Leader of the People and Talent agenda; enabling the organisation and culture to scale; in order to accelerate the delivery of net zero.

Global People & Talent lead and member of the Executive Leadership Team for Liberis, the leading global provider of embedded business finance. Responsible for People agenda across UK, Sweden, Germany, CEE and US (remote and office population). Developed and deployed scalable, global ways of working which have led to a headcount growth of 250% and enabled culture change and high performance.

People and Talent Lead for a global consulting, solutions and managed services provider recognised by the Financial Times as one of the top 1000 fastest growing businesses in Europe. In this role I was responsible for partnering with business leaders and leading the team to develop and deploy the global People agenda; with a focus on developing and embedding scalable ways of working to enable ambitious business growth plans.

Hired to lead development of global People proposition; with direct responsibility for Talent, Learning & Development, Communications and Engagement, and People Operations. Focus of the role was establishment of new Global Brand entity and building out the team and ways of working to support the future business model. Also supported the administration of the UK business.

Responsible for developing and leading the Talent strategy for the Arriva Group (c60,000 employees across 14 countries); ensuring we adopted an integrated approach to attracting, identifying and developing our talent which met current and future business needs. Directly accountable for group-wide Talent Acquisition, Talent, Peformance and Succession Management, Leadership Selection and Development and Early Careers activity.

Global lead for Talent and Succession; partnering with Business Leaders and HR colleagues to ensure the business understood its current and future capability requirements and that the pipeline of talent within the business was strong enough to respond to the strategy and environment.

Headed up the Reward function for the then FTSE 350 business; including Exec Compensation and Remuneration Committee reporting.During this period, I was also the Change Lead for the HR & Communications function as part of a global business transformation programme; working with the CPO and HR Leaders to successfully design and implement a new HR vision and operating model and representing the function on the Programme team.

Initially joined as Senior HR Business Partner within the European Business; leading a team supporting employees across 24 countries. Subsequently took the lead on work to drive a high performance culture globally including the re-definition of performance expectations for the organisation and introduction of a new behavioural framework.

Led a team of HR professionals based in the UK and the US spanning all people activity; business partnering and advice, talent and resourcing, learning and development, reward, internal communications and HR services for the global employee population.

People Lead on a group-wide business transformation programme; encompassing people, process and system change. Lead on organisation re-design, change management and communications for the programme.

Secondment to Hallmark ANZ's Headquarters in Melbourne; working with members of the Executive team to drive the people agenda; with particular focus on organisation re-design, performance and reward.

Developed and implemented Reward strategy across the group; including the introduction of a pay for performance philosophy and approach and the design, analysis and ongoing review of pay structures and benefit programmes.

Worked with the HR and leadership teams to develop and drive the talent agenda across the group; ensuring that the organisation had the right people with the right skills to meet future business challenges.

Secondment to a company-wide Innovation Programme; focused on gathering insights and using these to design and develop future business opportunities.

Partnered the management teams in the Supply Chain division responsible for Manufacturing, Distribution and Logistics employees across 3 sites; providing support on all aspects of the people agenda, including recruitment, reward and recognition, absence, talent and performance management.

HR Graduate Trainee scheme, with assignments across the HR spectrum; resourcing, reward, employee relations, policy, manager advice and change.

One-year industrial placement as Recruitment Co-ordinator in the EMEA HR Service Centre.