•Designed and built a Global People team increased capability and focus on the employee experience. Designed new target operating model to simplify the structure and integrate teams within the business.•Achieved greater focus on decision making, accountability, results and strategic alignment by influencing a reorg of the senior leadership team. Introduced org design principles linked to values and process to support future org planning taking account to global and regional needs. •Lead a team to create a learning offering to support business growth, engagement, and retention through a learning strategy to digitise learning and develop blended training solution, prioritised to meet the demands of the business. •Collaboration with the leadership team to embed people focussed leadership, forward thinking and commercial acumen. Coached leaders to think and act differently in how we work. •Achieved 75% growth in headcount in under a year having implemented a recruitment model & strategies generating savings of £1.1m across the year. Partnering with finance to achieve reporting on forecasting to recruit ahead of the curve and gain sight of global resource plans. • Designed and implemented a grading structure for Biocair to map all job roles to a grade and create career paths for technical/support, individual contributor and executive/managerial roles. •Created the Head of ESG role to gain a cultural shift in this important area. Achieved EcoVadis silver accreditation within a year. Introduced ED&I to educate leadership and embed into our culture, values, strategy. Lead Employee Social Networks promoting inclusivity.•Developed long term People strategy aligned to business strategy successfully delivered a new HR system and learning platform in 2023 enabling a digital approach to learning to reduce time to competence, drive efficiencies into the People team function, improving processes and enabling data driven decision making.

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Reporting to the UK HR Director, responsible for partnering with Boeing Defence UK leadership to deliver people focused HR support and integrate the Information Services Programme into the Boeing culture. Achievements include:•Change Management: Achieved savings and improved communication and decision making standards through a series of restructures to ensure a more flexible workforce. •Successful TUPE Transfers Achieved cost savings by leading effective negotiation of terms. Led several TUPE transfers ‘in’ from private and public sector with 2nd generation TUPE rights, identified contract liabilities, due diligence and integrated workforce with careful planning, management training and stakeholder management.•Productive Trade Union Relations: Implemented new absence management policy, supported pay negotiations and resolved employee disputes by building and maintaining effective relationships with PCS Trade Union..•Organisation Design: Retained key skills critical to business continuity and implemented new structure to re position the business for future growth opportunities•Engagement: Increased retention, employee performance and development opportunities by leading an employee initiative to facilitate networking for employees.•Implemented New Salary Structure: Efficiency gained through aligned MoD legacy salary structure to Boeing salary structure and resulted in clear career path and salary growth, equity with peers and measure against the external market for all employees.•HR Infrastructure set up: Achieved compliance with legislation, internal governance and external quality audits. •Talent Management: Achieved greater visibility of key talent through informed discussions across the UK leadership team. •Leadership Development: Reinforced Boeing standards for leaders by developing and participating in leadership training programme for new leaders within the business. Coached managers on a 1-1 basis on people management activities.

Reporting to US based International Recruitment Leader, with overall responsibility for leading recruitment strategy for both Boeing commercial and defence businesses across the EMEA region. Achievements include:•Sourcing Strategy: Worked with US advertising team to increase exposure of Boeing as an employer of choice. Advertising on job boards and social media, implementation of employee referral programme and focus on internal recruitment. Increased direct hires to more than 80% reduced agency costs.•Management Reports: Created reports for management to demonstrate support and increase confidence in the team to deliver hiring for critical defence contracts. Increased management engagement in the process. Measures included reduction in time to hire and quality of talent eligible to work in country. •Expat transition: Managed expat transition to recruit local hires for supporting key defence contracts as well as delivering on the staffing plan requirements for a major new 10 year contract win and hiring for the overall defence business start-up.

Reporting to the HR Director (commercial aviation training division of Boeing). Responsible for achieving the regional HR and business strategy, working with leadership to manage employee relations, implement company policy and provide HR support to a multi-site operation. Managed a team of three including an Intern HR Assistant. Key achievements include:• Promoted from HR Advisor to HR Manager within 12 months of joining the Company •Redundancy/Retention Programme: HR Lead on the closure of Luton Training Centre resulting in redundancy; ensured business continuity through relocation and retention of key skills during a challenging business change. •Data Privacy: Supported implementation of Safe Harbour for EMEA ensuring compliance and process for handling, storage and protection of data.