Experience

Scottish Leather Group

• United Kingdom
• Textile Manufacturing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• HR Director

  • Nov 2021 - Present

• Head of HR

  • Nov 2019 - Nov 2021



Renewi UK Services Limited

• HR Director

  • Apr 2016 - Nov 2019

  Renewi was formally Shanks Waste Management Limited and as a result of a merger rebranded. • Provide overall leadership and direction for the HR function within the UK & Canada whilst ensuring the implementation of Group initiatives and governance protocols. • Develop and implement the strategic and tactical elements of the entire divisional people plan through clear direction setting and empowering the HR Team to take the lead in their own areas of responsibility. • Driving improvements to ensure continued activation of the Company values and behaviours through strong leadership skills and employee centred strategies. • Partner with members of the Senior Management Team in the successful delivery of their objectives whilst coaching the right behaviours to ensure that the ‘how’ is recognised as being just as important as the ‘what’.



Shanks Group PLC

• Benelux HR Director

  • Jan 2014 - Mar 2016

  Benelux Solid Waste HR Director (Secondment – residing in Amsterdam) Key Achievements:• Implementation of a unified sickness absence policy across the Netherlands, previously decentralised due to organisational design, with a 1.5% reduction in sickness absence in less than 3 months. • Reduction of Netherlands Arbodienst (occupational health) providers from 5 to 1, saving over €75,000 annually with an improvement in key services. • Built a high performing team of 5 HR Business Partners and a Compensation and Benefits Specialist through short-term objective setting and robust follow-up. • Implementation of FTE headcount, sickness absence and overtime reporting directly collated from the Netherlands and Belgium shared service centres ensuring proactive management of costs. • Supported the organisational design of the Amsterdam business which has resulted in a turnaround of performance of more than €500,000 annually. • A response rate of more than 65% across Solid Waste Benelux for the 1st group employee engagement survey • Being recognised by the Dutch MD in the form of an ‘Above & Beyond Award’ presented at the Shanks Leadership Conference in June 2015 for my secondment impact.

• UK HR Business Partner

  • May 2010 - Dec 2013

  Key Achievements:• Whilst leading the due diligence information flow and transitional services support, I was part of the project team in relation to the sale of the UK Solid Waste business to Biffa which realised the successful TUPE transfer of over 300 employees. • Worked closely with the Group HRD during an organisational design project which saw the restructuring of the UK Business resulting in my need to manage a large scale redundancy and change programme. This resulted in significant reductions in overhead costs. • Successfully negotiated (via the Trade Union) the transition of 193 employees from weekly to monthly pay to ensure savings in administration costs and to ensure the implementation of Auto-Enrolment was simplified. • Successfully avoided industrial action within a PFI business during a pay dispute in 2013. • Contributed significantly to the due diligence process of an acquisition and successfully managed and integrated 22 TUPE transferring employees into the business. • Set up a productive working relationship with the Prince’s Trust, which saw the implementation of a Pilot ‘Get into Recycling’ Programme, the first of its kind in the UK.



Oran Environmental Solutions

• United Kingdom
• Environmental Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• HR Manager

  • Jul 2007 - Jul 2010

  HR Manager with sound commercial awareness with the proven ability to contribute to a Company at both a strategic and operational level. I have the ability to deal tactfully and confidently with people across all areas of the business as well as working closely with individual site leadership to develop and deliver local strategies. I am extremely confident in decision making, influencing behaviours and have excellent interpersonal, communication and IT skills coupled with a highly driven work ethic. Key Achievements Include – • Managed a downsizing and Company restructure exercise which saw the Company reduce from a headcount of 400 to 240 in 16 months. • Developed and introduced a number of KPI reports for Board visualisation including labour costs, hours worked, employee utilisation, absence and turnover. • Recommended, tested and implemented a new HR information management system which included an automated time and attendance system. • Implemented an agency labour procurement strategy saving the Company over £5k per month. • Developed and issued new Company wide polices and procedures and Company Handbook. • Developed and launched a Company Intranet and issued HR Polices through it to ensure message consistency. • Reduced absence levels from an average of 8 to 2.5%. • Developed and introduced a Company wide staff appraisal system.