Experience

David Phillips

• United Kingdom
• Furniture
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Human Resources Director

  • Apr 2022 - Present



ghd

• United Kingdom
• Retail
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Global Director of People

  • Jan 2019 - Mar 2022

• Senior People Manager

  • Aug 2018 - Jan 2019



Freelance Self-Employed

• HR Director

  • Mar 2017 - Dec 2018

  HR consultancy for a wide range of SME's across East Anglia and London. Retained assingments included; Senior HRBP Essex Counct Council, Chelmsford Head of HR Sepura, Cambridge HR Manager Flow Energy, Ipswich HR consultancy for a wide range of SME's across East Anglia and London. Retained assingments included; Senior HRBP Essex Counct Council, Chelmsford Head of HR Sepura, Cambridge HR Manager Flow Energy, Ipswich



Linx Printing Technologies

• United Kingdom
• Printing Services
• 200 - 300 Employee

• HR Director

  • Mar 2012 - Feb 2017

  Responsible for developing the HR vision and leading on all strategic and operational aspects of Human Resources Globally. Responsible for developing the HR vision and leading on all strategic and operational aspects of Human Resources Globally.



ASSA ABLOY Entrance Systems

• Sweden
• Wholesale Building Materials
• 700 & Above Employee

• HR Director, Besam Sales Group

  • Jun 2011 - Mar 2012

  Responsible for developing and supporting the HR Strategy for the division, following a large acquisition within the group. Projects included; Development and rollout of a new set of HR Metrics and associated processes across all operating companies within the division. Implementation of a new talent management process, which included initial consultation and training with the country GM's to conducting the reviews and identify opportunities to development and move talent throughout the division.



ASSA ABLOY Group

• Sweden
• Building Materials
• 700 & Above Employee

• Head of Human Resources EMEA

  • Jul 2006 - Jun 2011

  Initially set up of the HR function for EMEA from the UK, included all relevant HR Policies and Procedures. This lead to the development and implementation of an HR Strategy which helped the business through a substantial period of growth and acquisition. Projects I was responsible for delivering on included: TUPE Transfer Post Acquisition integrations across Europe Organisational restructures, from initial concept through to consultation, redundancy and redeployments. Significant culture change program across Europe Creation and rollout of Customer Service training Globally Implementation of a Talent Management Process



BNY Mellon

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• HR Business Partner

  • Dec 2004 - Jun 2006

  Responsible for the provision of a professional HR serivce to a client group of approx 400 employees. This included running recruitment campaigns for up to 35 postions at any one time, conducting interviews and advising managers throughout the process. Attending and advising within all disciplinary and grievance cases, handling of maternity, paternity and flexible working requests, absence management and coaching and guiding managers through the annual performance appraisal process. Responsible for the provision of a professional HR serivce to a client group of approx 400 employees. This included running recruitment campaigns for up to 35 postions at any one time, conducting interviews and advising managers throughout the process. Attending and advising within all disciplinary and grievance cases, handling of maternity, paternity and flexible working requests, absence management and coaching and guiding managers through the annual performance appraisal process.