Leading the HR function for all the Companies with the Group. A trusted advisor to the board of directors for an AIM listed Company– manage REMCO and attend board meetings. Experienced in;Employee relations using influencing and mediation skills in complex situations.Management of a number of TUPE projects, both in and out of organisations, including change management.Experienced in successfully recruiting in large and small scale organisations.Strategic HR planning both the vision and tactical implementation.Use the principles of organisational design to maximise business impact.

Worked with a number or organisations, including technical and medical to provide a wide range of HR services.

Aptuit was a private equity backed Company, in my role I was both a strategic advisor and hands on HR Manager. Once the Company transitioned to Evotec, I remained on and was responsible for the process mapping and implementation of Workday for the UK for Aptuit.• Worked in partnership with the senior leadership team to enable Company to grow from loss making in the previous year to a profitable sale of £330M, in August 2017.• Due diligence preparation. • Recruited in excess of 150 employees over 2 years, including an HR Business Partner post acquisition.• Insourced Facilities, creating savings of circa £100k per annum.• Local project management of Workday implementation and payroll transition.• Led the HR function, delivering in all aspects of HR, including benefits management and alignment, and payroll (UK, Denmark and Germany).

• Culture Shaping: supporting and driving Employee Engagement Action Plans, Career Mapping, Site Leadership visibility and local town hall meetings.• Talent Management: Building on People Leader skills developed through in-house leadership development programme by identifying areas for development/succession planning.• Business Partnership: Proactively engage with the business to support delivery of the people strategy which includes providing comprehensive support and advice on a range of complex people management issues and strategies, including change management, restructure and redundancy, acquisitions, TUPE, employee relations, coaching, training and development on HR policies and processes and implementation of these strategies. Build and sustain effective and valued working relationships with senior leaders, providing support and guidance for a wide range of HR issues. Provide customer focused HR solutions. • Partnering with the leadership team, in building the Organisation, it’s structure, people and culture. • Reward & Benefit management: Responsible for managing UK employee benefits, including Pension auto enrolment, annual renewals of all benefits through intermediaries to ensure a cost effective and market competitive approach to providing benefits. Supporting the annual global performance management review process to enhance leadership capabilities.• Coaching and development of European HR Team.