Laura Gordon

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Director Resource Strategy @ McDonald's
Royal Tunbridge Wells, GB
Laura Gordon's Location
Royal Tunbridge Wells, England, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
About Laura Gordon

Experienced Senior HR leader across multiple lines of business in international, matrixed organisations.Data-driven and with a proven track record of partnering with C suite and executive stakeholders, my mission is to empower and inspire people to achieve their full potential and contribute to the success of the company and its customers.Passionate about advancing diversity, inclusion, and well-being in the workplace, and have successfully implemented initiatives and programs that foster a culture of belonging, engagement, and growth. Kates-Kessler certified organizational design practitioner and a graduate of the NXT-GEN Fellowship for Moral Leadership, which equip me with the skills and insights to navigate complex and dynamic challenges and drive positive change.

Laura Gordon's Current Company Details
McDonald's

Mcdonald'S

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Director Resource Strategy
Royal Tunbridge Wells, GB
Website:
mcdonalds.com
Employees:
368857
Laura Gordon Work Experience Details
  • Mcdonald'S
    Director Resource Strategy
    Mcdonald'S
    Royal Tunbridge Wells, Gb
  • Mcdonald'S
    Hr Director International Markets
    Mcdonald'S
    Royal Tunbridge Wells, Gb
  • Mcdonald'S
    Hr Director International Markets
    Mcdonald'S Nov 2024 - Present
    Chicago, Illinois, Us
  • Cencora
    Senior Director Human Resources
    Cencora Aug 2023 - Sep 2024
    Cencora (previously AmerisourceBergen) is a Fortune 500 pharmaceutical solutions organization with over 46,000 team members centered on improving the lives of people and animals. Corporate Functions International lead for the International Business Group (comprised of Alliance Healthcare and World Courier business units). Partnership with Senior Vice Presidents for IT, HR, Finance, Legal, Marketing, Communications with focus on change management and cultural integration of separate employing entities, brought into Cencora through acquisition.
  • Cencora
    Director Human Resources
    Cencora Sep 2021 - Aug 2023
    World Courier (a Cencora business unit) specialises in medical logistics for clinical trials and commercial supply chains, comprised of c4000 blue- and white-collar professionals. Global HR Director for Business Excellence and Global Operations, IT, Finance, Quality Assurance, Marketing, Legal. Partnered with executive leadership team and VP HR as Talent COE lead for group processes across all World Courier and operationally acted as UK HR Manager for World Courier Corporate HQ in London.
  • Shell
    Talent Director Downstream Global Commercial
    Shell Oct 2018 - Sep 2021
    London, England, Gb
    Part of the senior business and HR leadership teams as lead talent advisor for a global and diverse business of c8,000 staff covering marketing, digital, sales, customer operations and supply chain in both B2B and B2C sectors. Accountable for setting and delivering diversity and inclusion strategy with a key focus on gender and mental health inclusion and driving discussion on Race and Ethnicity at work. Leading succession planning for key and critical roles, identifying and driving improvement for bottom quartile team leadership and implementing cultural change for a number of HR innovations (e.g. group leadership potential assessment, transition from SAP to Workday).
  • Shell
    Uk Hr Director, Integrated Gas & New Energies
    Shell Sep 2016 - Oct 2018
    London, England, Gb
    Country HR manager for Exploration, Integrated Gas and New Energies part of UK country HR leadership team. Key milestones included successful execution of the BG integration, growing our employee base with over 70 technical specialists joining Shell, working with leadership teams to transform the culture which combined “best of both” and a subsequent increase in people survey satisfaction. Shaped the people agenda for multiple leadership teams, diagnosing and facilitating resolution of organisation and team effectiveness issues. In addition acted as the de-facto Talent lead for Exploration (c600 staff globally), executing group processes and succession planning.
  • Shell
    Global Hr Manager Trading And Supply Products
    Shell 2014 - Sep 2016
    London, England, Gb
    Following integration of two businesses (Trading & Supply), the key focus of this role was transformation. Including change management, talent management, capability building and integration of different business cultures globally. Key contributions included successfully managing Employee and Industrial relations through a large change programme in NW Europe (impacting over 500 employees with a 12% FTE reduction). Additionally led the HR workstream to develop and implement a capability upskilling (learning) programme demonstrating a drive for Continuous Improvement.
  • Shell
    Global Talent Lead (Trading)
    Shell Sep 2012 - Jan 2014
    London, England, Gb
    A role with global remit requiring a commercial mindset and pragmatism to succeed. Owner of standards and improvement in assessment methodology for Trader Graduate Programme and internal Trader Development Programme. Delivery of a strategic country Talent review, combining internal and external data to build action for a long term talent pipeline, leveraging my strength for data interpretation and management to support the business case. Identified a gap and drove consistency in our approach to internal interviewing by creating a best practice guidance document, recognised at a Downstream HR level.
  • Shell
    Global Hr Business Partner Finance
    Shell Jan 2011 - Sep 2012
    London, England, Gb
    Supported three Global finance populations (Credit, Supply and Distribution and Risk and Insurance, approx 500 FTE), part of Leadership Teams to deliver the HR Agenda through coaching and partnering with senior leaders. The teams were undergoing reorganisation so there was a heavy element of change management and Organisational Effectiveness (OE).
  • Shell
    Talent Advisor (Kazakhstan Jv)
    Shell Aug 2009 - Nov 2010
    London, England, Gb
    Talent Advisor for a JV requiring delivery through others, complex internal and external stakeholder engagement and focus on organisational excellence. Developed and owned the Nationalisation Plan in which approach regarding Manpower Planning, recruitment, training and development of local staff and succession planning was outlined. Developed a value proposition for Kazakhstan JV, branding materials for recruitment campaigns and created the learning policy ensuring a portfolio was available to meet development needs.
  • Shell
    Global Hr Business Partner - It And Finance
    Shell Sep 2007 - Jul 2009
    London, England, Gb
    As HRBP for IT, support for c200 staff within the IT Project Management, IT Business Application Management (BAM) and Global Functions Communication populations. As HRBP for Finance, part of a project team to standardise internal recruitment for Finance contributing towards the Functional Plan and Top Quartile journey. Business partner for three finance functions and co-ordinating global communication and data for large tri-annual resourcing (the largest covering 3000 applications for 900 positions

Laura Gordon Education Details

  • University Of York
    University Of York
    Psychology

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Laura Gordon attended University Of York.

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