Background
- Global HR Manager in Shell Chemicals for 6 years (50+ HR staff supporting 5000 employees)
- HR Director for Fonterra Europe (New Zealand’s biggest company, a dairy co-operative)
- Deputy VP for HR & OD in TNK-BP (Russia’s 3rd largest oil & gas company with 50000 employees)
- General Director of Samruk-Kazyna Corporate University in Kazakhstan (including running HR Consultancy & Outsourcing bureau)
- VP Strategy & VP HR for the Shell shared service centre network (100+ HR staff in 10 countries supporting 9000 employees)
- CEO of Pecten BV, a global professional consultancy with over 100 consultants worldwide
- Specialist roles including 4 years as Senior Graduate Recruiter for Shell in Europe. Other roles including heading up people planning & resourcing, HR business partnering, management information, training and job evaluation groups in Shell
- In HR leadership roles have also had HSSE, Communication, Business Continuity/Crisis Management, Risk Management, Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) and Business Process groups report into me
Previous examples
- Able to develop the whole package (including HR basics such as compensation & benefits and people processes) for smaller organisations (eg Fonterra Europe in Amsterdam) or specific people processes for large organisations (eg TNK-BP in Moscow; national companies in Kazakhstan; HR audit in Eataly Moscow)
- People Strategy development within Shell, Fonterra, TNK-BP and Kazakh national companies (including KazMunayGaz)
- Led refresh of 23 competence frameworks for Nigerian oil company
- Advised West African oil company on opening activities in another country
- Set up Training Academy for global technical consultancy
- Internationally-benchmarked Crisis Management consultation for Sibur
- Created & chaired D&I Council, drew up & managed annual D&I plans for global organisations, and designed & presented D&I workshops on range of topics
- Frequently demonstrated can move between strategic, tactical and hands-on with ease
Offering
Available for overall consulting, auditing, consulting in specific areas or interim HR management in small organisations including:
- Overall People Strategy linked to Business Strategy
- Recruitment, Selection & Attraction strategies (interview training, assessment centres, executive recruitment, on boarding, EVP)
- Job evaluation (HAY, job ladders, technical ladders)
- Performance management
- Talent management & development (high-potentials, leadership development)
- Coaching & mentoring
- Competence development, training & development
- Compensation & Benefits (e.g. Shared service centre network Single Framework)
- IR/ER (including Staff Councils)
- Setting up of pension provision, payroll systems & other HR administrative requirements
- Affiliation, cultural differences, D&I and values
- Engagement and pulse surveys
- Shared service centres
- Overall People Strategy linked to Business Strategy
- HSSE (health, safety, security & environment), ethics, risk management
- Crisis Management
