Ian Bradley Email and Phone Number

Supporting local businesses with all areas of HR where they need professional advice and support on a retained, project or ad-hoc basis.

Overseeing the HR function of the UK business which supplies and partners with some of the UK’s leading retailers including Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Marks & Spencer’s and Next.As HR Manager I am responsible for all areas of recruitment, retention, performance management and strategic development of the UK in line with corporate objectives.• Reporting to the Vice-President of Europe and Latin-America, form part of the European HR Management Team.• Responsible for up to 90 employees across the UK and within 2 office locations, Nottingham and Newbury, overseeing 1 direct member of staff in Nottingham.• Partnering with the UK Sales Directors and Head of Department to lead the recruitment of talented individuals.• Trained to provide Thomas PPA Profiling reports.• Oversee the management of the payroll, UK fleet of cars and associated fuel cards• Continuously reviewing all of the HR Policies and Procedures; undertook a rewrite of the Contract of Employment, enforcing greater non-compete clauses to protect Checkpoint’s interests.• Advice and support to managers on all disciplinary matters, grievances and annual appraisals.• Provide monthly HR reports to Corporate Head Office.Achievements:• Successfully managed a period of restructure within a tight timeframe and budget which involved a number of redundancies, some of which were both high profile and high value. Managed the liaison with external legal support to ensure documents and contracts were ready on time to prevent any hold up and ensure integrity of the Checkpoint process. • Implemented a new Pension Scheme, renegotiated the Healthcare Insurance Cover and new sales bonus scheme.• Built the trust and respect of the UK Senior Management Team to provide commercially valuable advice within legal frameworks.

Laurens are a major fresh food manufacturer employing around 2000 employees on a single site and are part of a global Group.Senior HR generalist working closely with employees and managers to support day to day HR activities including:• Managed 4 direct and 3 indirect reports. Provide coaching and support to achieve daily and weekly goals.• HR lead in taking the site to weekly profit by reorganising site departments, centralising certain functions within other group facilities and managing redundancies.• Responsible for managing all disciplinary and grievance appeals up to dismissal.• Worked as part of a team to re-negotiate the terms and fees of the onsite agency, resulting in a saving of £250k per annum. • Achieved site compliance by successfully collating over 600 employees outstanding ID’s / VISA’s ready for key customers, Tesco and M&S audits’. This also including issuing over 500 new contracts to employees where signed terms were not held on file. • Redesigned the production staff grading structure to ensure the site is compliant with the new agency directive.• Harmonised Laurens’ salaried employees onto Bakkavor terms and conditions.• Managed the recruitment for all levels of temporary and permanent employees including senior and technical positions.• Drafting, organising and conducting assessment centres resulting in the successful appointment of employees to difficult positions within various departments.• Audited the onsite agency and internal policies against major customer ethical trading standards, taking the site from non-complaint to compliant within 3 months.

• Conducted a staff satisfaction survey of 7,000 employees’ highlighting to individual School Managers staff perceptions of the working environment.• Successfully implemented a new staff discount scheme. Invited tenders from retail service providers, analysed the cost effectiveness and rolled out the scheme within set budget and timescales.• Conducted a HSE stress survey audit which was benchmark against the HSE Management Tool. • Published new various management guides on HR policies and procedures.

Novartis are a blue chip global pharmaceutical Company who operate in 148 different countries and are one of the leading manufacturers in its field. Senior HR leader on manufacturing site of approximately 180 employees with responsibility for a team of 4 direct reports. Have played a key, hands-on role in the following:* HR lead in successfully managing the site closure and redundancies i.e. setting criteria, scoring, communications to staff, consultation with reps, dismissal meetings etc;* Managing the outsourcing to third party distributor through TUPE whilst ensuring the day to day smooth operation of the distribution department and meeting customer satisfaction targets.* Reduced sickness absence from 4% to 1.9% by assisting managers in dealing with short and long term sickness absence, including dismissal;* HR lead in reorganisation of site departments and transferring parts of the business to Switzerland and liaising with different sites across Europe;*Provided effective advice to line managers on managing disciplinary and grievance procedures and assisting them through investigations, hearings, including dismissal and appeals;*Achieved 7% increase in efficiencies and a reduction in downtime of 3000 hours across a 2 year period through implementing a shop floor grading system, new working hours and a daily staffing plan. * Coaching managers and supervisors on the application of HR policies and procedures;*Setting development and training plans to meet long term strategic objectives and short term annual site goals.*During a site closure managed to retain 95% of employees over a 12 month period through HR initiatives.

Personnel Advisor for 1,700 employees across multiple sites looking after all employee relation, performamce management etc issues.•Working at a management level providing effective and professional advice to managers on the application of the Trust’s Personnel Policies and Procedures including disciplinary and grievance procedure, harassment, training, redundancy etc.•Analysed trends relating to recruitment and retention issues and worked with managers to adopt a pro-active approach to these issues.•Successfully contributed to the maintenance of a good industrial relations climate through the principles of partnership working with 9 different trade unions.

HR Officer (Fixed Term Contract) – Electronic retail Company who owns Sony Centres & Superfi stores•A stand alone role responsible for the smooth running of the Human Resource function. This involved providing advice to more than 150 managers and staff based on sites from London to Newcastle on HR Policies and Procedures.•Provided advice to the Board of Directors on strategic HR matters, including recruitment, appraisal, training and development and all disciplinary issues.•Assisted in the opening of several new stores and successfully recruited, inducted the new employee’s.•Responsible for all HR procedures, creation of staff handbook, absence management systems and provided senior management with ongoing HR information.•Successful set up and maintenance of the Personal Development Plan Appraisal system.•Decreased labour turnover from 41% to 28% through staff retention programme and new working practices.

HR Officer (Maternity Contract) Stand alone role. Empower is a training provider in the field of engineering, power plant, high / low voltage etc. •Following a management buyout I set up new HR policies, staff handbook, and induction pack to meet the business needs of 35 employees.•Responsible for the management of the Recruitment and Selection process.•Regularly updated the Board of Directors on Employment Law changes.•Member of the Employee Forum providing advice on the negotiation of employment terms and conditions.