Sarah Smith Chartered Mcipd Email & Phone Number

Huddersfield, United Kingdom

I'm looking for consultancy/interim project opportunities in either Data Protection or HR. I am also able to offer a DPO service for organisations as a GDPR Practioner. To see more visit my website www.evolutionhrservices.co.uk.Currently I'm working with a number of commercial clients helping them to become compliant with The Data Protection Act 2018. I also deliver a DPO service to a number of primary schools across Kirklees, Calderdale and Bradford. Most recently I have built new starter packs, employment contracts and staff handbooks to enable a number of small businesses to take on their first staff member.My ethos is to offer confidence and security for my clients and their staff.

Bradford, United Kingdom

Key achievements are: - The introduction of a Root Cause Analysis working group. This group allows us to discuss risks, issues, near misses and complaints that have been raised either by us or by our customers, enabling the development of sustainable solutions that can eradicate re-occurrence. - The HR lead for the implementation and procurement of new systems, including a Recruitment System and a robotics provider. - Systematic review and delivery of a HR risk register highlighting areas of risk, ensuring alignment to legislation e.g. GDPR readiness. - Project lead for the outsource of employability checks. This included full procurement process, due diligence of chosen supplier and contract and commercial negotiation.

Bradford, United Kingdom

Key achievements are: - I redesigned over 25 business processes across Recruitment and Onboarding, through stakeholder workshops, redesign of the end to end candidate journey, design and procurement and implementation of a new ATS and built a ‘fit for the future’ recruitment team structure.

Bradford, United Kingdom

Key achievements in this role are: - I redesigned processes across HR Shared Services (30+) that improved the customer experience. I improved the NPS score by 20 points through the design and delivery of a workflow system (ServiceNow), the development of operational SLAs and KPIs and transparent reporting to show transactional and strategic delivery for the Chief People Officer and other senior leadership population. - I was responsible for and managed budgets in excess of £1.5m, indirect £3.5m. - I built sustainable relationships with the senior leadership population (40+) to enable the effective implementation of change through buy-in. - I developed and implemented a HR Shared Services strategy. - I was responsible for the continuous development of the HR Shared Services team, by creating an environment allowing for personal and professional development, which lead to a 20% increase in my engagement score (71%).

Bradford. West Yorkshire

Key achievements: - I successfully transformed the YBSG recruitment process, building a team of 12 specialists – Generating savings of 750k within he first 12 months of set-up. - I devised specific IR35 compliant contracts to be used for recruitment of direct contractors – used throughout all YBS locations. - I developed the first YBSG Social Media campaign (2010) for the attraction and engagement of candidates across LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter, This led to the recruitment of over 250 FT and contract personnel into the business over an 18 month period. - I reduced attrition by 50% (500 FTE staff) through the design and development of bespoke behavioural questionnaires for call-centres and the branch network. - Worked alongside the Learning and Development Team to design and develop a measurable learning programme to ensure recruiting manager capability in all aspects of recruitment practices.

Leeds, United Kingdom

This was a recruitment agency role. I built a HR recruitment desk from scratch. This involved engaging with clients and candidates a like, and fulfilling all their needs through the placement of quality staff into the right position.

Leeds, United Kingdom

I worked closely with the conveyancing directors to fulfill recruitment needs across all areas of the remortgage and sales and purchasing departments. This involved building recruitment tools, an induction programme and a more cost effective recruitment sourcing model. I also worked on wider resource projects and aided the development of new processes within HR and recruitment.

Huddersfield, United Kingdom

In this role is had full responsibility for all Head Office vacancies. This included attraction, sourcing and all initial interviews to enable the best candidates met with recruiting managers.