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Santa Clara, California, Us

Santa Clara, California, Us

Woking, England, Gb

A regional compensation & benefits role reporting into the HR Director for Europe West. The role led compensation and benefit annual cycles and new designs/implementations for ~6,000 employees located in Germany, France, Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands.

Woking, England, Gb

A global compensation role reporting directly to the Head of Global C&B and based in Munich at Linde’s Head Office. This role led the annual pay and bonus review cycle for Linde’s Executives globally via the Compensation and Benefit Heads in each region. This role also handled the Executive compensation and benefit schemes globally for those who are direct reports of Linde’s Board Members.Following a large company acquisition, this role supported the harmonization of the short term incentive plan for Linde's Executives globally.

Woking, Surrey, Gb

Reward Partner responsible for the UK and Ireland, reporting into the Head of Reward and HR Systems. This role led several annual pay and bonus review cycles each year for ~3,500 employees within a complex compensation structure. This role also managed all benefit programmes and supported the running of the performance management process and global mobility. Key achievements in this role include re-designing and launching HR's communication platform to help employees better self-serve, implementing a Reward and Recognition hub for the UK and Ireland as well as graduating from the CIPD Level 7.

Woking, Surrey, Gb

A broad role within a unionised environment encompassing a wide variety of HR practices such as providing guidance and support on reward policies and practices, employee relation issues, absence management, recruitment and talent and development opportunities. The role led BOC's recognition programme for both daily and annual recognition and included inputting any changes affecting the terms of conditions of employees in the SAP HR system. Towards the end of this role I played a key role in the outsourcing of HR's transactional work which included knowledge transfer sessions and process gap analysis.

Woking, Surrey, Gb

Responsibilities included managing BOC's recruitment system and arranging interviews, assessing at BOC's HR placement assessment centre, preparing offers including pre-employment checks to ensure legal requirements were met, completing reference requests, managing internal and external queries, co-ordinating training courses and maintaining the HR intranet page. The role also involved day-to-day support to the Head of HR, including limited diary management assistance e.g. arranging ad-hoc meetings, submit and process expenses, processing of invoices, copy typing of presentations, agendas, minutes etc.

The responsibilities included supporting the Payroll and HR Officers to deal with and resolve payroll and HR queries, maintaining manual and electronic files and updating the HR database (Bond), producing contracts and casual agreements, administering recruitment records, producing short listing and interviewing packs, inviting candidates for interview and completing pre-employment checks. In addition, the role included administering overtime and casual claims, administering absence records, producing reports from the HR database.

Cipd Level 7, Human Resource Management

Cipd Level 5, Human Resource Management

Cipd Level 3, Human Resource Management