Tammy Graham

I am an enthusiastic, motivated team player with a passion for bringing corporate culture to lifeand creating a positive employee experience. I am a self-starter, with a creative mind and acuriosity for learning.

My varied experience has given me the confidence to manage and influence multiple stakeholder groups across various levels, countries and cultures. Each role I have taken on has exposed me to new challenges. enabling me to gain a deeper appreciation for the authenticity of workplace cultures.

April 2020 – present

Markel International | London

Employee Experience and Internal Communications Manager

I occupied this role since April 2020, and after being given greater responsibility and remit, the role evolved into a manager level role in August 2020, albeit the responsibilities remained largely the same as outlined below.

Key responsibilities:

• Overall management of "The Style In Action" (culture) framework, weaving in connections between business activities/offerings and corporate commitments - Diversity and Inclusion, Wellbeing, Community, Recognition and Innovation;
• Establish and oversee a number of employee-led networks which serve to bring the company culture to life through meaningful action (in alignment with business priorities and cultural values);
• Partner with networks to create an annual calendar of initiatives that link to company goals and commitments;
• Work closely with HR and other divisions to project manage and support the execution of initiatives proposed by the employee networks;
• Manage all internal employee facing communications that relate to the employee value proposition and culture;
• Manage and create HR related communications;
• Creation of employee experience related content on social media platforms;
• Contribute towards the global strategy for employee experience;
• Co-lead on global initiatives such as Employee Appreciation Day, global wellbeing events/campaigns, charity campaigns, recognition campaigns and more

April 2019 – April 2020

Compensation and Benefits Analyst

Alongside this role, I prepared and launched a number of wellbeing related initiatives, set up an employee wellbeing champion network, arranged financial education for employees and qualified as a mental health first aider.

• Job profile design and set up for the International business
• Support implementation of new bonus plans for 2019 performance year;
• Assist in roll out and testing of bonus plan configuration within HR system (Workday)
• Bonus mapping and reconciliation
• Running and heavily supporting the annual reward process for multiple countries, working with business leaders to ensure recommendations are made within corporate guidelines aligned to performance reviews
• Presenting annual compensation recommendations to Senior Management for review
• Identifying, documenting and communicating process improvements in a complex matrix environment
• Identifying opportunities to improve the reward offering
• Work closely with benefit brokers to implement competitive benefits and assist in annual renewal activities across multiple countries

November 2015 – March 2019

HR Operations Advisor

Alongside this role, I took it upon myself to design and deliver employee wellbeing initiatives such as financial wellbeing/education, mental health awareness and employee resilience, including supplier management.

Key responsibilities

• Assist strategic HR projects with subject matter experts including compensation and benefits, talent development, employee relations and recruitment
• Support annual talent cycle, leading on the annual compensation review
• Identify and resolve process and procedure issues within the HR division to optimise HR workflows
• HR lead for GDPR and records management
• Design and delivery of employee wellbeing initiatives such as financial wellbeing, mental health awareness and employee resilience, including supplier management
• Work with business divisions to ensure HR procedures are integrated wherever possible
• HR System (Workday) optimisation, testing and projects including:
• Workday Recruiter configuration, testing and process mapping
• Advanced compensation configuration, testing, optimisation and roll-out (annually)
• Job profile mapping and analysis
• Reporting

2016

Home Learning College - UK

CIPD Intermediate (level 5) certificate inHR Management

2007

Post Graduate Honours Degree inHuman Resources

University of Kwa-Zulu Natal

2004 - 2006

Bachelor of Commerce

Degree |Management and Marketing

Received Dean's Commendation2004,2005,2006

University of Kwa-Zulu Natal