EMEA Rewards Manager at Zebra Technologies (2016-01 – Present)
Design and implementing Reward programmes across Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), and launching global programmes across North America, EMEA, Asia Pacific and Latin America.
- Defining and implementing strategies to enhance the employee experience and inclusion and diversity efforts e.g. global employee wellbeing, new global recognition programme and new parent leave.
- Identifying market trends and legislative changes, undertaking cost benefit analysis, recommending and implementing changes e.g. Netherlands salary sacrifice scheme and UK Bonus Exchange scheme. Ensuring handbooks and policies are up-to-date following employment law changes e.g. Flexible Working policy.
- Established a Governance Committee for reviewing key benefit and policy changes for UK and currently expanding this in the Netherlands.
- Supporting acquisitions and harmonisation of terms and conditions post acquisition, legal entity rationalization and onboarding.
- Annual compensation planning for merit review and the annual bonus scheme, including system testing and improvement, advising managers and payroll submission.
- Annual renewal of benefits, negotiating cost efficiencies in conjunction with brokers, undertaking full market reviews and RFPs e.g. UK pension and risk benefits.
- Lead for analysis of compensation including UK and EMEA gender reporting and preparing for the EU Pay Transparency Directive.
- Global co-lead for the Quarterly Bonus scheme for Front Line Employees across NALA, EMEA and APAC.
- Providing expertise to the business in job design, job levelling and evaluation, peer assessment, benchmarking and competitive analysis.
- Training new members of HR team e.g. onboarding, offboarding and payroll processes and development of the graduate and internship programmes.
- Member of the HR Advisory Council, advising the Chief People Officer on strengthening and advancing the HR function, including introducing of job rotation programme.
HR Manager at Zebra Technologies (2012-06 – 2016-01)
HR Manager for the 2 main sites (EMEA HQ & Manufacturing)
- HR Business Partnering – advising and coaching managers on all HR-related issues, including absence management, performance issues, talent management and development.
- Managing the recruitment process from benchmarking salary data, building relationships with recruitment agencies to online advertising, interviewing candidates and providing feedback.
- Compensation planning specialist for EMEA for merit planning and benchmarking.
- Benefit renewals, benefit plan design changes and implementation e.g. UK pension salary sacrifice.
- Project managed auto-enrolment for the UK pension scheme.
- Supporting HR activities in mergers, acquisitions and divestitures.
- Keeping abreast of statutory changes and best practice to ensure policies and practices are compliant and communicated within the business.
HR Officer at Zebra Technologies (2007-05 – 2012-05)
Generalist HR role
- Advising managers and employees on HR policies including flexible working, maternity leave and employee relation issues.
- Policy design, ensuring legal compliance e.g. established and implemented redundancy, grievance and disciplinary procedures for UK.
- Recruitment activities including benchmarking salary information, interviewing and managing relationships with recruitment partners. Launched i-cims (an online vacancy requisition system) and online offer pack throughout EMEA.
- Established the industrial placement student scheme, ran assessment centres and coached the interns, trialed a new apprenticeship scheme.
- Managing the starter and leaver processes – creating offer documentation, holding HR inductions, conducting exit interviews and co-ordinating the Company Induction week.
- Submission of payroll changes for 19 countries across EMEA.
- Benefit scheme administration including responding to employee queries and communication. Improved employee take-up of UK pension scheme. Launched new benefits e.g. Cycle to Work, Employee Assistance Programme and implemented Wellness Programme.
- UK compensation benchmarking survey submission.
- Headcount and statutory reporting and introduced HR metrics to analyse trends. Also supported the HR Director in managing the HR department budget.
- Key member of the global ERP project implementation.
HR Administrator at Ultra Electronics (2006-04 – 2007-05)
Full range of HR administration responsibilities
- Absence monitoring and analysis
- Payroll submission
- Managing the annual flexible benefits renewal
- Recruitment advisory and administration service from advertising and briefing agencies, scheduling interviews, producing job offers, arranging pre-employment checks, acquisition of references.
- Coordinating performance reviews, identifying training needs and sourcing training courses to implement the company's Training and Development plan.
- Project work including employee surveys and bonus scheme administration.
HR Coordinator at St Gregory the Great (2004-06 – 2006-04)
Stand-alone HR role for a newly established secondary school
- Co-ordinated the recruitment process – from advertising and writing job descriptions to obtaining references, drawing up interview schedules and undertaking CRB checks.
- Liaising with payroll regarding new and current staff changes.
- Responsible for the administration of the Governor's Staffing Committee.
- Development and implementation of policies and procedures and consulting on best HR practices.
- Key achievements in this role were: establishing a new absence reporting system, helped gain Investors in People status, introduced online recruitment, exit questionnaires and an employee handbook.
