I joined the HR team at Marex to deliver a number of significant projects in a period of growth and transformation across the Group. Successes include a re-write of the UK Employee Handbook and re-draft of UK employment contracts allowing a consistent approach for all UK entities and improving the candidate/employee experience. New employee benefits have been launched across the company and other benefits have been aligned and/or improved – achieving significant savings and efficiencies. Key changes included moving from a fully insured model to a master trust arrangement for healthcare and introducing a new broker arrangement for the Marex group. I have instilled a regular flow of information from HR to the business and this has contributed to a significantly improved employee engagement experience. Further, I played a key role on employee communications during multiple acquisitions including leading the benefits workstream and as relevant, managing the employee reps process. As part of a small team, we formed a Steering Group for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion and introduced the role of DE&I Champion to actively promote a diverse, supportive and inclusive workplace via a calendar or regular events which support Marex’s DE&I goals.

In this role I developed the Company’s benefits philosophy and embedded that philosophy into the global benefits agenda. My primary focus in this role was to harmonise the suite of benefits in the UK and other key locations to achieve fairness and consistency. In doing this, I identified significant Company liability exposure on an inherited benefit and drove the necessary actions to remove future risk. I developed materials and drove regular communications on benefits to raise awareness of the benefit package and drive efficiencies within the HR team including HR team briefings. Also in this role, I have a project manager focus covering a wide spectrum of HR topics in which I have delivered an aligned and simplified practice for family friendly policies that were separate and distinct and which now offer a competitive benefit. I launched the first Digital GP facility to employees and introduced various other benefits to the Group. In addition, I launched an employee engagement initiative with the regional Non-Executive Director & CEO to seek workforce feedback and represent employee views at Board level, along with identifying ways to address such feedback. Presented at the Town Hall on this subject.Played a pivotal role in the implementation of an appropriate system to support a Global HR database. Once a provider was selected, and a golden source of data was achieved, we launched modules under employee and manager self-service. The lead on all communications and facilitator of a project team to ensure a continued effort on additional functionality and push to automation as much as possible to remove manual effort.Nominated by intermediary in 2018 for ‘Employee Benefits Professional of the Year’ and ‘Best Alignment of Benefits to Business Strategy’. Shortlisted in both categories.

My role was responsible for a variety of integration initiatives resulting from Tullett Prebon’s acquisition of ICAP in December 2016. This included project managing the HR leadership team in relation to HR activities both pre and post-acquisition and setting up the initial planning and preparation of the first reduction in force exercise for the combined group of companies in the UK where I provided training and a full suite of materials to the HR Business Partner team. Created an acquisition tool kit providing guidance for HR related integration activities and worked on a number of acquisitions in this role.

Partnered with the Chief Operating Officer to explore the feasibility of buying-out employee benefits versus continuing to operate as usualPartnered with Team Leads on restructuring and headcount reduction exercises and other employee mattersManaged the Employee Representative process in all Redundancy exercises including election and trainingAchieved significant improvement in performance management across the company as well as on an individual level Managed and ultimately simplified employee benefits, third-party providers, employee communicationsAppointed two outplacement providers and devised employee programmesDesigned and delivered courses for employees including Preparing for the Market, Managing People/Managing Risk and Performance ManagementUpdated and re-launched UK Employee HandbookImplemented and updated policy in keeping with legislative changeProvided advice and guidance on a variety of employee relations issues

Responsibility for Benefits, Health & Wellness across 14 EMEA locations (excluding UK/Ireland)Focus on consistency of benefit provision and information availableProject Managed the first Online Benefits Administration platform across EMEA to align with people strategyMember of the Vendor Management Committee with the aim of ensuring consistency in application and renewal processesSet up a local consultants/advisors for employees in Spain on employee benefit mattersMember for the Company’s Pandemic Working Group with a focus on regional and local communicationsManagement of numerous benefit providers across multiple countries

Managed wide range of employee benefits for c.5000 UK employees ensuring that benefits aligned with people strategyDesigned and delivered the first Benefits Brochure for UK employees to help employees understand their full benefits package Led the Firm’s (successful) entry to Great Places to Work and Best Companies to Work for, secured the Special Award for Disability Excellent 3 years in a rowChanged long standing provider of medical insuranceManaged the Firm’s on-site Health Centre offering Nurse & GP service, Dentistry, Physiotherapy, Occupational Health servicesDesigned and introduced a series of Wellness eventsDesigned and implemented salary sacrifice programmesRepresented European region on Global Pandemic Preparedness working party, with a focus on medication distributionOngoing review of benefit schemes to ensure fairness, competitiveness, utilisation and employee satisfactionDelivered significant cost savings without impacting service levels or benefit provisionManaged third-party contracts, renewals and management informationRepresented the Firm at external forums Harmonisation of employee benefits for companies acquiredManaged the UK Benefits team of 4

Human Resources Generalist with responsibility for the IMG Corporate group of IMG World (a group of companies).