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Blackrock, County Dublin, Ireland

Responsible for HR strategy and planning, HR communications, employee relations, administrative, HR operations, learning and development, HRIS, recruitment and onboarding.

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Responsible for the day-to-day management of HR operations partnering with business leaders, managers and employees across our business to implement systems, processes, and programs to enable our people to succeed.First point contact for People related matters, to provide expertise in Talent Management and Development, Employee Engagement, Recruitment, Onboarding, Employee Relations, Compensation and Benefits, and People Analytics.

Maynooth, Co. Kildare

Lead the planning and delivery of the HR service in the area of recruitment and selection. Generalist HR support on policies, procedures and guidelines to ensure best practice across 3 faculties and 27 academic departments and multi disciplinary research institutes (1,100+ staff / 200+ hires per year).o Recruitment; management of in house recruitment, full cycle from job approval, advertising, shortlisting, interview, offer and onboarding.o HR Generalist; procedural and guideline advice to ensure legal compliance, best practice advice to line managers of HR policies to ensure information is disseminated effectively.o Lead HR service partner for Research support function providing full HR support to Institutes and 150+ research support staff.o Collaboration in varied HR initiatives including production of varied HR operational reports, Sabbatical leave scheme (2016) and varied HR project groups

Ucd, Belfield

Collaboration with Principal Investigators, Lecturers and Heads of Schools on recruitment / HR across 7 colleges and 34 schools specialising in the area of recruitment and HR support (3,500+ staff). o Advertising, social media, networking, internal mobility, screening, interviewing; operating and working towards achieving full compliance within agreed University academic process SLA and KPI criteria to meet current and future staffing requirements.o Provision of HR guidance concerning University policies and frameworks advising PI’s and Professors on appropriate action within frameworks, policies and procedures to ensure information is effectively disseminated to maintain and develop business relationships.o Contract management; drafting and issuing new contracts, advise on contract mgmt guidelines, drafting of job descriptions, provision of ongoing HR advice and best practice.o Candidate mgmt; screening, negotiation / offering, Boolean searching, international recruitment, attracting and liaising with potential and existing employees, referencing.o Core HR; updating, daily monitoring and updating of HR, contract and recruitment information on internal HR database.HR Analyst (UCD HR Recruitment - Maternity cover contract) April, 2012 – July 2013Providing analysis and reporting to support effective planning for the HR recruitment unit.o Manage quality audit process of contracts, advertisements, tracking HR data, ad hoc projectso Provision of the weekly activity report, monthly reports, payroll memo and end date report and other assigned reports. Ongoing ad hoc HR and recruitment support.o Monitoring of probation periods of University permanent and fixed term staff.

Ireland’s leading independent FMCG outsourcing sales company providing staff / managing multiple projects on behalf of a portfolio of client companies in the FMCG, Energy and Retail industries.o Managed departmental team of four supporting day to day business and delegating of tasks according to business needs. Performance mgmt roll out across department & company.o Resourcing candidates to fill client contracts within core business areas; business development, sales rep, merchandising, and field marketing (400+ outsourced contract staff)o Managed day to day resourcing needs, interviewing, sourcing and managing internal and external client relationships to ensure high end customer service with account leads, clients and field sales representatives. o Business development; developed departmental marketing plan including online ad words, sales calls, client visits, outsourcing tender submissions, representing CPG at careers fairs, coordinating article contributions to industry websites to promote brand awareness.

Internal recruitment and HR support for Arnotts Department Store, Boyers and warehousing comprising of 1800+ staff across all business support areas including operations, buying, accounts, IT, admin support.o Management of recruitment team; two direct reports, delegating, developing operational improvements of services to meet ongoing organisational needs, performance mgmt.o Resourcing candidates, interviewing and drafting of job descriptions for all in house roles.o Developing and influencing collaborative working relationships with hiring Directors, senior management and departmental mgmt, deliverance of ongoing HR and recruitment supporto Running of assessment centres for managerial recruitment (Interviews, group observations, psychometric testing and presentations for groups of 7 per assessment).o ER / IR; represented HR at TU negotiations (SIPTU & MANDATE), grievance & disciplinaries.o Lead seasonal recruitment campaigns. 80 – 120 part time staff in xmas and summer periods

Temporary and permanent recruitment supplying various grades of hospitality staff within the hotel and catering sector on both a temporary and permanent basis.

Post Grad Diploma, Ebusiness (Ehr)

Diploma, Employment Law

Bsc, Human Resource Management & Industrial Relations