Establish the functional capability strategy for Global Procurement, Global Technical Corporate Real Estate Services and Manufacturing. Dial up performance and employee growth through investing in the most effective learning solutions. Define capability and competency assessment criteria, assessment methodology and develop best practice learning interventions that can be deployed at scale across the globe. Underpin Multi Year Talent Planning both at individual succession planning and organisational capability requirements, through best in class development solutions which directly contribute to greater performance. Provide thought Leadership on Best Practice, future direction and raise the bar on what Great Looks Like.

As Global Change Strategy Manager for the Global Implementation of Workday my role was to work closely with the Global HRLT, Project Director and Impending Market Steering Boards to build an effective implementation strategy and manage a successful change process in line with identified KPI's, Cost, Quality, Service on time within budget. Collaborate with In market implementation leads to design the change infrastructure, guarantee senior level sponsorship, implement governance and change management regime's that would successfully implement, embed and sustain the people process, behaviour and systemic changes across multiple countries. Provide direct leadership to a change management team of 30+ employees geographically dispersed around the globe.Key Achievements:I was approached to join the project to specifically turn around the change management strategy and implement a successful change programme across Africa and the Rest of the World Markets. Reviewed learning's across the project from the first pilot implementation across America's and worked closely with the Africa HRD to build a strategy for success. Took direct ownership of all local change leads and implement Senior Stakeholder Challenge & Build sessions, implemented new KPI's to track success and implemented an effective reporting and governance regime. Circa 2k employees trained to the required competency standard on multiple events in line with KPI's. User adoption rates exceeded expectations against pre and post Go Live launch.Delivered successful change Strategy across the Rest of the World, Including all European Countries, UK and Ireland. Leveraged the above success factors and post completion review information to adjust what it would take to be successful in these very diverse markets. Project delivered on time in full in line with identified Pre and Post Go Live KPI'sSuccessfully led the launch and test of the Global Reward Cycle in Workday following previous failed attempts.

Create and Implement the HR Strategy for Global Procurement and Global Supply Chain Development & Technical in pursuit of the performance goals of each function. Set the Strategy and Lead the Functional Capability Agenda for Global Supply. Operating within a Matrix reporting environment the role reports to the HRD Global Supply, this role is a key member of the Global Procurement Leadership Team and directly accountable to the Chief Procurement Officer and other senior leaders for the business such as the Global Technical Director and the Managing Director of Global Supply Operations. Key Achievements:Organisational Effectiveness - Partnering with external consultants, review the Global Supply & Procurement global change plans \ proposals to identify robustness of the diagnostics, details of plans and ensure the final proposals will deliver the required change in line with strategy.Led the design of the organisation for Procurement, Global Technical and Manufacturing Development following Strategic shift from Global to Market based business model. Implement the required change and savings goals on time in full.Rebuild the Strategic Effectiveness of the Global Procurement Organisation with a particular focus on Talent Pipelines, Succession Planning, Capability Build and Leadership Team Effectiveness of the Global Leadership Team. Led all HR Consultation for the England & Wales Employee Forum, Netherlands Works Council and a variety of local consultation requirements across the globe to deliver the Organisational Design changes across aspects of the commercial business as well as Supply & procurement.Proactively brought together all 6 Global Capabilities Managers within Supply & Procurement and led the development of a new organisational capability strategy, sourced the required budget and delivered significant organisational improvements through a planned uplift in employee capability development. Managed this forum and a team of 5 direct reports.

In conjunction with the Talent and OE Director for Global Supply & Procurement, deliver a Talent Strategy to enable the performance goals of the Organisation. Set the Strategy and Lead the Functional Capability Agenda for Global Supply.Actively managed the Global Supply & Procurement Talent Management and Succession Planning , tracking and reporting on all Director level roles across the Globe. This required significant collaboration and engagement with all Global HRD's and Supply Chain Directors. A particular focus on critical roles, Diversity of candidates and I managed and held the SC Directors to account against a phased reduction in Director level roles over a three year plan. Actively drove a large scale resourcing programme across Global Procurement and elements of Supply for a range of new strategic roles developed across Global Supply & procurement. Circa 100 roles were filled across the globe in a 9 month period.

Create and Implement the HR Strategy for both Global Technical & Global Supply Chain Leadership Teams during a period of extensive change to deliver improved performance within Supply Chain and increased execution from within Suply Innovation and Brand Change.This role would evolve into the new role over the following6 months as part of an organisation review and would grow significantly in size to meet the requirements of the organisation. Manage the Reorganisation of the Global Technical Organisation and the evolution of the Supply Chain business. Deliver cost savings whilst managing the morale, engagement and change process for all employees (circa 800). Led all local consultation requirements and redundancy process as required.Key Achievements:Delivered the required OE savings and headcount reduction process whilst maintaining an effective and high performing organisation. Resourcing a variety of Senior Director Level Roles across Technical, SC Directors and Procurement. Reviewed and implemented all Job Evaluation requirements in line with new Director JE Process in partnership with Hay. Worked with Hay to Test and Refine the Director level JE process to ensure this worked effectively across all Supply & Procurement Roles.Proactively targeted High performing Team initiatives to deliver an uplift in performance across Technical and Supply Chain both at the Senior Leadership Team level as well as departmental business unit levels.Delivered the annual and on-going Talent Review and Spotlighting processes as part of the strategic plan to deliver a robust and effective succession plan and talent management process. Utilised graduate programmes across the globe and internships.

Create and implement the HR Strategy, Talent Strategy and Transformational Change across a complex multi site environment encompassing a variety of Operational Sites, Functions and Trade Union Environments. Business Scope: Grain Distilling, Warehousing Blending and Coopering, Manufacturing Development, Spirit Supply Planning & Commercial Trading, Coppersmiths.

Develop the training and capability strategy for the Global Project and directly lead a team of 6 finance and SAP professionals to deliver the programme in line with critical business timelines.This was the implementation of SAP Finance across Multiple sites and Geographies (e.g.UK&I, Miami, Scotland Operations).Key Achievements:Joined the team late in the project to bring stability, leadership and strategic \ tactical planning to turn around performance of the Change and Training function.Delivered the training plan where 80% of employees (2000) were trained on time and to the required level of competency by Go Live. This target was achieved and exceeded at Go Live and full training to embed and sustain the change was delivered as per the agreed KPI's.Implemented a set of robust KPI's, reporting regimes and governance to deliver the change and led a change project structure of circa 30people.Actively managed a core change and training team, delivered inspirational leadership and managed a variety of wellbeing issues whilst delivering the required level of performance.

Design and deliver leadership development programmes & interventions as part of the Building Leadership Excellence Programme for the Scotland business. Provide OE and change management support to a variety of teams and functions.

Led a European Information Systems Training and Development function reporting directly to the IS Director focused on a range of systems such as, SAP, Siebel and PeopleSoft. Developed a Training Strategy and brought together a disparate systems and legacy training team of 9 Employees geographically spread between Scotland and the Netherlands. Aligned the team on a customer focused service provision, set out Team priorities, implemented Quality, Service and Cost KPI's and the required Governance Regime. KPI's Create the Strategy and manage the Execution of Capability development on Legacy and Current IS Systems e.g. Siebel, SAP, Peoplesoft, across EMEA. Inspired and motivated this geographically diverse team to deliver excellent results and maintain morale following a period of significant change.

Operating across an employee base of Circa 9k employees in a variety of Business Units, Led the Strategic review of Leadership and Functional Capability Development. Delivered the annual Training Needs Analysis process including specific programmes and initiatives, trends and future focused capability requirements. Actively designed an array of Leadership Development Programmes, Change Management and delivered Facilitation in a variety of forums. Delivered the Managing at Compaq Programme for new and future Leaders. Led the Change and Training programmes on a variety of system implementations such as European Training Management System, SAP Manufacturing, Inventory and Warehouse Management, Finance.Actively delivered the Soft skills behaviour programme for the Green Belt Lean Six Sigma deployment and process excellence facilitation during the Black Belt programme.