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• Established a clear Institutional Employability Strategy and associated Vision.
• Developed and introduced a Transferable Skills Framework with intended learning outcomes resulting in better comprehension for students of how graduate employers use these skills in selection processes.
• Built new professional Career development service team resulting in significant improvements in professionalism and level of service provision to over 8000 unique students.
• Established 6 monthly internally focussed “Employability Summits” to ensure Academic Departments play a prominent role in realising the Strategy and Vision of Employability. The highlight being the creation of Employability Partnership Agreements with all departments of the University.
• Developed and introduced a new Initiative called the Undergraduate Internship Promise a first for a Top 20 UK University offering all students the chance to participate during their course of study.
• Established Employer Advisory Board, featuring some of the leading Global Employers and Leaders to aid the strategic thinking of the Leicester initiatives to realise the Career Development Strategy and associated Vision.
• Developed and introduced a clear Student development Journey with a simple message to participate and engage “Make the Most of You”.
• Created a new award for the Industry in partnership with The National Graduate Recruitment Awards Team (GTI) to recognise the Advancement of Social Mobility in Graduate recruitment to position Leicester as a leader in this field.
• Established a series of Exchanges on Social Mobility with panel debates featuring some of the UK’s leading employers (Teach First, Barclays, Norton Rose Fulbright and Enterprise rent-a-car).
• Highly Commended by Graduate Employers for the much acclaimed Policy of “No Prep No Entry” for the Festival of Careers (Autumn Careers Fair).
• Shortlisted Twice, by THE regarding outstanding support for students 2013 & 2014.
• Led the University for the very first time to feature in the Top 25 most targeted list by Times Top 100 Employers.
• Led the University to win several awards including Best overall Strategy for Work readiness as well as best single initative for work preparation.

Accountable for but not limited to:

• Maintained and developed the people strategy, and priorities for all functions.
• Delivered and led a senior level HR service including management succession and development working closely with the Resourcing & Development Centre of Expertise.
• Led on the roll-out of companywide change programme entitled “Critical Behaviours”.
• Led on reward needs for management population within the functions, including some harmonisation from TUPE employees.
• Led on and solved Critical employee engagement issues.
• Ensure effective Links were maintained to HR Service centre (shared service) and Centres of Expertise to ensure the needs of the Functions were met.
• Developed and led on a number of Team coaching activities, resulting in better working teams increasing productivity.
• Shared the delivery of business KPI’s to ensure that RWE npower were positioned effectively and appropriately to compete in this highly competitive marketplace.
• Led the People Work related to the Finance transformation Programme which resulted in operational efficiency with a lower cost base and greater emphasis on recruiting, developing and retaining key talent.
• People Lead on Smart Metering a game changer for the utility industry.

• In 2007, led RWE npower into the Times Top 100 Graduate Employers list for the very first time and repeated in 2008, 2009 & 2010, 2011.
• Established a clear end to end resourcing strategy ensuring core RWE competencies being measured through the improvement of assessment and selection processes resulting in a better selection pool of graduates.
• Built new professional Graduate recruitment and development team resulting in significant improvements in professionalism and level of service provision to the business.
• Developed and Introduced new branding for execution on UK campuses, as well as online and offline media.
• Developed and Introduced Graduate strategy aligned to business strategy by identifying career paths for all graduate schemes as well as key talent from the graduate intake.
• Established Graduate Program Board to aid appropriate succession planning for graduates. Program Board is comprised of senior stakeholders including RWE npower CEO.
• Developed and introduced a graduate development programme focused on developing intrapersonal and interpersonal skills.
• Developed training for scheme stakeholders to ensure effective PDP’s were formulated for the duration of each graduate placement during the schemes.
• Established the RWE npower graduate summer school, including commitment from other O.C.’s (RWE Rhein Ruhr & RWE Power) to participate in the training delivered at RWE centre in Wanderwrath, Germany.
• Established the bi-annual University Career Heads dinner, co-hosted by 2 RWE npower board members.
• Established effective strategic relationships with key Universities, throughout UK and Ireland through various initiatives including internships, scholarships, sponsorship, presentations, and skill’s workshops and attending milkrounds.
• Created the award winning Innovation on Campus Energy Challenge competition for Universities judged by the RWE npower board of directors.
• Created the Future Leaders Competition for Universities, prizes included trips to Antarctica and the North Pole to look at Climate Change issues.
• Co-Founder of Undergraduate of the Year Competition with GTI.
• Developed and delivered development centres for graduates on completion of the schemes including effective tools to map their careers.

• Built effective price propositions to increase awareness by 50%.
• Increased turnover by £150K in first year.
• Developed and implemented a sales strategy that increased profit margin by 10%.
• Developed and implemented company-wide HR policies, including Organisational Development and initiating a Change Programme within sales.
• Built a team of brand manager’s on UK University campuses.
• Established graduate-jobs.com as a leading jobsite with some of the Top 100 graduate employers in the UK, including Mars, PwC and Shell.

• Involved in an organisational review on UK Strategy including appointing a new Recruitment Advertising Agency which led to the devising of the new enterprise branding called “Come Alive”.
• Developed and introduced the UK Training Manual, to aid graduates L & D experience and increase retention, to support their on the job learning experience.
• Built relationships with key Universities to aid successful attraction of graduates and establish enterprise as an employer of choice for graduates.
• Established a companywide employee referral scheme resulting in greater retention of key talent.
• Developed the innovative global University thank you letter, resulting in greater awareness of enterprise amongst Universities.
• Developed and implemented Assessment Centres, including improved selection processes in line with latest methodologies.
• Developed and implemented the New Hire Induction, Mentoring Programme, Train the Trainer, Interview training, 90-day lunches and On Boarding event organising.
• Winner of exceptional achievement award 2002, Chairman’s award 2003.
• Held record for the largest number of recruits in one month. July 2004 recruited 43 graduates onto the fast track management programme.

• Fastest Graduate to complete training which resulted in rapid promotion.
• Developed several Management Trainees into Branch Managers.
• Took several branches from being the least profitable in the country to some of the most profitable.