Experience

Breedon HR Ltd

• Outsourced HR Director

  • Jan 2021 - Present

  I am a fully qualified professional and have over 30 years’ strategic and operational HR management experience gained within senior HR leadership roles.• Strategic HR including business growth, developing people and teams• Change management including re-structuring, redundancies and TUPE• Managing complex employee workplace issues• Employment law, legislation and compliance• Performance Management • Employee engagement • HR fundamentals including HR audit, contracts of employment employee handbooks etc• Recruitment and selection• Learning and developmentAt Breedon HR you receive the same level of service you would receive from a large HR team but as and when you need it!



Cognita Schools

• United Kingdom
• Education Management
• 700 & Above Employee

• Head of HR (UK)

  • Apr 2018 - Sep 2020

  Accountable for leading the UK HR operations and Business Partner team to deliver the Company's People Strategy to support impact, improvement and successful delivery of key business objectives.• Responsible for identifying and agreeing the annual HR strategic direction and targets to deliver a tactical plan for successful delivery across the organisation• Managed complex change programmes to improve business performance• Developed and supported localised people organisation plans on all stages of the employee life-cycle• Part of the global HR transformation team in the implementation of an eHRIS• Supported and coached senior leaders helping them build their knowledge and skills in people management

• Senior HR Business Partner

  • Sep 2011 - Mar 2018

  Managed a team of HR professionals responsible for the delivery of HR operations across the UK including employee relations, policy, performance management and projects across 40 schools.• Managed and developed the HR Business Partner team resulting in a change of HR service delivery• Personally responsible for driving the people agenda in priority/strategically important schools• Key stakeholder in a global transformational change >£1M project for Safer Recruitment• Led on the implementation of Performance Management which enabled effective people and career management of the bottom and top 10% • Acted as the HR lead on highly complex divestments• ER expert and point of escalation for complex employee relations issues including Trade Union involvement, negotiation of settlement agreements and company representative at Tribunals

• HR Officer

  • Mar 2007 - Aug 2011

  • Provided advice, guidance and support to senior managers to assist them with their people management issues to ensure good practice• Provided technical hands-on support to organisational design programmes which facilitated successful outcomes by improving efficiencies • Cross-functional working with a wide range of stakeholders and undertook group wide projects to help drive change; eg, pension auto-enrolment due to legislative requirements• Provided a fully managed in-house service for time-consuming issues such as maternity, long term absence and occupational health, to alleviate the school leaders from technical HR



Connexions Partnership for Milton Keynes, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire

• HR Manager

  • Aug 2004 - Feb 2007

  Responsible for the HR function at Head Office and the delivery of services. Responsible for the HR function at Head Office and the delivery of services.



Weekenders UK Ltd

• HR Manager

  • Jan 2001 - Apr 2004

  Responsible for the HR function in the UK. Responsible for the HR function in the UK.



AGF Holdings (UK) Ltd

• HR Advisor

  • Mar 1998 - Mar 2000

  Worked closely with senior leaders on a range of HR issues for one of Europe's leading insurance companies. Worked closely with senior leaders on a range of HR issues for one of Europe's leading insurance companies.