs, Reward Accountabilities, Training and Development , Induction and Site Polices• Supported the implementation of Unite union into the facility, main tasks included providing statistical data to ensure we had a majority vote, voluntary recognition discussions, training support for reps.• Development of ER polices and induction programme for new starters• Embedded a reward and recognition programme that linked to the WoW launch for all employees

Manage circa 130 graduates through their specialised graduate development programmes, support all HR related activities from training, performance, Reward and employee relations.Support the Finance, HR, Project management and Customer management programmes. My role is the main link with the functional exec, career coaches, managers and my graduates.

Supported the global HR SSC hubs in Singapore, Norway, Germany and USA to go live with their services, adopting UK operating procedures and ways of working. In addition I supported the transfer of data project to understand the data protection issues around the transfer of data regionally

Supporting all sectors of Rolls-Royce with all aspects of employee relations, providing an advisory service to managers to help manage their staff based on employment law and RR policy. Supported cases on disciplinary , grievances, absence, capability, death in service, medical early retirement.

Point of contact for business HR in the transfer to shared services model in the UK.Developed ways of working and operational procedure for the process teams to operate the services that we provided across all division of recruitment, reward, employee data and the customer support line. Managed issues resolution process and the transfer of work from business HR to the HR SSC

Supported the CHQ and logistics functions. Generalist HR role supporting activities from re organisations, change management, recruitment and employee relations

First job in HR in Rolls -Royce after university providing administrational support to the logistics function on absence recording, pay, reporting, employee relations and recruitment

Support the head office and branch network with Generalist HR activities from recruitment, IIP, absence, performance