Gemma Ward Email & Phone Number

Shrewsbury, Gb

• Business Integration people lead: role levelling, Org Design & policy harmonisation,• ER Case Management.

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

● HRBP; supporting Leaders across RS; including GSC (Direct recruiters model), focusing on ER support,● Key HR support for Workforce Consultancy business; supporting growth program,● Project lead for Group wide programs; inc Change projects, Manager training & travel tool roll out,● Leading on Tupe projects,● ER Case Management.

Shropshire, England, United Kingdom

HRBP; supporting 6 Operational sites across UK&I, partnering site General Manager & SLT,Union Negotiation across all locations.

Market Drayton

• Lead HRBP; supporting MYD Board, Functional Heads across client groups, including Group IT, Legal, HR, Tax, Finance, Marketing & Commercial, managing a team of 5, supporting 520 employees across all locations, including German based colleagues,• A member of the UK Leadership team for all supported functions, including Board of Directors and a member of HR Leadership Team,• Lead HR partner, supporting HR Director, • Strategic HR lead on Group transformation program; creating a SSC for Finance, HR, Payroll & Procurement – leading Collective consultation for 136 employees and creating SSC culture & engagement programs,• Partnered with Talent Supply team for all recruitment, including Group roles and those roles impacted by the SSC program, • Leading roll out of Success Factors modules for stakeholder areas; inc Talent & Succession, Recruitment, Performance Management & Comp and Bens,• Leading roll out of EOS for the UK in line with the Muller Group approach,• Leading roll out of 5 Behaviours for MSL & Commercial Stakeholders.

Market Drayton, Shropshire

London, United Kingdom

Lead HR manager for the region, managing a team of 5 (HR, Reception, Office Mgt), supporting 90 employees across 5 countries. A member of the UK Leadership team, reporting to the MD, suporting Sales, Consulting and Dev teams across all locations.Managed all mobility cases across the region; inc managing immigration and sourcing visas locally in Abu Dhabi, partnering with Global Mobility team in CPH.Partnered with global COE teams; Reward, Talent Acquisition, Global Mobility and L&D to ensure consistent roll out of HR initiatives.Partnered with UK Recruiter and managers to determine resource requirements, supporting on recruitment as necessary and contributing to search and selection techniques.Led year end EPR process (Performance Reviews) across the region, including chairing calibration meetings.

London, United Kingdom

Lead HRBP for the EMEA region, supporting 220 employees across 11 countries, including remote employees.A member of the EMEA Leadership team, supporting EMEA GM and VPs. Member of the wider Global HRBP community, based primarily in San Francisco and Cupertino, supporting global initiatives.Key advisor on all ER cases including exit management across EMEA. Created EMEA People agenda, translating the wider Global HR initiatives into local requirements. Gained buy-in by presenting to EMEA leaders at QBR.Coaching at all management levels.Revamped onboarding process; developed and currenty deliver monthly induction training to approx. 20 new starters per session.Rolled out people policies, translating American initiatives for the EMEA population, including Paternity, Shared Parental leave and sickness absence.Lead cyclical HR activity across the region including PM, Pay and Bonus and Talent and succession planning.Recruited the new EMEA HR Assistant, providing day to day management and coaching.Workday activity; including the sign off on workflows.Rolled out manager and individual contributor career coaching training.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for providing a commercial HR service internationally (US, Portugal, Germany, Australia). Support included guidance and management on a variety of HR issues from ER advice through to talent management, OD projects and HR policy & procedure development.Led People agenda, kicking off key projects including the creation of a Learning Academy. Management development program and a Quarterly PM process.Rolled out Digital HR tools; HR Database (Bamboo HR), PM & Recognition tool (Reflektive) and an Employee rewards platform in partnership with logbuy.

London, United Kingdom

Provided strategic support to Commercial leadership team, supporting Commercial Director, CMO and direct reports.Partnered business leaders in designing and implementing structural change, including commercial legal advice and comms.People lead Direct Sales upscale program; created resourcing strategy, onboarding, induction, commission scheme and MI.Managed recruitment team to deliver pscale plan; delivering headcount uplift via agencies, direct and social media.Coached leaders to effectively manage their teams through cyclical HR activity; PM, talent and succession planning.Managed HR Advisor, enabling the delivery of commercial HR partnering; ER case support, cross-business projects.Managed HR Coordinator aligned to the Direct Sales upscale; delivering new joiner admin function.

London Area, United Kingdom

Strategic HR Change expert/HRBP, supporting Digital People Strategy & EVP design. Managed HRBP led processes such as ER, including exit management, KornFerry Leadership feedback, Talent & Succession planning, Performance Management, FTE/Budget management & Diversity & Inclusion.Recruited People Centre of Excellence (CoE) team, partnering Head of Innovation.Digital Emerging Talent (ET) lead; designed & implemented Digital specific Intern & Grad on-boarding processes. Supported 2015 Digital Graduate program design & led design & roll out of Higher Apprenticeship. Activities included; creating working group, sourcing learning provider, supporting resourcing team to deliver recruitment plan in extremely tight timelines. Designed & rolled out Apprenticeship assessment centres.TSB employee transfer/TSB employee upskilling: Digital people lead supporting colleague transfers to TSB. Recruited & managed L&D Consultant, providing oversight on training plan & warranty approach. Managed redeployment process in-line with wider LBG teams & unions.Digital Conduct strategy people stream lead (Reward, PM, Recruitment). Attended Digital steering committee, designed & managed evidence submission on ‘Embedding Advanced’ & influenced teams to embed conduct strategy into overall EVP/culture. Designed ‘Leading Organisation’ future People plan for 2015-17.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for leading the HR Work-stream on an Integration program.

London, United Kingdom

A role within the M&IB HR COO. Reporting to the HR COO; involved in strategic HR initiatives within the M&IB HR space.

London, United Kingdom

Providing strategic HR support to International Banking, Intermediaries and Stockbrokers.

London, United Kingdom

HRBP supporting Wholesale banking/Risk. Partnering the leadership team of the Business Support Unit. Full strategic HR Remit including the creation of an internal repatriation programme.

Day to Day HR Business Partnering of a number of key clients; including Front Office and Risk & Compliance. BAU role covered Employee Relations, Reward, Resourcing and Talent & Succession planning.HR strategy workstream lead on a business wide transformation project; OD, Collective redundancies, policy creation, transition plans, and employee communications.

London, United Kingdom

Providing HRBP support to Legal & Compliance.Reviewing recruitment policy and processes for the Legal team.

London, United Kingdom

Master’S Degree, Human Resource Management

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Business And French Studies, 2.1

MA HRM, BA HONS BUSINESS & FRENCH STUDIES