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Stockport District, Gb

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

• Responsibility for Employee Relations activity across the UK within multiple entities in the Group and across 200+ sites;• Partnering with business leaders on a range of programs that drive a high-performance culture to achieve growth and enhance employee satisfaction, motivation and well being; • Developing strategic frameworks that embed Company values and drives business objectives; • Implementing strategy to transform the employee experience through management development, values promotion, succession management and reward programs;• Aligning HR Business Partnering, Advisory and HR Administration services with orgnaisation objectives to deliver significant change projects that drive efficiencies and build on business strengths;• A member of the HR Leadership Board and other key forums to advise and promote best practice on HR agendas, ranging from Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, use of HR metrics to enhance performance, and talent attraction and retention initiatives;• Leading on the continuous development of people policies and practices;• Responsible for strategic initiatives that drive positive and cost-effective resolutions to employment tribunal litigation.

Manchester Area, United Kingdom

• Managed a team of advisors across a multi site operation;• Facilitation and management of employee relations activity across the business;• Established campaigns to coach managers through complex disciplinary, grievance, consultation and change programmes;• Policy development to enhance employee experience and maximise commercial objectives.

• Responsible for providing a complete Employment Law & HR service to clients within the automotive, construction, financial, and technology industries;• Leading on TUPE, redundancy and collective consultations to achieve business transformation; • Developed Industrial Relations strategy to enable positive union relations and minimise disputes;• Responsible for drafting employment contracts, on-boarding documentation, Company Handbook’s & Policies, formal outcome letter templates and consultation procedures; • Led on sensitive employee matters including settlement agreements;• Liaised with ACAS and tribunals in relation to ongoing litigation;• Delivered tailored HR & Employment Law training programmes to staff at all levels.

• Implemented a performance management framework for 250 Doctors. Interpreting national policy, GMC and Royal College guidance for local application and organisation strategy; • Coached staff into a new way of thinking by negotiating and influencing the best possible solutions for all parties in line with business objectives;• Engaged the medical workforce through involvement and participation initiatives and effective two-way communication networks.

• Advised and assisted managers in achieving departmental objectives and the deployment of HR initiatives;• Supported managers in all areas of the employee life cycle from designing job descriptions, supporting the onboarding process, managing absence, performance management, producing talent plans, conducting investigations, processing flexible working requests, answering policy related queries, managing a disciplinary caseload and analysing exit interview data;• Updated and developed new HR policies and procedures to ensure compliance with current legislation.

• Managed a training and development function;• Coordinated and facilitated Induction Programmes over 2 organisations through a shared HR service and successfully managed this process for over 3 years and 1000+ inductees;• Led on new developments in the field of training and development;• Project manager for an e-learning strategy, managing limited resources and influencing key stakeholders to achieve blended learning training opportunities.

Master Of Science (Msc), Human Resource Management, Distinction

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Business Admin And International Business