George Bourne Email & Phone Number

Cobham, Gb

Cobham, England, United Kingdom

Director of HR responsible for the development of HR strategy in taking the business from transactional to people-led HR. Supporting the organisation and executive team across two large independent schools and a large support function in the heart of Surrey, Main duties & responsibilities:HR Service and Compliance Lead• HR compliance lead in delivering strategic and practical ER, including Disciplinary, Grievance, Absence, Capability, and performance management. • Created dynamic and real-time HR information dashboards to allow the Executive teams to make better risk assessed decisions• Provided new opportunities by using corporate and external sector best practices to support positive change. Change management • HR business partnering to transform HR transactional practices into a strategic environment.• Created and installed HR analytic-led dashboards to fuel commercial HR decisions. • Created a new benchmarking procedure to assess roles in and externally to the sector. • Supported payroll and the organisation with payroll and payroll system expertise. HR Compliance• Lead writer Employment Law updates for SLT.• Successfully written and implemented HR policies.• Created audits and resilience plans to ensure the validity of HR data. • Implemented systems to ensure organisational compliance with statutory legislation such as the National Minimum Wage and Working Time Directive. Safer Recruitment• Safer Recruitment Lead• Created a new SCR system with an associated audit and resilience plan to ensure ISI compliance.

Woking, England, United Kingdom

Head of People and Volunteers. Senior Manager, reporting directly to CEO. HR Lead of a multi-skilled team in a diverse generalist role spanning clinical, retail, hospitality and support service roles in a Clinical and Not-For-Profit Environment for circ. 750 people. HR Service Lead• Managed a HR Team to deliver advice and service to all ER, including Disciplinary, Grievance, Absence, Capability, Redundancy, and performance management. • Responsible for ensuring organisational compliance and embedding HR best practices. Senior management • Senior manager on SMT panel creating strategic organisational decisions.• Providing commercial and risk strategy advice to senior colleagues.• Actively implementing HR and people context to strategic decisions. HR Strategic Management• Success in assessing organisational issues and creating action plans.• Reduced Sickness across the organisation by 10%. • Success in installing new industry initiatives and positive change management. HRIS Expertises • Developed new HR metric reporting, which was previously unattainable, to allow SMT to use HR context in strategic decision-making. • Success in reviewing the current HR/Payroll system and making economic and resource efficiencies. Policy Writing• Lead writer of company HR policies to ensure legal, ACAS and best practice.• Successfully implemented new policies such as Hybrid working.• Bench Marked policies against SWOT and Pestle analyses.Benefits• Implemented a new benchmarked benefits package to increase engagement and promote strategic objectives.

Farnham, Surrey

HR Lead in a diverse generalist role of three people to circ. 1300 retail and hospitality multi site employees in a garden centre retail environment. Employee Relations • HR Lead on all ER including Disciplinary, Grievance, Absence, Capability, Redundancy, and performance management. • Creates Investigation reports, outcome, and employee communication letters.• Provides risk management advice to senior team members. • Provides line manager advice and training on direct reporting ER issues. • Ensures Employment Law compliance Learning And Development• Lead on organizational training, ensuring compliance, developing training programmes and creating training strategy.• Creates and manages L&D budgets.• Delivers group internal training sessions on customer service, HR policies and systems. Recruitment • Lead on Recruitment, creating adverts, securing new positions, and developing interview strategy. HRIS & Systems • Advanced use of Microsoft Office, particularly Excel • Expertise in sourcing, procuring and implementing new HRIS systems and employee change management programmes. • Lead in creating workflow processes to speed up internal processes and create cross organizational efficiency.Payroll• Assists with monthly – hourly & salary – payroll support. • In depth knowledge to support employees with Payroll queries. • Audits month end Payroll for compliance and accuracy, COVID• Developed policy for employees in and out of the business throughout.• Solely managed Furlough scheme. • Created new strategy and processes on new business models post COVID.

Cobham

Garden Centre Manager and Assistant Manager roles for multi-million-pound Garden Centre sites.Garden Centre Retail • Site Manager roles at multiple different garden centre sites. • Responsible for managing diverse areas such as plants, gardening, gifts, aquatics, and restaurant.• Buying experience, specifically for Gift departments. • Experience in GCA success. Management • People and duty department management of teams of up to 40 direct reports. Merchandising• Exceptional experience in visual merchandising to support company strategy. • Award-winning experience in gift merchandising. Training • Specialism in employee/management development.• Created new processes to isolate and promote skills with an unrivalled promotion rate in the company.Commercialism • Excels in team dynamics and incorporating employees into achieving business strategy. Staffing budgets and profit & loss management

Level 4 School Business Management, School Business Management

Activities and Societies: School Business Management

Aat Level 2 - Accountancy, Accountancy, Currently Studying

Cipd Level 7, Hr

Cipd, Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration, General

Studied CIPD studies Attended Workshops with other international students

Education record

Level 4 - School Business Managers – Finance In A School, Vocational High School And Secondary Business/Vocational-Industrial/Occupational Diploma Program