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Faversham, Kent, Gb

Faversham, Kent, Gb

Toddington, Bedfordshire, Gb

London, England, Gb

• Worked alongside the PD and the Executive team to design and implement a crisis plan that included furloughing and unfurloughing over 4500 employees. Key responsibilities included Government policy interpretation, corresponding action and communication. Project lead for post Covid right sizing to both support office and pubs/ hotels.• Advised Inns Board with strategic support for key people interventions and development of People Insights (dashboard of key people indicators) to support operations to improve site by site.• Coached and developed 4 Business Partners and Advisors alongside the People Shared Service team Reviewed and updated the processes, policies and procedures. ER consultant and expert, providing advice from Board to junior managers. Lead for undertaking difficult conversations and exits if necessary. ET advisor for business.• Project lead for Employee Experience – Pay workstream identifying cost and benchmarking model for various complexity of site/ location and style.• Supported sale of the Brewery to Asahi and the consultation for TUPE and lead the re-structure of the support office with Exec Board.

HR projects for New Century Care Healthcare and The Body Shop during their sale to Natura

London, Gb

HR Manager for the 97 clubs across the UK with the remit to work alongside the Senior Operations teams to support the continuous development of the clubs via a live and current strategy and broker solutions in partnership with the Heads of L&D, Resourcing, C&B, HR services.

Colchester, Gb

• Reporting to HRD, managing 2 HRBPs and 3 Trainers providing strategic HR support & colleague development to 8 business partners as well as developing policies and procedures for a maturing business.• Working closely with business to resolve ETs, colleague involvement with Safeguarding cases and police investigations as well as future proofing the business by developing a training development programme to recruit, train and retain managers.

London, Gb

• Initially contracted to resolve long standing ER issues across the business and to review HR policies following the acquisition of Esporta early in 2011.• Providing strategic HR support to 3 business partners and also involved in harmonising Esporta & Virgin Active to one culture as well as the more traditional HR disciplines of polices & procedure.• Project lead for HR focused change programmes including the development and delivery of restructure for a nationally spread department in all 122 sites.

• FTCs to Openreach (mat cover HRBP/ Organisational Change Lead), VT Fours (TUPE in), Focus DIY (sickness cover), Just Retirement (HR project lead), Wheyfeed (Organisational Change) • Assessor for Experienced Assessment Route for HR professionals to membership of the CIPD. Involves assessment, discussion and formal written report based on behaviours, experience and knowledge. • Recruiting, either at selection centres or telephone interview for various companies including BAA and Cisco, through Hudson. • On line assessing for NVQ’s and VRQ’s for Domestic Energy Assessors• Generalist HR advice to SME’s as required.

Auckland, Nz

• Reporting directly to HR Director (dotted line to the COO) and managing 2 Area HR Managers ensuring delivery of HR plan with key focus on management of complex ER cases (with some union intervention), ET’s, Right to Work and Agency usage.• Notable achievements:o Reduction of ETs from 24 to 2 in 6 months.o Reduction of suspensions from weekly average of in excess of 50 to 15, saving business £30k per week.o Home Manager Turnover reduced from 27% to 22%.• Supported establishment of Employee Forum, facilitated meetings and initiating consultation to 42,000 employees for headcount reduction and change to contracts of employment.• In light of the closure of company, TUPE of all home based staff (c42,000) to new operators in short timeline (2 months) and either TUPE or redundancy of all other staff (c1200).

Reigate, Surrey, Gb

London, England, Gb

London, London, Gb

• To provide generalist HR advise to 5 dealerships, approximately 400 staff• Implemented HR strategies, policies and procedures• Worked in partnership with the Management Development team for national culture change programme by developing, facilitating and running the training sessions.• Develop and run recruitment centres to assess senior management and call centre staff• Training of staff on induction programme and recruitment techniques.

• Delivered two high profile projects to short deadlines.• Collated and summarised data outlining all training into paper for review by the Retail Board.• Established a portfolio of courses for Unit Managers; arranged an event for all trainers to attend to develop the courses and later to trial them.• Launched Unit Manager College to the business in Sept 03 with proposals for future courses to be added to the offer.• Managed and developed a team of 5 regional trainers with a remit that embraced development as well as compliance training.• Ensured training evolved in conjunction with the national and regional business plans.• Developed a training game, Charisma, that encouraged retail staff to learn through fun and in both a practical and theoretical way. The game was developed with sponsorship from Diageo and evolved over two years. Supporting the game was a competition to encourage play, culminating in a National final and celebration.

Postgraduate Diploma In Personnel Management, Hr

Bachelor'S Degree, Sports Science (Psychology) & It

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