Rebecca Huws Email & Phone Number

Responsible for designing, implementing, and evaluating comprehensive talent and learning development programs that enhance the skills, knowledge, and capabilities of our colleagues. Leads L&D strategy and provides strategic direction to drive organisational success and support long-term growth.

Usk, Wales, United Kingdom

As the Learning and Development Manager, I am responsible for leading and delivering the College L&D strategic priorities in line with our Organisation and People Strategy. Ensuring a high quality and visible Learning and Development Strategy across the College, supporting and developing our staff to be the best they can be. During my time at the college, I established the L&D department and developed a comprehensive strategy emphasising multi-faceted learning and lifelong development. These efforts led to Coleg Gwent receiving the 'Highly Commended L&D Initiative' award at the CIPD Wales Awards 2024. Achieved in under 18 months, this recognition underscores the success of a focused and ambitious strategy, executed with limited resources but strong corporate support.

Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

I am responsible for leading and delivering the College CIPD programmes. By delivering high quality CIPD qualifications and courses, I help individuals and businesses develop and enhance the people profession. My role combines high levels of learning and development expertise (specifically in the area of CIPD and Leadership & Management) with the conceptual ability to understand our clients’ key strategic drivers and deliver tailored outcomes for them via effective learning solutions. My responsibilities and key skills required of this role include: - Working strategically to enhance the portfolio of CAVC courses, in line with budget management and return on investment analysis. - Enhanced learner experience through learning design and delivery that supports a blend of learning approaches.- Working in consultation with organisations to identify learning needs, develop and deliver tailored and bespoke accredited and non-accredited courses. - Working in a complex, multi stakeholder environments across a range of industries. - Exceptional track record in the design and delivery of corporate workforce and leadership/ management development solutions. - Exceptional presentation, negotiation and communication skills.- Using digital tools to create flexible and innovative learning programmes. - Working as a consultant in supporting organisations with organisation development and design, both hard and soft elements. - Provide regular management information analysis and insight. - Experienced coach and mentor, I have worked with leaders and managers in different types of business to effectively lead, engage and empower their teams to drive organisational results and build a successful work culture. - Strong commercial mindset and collaborative working style supports me in building effective relationships, creating a partnership approach across various sectors which allows me to deliver results.

Cardiff, Cardiff, United Kingdom

My role focused on developing accreditation and expanding CAVC’s portfolio of Leadership and Management courses in line with the overall organisational strategy. I worked with various industries to develop innovative solutions for a range of learning interventions, including technical, behavioural and leadership programmes. I received outstanding feedback from the companies I worked for and built strong relationships with them that has resulted in the expansion of initial briefs or further L&D work. My responsibilities included: - Analysis of our current course provision and identifying opportunities in the market to support future growth. - Designing and develop innovative solutions for corporate workforce development needs and develop the right course that reflects CAVC’s brand and values. - Managed the design of high-quality commercial development programmes from initial concept, carrying out learning needs analysis across the organisation, to delivery and ROI evaluation. - Working in consultation with organisations such as Wales and West, Encon, Cardiff Council to identify learning needs, then developed and delivered tailored and bespoke accredited and non-accredited courses. - Using blended learning solutions to create engaging and impactful learning programmes. - Facilitate and deliver impactful learning programmes, in virtual and face to face settings. - Manage budget for leadership and management programmes, including forecasting, profiling and regular monitoring. - Evaluate learning interventions to measure success of programmes and behaviour change in leaders and managers at all levels.

Various

As a John Lewis Graduate, I underwent intense and comprehensive training to support me to become a future leader of retail. I managed and lead various teams in different locations around the UK. This provided me with a wide range of opportunities to develop my leadership and management skill set. My responsibilities included:- Branch manager in several branches across the UK. - Accountability for branch P&L accounts, managing million-pound budgets.- Managing the employee life cycle; recruitment, induction, training and development, performance management, absence management and annual reviews through to exit interview. - Responsibility for recruitment of over 150 employees during new branch openings. - Leading the design and the creation of branch business plans that clearly outlined the talent development strategy in creating a culture and environment where individuals are valued and empowered to learn and grow.- Leading and management of branch and divisional talent development strategies.- Extensive employee relations experience, specifically in a co-owned business. - Talent management, growing internal talent through all areas of the branch. Using data from workforce to succession and contingency planning. - Creating bespoke training plans to support individual needs. - Responsible for operated legally and the implementation of new working regulations was promptly undertaken. - Leading and supporting my HR team and divisional HR to conduct training needs analysis and branch heath check on the skills, capabilities and talents of my team. - Routinely managed several long and short-term projects concurrently.- Partner with OD&HR colleagues and key stakeholders to contribute and implement the People Strategy. - Professional coach and facilitator for Waitrose talent development assessment centres, which involved coaching and mentoring aspiring leaders.

Bracknell

Whilst working for JLP I ran a project relating to Branch management restructuring, which involved high level workforce planning, change management and deployment of staff. It was my responsibility to oversee and implement a process to allow branches to flexibly change individual Branch structures, as part of this I had to report to senior management stakeholders within the agreed timescale and ensure the project remained within budget. My responsibilities included: - Complex stakeholder management due to the sensitive nature of the change project and the risk of redeployment for middle management. I produced training programmes for the 100 plus branches on the changes that were going to take place, coaching them through any initial concerns. - Coaching and supporting brand managers in their restructuring options and how to implement such changes through effective change management. - Large scale budget forecasting and management, alongside regular monitoring of the project using various tools to ensure project drift did not occur due to the tight time scales and business deadlines. - Manage external suppliers to ensure they provide value for money and meet the organisation’s needs. - Throughout the project I worked closely with HR and OD colleagues which was critical to ensure alignment with the human resource strategy. The result was a system that branches could use to flexibly adjust their structure and roles. - Delivering regular updates to senior management throughout the project outlining progress on key deliverable updates and the designing process to ensure accuracy of data and data analyse to ensure any anomalies are understood and outliers brought inline.

As a John Lewis Graduate, I underwent intense and comprehensive training to support me to become a future leader of retail. I managed and lead teams varying from 20 people to 250 people in different locations around the UK. This provided me with a wide range of opportunities to develop my leadership and management skill set, along with my ability to manage change and complex stakeholder management.

Postgraduate Degree, Professional Graduate Certificate In Education

Bsc Business Management, Business Management, 2:1

Year one modules: Introduction to Accounting, Statistical Analysing and Research Methods, Marketing, People in Organisations, Principles.