Toneya Sarwar Email & Phone Number

Loughborough, Gb

United Kingdom

United Kingdom

Own the people strategy with the Vice President for Theatre Successfully influencing technical and sales leaders to deliver HR related actionsalongside their business goals.Key achievements:➢ Led workforce plan to move talent into commercially high growth areas. Transferred 20%resources into new roles and executed a restructuring programme for the rest.➢ Embedded HR deliverables into manager KPI’s. For the first time, Leader action with HRdeliverables had a direct… Show more Own the people strategy with the Vice President for Theatre Successfully influencing technical and sales leaders to deliver HR related actionsalongside their business goals.Key achievements:➢ Led workforce plan to move talent into commercially high growth areas. Transferred 20%resources into new roles and executed a restructuring programme for the rest.➢ Embedded HR deliverables into manager KPI’s. For the first time, Leader action with HRdeliverables had a direct correlation to earnings. Metrics improved in all key areas.➢ Launched a 5 year apprenticeship programme with critical skills, to inject early in career talent intothe business. Secured global funding for the first year, and business OPEX for subsequent years.Objective to convert 90% into FTE every year.➢ Spearheaded future of work. Delivered over 20 industry presentations to assist companies withthe digital transformation; demonstrating use of technology for HR deliverables in a hybridenvironment using AI and ML➢ Successfully delivered initiatives to improve engagement and shape the community culture.Ensuring increased visibility for smaller sites, and promoting rotations and swaps where possible.Initiatives saw a marked increase in employee engagement metrics Show less

Uae

Own the people strategy with the Vice President. $700m sales revenue with 1000 employees across 30+countries When I joined the organisation, the average tenure was 15 years and no females were on the SLT.Key achievements:➢ Improved female diversity within the SLT by 3 women, mandated diverse interviews. Furthermore,implemented a plan for greater investment for female middle managers and launched a mandatoryproximity programme for all managers.➢ Using attrition… Show more Own the people strategy with the Vice President. $700m sales revenue with 1000 employees across 30+countries When I joined the organisation, the average tenure was 15 years and no females were on the SLT.Key achievements:➢ Improved female diversity within the SLT by 3 women, mandated diverse interviews. Furthermore,implemented a plan for greater investment for female middle managers and launched a mandatoryproximity programme for all managers.➢ Using attrition predictors, implemented a successful retention plan to reduce attrition from 6.8%to less than 4% for two consecutive years.➢ Created a succession strategy to shape leadership talent management. Investment decisions andappointments were based on the plan. Succession strategy incorporated diversity goals.➢ Designed & delivered a learning & development plan to upskill employees to align to the change innature of the company direction and priorities. Using leadership analytics to assess talent andthen match skills to required future critical skills. Built a plan to upskill, performance manage orretrench. Show less

Responsible for leading a small team to provide day to day management of HR operations by managing theadministration of policies, procedures & programs. Key achievements include;➢ leading tender submissions with global benefits providers, managing internal stakeholders anddelivering successful change management plans.➢ Partner with global compensation specialists to influence finance regarding regional compensationtrends such as hyper inflation, exchange rate fluctuation and… Show more Responsible for leading a small team to provide day to day management of HR operations by managing theadministration of policies, procedures & programs. Key achievements include;➢ leading tender submissions with global benefits providers, managing internal stakeholders anddelivering successful change management plans.➢ Partner with global compensation specialists to influence finance regarding regional compensationtrends such as hyper inflation, exchange rate fluctuation and successfully incorporated additionalbenefits to enhance employee compensation plans for retention purposes.➢ Managing the end to end process of global redundancy programs within the region, includingpartnering with local outplacement providers, setting up HR surgery and managing businessexpectations.➢ Improved the new candidate on-boarding experience. Improved lead times for equipment to reachemployees, better operational setup and support and established 30/60/90 day trainingprogrammes. Show less

City Of London, England, United Kingdom

Full responsibility of recruiting a quota of top sales and engineering graduates from regional universitiesfor the Cisco graduate programmes & Cisco internship programmes. Responsible for managing a sizablebudget to travel to key locations to raise Cisco’s brand awareness at careers fairs, run assessment andselection centres as well as hire temporary recruiters to manage candidate volume.

Loughborough, England, United Kingdom

Accountable for full P&L of a successful commercial branch in the Midlands. Managing teams responsiblefor temporary and permanent placement against predetermined sales targets. Managing performance andproductivity to ensure business profitability and growth. Attending weekly manager meetings with Seniorleadership to report on weekly sales performance and forecast forthcoming business. R

London

Senior Executive search consultant specialising in technical skills within the IT industry. Working across Europe to ensure we deliver the best talent to our clients within the specified timeline. Consistently exceeded targets and obtained high level of customer satisfaction.

Ma, International Relations, Distinction

Public Aminstration And Managerial Studies, 2:1