Ruth Noake Email & Phone Number

Birmingham

MP&L & T&PPG

• Joined the function to manage the downsizing process and full reorganisation for varied customers across all JLR UK locations, providing HR guidance and advice. Delivered to ambitious timelines, achieving the programme.
• Created integrated People Strategies for customer groups based over multiple sites after downsizing, worked cross functionally to understand needs and requirements, utilised expertise and researched innovative.

Castle Bromwich

• Responsible for creating and delivering the Strategic People Plan focusing on Leadership Development, Learning & Development, Induction, Talent, Succession Planning and Organisational Change. Achievements;
• Enabled business change by leading a 12 month senior team development intervention. Analysed the team needs to diagnose the most appropriate intervention, sourced a provider and partnered to design and co-facilitate..
• Led the senior leadership team to define their Vision and Leadership Charter to bring clarity and direction for the team ahead of a period of significant change. The team stayed true to their vision, and put in place a.
• Authored Learning and Development processes to enable efficient management of training budgets, reduce costs and gain targeted value from training spend, encouraging a 70:20:10 approach.
• Enabled the progression and retention of key talent by establishing Talent Boards with executive teams, facilitating talent conversations, driving succession planning and creating cross functional development moves.
• Reduced time to full competence for Manufacturing Production Associates globally, designing the induction journey to full competence, partnering with subject matter experts to create appropriate enablers for.

EMC, Wolverhampton

• Leading the L&D team, responsible for creating and delivering the Strategic People Plan focusing on Leadership Development, Learning & Development, Induction, Talent, Succession Planning and Organisational Change..
• Led work to create foundations for an Operations Competency Framework, defining critical organisational capabilities to enable targeted development and safeguard future growth
• Conducted Skills Gap mapping exercise in partnership with the Automotive Industrial Partnership to influence future vocational education funding streams
• Led the creation of Career Frameworks outlining development and progression opportunities to enable greater empowerment and ownership for development
• Proactive contract management ensured a significant reduction in training budget expenditure with no reduction in provision.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

London Midland is a passenger train company serving over 60 million customers a year and employing over 2,400 people, based at 148 stations including the head office in Birmingham. A senior HR manager, responsible for Leadership Development, Performance Management and Talent Management strategy, leading a small internal team and external delivery partners..

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Centro is the West Midlands Integrated Transport Authority, which promotes and develops public transport across the region, employing 380 people.Led the creation of organisation development programmes and initiatives, and coaching for greater performance. Established and managed a Learning Centre, introducing blended learning techniques.

Walsall, United Kingdom

Part of a small HR Team providing support to 160 staff over a range of local sites. Providing Employment Law Advice, Led a review of Staff Benefits and Compensation, Responsible for Training and Development, Policy development, Recruitment, etc.

Walsall, United Kingdom

Taught a variety of multi-lingual, multi-cultural classes, including time spent in the Czech Republic teaching in schools and colleges.

Walsall, United Kingdom

Supported the Planning Regulations team, project managing cases through to completion.

Graduate Certificate In Organisational Development (Via Roffey Park)

Post Graduate Diploma, Human Resource Development

Disability Employment Managers Btec Professional Development Award (Level 4)

Tesol Certificate (Teaching English As A Second Language)

Included time spent teaching in the Czech Republic

Bsc (Hons), Geography, 2:1