Jason West Email & Phone Number

Guildford, GB

United Kingdom

• We started Underscore in 2016 with the purpose of helping business leaders build capability to deliver change.Why focus on business change? In our experience, too many change programmes are treated as ‘side of the.
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Working with the HR Director, HR Leadership Team and CIO to gain approval for an HR Transformation programme that would change the way our client leads and manages people. The programme scope included changes to HR Strategy, Policy, Process, Organisation Structure, People Capability, Systems and Data Architecture. Outcomes:- Secured £9M investment in new.

Australia, Canada, UK, USA

Initiated, designed and led a programme to review the market for new core HCM and Payroll technology based on requirements gathered from Australia, Canada, Netherlands, UK and USA. Ran a competitive purchasing process involving Oracle, SAP, Workday, Northgate Arinso, and ADP. Created business cases and project initiation material that secured Executive buy.

Initially hired as the Director of Resourcing for the UK with accountability for Resource Planning, Professional Recruitment, Graduate Recruitment and Contingent Recruitment, I was later given additional accountability for Graduate Development and overseeing Australia’s Resourcing Transformation. In 2011 and 2012 I led a global HR Transformation project as.

• Designed and gained Executive sponsorship for an Integrated Resourcing Strategy that joined together historically disconnected processes of business planning, internal mobility, development and external supply of.
• Attrition in the first 2 years of employment reduced from 25% in 2009 to 6% in 2014
• Permanent: Contingent (contractors & temps) Ratio reduced from 13% in 2009 to 7% in 2014
• Internal Mobility increased from 18% of total hires in 2008 to 58% in 2014
• Time to Offer for regular headcount reduced from 94 days in 2009 to 32 days in 2014
• Grad intake increased from 55 in 2008 to 130 in 2010-14 to meet demographic demand

24 Countries

• Led a transformation programme reporting directly into the Group Board. Starting as a feasibility study into creating one or more international shared services centres for transactional HR activity, it became a broader.
• Updated the HR Strategy to focus on delivering the organisational capability required to deliver the CEO’s transformation plan and an HR function operating in the upper quartile of effectiveness and efficiency benchmarks
• Designed a new HR Operating Model based on a ‘4 box’ model of Strategic HR Business Partners, Centres of Excellence, Centralised HR Shared Services and Site Based HR Operations
• The HR Operating Model would use a Hub and Spoke deployment approach with larger countries providing specialist services and support to smaller countries
• This Target Operating Model is currently being rolled out
• Created detailed business cases, commercial models and implementation plans for Global Resourcing and Learning & Development Centres of Excellence.

• Responsible for creating and implementing a Predictive Recruitment Model that will ensure HDS makes hiring the right people, in the right place, at the right time a repeatable business process. Covering all permanent.
• Delivering a new long term Resourcing Strategy for EMEA & APAC
• Creating business case & securing funding for the Predictive Recruitment Model
• Global responsibility for design & implementation of HDS Workforce Planning Methodology
• Managing the transition of an RPO back in-house
• Building a team of senior ‘search’ Recruiters Outcomes

• Cheapflights is the UK’s leading price comparison site for flights and travel. Founded in 1996 the business is still privately owned and has funded its growth to date entirely from operating profit. Growing at 100-120%.
• Hands on responsibility for recruiting and managing a small team to meet the Resource Plan across all functional areas of the business: Development, Operations, IT, Sales, Marketing, Finance and HR
• 63% saving on total recruitment budget
• Halved the average elapsed time on growth hires to 6 weeks
• 70% hires made through direct sourcing channels, 20% Employee Referral, 10% Agency