Lara Lester Email & Phone Number

Slough, GB

Reading

• Reporting to the Leader, People & Culture in Sydney and a dotted line to the MD in the UK, I am responsible for providing HR support to the 40 employees in the UK. I am part of and work closely with the UK General.
• Recently relocated the UK office from Maidenhead to our new offices in Reading. This was a year long project that involved sourcing new offices, survey for employees, working closely with an office design team, getting.
• Half-yearly Engagement Survey for the UK and from the feedback have implemented a communications strategy, career development plan and a revised on boarding process.
• Established working relationships with recruiters so they understand the Objective culture and using recruitment tools such as Linked In Learning to recruit the bests candidates for Objective.
• Introduced an induction programme for the UK.
• Responsible for overseeing the annual salary review process to ensure it came in on time and on budget.

• Wrote and introduced Flexible Working policy to meet the changes in the law and to ensure that O2 had an attractive benefit in terms of their flexible working program.
• Reviewed and updated O2’s HR policies, including the disciplinary, grievance and sickness policy. This involved working with and getting agreement from the Union, Employee Council and the HR Director and his direct.
• Reviewed and updated O2’s redundancy policy to ensure it was fair and in accordance with current legal requirements. Once agreed by the HR Director and Unions it was rolled out for line HR to implement.

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