Owner of a company providing an HR consultancy service to small to medium sized businesses ensuring that they are compliant with employment legislation and are getting the best from their people to ensure business success. Projects also undertaken for larger organisations in relation to generalist or reward activity.

Typical services include:

• Employment law compliance – contracts, redundancy, disciplinary and grievances.
• Policy development – reward strategy, recruitment and selection, absence management.
• Adding value through performance management and leadership development.

Partnered business leaders to provide professional, customer orientated HR advice. Following business acquisition supported the change programme to integrate 3,000 employees into the new organization.

• Managed collation of role preferences and counselling data and subsequent production of appointment letters. Consulted with management team regarding requirements, produced information for consultation with Trades Unions. Ensured all activity completed within agreed timescales.

• Supported activity required to subsequently transfer employees into the organization through TUPE transfer, conducted individual counselling sessions, presented HR policies and requirements at main induction event, ensured all employees had a comprehensive understanding of the process, their rights and what was expected of them.

Managed reward activity for UK senior executives and managers. Represented the UK in Germany, with group owners, regarding top executive pay. Developed and implemented reward governance including job evaluation, external salary benchmarking and discussion regarding appropriate reward packages.

• Influenced implementation of a new reward and performance management strategy for senior managers across the E.ON Group. Consulted and implemented the new framework on a cost neutral basis in the UK within one year.

• Managed annual pay and bonus review for 500 senior managers within the UK. Developed pay strategy for authorization by the UK Board, communicated approach to the relevant stakeholders, analyzed and challenged submissions, produced presentation material for UK Board and arranged for payments to be made within budget.

Managed reward and employee relations activity for 4,500 employees, primarily remote industrial employees within an engineering environment. Conducted performance management and reward and redundancy processes for employees on collective agreement, ownership and participation in Trades Union Forum discussions, influence into UK wide HR policy group.

• Project managed the successful harmonization of 13 different terms and conditions of employment over a nine month period. Contributed to organizational design, reviewed and recommended new terms and conditions, analyzed financial and budgetary considerations for proposals, facilitated workshops with Trades Union representatives, contributed in detail to the design and delivery of an Industrial and Administrative grade progression structure.

Provided generalist HR support to the management team with responsibility for 1,500 field based employees working across the UK. Supported and coached managers with recruitment and selection, performance management, absence management and TUPE transfers.

• Designed and delivered training courses for disciplinary, capability, grievance and sickness absence management which resulted in improvements in key business performance statistics.

Managed a team of ten salaries assistants inputting overtime, expenses and time recording for 2,500 remote industrial employees within an engineering environment. Solved a number of issues arising from the implementation of new financial software.

Provided administrative support for 1,000 remote industrial employees within an engineering environment. Produced contracts of employment, advised on application of policy, analyzed and presented management information.

Provided administrative support to Her Majesty’s Inspectors of Schools. Developed IT capability within the Birmingham offices and across the West Midlands region, monitored and analyzed office budgets.