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Reading, Reading, United Kingdom

A professional interim for 17 years. Proven experience in managing complex global change programs for resourcing and procurement functions. Successfully delivered 16 assignments for 11 clients operating in the financial services, life sciences, energy and telecoms sectors. Projects cover contingent labour, permanent hiring and statement of work solutions.Assignment objectives / deliverables have included;• Transition from an RPO to an in-house model• Deployments of RPO, MSP and in-house processes• Implementation of systems with integrations to HR and Finance (i.e. Workday, SAP and OCM) • Functional leader support and operational deliveryBritvic 2023 and 2024 (current) - RPO Tender and Implementation AdviserBooking.com 2021 to 2022 - Business Case and Project Adviser MSP Deployment Baxter Healthcare, 2018/22 - Program lead managing the contingent category including MSP strategy and deployments. Supported exit of the permanent RPO and transition to in-house modelAMS at RBS, 2017/18 - PM role to support RBS Procurement with the design and implementation of the statement of work (SoW) model. AMS at Takeda, 2016 - Transformation Consultant Aviva, 2015 - Integration lead for Recruitment supporting Aviva’s acquisition of Friends Life. Vodafone UK, 2014/15 - Project manage a location strategy program of 9 site closures and a set of contingent workforce projects.AMS at HireVue, 2014 - Implementation of digital interview technology BP Plc, 2012/13 - 21 months Program Manager of global resourcing projects most notably executive search strategy and the graduate hiring and development programmes. Hays, 2011/12 – 6 months PM of c. 20 projects for RBS MSP. Royal Bank of Scotland, 2010/11 – 21 months Resourcing PM under a global HR change program. Skandia UK, 2008 – Head of Resourcing, Williams Lea, 2007 - Deputy Head of Recruitment for a team of 21

Engaged with business and HR stakeholders to define requirements of an RPO prior to drafting the tender document. Assessed the current RPO suppliers, screened a short list and guided the client to select the suppliers to which, the tender document will be issued.

Providing strategic advice and guidance on outsourcing the hiring of contingent labour and freelance services. Contract extended to support the project definition and advise on the implementation delivered over multiple stages.

Provided part-time support to absorb the contingent labour model of a recently acquired business into the global outsource model.

Initially engaged to continue to the global roll out of the MSP to India, Thailand and Puerto Rico and to evaluate additional viable countries. After assessment and stakeholder engagement with a further 6 countries, Mexico was also deployed.Assignment scope extended to provide governance and guidance of the RPO exit and build of the in-house resourcing capability within TA. Deliverables covered program reporting, managing the weekly program leadership team meetings and ongoing headcount budget reviews.

Managing the deployment of the Statement of Work (SoW) solution across all functions of RBS. Scope includes system integrations with OCM, PeopleSoft and Sentinel, design of a global process and full change management activities.

Supporting European recruitment transformation for Takeda Pharmaceuticals

Supported the integration of Friends Life recruitment function into the Aviva model. This included the exit of the heritage outsource suppliers, transfer of services to incumbent supplier and an improvement plan for the harmonised service. Additionally produced plans for phase 2 of the integration and calculated the cost savings potential from merging functions in both Resourcing and L&D.

Responsible for the recruitment workstream of an HR program to close 9 sites and re-hire across multiple UK locations. Hiring, managing and leading a team of 6 to recruit circa 300 permanent hires within 6 months. Built the end to end process (outside of the RPO), defined and mapped the hiring requirements aligning to the consultation output. Built reports for the program and the wider business. Initial contract ended in February but re-engaged in May to support with a selection of ad-hoc projects and to help define the strategy to hire and manage the non-employees (contractors/consultants/outsourced) Achievements: Team delivered 200 hires in four months all through direct sourcing Created a feeling of confidence across the business and within HR through visibility of progress and projected hiring timelines so contingencies can be triggered

Implementation of digital interview systems to EMEA clients such as Vodafone, Adecco and Grant Thornton.

Managed a selection of global resourcing projects however the majority of time focused on defining the strategy for both executive search and graduate hiring and development programmes. Global Graduates – Following extensive stakeholder engagement produced recommendations, supported by a change plan to improve global capability to hire and assess top graduate candidates. Project scope increased to include development training programmes which required further engagement to update recommendations prior to gaining approval at HRLT and board level. Initial improvements commenced including university relationship strategy and school selection. Executive Search – Clarified current state, spend and supplier base, conducted stakeholder sessions and commissioned research prior to producing recommendations for board approval. Supplier selection ongoing.Supported the functional head to produce and socialise board level presentation papers outlining functional strategy and change programme updates. Responsible for the programme reporting for over 20 resourcing based projects including progress updates to HRLT. Provided guidance to recruitment project managers on best practice, planning and reporting.

Based onsite at RBS responsible for managing projects function delivering process and operational projects for GBM and Group contracts. Hays manage all specialist contractor recruitment for the UK.

Based in the projects division of HR, responsible for managing specific projects and providing project management support to a selection of additional projects. Linked to the HR PeopleSoft program, responsible for the deployment of career sites and i-Grasp implementation to initially the India locations, covering multisite operation of approx 10,000 staff. Next deployment was to 9 Asia countries including, Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia and then finally the third deployment to Europe covering Poland, Netherlands and Switzerland. Post included frequent international travel. Managed the exit of warranty period of a systems migration and provided support to three PMs for the global HR portal deployment.Achievements:• I-Grasp India project delivered in 10 weeks, of which 4 weeks were spent on site in Delhi• Reviewed and restructured the Resourcing projects budgey• Deployed all three programmes (India, Asia & Europe) on time and within budget

Engaged to evaluate recruitment process and propose solutions that would reduce the cost and time to hire. Following initial review, proposed a strategy to include an E Recruitment model to increase direct hiring, the appointment of category specific preferred recruitment agency supply and structured candidate assessment methodology.

A key conduit to the senior management team and managed a team (4) responsible for senior hires of salaries in excess of £50K for the EMEA region. Resourcing project lead in the company’s EMEA expansion, managing the in country research, appointment of agencies and direct sourcing activities.