Director-VP HR Business Partner with significant global markets expertise
Primary specialism: HR Business Partner
Markets with deep expertise: EMEA inclusive of the Nordics and Russia, plus APAC inclusive of Singapore, China and India
Languages : Native English speaker
Salary expectations: Minimum base salary £120,000
Workforce types directly supported: Global workforces consisting of unionised workers, shift workers, part time and flexible workers, seasonal workers, professional staff (e.g., engineers, scientists, journalists), industrial workers (e.g., production line worker, deckhands), non manual workers - (e.g., administrators, sales, retail assistants).
Current home country: United Kingdom
Mobility: Asia, Europe, North America, South America, Africa
Mobility Considerations: UK passport holder only.
Team management: Have led up to 15 direct and 200 indirect reports. Leading teams preferred, but happy to deliver results as a sole contributor.
Current/recent employer: Life sciences company of 120,000 employees and circa US$45 billion revenues. Prior to that, an energy industry company of 32,000 employees and circa $7 billion revenues.
Remits of particular interest: Senior leadership roles with a focus on improvement, change, transformation.
Unique expertise:
HR Shared Services – maturing the model, acquisitions, reducing footprint, improving process, automation, continuous improvement.
True HR generalist – Skills and knowledge developed, over 12 years as a Senior HR Leader in a range of different environments:
Scale – Global multi-nationals and small/medium sized businesses
Operating type - FMCG, Manufacturing, Media, Transport, Business to Business
Business cycle – partnering with different businesses at distinct phases in their evolution; launch, growth, maturity and decline.
Leadership - Direct experience of leading a large and complex team (200 team members in 20+ countries) aiding empathy and understanding of management challenges.
Significant employee relations experience in complex, volatile, and challenging environments.
Commerciality:
Identified risks, introduced changes, implemented and established regular Practical Performance Improvement practices globally for HR Shared Services Team (200 team members in +20 countries) resulting in 28% improvement in team productivity.
Led a significant EMEA wide business restructuring exercise (500+ people), requiring high precision, which achieved sustainable cost savings of $65m with limited HR resources. Completed within a 3-month period with no legal challenges and minimized operational risk.
Working in collaboration with a divisional MD, transformed that division from loss making to profit making in 12 months by minimising costs via structural transformation, strengthening leadership teams and reducing Sales Team turnover by 70%.
Strengths:
Ability to embrace a global approach while taking a practical yet creative approach towards local delivery.
Critical thinking skills balanced with strong emotional intelligence.
Ability to prioritise workload across the team and meet high volumes / conflicting demands.
Need to know:
Continuous improvement mindset and energized by change agenda.
Confidence and courage to appropriately challenge assumptions.
Strong learning orientation and work ethic; curious and continuous learner with a good say/do ratio and high integrity.
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