Jenny Thow Email & Phone Number

Sleaford, GB

Welwyn Garden City, England, United Kingdom

Manage and implement talent management programmes to support training and organisation development activities and to maximise the potential of Sika’s human resources in the Area DACH.

Welwyn Garden City, England, United Kingdom

Support the identification and coordinate the development of a pipeline of individuals with leadership skills and experience to improve retention and fill critical leadership positions as they become available.

Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

Managing talent at all levels throughout the UK organisation, including leadership development initiatives and ensuring the efficiency and effectiveness of HR processes and systems for the HR Advisor team.

Welwyn Garden City

To provide coaching, advice and guidance around employment relations, engagement, organisation and people development, as well as managing specific recruitment activities.

Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

Lead the learning and development function and all related talent management activities within the UK organisation.

Welwyn Garden City, UK

Consult with line management to assess the skills and knowledge gaps within the business to determine the training and development required to grow / retain these skills, as well as to oversee training delivery by contracted partners.

Holdingham, England, United Kingdom

Support in the management and selection of participants for the Empowering Women to Lead programmes in the Cyber and Digital Transformation sectors across the UK.

Holdingham, England, United Kingdom

Coaching individuals looking for more purpose and direction in their careers and in their lives. www.careercoachjenny.com

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

• Developed and delivered induction programmes and other technical and leadership training to both salaried and hourly populations across multiple locations and seniority levels.
• Inducted over 150 new salaried hires into the business while developing frameworks and materials for standard induction plans for several roles across the business, with specific focus on Operations.
• Recruited and provided leadership to two team members to assist with work required to be delivered by L&D department.
• Liaised with each functional area to design and write new training on systems, processes and policies.

Sabbatical to complete 104 hours of Co-Active Coach Training with classes in Washington DC and London.

• Delivered training and development to plants and offices around the USA for leading manufacturer of home exterior design solutions, including vinyl siding, stone veneer, windows and doors.
• Delivered 24 AchieveGlobal leadership classes to blue-collar population with average evaluation score of 4.56 out of 5 for classroom facilitation.
• Developed company-wide monthly training report to provide insight and overview for management board.
• Completed analysis and design phases of new version of Operations Effectiveness training programme to ensure consistency of content, materials and facilitation notes. Project halted due to position elimination.
• Designed and developed programme to develop high potential employees. Position eliminated prior to implementation.

• Contracted to develop, implement, and administer human resource policies and practices for non-profit, online university offering five Bachelors and three Masters programmes.
• Audited all HR files to ensure compliance with legal requirements. Determined most files lacked key documentation and ensured it was completed and filed.
• Recruited and oriented external relations coordinator. Managed applications, held competency-based interviews and selected appropriate candidate who was promoted after a year.
• Administrated payroll, supplying vendor with appropriate information on deductions and status changes.
• Devised and developed spreadsheet in Excel to track employee attendance and vacation accumulation.
• Introduced health insurance plan for employees, administrating enrolment and answering all questions.

• Designed and delivered workshops to meet needs of international students in career planning and job search. Met with international students on one-to-one basis for career coaching and advice.
• Contributed to several international students landing internships in US and overseas by designing and delivering five different workshops to help navigate cultural intricacies of US job search environment.

• Enhanced role and relevance of HR development and talent management through developing and implementing talent initiatives to help employees grow and develop professionally and personally in the workplace.
• Improved content and relevance of new supervisor training class through employing ADDIE model to overhaul existing version, cooperating with HR generalists.
• Increased awareness of company commitment to talent development for 750 US Express sales professionals through analysis, editing and synthesising of information on career pathing, competency profiles, job descriptions.
• Improved easibility of identifying talent within teams by developing mechanism within Excel to graph performance evaluation results from annual appraisal cycle.
• Accelerated on-boarding process for five new director and C-level hires by establishing Executive Orientation programme with relevant reading materials and logistics checklist for Executive Assistants.
• Increased efficacy of leadership curriculum by researching, observing, analysing via user acceptance testing, and recommending new vendor for leadership classes. Coordinated $700K budget and national schedule of.

• Managed a €300K budget to develop and establish global orientation strategy giving access to accurate, up-to-date information on global organisation to new hires, managers and HR worldwide.
• Improved rate of adjustment to new job by 33%, productivity by 27%, motivation by 50%, employee satisfaction by 50% and fulfilment of tasks by 35% by launching orientation event for new management hires in Europe..
• Ensured global reach of essential company information via collaboration with Corporate Communications to conceptualise, test and launch intranet orientation portal and offline CD ROM version.
• Automated recruitment process for MBA summer internship programme augmenting efficiency and transparency by project managing launch of online gateway for posting internships, collecting and evaluating applications and.

• Directed global internship programme within DHL Europe, Americas and Africa as part of global AIESEC partnership.
• Recruited 27 international interns into global internship positions.
• Designed and implemented retention measures leading to over 70% conversion rate of internships to permanent contracts on a global basis.

Central America South/Costa Rica

• Key member of international team of six, coordinating internship exchange programme for Costa Rican graduates to undertake an internship abroad.
• Mentored and coached Costa Rican university students to assume leadership roles within AIESEC.

Co-Active Coaching

Master Of Science International And Intercultural Education, Hrd

GPA 3.94

Bachelors, International Business And Modern Languages

Activities and Societies: AIESEC2:1 Honours degree, with one third Economics, one third Spanish and one third German