Wingfield Manners

Drawing on 30 years of experience in fast paced, global, blue chip, and SME's we provide HR thought leadership, consultancy and interim support to help companies scale up, move in and out of new markets and transform. We partner with you to understand your business and deliver pragmatic, value- add solutions.
Talk to us about:
-Building and improving your HR function
-Organisational design
-Reward and talent frameworks
-Executive compensation
-Leadership effectiveness
-Resource solutions & Talent mapping
-Board advisory work
-Global mobility
-Country set up and wind down
-Culture and engagement.

Chief People Officer/Director/Lead Consultant

Eagle Genomics

VP People

Eagle Genomics Ltd.

Director of People

AgriProtein

Consultant and Executive team member accountable to the Board and Shareholders. Building out the global HR infrastructure to drive rapid  expansion; quadrupling the employee base across 8 legal entities and international locations (including 2 joint venture partnerships during venture capital funding and mezzanine finance rounds.

Group HR Director

StepChange Debt Charity

Executive role, responsible for all People Services, HR, Comms and Marketing activity.
Design and implementation of the charity's People Strategy including restructure and refocussing of the People Services function and leadership of a team of c 50 HR & Marketing & Comms professionals.
StepChange Debt Charity is the UK's leading debt advice charity, helping people break free from problem debt for 25 years, employing over 1500 colleagues across the UK and in the Republic of Ireland.

People Services Director 

Your Housing Group

"Number 1" HR role leading and refocussing a team of c 40 HR and Communications professionals .
Leadership of a major restructure programme resulting in 200 headcount reduction and £6m payroll savings over a 6 month period and successful closure of DB pension scheme to cease accrual of £4m pension deficit.
Your Housing Group employs over 1300 people and strives to solve the nation's housing crisis by disrupting the housing sector.

Group Director of Transformational Change & HR

KCOM Group PLC

Short term assignment to position myself for a "number 1" HR role. Provided thought leadership and insight to established HR leadership team and served as HR Director to the 3 Managing Directors and their teams.

Interim Group Head of HR KCOM Group PLC

The Calico Group

Joined as a NED on the Calico Homes Board and Rem Co member to broaden business leadership profile. Invited to join Strategic Group Board on its inception.
V1/G1-highest levels of governance achieved during NED tenure.

Non Executive Director and Remuneration Committee member

Pace

Vice President HR Pace Group

Head of   HR Pace Group

Asda

Interim Senior People Manager

Scaling companies that talented people want to work for, customers want to partner with, and investors want to fund. I build People services, capability and contribution to grow or transform ambitious companies.

This is my StrengthsFinder profile :
"Melanie is an entrepreneurially minded, strategic, creative thinker who thrives on building highly competent and capable teams. She is extremely comfortable working with strong, diverse personalities and is naturally drawn to playing leadership roles, especially in unstructured and rapidly evolving environments that require a flexible and innovative approach to meeting challenges. Leaving the world a better place and establishing a legacy are two things that drive much of what she does."

I work on a permanent, interim, fractional or retainer basis. 

Contact me on 44 (0) 7791 117952.

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