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Aston Martin Lagonda is a publicly listed ultra luxury brand creating intense experience for our customers through the design and production of high performance vehicles. 2022 revenues were £1.4.bn with 2600 employees based mainly in the UK.Key activities include:- Deliver a plan to make Aston martin a Great Place to Work- Developing a high performance culture through the development and embedding of our Company values- Working with the leadership team to help evolve the organisation as we raise our performance levels and grow the business- Identifying and developing talent within the organisation, and attracting world class external talent to the business- Developing our leaders to face the challenges of the business, and to coach and engage our people- Developing and implementing a step change ED&I agenda- Leading the people workstream to evolve the business as electrification takes hold in the performance vehicle segment- Leading a multi-million pound refurbishment project for our office space to increase collaboration and develop a Great Place to Work- Provide insights to the executive team through data and organisational listening on which we build improvement actions to increase engagement and performance

QEGSMAT is a multi academy schools Trust with several primary and secondary schools in the area.

I have created my own Company to partner business leaders and their leadership teams manage during periods of change. I am also open to Permanent and Interim HR Director level roles.

London, Greater London, Gb

Leading the integration of the people agenda across all areas of the Clean Air Operations Transformation programme - delivering operating model changes ensuring the required organisation simplicity and culture change, understanding of the business strategy, ensuring consistency with JM values.Key Activities:- Delivering coaching change using coaching as a methodology to develop high performing teams- Articulating and engaging people with the change journey- Leading the people agenda to support footprint change- Leading the people agenda to increase productivity at low performing sites- Leading the people agenda to deliver functional excellence improvement activities - in particular in our Supply Chain organisation- Ongoing review of the organisation and actions to embed organisation change

London, Greater London, Gb

I am a core member of the Regional leadership team with responsibility to lead HR activity across our activities in the UK, Germany, Sweden, Poland, Macedonia, South Africa and Siberia.Key Challenges include:- Leading the OD for the Operations function with in the Sector achieving significant savings- increasing the level of leadership across the business- design and implement a plan to increase the talent pipeline- drive high performance through empowered team based working- increasing levels of employee engagement through innovative engagement activity- managing the challenges that Brexit is providing- start-up of major greenfield facility in Poland

Derby, Derbyshire, Gb

London, England, Gb

I held a number of HR Director and executive business partner positions during my 8 years with Rolls-Royce. Significant achievements include:- Recovery of engine delivery performance, allowing the engine output to grow from 250 large engines per annum to 650 engines per annum. A Group recognition award was received for this work - Recruitment of c. 200 skilled blue collar workers in Derby, and 150 in Singapore - Reduction in training lead time from c. 120 days to c. 60 days - Focus on improving leadership and organisation effectiveness to drive performance improvement- Reduction of management headcount by 22% in 9 months- Negotiation of landmark trade union deal to secure £300m investment, in exchange for significant improvement in working practices to increase productivity and to support stable output growth - Creation and execution of an employee relations plan that saw us close / rationalise 15 sites, whilst investing in others and creating new capacity – total investment c. £1.5bn, enabling business growth and reducing cost base by c. £300m per annum - Influencing executive steering group to make long term investment decisions - Creation of excellent working environment with the European Works Council- Partnered with local Israeli management to successfully deliver TU recognition, in a difficult position with the JV partner- Led a project to increase productivity within one of our engine programmes, achieving a 10% productivity improvement, through an approach to generate high performing teams- Led the people work stream to offload an engine assembly programme to a new facility.- Implemented a tool and process to increase flexibility in our factories, that delivered £178m NPV (10 year) savings within 12 months- Developed a best practice handbook for the creation of greenfield facilities

Saint-Ouen, Fr

I held a number of executive HR business partnering positions during my 8 years with Alstom. In my final position I had global HR responsiblity for 10 factories in USA, Europe, India, China and Indonesia manufacturing heavy components for Power Generation equipment. Turnover £1bn, 8000 employees.Significant achievements include:- The completion of an acquisition, and integration, of a 4000 employee state owned Chinese boiler facility. This included the professionalisation of the leadership team, the introduction of a new grading and remuneration system, and the reduction of the workforce by 1500 employees- Partnering with executive leadership to influence the creation, and implementation, of a new business model that saw technology transfer to India and China to enable us to grow in developing markets- Support the improvement of operational effectiveness to turnaround the performance of the Czech facility, before eventually having to close it due to over capacity- Significantly increased the satisfaction of the business towards the HR department, through re-organisation, development of the team and individuals, and clear strategic HR direction- Development and implementation of new grading structure and career framework- Successful management of a number of TUPE business transfers – in and out of the business

I joined Peugeot as a graduate trainee in Human Resources, before holding a number of generalist HR positions within the assembly factory, early career recruitment, and leadership development.

Professional Certificate In Executive Coaching, Industrial And Organizational Psychology

Ma (Hons), Politics & International Relations

Pgdip, Human Resource Management