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King's Cross, England, GB

Fort Worth, Texas, US

Responsible for leading the people and culture transformation of the Allied and latterly RS Americas business, enabling growth of c50% to $1bn revenue in 3 years. Delighted to have supported the achievement of the following accolades during 2022 - 2023; Great Place to Work. Americas Most Inspiring Workplace, L&D Innovative Team of the Year - Finalist by.

London, London, GB

Strategic people partner for RS Group Corporate Functions including Global Finance, Technology and People with a specific remit for leading M&A from a People & Culture perspective.

London, England, GB

Playing an active role within the HR, Global Finance, Innovation and Group Professional Services Leadership Teams to create the right conditions to attract and retain talent, a key enabler of our strategic ambition to be first choice for customers.

London, GB

Helping to attract, engage and retain industry experts globally who drive up the standard of safety and performance of Medical Devices for patients through their involvement in the evaluation of cutting edge innovation and state of the art technologies.

London, GB

• Partnering with leaders of various commercial business areas to support the development and delivery of strategically aligned people plans. Highlights include:
• playing a key role in the design and implementation of an EMEA Strategic Workforce Planning process to define resource requirements over the next 3 years
• working closely with the business to create and deliver against annual resourcing plans
• acting as the EMEA HR lead on the development of a global mid leaders development programme focused on building a more agile and commercially astute team of future leaders
• project managing a working group of key stakeholders across the business to build a career pathway and associated competency framework for System Assessment
• presenting the EMEA UK engagement survey results to c750 people at the Customer Excellence Event in December 2014, whilst on maternity leave

Scoresby, Victoria, AU

• Reporting to the Global HR Director with responsibility for a Global Talent Strategy which focuses on engaging, developing and retaining top talent. Key achievements include:
• redesign and delivery of a leadership talent review and succession planning process
• provision of generalist HR support to the Global Centre team including, recruitment, change management, organisational design, absence management etc
• production of a competency framework to facilitate the overall upwards development of the sales force
• coaching members of the PaperlinX leadership team using a variety of psychometric tools, i.e. Saville Wave, OPQ32r, Belbin
• HR lead on global strategic innovation projects in terms of building operating models and analysing people capability for new revenue streams

Amsterdam ZO, NL

• Reporting to the Regional HR Director with responsibility for the development and delivery of a variety of people initiatives within the talent and engagement space. Key achievements include:
• HR lead on building a European talent pool for cross functional teams charged with driving growth initiatives
• UK graduate scheme including design of attraction campaign, employee branding, running assessment centres and supporting selection decisions
• Talent Review & Succession Planning – launching process, managing comms, facilitating review and calibration sessions, consolidating results and providing meaningful metrics, identifying talent pipelines

• Embedded HR professional involved in supporting the business to achieve it’s objectives by providing advice on people management, organisation and change management challenges. Working closely with line managers.
• The design and delivery of a number of successful senior level recruitment campaigns which included ‘board meeting’ simulations and SHL assessments. Produced a line manager’s toolkit on a best practice approach to.
• Successfully supporting change programmes including the closure of sales branches. Helped facilitate the redeployment of talent and, where required, coached managers to ensure that employees were exited ‘in the right.
• Secured a 30% reduction in spend on pre-employment health checks.
• Running a fast-paced and significant case load which included complex dismissal and formal performance management cases, some with Trade Union involvement.

Winchester, Hants, GB

Responsible for providing proactive and professional recruitment service to line managers within the Adults sector of the Social Services Department. This involved understanding the sector strategy and workforce plan in order to devise and deliver recruitment initiatives to source the best quality candidates with the most appropriate skills and experience..

Winchester, Hants, GB

Postgraduate Certificate In Professional Management

Postgraduate Degree, Human Resources Management

Joint Ba Hons, Business Studies And Human Resource Management

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