Expertise

Summary

Experience

• Diamic Edge Ltd

  Managing Director

  1 - 5 Employees 2012 - Current

  

  My past experience both within global corporate environments and helping my SME clients, provides me with a large 'toolkit of expertise' which I use to appropiately size and select the right 'fit fo purpose' solutions for my clients; whether for one off projects, ongoing planning and implementation or day to day HR advice and help!

  Take a look at some of that experience gained during my career as inter alia an HR Adviser, HR Manager, HR Business Partner, EMEAR Operations Manager, Global Compliance and Standards Manager, UK HR Director, Global Change Director etc.

  HR GENERALIST
  • HR Process Re design:
  • Lead a UK project for the redesign and customisation of all HR processes to align with a new global HR IT system.
  • Part of a total business project team, responsible for the HR function of an Egyptian joint venture – auditing of current processes and structure, consultancy and design of new infrastructure and processes.
  • Lead Consultant in a project to create and implement a new standardised global recruitment process for 20 countries
  • HR Policy:
  • Consultant responsible for audit and creation of regional Caspian HR policy to include: remuneration, performance management, compensation and benefits, grievance and disciplinary procedures, grade definition and competencies.
  • HR Functional Excellence – Global development programme for HR professionals:
  • Part of a project team responsible for the design and implementation of a global career development programme for HR professionals throughout the career ladder.
  • Global HR Shared Services:
  • Part of a project team to research and recommend go forward strategy for the implementation of an HR Shared services function
  • Project Lead on the creation and implementation of an EMEA central application handling unit to receive and process all recruitment applications and act as the front office call centre for all recruitment & career queries.
  • Mergers , Acquisitions & Divestments – Selling of School Project
  • Responsible for the HR function in a project team tasked with the evaluation & recommendations on an American company acquisition.

  • HR Manager for a technical global function - 500 global staff
  • Business Partner representing the HR function on Wells Leadership team
  • Global deployment, implementation and customisation of the Shell recruitment, resourcing & deployment policies, remuneration & benefits.
  • Responsible of the delivery of annual recruitment targets • Creation of ‘fit for purpose’ remuneration & deployment packages & policies
  • Identification & development of executive & talent pipeline – career coaching & mentoring, LD courses
  • Responsible for implementing all group initiatives & processes in EPT-W
  • Issue management & resolution
  • Performance Management & merit reviews
  • Redundancy, grievance and disciplinary procedures

  HR CHANGE, OD, OE, RESOURCING & TALENT CONSULTANT
  Portfolio of skills and experience include:

  • Global Change Programmes & Projects
  • Downsizing, redundancy programmes
  • Upsizing, Resourcing & Talent strategies
  • Global recruitment campaign design & project management
  • Complex stakeholder relationship management
  • Executive, career and change coaching & mentoring
  • Selection & Assessment Talent Frameworks, Methodologies & Training
  • Set up, start up & acquisition and divestment • Global operational HR Management
  • HR process and policy customisation and implementation
  • Diversity & inclusiveness implementation
  • New market entry Talent strategy and implementation
  • Leadership development
  • Executive & emerging talent management & coaching
  • Extensive generalist HR team creation
  • Legal Consultations
  • Outsourcing , Onshoring, Offshoring planning, negotiations and implementation

  RECRUITMENT, TALENT MANAGEMENT, LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT
  • New market entry
  • Responsible for creation of the long term talent strategy for Russia to include: initial start up strategy, deployment and subsequent reduction of expats over 15 years, market research into Russian market requirements, subsequent employee value & retention proposition and development of the local Talent pipeline.
  • Resourcing Strategies
  • Responsible for the creation of a 10 year resourcing plan for the Middle East based on anticipated market growth and business development plans to include recruitment, deployment, retention and development of local & expat staff.
  • Learning & Development strategy - HMRC
  • Responsible for creating the Learning and Development strategy & implementation plan.
  • Recruitment & Talent restructure and alignment – Oman, Canada, China,
  • Working with the in-country Recruitment & Talent teams to create best practice Attraction and Recruitment strategies, processes and infrastructures aligned with their local market and consistent with the global company brand and practices.
  • Global centralisation of recruitment processes and infrastructure – Asia Pacific, US, EMEA, Russia, Australia and New Zealand.
  • Project lead on Attraction and Recruitment project to centralise all independent country recruitment practices under one global recruitment function using the same infrastructure, Attraction brand, selection methodologies and application handling centres.
  • Talent and Recruitment set up and start up – Gas and Power
  • Talent and Recruitment lead consultant to set up the Talent and Recruitment practice in a new Gas and Power global company including design and implementation of the MBA recruitment programme
  • Global recruitment projects – Oil products
  • Project lead on the recruitment Attraction and Selection design, training and implementation for a global project of 400 staff work $400 m
  • Selection methodology
  • Part of the global project team tasked with the creation and implementation of a global experienced hire selection methodology.
  • Executive & Career coaching
  • Operational and independent consultancy executive and emerging talent one to one coaching.
  • Competency frameworks
  • Responsible for the creation and development of a global competency framework and career ladder for all recruitment professionals.

   

Education History

• LLB (Hons) - Law

  University of Central Lancashire (Lancashire Law School)

Qualifications

Clubs and Associations

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