Welcome to my profile, thanks very much for taking the time to read it! Please feel free to get in touch on nicola.marshall@welcomebreak.co.uk - I can't promise to get back to you quickly thoughI am a Chartered CIPD HR professional working in market leading organisations.My passion is people; understanding what makes people 'tick' and how we can improve business performance through the power of our teams. I am an Executive Coach, BPS Level A & B, Insights Discovery, MBTI & Predictive Index qualified. My role covers everything from Culture & Wellbeing, Recruitment & Talent Management, Employee Relations, Pay & Benefits and Organisational Development and Change.Welcome Break:Welcome Break is one of the UK’s leading motorway service area operators, running 53 service areas and 31 hotels across the UK. Welcome Break amenity buildings, fuel forecourts, EV charging and hotels are open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Our business is about people, the 85 million people who visit our sites each year and the teams who make the business the success it is. Providing customers with a "welcome break" is what's important to us.We've been around for 50 years and are in locations across the UK strategic road network. Our 5,000 strong team strive to proudly and passionately offer our customers' world class hospitality and retail brands such as, Starbucks, KFC, Waitrose, Burger King, Subway, Pret, Ramada, Days Inn, WHSmiths & Greggs in a friendly environment.Every day here is as challenging as it is enjoyable, as rewarding as it is fun. We believe that the same should be true once our working day is over, so we do everything we can to make sure our teams can get their life/work balance right!Everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed at Welcome Break. To make sure that those achievements are recognised, we have many recognition schemes. We work hard to build a culture of openness, listening to customers and our own teams so we can identify opportunities to improve service, innovation and engagement.In October 2018, Welcome Break was acquired by Applegreen Plc (joint ownership with Arjun Infrastructure Partnership).Applegreen PLC, a convenience food and beverage retailer and fuel forecourt service provider operating in Ireland, the UK and the US. As of 31st December 2019, operating 556 retail & forecourt sites, employing c15,500 people directly across a diverse business of retail, hotels and wholesale fuel businesses. Applegreen started in 1992 and continues to go from strength to strength under the leadership of the original founders.
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