Eliane Camara

HR Professional with over 10 years' experience supporting multinational organisations across engineering, manufacturing, logistics, and supply chain sectors. Experienced in employee relations, organisational change, talent acquisition, workforce planning, and HR operations. Trusted advisor to managers on complex ER cases, with strong knowledge of UK employment law, GDPR and HR best practice.

Currently studying for the CIPD Level 7 Advanced Diploma in Strategic People Management. Proven ability to build positive employee relations, support business transformation, and deliver commercially focused people solutions.

HR ADVISOR GENERALIST - Sandvik Holdings Ltd - Halesowen, West Midlands

(2025-04 - 2026-06)

Responsible for providing comprehensive HR support across the employee lifecycle for the Holdings and IT entities, partnering with managers and employees to deliver effective people solutions and ensure compliance with HR policies and employment legislation.

• First point of contact for managers and employees on HR policies, procedures and employment matters.
• Delivered corporate and HR inductions and oversaw the full new starter onboarding process.
• Managed end-to-end recruitment and onboarding activities, supporting hiring across multiple business functions and contributing to reduced vacancy lead times.
• Provided advice and guidance on employee relations, absence, disciplinary, grievance and performance management cases.
• Supported with organisational change and restructuring processes jects such redundancy, TUPE, intercompany transfers.
• Produced monthly HR dashboards covering absence, turnover, recruitment, and employee relations trends, enabling data-driven workforce planning decisions.
• Led and coordinated the implementation Workday Help Case in the UK as well as the automation and synchronisation project of employee records to streamline onboarding and offboarding processes.
• Delivered training on HR processes such performance management and absence policy and Workday.
• Planned and led delivery of HR roadshows to provide HR and employment law updates as well as promote health and wellbeing programmes and employee benefits schemes.

HR ADVISOR - Sandvik Holdings Ltd - Halesowen, West Midlands

(2017-10 - 2025-03)

• Acted as the first point of contact for HR queries, providing support on policies, benefits, HR processes, and resolving cases through the HR case management system.
• Maintain HR systems and employee records, ensuring accurate data management in Workday, SharePoint, and other HR platforms while monitoring HR workflows and approvals.
• Produce HR reports and analytics, delivering regular and ad hoc reporting to support business decisions, workforce planning, and HR strategy.
• Managed recruitment and onboarding administration.
• Support employee wellbeing, training, and HR projects such as implementation of Workday in the UK.

HR SERVICES ADVISOR (FRENCH SPEAKING) - Sandvik Holdings Ltd - Halesowen, West Midlands

(2014-01 - 2017-09)

HR ASSISTANT - NAC Outsourcing (DHL Supply Chain /Jaguar Land Rover) - Castle Vale, West Midlands

(2012-09 - 2014-01)

HR ADMINISTRATOR - AKWEL (formerly MGI Coutier) - Minworth West Midlands

(2011-11 - 2012-09)

CIPD LEVEL 7 ADVANCED DIPLOMA - Strategic People Management - ICS Learn (2026)

CIPD LEVEL 5 ASSOCIATE DIPLOMA - People Management - South & City College Birmingham (2019 - 2020)

MASTER'S DEGREE - Human Resources Management - INGENSIA – RH, Paris (formerly IGS – Paris) (2007 - 2009)

BACHELOR'S DEGREE - Sociology - Université Paris IV Sorbonne (2003 - 2006)