Sam French CIPD

Robert Walters

Manager - HR

Parkwood Holdings plc

HR Manager

School Lettings Solutions

Regional HR Business Manager

North Hertfordshire College

General Manager - Learning and Development

University of Hertfordshire

HR Project Assistant 

Former HR Manager now matching HR Professionals with exciting job opportunities.

As a passionate HR professional with a keen interest in talent management, I have transitioned from a successful career as a Human Resources Generalist to an HR Recruitment Manager role within the fast-paced and exciting staffing and recruiting industry.

Leveraging my extensive expertise in organizational development, process change management, training and development, performance management, recruitment, HR projects, employee relations, and internal communication, I am dedicated to delivering innovative and impactful solutions. 

With a Master's degree in Business and Management from Aston University and a CIPD Level 5 in HR Management, I am constantly seeking new opportunities for growth and development, currently pursuing my CIPD Level 7. 

Let's connect and discover how we can collaborate to bring your HR and talent initiatives to new heights!

Post Office Ltd

Leading the work across the Post Office on how we design roles and structures, to the way we resource the work we do to ensure we are focused on delivering great outcomes for Postmasters, Colleagues and Customers.

Working with Exec, external consultants & Senior Leadership on an overall strategic review and the organisational development interventions required to deliver a new TOM aligned with a new core purpose and business strategy for the Post Office.

Creating bigger and broader roles for colleagues and supporting the development of their skills and capabilities by developing colleague interventions that support the culture we want for the future of the Post Office.

Implementing processes and systems (OrgVue) to create capability within the People Partnering function on OD, Talent Selection that retains the best people and Strategic Workforce Planning to ensure we have the right people, in the right roles, doing the right things at the right time especially during our Transformation of the Post Office.

Work closely with other teams within the People function (Partnering, Services and COEs) to influence and shape the colleague interventions (Performance & Careers, Leadership, DEIB, Wellbeing, Colleague Engagement and Reward & Recognition) that will enable the business to transform and create the right culture along the way.

Head Of OD & Strategic Workforce Planning

Professional Coaching for career and life goals.

Open to be approached by anyone looking to advance their career or personal goals, especially anyone from the LGBTQ+ community or anyone who identifies as neuro-divergent.

Certified Professional Coach

Harrow Green

Leading the People strategy for my business, significantly influencing and contributing to the Group People strategy for Restore Plc. The strategic partner to my MD & Senior Leaders and part of the Group People Leadership Team. Providing thought leadership on enriching the colleague experience through modern people approaches which enable and empower colleagues to be at their best and do the right thing for customers. Leading my People team of 6 locally supported by a People Services team and COE’s.

Successfully designed and led the People Strategy to enable growth of the business into new sectors (Life-science and Heritage) including Europe's largest laboratory move for one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical names (AstraZenica).
A strategy focused on improving colleagues’ engagement, empowerment, and happiness in their work life by introducing and implementing a new engagement platform based on Neuroscience to measure continuous feedback from colleagues using new and modern listening channels.
Successfully designed and implemented the attraction and recruitment strategy for the business. Introducing a dedicated Recruitment team to attract and recruit the best people for the business and ensured compliance by our agency partners, the management of our contingent workers.
Created a team of trusted People Business Partners who supported the People Leaders to lead their teams in an inspiring and motivational way, improving engagement and happiness in their teams and empowering them to deliver great outcomes for their customers.
Successfully created a high-performance culture, introducing the concept for continuous performance conversations driven by agreed business and personal goals, with a coaching mindset at its core.

Head of People / People Director

Golding Homes

Worked collaboratively  with the Head of HR and wider People team, reviewing all processes, policies and systems, and aligning to the People Vision. Providing thought leadership on new ways of doing things, focusing on colleague experience throughout the colleague lifecycle. Empowering leaders and colleagues by introducing simplified ways of working and modern self-service systems. Changing behaviours and evolving the culture of the business to be an even better place to work that deliver for its customers.
Successfully agreed with the Executive team the strategy and outcomes for all colleague lifecycle processes to be focused on colleague experience and engagement with the business. 
Communicated to and engaged leaders and colleagues with the new ways of working in people management. Enabling the changes to be implemented right, the first time.
Successfully implemented a new core HR system, ATS, LMS, engagement, recognition, reward and benefits platforms.

HR Change Lead

Leading a team of Senior HR Business Partners and coordinator team, enabling them to deliver an engaging colleague experience. Working with Center of Expertise, to develop and implement changes that enhance the colleague lifecycle, attracting and retaining the best people. 
Recognised as the role model for trusted business partnering, leading the UK People team.
Designed and agreed the UK People structure and recruited Senior HR Business Partners to complete the team.
Successfully built a team of trusted business partners, recognised by their stakeholders for providing a values service of advising on people solutions to business challenges. 
Successfully defined and agreed the UK strategies for DEIB (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging) and  Wellbeing.

Head of HR (People and Organisation)

FirstPort (UK)

As part of the People Leadership Team, Business Partnering the Central Support Functions, providing thought leadership to build capability of people managers to lead their teams, being the guardian of our colleague experience and creating a culture where everyone can be at their best every day.
Continued to lead the engagement and communications strategy for the business.
Introduced Organisation Design, ensure we have the right structures where the work happens at the right level, ensuring a lean and efficient operation and colleagues understand their career opportunities.
Reviewed the colleague life cycle, making policies and processes relevant, creating an engaging colleague experience to attract, recruit, develop and retain the best people.

Senior HR Business Partner Support Office

I joined the People Leadership team to lead the transformation of colleague engagement across the business by bringing our employer brand to life, engaging colleagues in the business, enabling them to do their role and empowering them to make the right decisions to deliver great customer service.
Successfully defined and agreed the communications and engagement strategy. Agreed the vision, principles, channels and approach on how to communicate with colleagues that engages them with the business and empowers them to be at their best.
Successfully evolved the tone of voice in colleague communications, bringing to life the company values everyday.
Engaged colleagues with the new Intranet to be the one place for everything, promoting a self-service culture. Making it easier to communicate and collaborate whilst recognising and celebrating colleague and team achievements.
Recognised and nominated for ‘Best colleague engagement’ by the WOW! Awards.
Successfully implemented a digital engagement platform to enable continuous colleague feedback and pulse surveys, giving colleagues a voice to enable changes to be made and create an even better place to work. 
Redefined the recognition offer and implemented a strategy to make it easier to say thank you to colleagues every day.

HR - Group Colleague Communications and Engagement Manager

Tesco

Led the People Programme Office team, building and managing a plan to deliver People projects aligned to the People Vison.
Propose and agree People Priorities with the People Leadership Team that continued our journey towards our People Vision and enabled the Business Plan. (For Group and Local Markets).
Coach my team of project partners to support Centre of Expertise teams to build and implement plans, achieving the desired outcomes for colleagues, customers and the business.
Managed the governance meetings, structure and agendas, to ensure decisions were made in a timely and effective way, enabling the right outcomes for all People projects. 
Successfully agreed, implemented and led our colleague communications strategy. Engaging, empowering and build advocacy in colleagues on our People vision.
Led the mentoring programme for the LGBTQ+ network, OutAtTesco, as part of the senior steering group.

People Strategy, Planning & Governance 

Transformation Manager People Change

People Plan Manager Global (Group & UK)

Successfully developed an approach for moving colleague’s hours in stores, to get more hours where we need them to serve our customers better. 
Achieved 97% of colleagues agreeing to move hours without any formal consultation.
Created and communicated materials for store teams to engage colleagues and follow the approach in a timely and accurate way, without any moral or legal challenges.
Successfully upskilled regional coaches, ready to roll out to all stores in the UK.
Successfully embedded the Managing Hours processes to develop a flexible culture where colleagues work at a time to serve our customers better.
Received exceptional feedback from Directors and Business Leaders about leading transformational change projects through teams of Operational People Partners.

Project Manager - Managing Hours & Flexible Workforce

Role modelled and led the People agenda for the Store Manager across the whole colleague lifecycle.
Developed our People vision, understanding our colleague's priorities to create an environment where they were happy at work, and customers chose to shop because of the great service they received.
Successfully created a culture aligned to the People vision for the store, empowering our colleagues to deliver for our customers in their role and enabling our business plan.
Created a workplace where colleagues were highly engaged (80%), attended work more of the time (absence 2%) and actively sort development in their role to be at their best and advance their career aspirations.

People Manager Extra Format

Deputy Manager Superstore Format

Personnel Manager

Manager

Project Manager - Calais Store

Inspirational Leader and People Professional creating places where people choose to work.

Inspirational and motivational leader of people, with over 30 years’ experience in Human Resources and customer service, both operationally and strategically. 

Passionate about colleague experience, creating an environment where everyone feels happy, engaged and at their best. Creative and forward thinking, challenging the today and taking action to make things better for the future. 

Empathetic yet resilient in a challenging and diverse environment, focused on creating the culture every business needs to attract, recruit, develop and retain the best people to look after their customers.

A qualified coach who also provides mentoring to support people in whatever life goals they want to achieve.

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