Smiths Group plc

Global HRD for John Crane a division of Smiths Group supporting the VP for Engineering and R&D.

Global Human Resources Director

ProtagonistHR

Founder - HR Consultant

Matillion

Matillion is a Series E scale up dual Headquartered in Manchester, UK and Denver, USA, and presence in Ireland and Canada, Spain and Australia. Matillion builds purpose-built cloud data (ETL) solutions to work with leading cloud data warehouse environments such as Amazon Redshift, Snowflake, Microsoft Azure Synapse and Google Big Query. 

Achievement:  Growing and leading the People and Culture / Operations team and overseeing more than double headcount growth with over 400 new joiners in 12 months. Successfully led strategic transformation projects; Workday ERP, implementing HCM, Compensation and Absence in 6 months and 
*Reporting to the VP People, building strong culture and a value driven organisation, responsible for the People Ops, Business Partnering and formed an HRIS team to implement Workday 
*Leading and driving the People teams’ (VSP) Vision, Strategy and Planning (Business Goals process) and conducting quarterly team appraisals and retro sessions, reporting progress, and enabling collaboration across teams 
*Leading the  Business Partnering team in US / UK with a responsibility for People leader coaching and enablement through rapid transformation and scaling. Creating global people business processes, salary review, talent mapping and using people analytics 
*Leading the Job Architecture, job levelling and competency mapping project working closely with Exec team to ensure a fit for the various business units 
*Implementing a new People system (Workday), policies and processes and improved reporting to support data driven decision making
*Coaching and supporting People Leaders in all aspects of People related requirements, deputising for the VP and leading weekly team meetings 
*Supporting E, D&I initiatives; Women at Matillion initiative as a leadership speaker and mentor for the internal Springboard Women in Tech mentoring and development programme
Matillion was ranked 10th in the Best Workplace (2022) Medium business Category by Great Place to Work.

Director of People and Projects

Digital Catapult

Digital Catapult has a diverse team of digital technology experts, innovative thinkers and engineers working to advance the acceleration of 5G, artificial intelligence, IoT, Immersive and other future technologies across the UK. My role is fundamental in executing the HR strategy by leading on organisational transformation programmes across the employee journey to build an engaging culture and top-class employee experience through strategic and operational HR business partnering.

Senior Human Resources Business Partner / Org Development Lead

GE Healthcare

GE Healthcare Life Sciences (now Cytiva) is a global provider of technologies and services that advance and accelerate the development and manufacture of therapeutics. Partnered with the Executive Director for Commercial Operations, EMEA Directors for Sales & Account Management, Client Field Services and GE Digital and my role involved a broad range of strategic and operational deliverables;
• Executed on delivery of people strategy in a fast paced, high performing matrix organization achieving year on year top / bottom line growth for the Bio-Process and Core Imaging divisions with high retention and employee engagement levels
 Provided HR strategic direction on all people related projects and supported through strong operational execution; organisation design, spans and layers project, global restructuring and closures 
• Delivered leadership coaching to support organisation transformation programmes and regular people cycle processes such as recruitment, talent development and performance management, employee relations and pay and bonus reviews, succession planning
• Collaborated with the L&D team to support the sales organisation development programme and supported with ABPI certification and compliance
• Championed and led initiatives to adopt new ways of working using the change acceleration process, design thinking to drive an innovative mindset and culture change
• Managed and  coached HR Advisor / Interns and also advised leaders and line managers on company policy and processes; employment law and bio-pharma industry regulations
• Led Cross functional projects (STEM Leader for Healthcare, HR Operations partnership lead for UKI team and served as GE Healthcare representatives on Buckinghamshire / Thames valley Skills Board – GE in the community initiative

HR Manager Commercial & Digital

Royal Air Force Club

A driven, resourceful and credible chartered HR professional with a broad experience in managing, developing and implementing HR strategy to support business goals. 

As part of the senior leadership, worked in a stand-alone role supporting the business by leading the HR function and championing all HR projects; culture transformation, organisation development, leadership development and transactional services including payroll and managing the HRIS system 

Achieved recognition as finalist in the Personnel Today Awards 2014, SME Employee Benefits category 

Finalist in the Institute of Customer Service Awards 2014, Customer Service Training Impact category

Successfully achieved IIP (Investor in People) Gold re-accreditation in May 2015 initially achieved in 2012

Royal Air Force Club (15,000 plus members) (An Investors in People Gold Organisation) 

Duties:

• Leads the HR Function reporting to the General Manager & Secretary (CEO) and responsible to a Board of Trustees

• Serves as the people management lead in a stand-alone role in supporting the business, responsible for developing and implementing HR strategy in line with broad business objectives 

• Provides business partnering and consultancy support to a senior management team in 8 departments and up-to 130 staff 

• Incharge of delivering HR strategy in line with business needs in all the areas including recruitment and retention processes, engagement and performance management, employee relations, learning and development, reward and benefits

• Influencing and championing people agenda and unifying terms, reorganisation and policy review for continuous improvement in people processes

• Leads and oversee the HR and L&D budget utilization 

• Microsoft Office suite proficient and HR Information Systems experience with Cascade, Bond, Work Force, Payrite

HR Manager (Standalone)

Hilton Hotels & Resorts

HR & Training Partner - Cluster role

*Supported line managers through coaching and consultation to ensure effective delivery of  HR processes; Recruitment, on-boarding, ER, performance management and employee engagement.  

Key achievements

*Facilitated a collaborative and supportive relationship between line managers and employees. Achieved 90% - job satisfaction and 92% on Training satisfaction in the 2009 Staff Satisfaction survey 
*Staff turnover rate decreased substantially over the two years from 46% in 2007 to 22% in 2009 through improved recruitment and on-boarding processes
*Successfully facilitating a learning culture in the hotel and consequentially improving customer satisfaction, achieving 92.2% in the Mystery Customer Audit in 2009 and 93 % satisfaction in training from the Staff Satisfaction Survey in 2009.
*Participation in community programmes within Brent Council to mentor and support young people and give them insights of working in the hospitality industry

HR Business Partner

Lake District Hotels Ltd

HR Generalist

Business transformation, People and Culture are my specialist areas of expertise. Business Partnering with leaders to deliver meaningful impact by bringing the best out of talent is my forte! 

I am a passionate and driven HR leader with deep expertise at both a strategic and operational level. I have a wealth of experience gained from working in  Digital innovation, Cloud data tech,  Life Sciences, Pharmaceutical, Tourism and Hospitality. 

I wear the badge of champion for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion with honor. In and outside of work I am a tireless advocate for work to offer every individual a real belonging in how they experience work.  My role as a People leader allows me to challenge the existing culture, and also support the development of inclusive practices. I firmly believe that people should find real satisfaction and meaning in their work and I want to help them achieve that. 

:Be the change you wish to see in the world” -Mahatma Gandhi -

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