HR Manager at Woodgate & Clark

• May 2019 - Present

Stand alone HR responsible for shaping and delivering the people strategy. Key achievements include: - Bringing recruitment in-house, improving the quality of hire and delivering savings of over £600k - Comprehensive benefit review, improving employee benefit offering at no additional cost to the Company - Implementation of an HRIS improving integrity of employee data and automating many HR processes - Definition and implementation of a development strategy to attract and retain high potential employees to fuel the Company's succession pipeline Show less

HR Manager

• Jan 2000 - Feb 2019

BEL GROUP International cheese manufacturer with HQ in Paris Head of Human Resources, Bel UK Ltd, October 2012 to 31 January 2019 Head of HR with a position on the Management Committee. Responsible for defining the UK HR strategy, ensuring the subsidiary has the adequate structure & competencies to respond to current & future business needs and for providing a HR Business Partner service to managers to ensure a consistent & effective implementation of HR strategy to support the development of talented, committed & engaged employees Key Results: - Line management responsibility for a team of 3 HR, Payroll and Facilities Management - Designed an engagement program that had a positive impact on engagement and helped to highlight the effect that management style can have on engagement, gradually shift the company culture - Designed training programs to support the development of the subsidiary including Feedback training, Insights Discovery training, Change Management training. - Improved the quality of hire / time to hire through a review of the recruitment process and training of middle management population - Led the process to restructure 3 departments to respond to mid-/long-term challenges and to ensure the subsidiary has the structure and competencies to respond to future business needs - Instrumental in organizing the Group’s first short-term assignment to retain and develop key employees working with C&B team on the package to ensure contractual and fiscal compliance HR Manager Bel UK & Bel Belgium, Jan 2011 – Sept 2012 - Line Management responsibility for a team of 3 in the UK and 1 in Belgium - Established a HR function in the Group’s Belgian subsidiary, defining policies for all key HR processes and started to build a culture of mobility (cross functional and international) HR Manager Bel UK & HR Coordinator Western Europe, Sept 2009 – Dec 2010 HR Manager Bel UK, Jan 2007 – Aug 2009 HR/Communications Officer, Jan 2000 – Dec 2006 Show less

Sales Manager

• 1997 - 1999

Business Office Manager

• 1994 - 1997