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• Design & delivery of organisational development strategies e.g. utilising org layers & spans of control • Design & implementation of efficiency tactics e.g. process improvement • Workforce Planning, Resourcing & Talent Management including TUPE in / outEmployee Relations, including expert handling of complex & delicate casework e.g. disciplinary, grievance & redundancy • Design, Delivery and Evaluation of Coaching & Management Development Programmes (all levels)• Project Management & Leadership• Line Management of HR, OD and L&D teams, including remotely-based specialists e.g. Recruitment, Health, Safety & Environment, Quality and Occupational Health • Creation & Implementation of results-driven employment and performance improvement Policies • HR Business Partnering & Senior Stakeholder Management • Analysing & restructuring of Reward Policy & Practise e.g. Pay and Grading Structures• Design & delivery of role design and job sizing initiatives (job evaluation) e.g. HAY, GLPC & NJC• Advising on and facilitating business turnaround and recovery activities

• a major BPR overhaul of HR and payroll practises in order to deliver 20% process efficiencies • leading the formal processes for 2 x redundancy programmes exiting 25% of the workforce in order to cope with a steep fall in the Order Book• implementation of monthly pay into a “weekly-pay environment” in order to realise significant cost benefit• introduction of a pension Salary Sacrifice Scheme in order to realise substantial employer NI cost savings• the re-negotiation for provision of all of Canteen, Occupational Health services and the supply of workplace and PPE equipment in order to realise significant contract price savings

Exeter, United Kingdom

• led and delivered on all ER strategy and employment policy development e.g. Equal Pay • led and delivered all union negotiation and consultation processes• developed the industrial relations environment into a more collaborative relationship• led senior level disciplinary & grievance processes, including facilitation of a number of high profile exits• developed the organisation’s recruitment & retention and employee communications practises in order to reduce the per-post cost of recruitment and induction• overhauled the Occupational and Health & Safety functions in order to reduce sickness absence • developed and introduced a Performance & Reward strategy and function • “twin-hatted” as the organisation’s Lead Officer in addressing the Efficiency Agenda• created and introduced a programme management approach to achieve a savings of 2.5% of budget year on year – some £60 million over a 3 year period• identified, recruited to, and then developed the required skill-sets • designed and introduced the mechanisms and processes required to deliver and sustain tactical and operational change brought about by significant BPR (Business Process Re-engineered) gains

• delivery of global policy into local region (UK)• provision of a comprehensive HR service to a site of some 650 people including Health, Safety and the Environment, the attainment and retention of ISO 14001 and IIP • creation and management of essential cultural and organisational change • managed the people aspects of significant growth (30%) • designed and delivered coaching initiatives in Lean Principles, Continuous Improvement and Team Based Problem Solving• implemented a wide range of cost-down initiatives e.g. the re-design of operational and business processes, labour utilisation and job design• played a focal role in the closure of a sister facility and the transfer of much of its output to own site

Hnc Business Studies And Member Of The Chartered Institute Of Personnel & Development By Examination

9 'O' Levels; 2 'A'S

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