Partnering and collaboration with leaders to drive engagement and confidence in transformational change. By ensuring colleagues feel prepared and supported in change activities that deliver the University's strategic goals.

Part of the People & OD transformation team leading delivery of initiatives within the programme focussed on transforming and modernising the processes, systems and experience aligned to the People & OD strategy.

Proud community Governor at Co-op Academy Walkden.

Using Co-op’s Change Management Framework and approach to ensure change lands well, adopted by colleagues, realises planned benefits, and sustained beyond the life of the project. Accountable for leading the end-to-end change management cycle. Stakeholder mapping and planning activity. Develop and deliver stakeholder engagement plan, build effective relationships with those stakeholders and manage resistance. Design and delivery of training plans. Design and development of embed and sustain planning activity, in line with Co-op project governance and PROSCI 3 stages of change model. Using ADKAR methodology, to ensure change sticks beyond the project lifecycle and in to BAU. Part of multiple project teams in the HR function delivering Co-op-wide Oracle MyHR improvement projects. The projects were…1. Oracle Recruit – successful implementation on time and on budget of new Oracle recruitment system technology to all Store Manager network. Responsible for the people side of change – end-to-end change lifecycle, business readiness, colleague engagement and training - to successfully engage managers to adopt and use the new technology.2. AskHR – Co-op’s first HR chatbot, digital HR service requests, and digital HR knowledge hub. Successful go-live on time and on budget, responsible for business readiness, stakeholder management and engagement, colleague engagement and comms across Co-op. Partner with creative agency and colleague voice to develop chatbot identity and persona. Plan and deliver sustaining change activity to embed change.3. Establishment Management – Successful implementation on time and on budget of an Oracle HCM HR shared services project, delivering tools to leaders and partner teams across Co-op to enable better headcount and position management and leaders are managing to an approved baseline structure. Responsible for business readiness, stakeholder management and engagement, communications, and training, embedding and sustaining change.

I lead the resourcing partner team in delivering an expert recruitment service to our hiring managers, candidates and stakeholders for the Co-Op. Helping to shape the future of our Co-Op by recruiting talented people who reflect the diversity of the communities we serve. Proud to be part of a successful team who work incredibly hard for our customers - having fun at the same time.

I Lead coach and support the Corporate Resourcing team to deliver a valued, professional and high quality recruitment service to our businesses, and at the same time a fantastic candidate experience. I support and coach my team to enable them to provide expert advise and guideance to our stakeholders, colleagues and candidates. As well as to collaborate across HR to enable us all to achieve our own individual and team goals, to support The Co-Operative Group in 'championing a a better way of doing business for you and your communities'.

A proud customer, member and employee of The Co-Operative..In my role as Resourcing Advisor...• Point of contact for recruitment and resourcing expertise for a designated business area, across the Group. Currently supporting HR functions across Corporate and our operating businesses• Builds and develop collaborative relationships with key business leaders to understand their priorities and how Resourcing can support their team’s on-going success• Provides expert and specialist resourcing advice to the hiring manager community – ideas, solutions to best support the hire of the best talent in a timely manner• Co-ordinates involvement of hiring managers in the implementation of best practice selection processes• Develops and maintain an external network of relationships and contacts with key talent and specialists within HR, in order to build the Group's employer brand within the marketplace, to ensure a positive candidate experience• Identifies and maximise succession planning through internal talent pools• Provides interview support to Hiring Managers for Behavioural-based interviews• Builds and developing relationships with Key PSL suppliers for HR recruitment• Promotes best practice and supporting Hiring Managers in their resourcing and recruitment knowledgePoint of contact for the following areas -HRBP | Reward | Resourcing | Employee Relations | Payroll | HR Shared Services | Learning & Development | HR Risk | HR People & Change teams | Regional HRBP's | Organisational Development | HR MI teams | Pensions | Retail HRThe Co-operative Group is changing; our new Group Purpose: “Championing a better way of doing business for you and your communities” represents a return to our roots; a turnaround that will see our business re-focus on its founding principles, and through commercial success, create real value & benefits for our members and the communities in which we operate.

Interim Recruitment Executive, based at Manchester Airport, responsible for supporting Operational Management recruitment in the North Region of the Rail division, across in a multi-brand environment.Responsible for recruiting Operational Managers for the North and Scotland into SSPs retail catering businesses looking after multiple brands. This is both internal recruitment (succession planning, development opportunities and progression) as well as external recruitment (building bench strength and bringing in new expertise to the business).

Responsible for providing a high level of recruitment services taking control and management of the process to ensure clients vacancies in a timely manner.Building close relationships with clients to develop a long-term partnership thorough understanding of each business, their challenges, future plans and development.Face to face meeting with clients to demonstrate capability in being the right choice for a recruitment partner, by gaining an understanding of their needs and provding a proactive managed solution to their needs.Supporting clients own processes – screening, testing, vetting, telephone interviewing, pre-screening interviews.Understanding of clients business, culture and people to ensure delivery of high calibre, credible candidates that are the right ‘fit’.Identification of key clients in the Manchester area, and developing and maintaining of relationships to secure future business.Sales presentations/meetings to develop new client relationships and identify new business opportunities.Consultancy services - salary benchmarking, sector advise, market fluctuations (availability of candidates and specific skills).Hosting HR focussed client events.Identification on new candidates coming to the market, support their job search through an understand of their skills, abilities desires and aspirations. Proactive marketing out of candidates to targeted clients.Compliance with Reed’s own processes and those of the Home Office – ETW etc.

Specialising in placing, interim and permanent HR professionals in the North West area. From HR Assistant to HR Director, through developing relationships with organisations within the region and the professional HR candidate market.

HR Recruitment Specialist

Driving resourcing performance for the benefit of our hiring managers, our candidates and future members.