Personal Details:
Name: Vivienne Greene-Wade
Mobile: 087-*******
Email:acqc8z@r.postjobfree.com
http://ie.linkedin.com/pub/viv-wade/24/a81/81
Executive Summary
HR Professional with experience in Project Management, Change Management, Training
& Development, Industrial Relations, Employment Law, TUPE Redundancy. Experienced
and professionally qualified in Human Resources and comfortable in communicating with
management at all levels. Experienced in interacting with vertical teams across other
business units outside the Irish business.
Training & Education
Dundalk Institute: Introduction into Human Resource Management 2003
Institute Commercial Management: Diploma in Human Resource Mgmt 2006
CIPD: Certificate in Personnel Practice 2008
Professional Development: Certificate in People Management 2009
Alison.com: Diploma in UK law 2013
Employment History:
Kantar Media, Kantar Worldpanel
& Millward Brown July 2014 – May 2015
Kantar Media, Kantar Worldpanel & Millward Brown are all part of the WPP Group which
is the largest adverting agency in the world. Kantar Media monitors the media for both
large and SME business units. Kantar Worldpanel is the global leader in consumer
knowledge and insights based on continuous consumer panels, and Millward Brown is
one of the world leading research agencies in communication.
HR Business Partner
To act as a business Partner to the Senior Management team for each of the Kantar
businesses at a high level supporting them in the key area’s of:
• Ensuring Succession Planning is in place for all key role with flight risk
• Refine, plan & implement performance management strategy
• Coordinate effective employee relations within the business
• To provide comprehensive HR management and advice to all management levels
and their teams within the business
• Budget and management responsibility for the areas of HR, office management,
training and recruitment
Kantar Media October 2012 – June 2014
HR Manager
To business Partner the Senior Management Team and the International Talent Director
on the design & delivery of the HR strategy for ROI & NI markets.
•To provide comprehensive HR management and advice to all management levels and
their teams within the business
•To deliver HR objectives for Kantar Media Ireland on:
-People Policies, Development Opportunities, Legal Compliance, Performance
Management, Induction/training programmes, Business Continuity Plans.
•Budget and management responsibility for the areas of HR, office management,
training and recruitment
• Coordinate appraisals, salary review & bonus processes
• Communicate & implement succession planning process
• Develop and deliver L & D plans
• Refine, plan & implement performance management strategy
• Design, plan & implement people policies in line with legal compliance
• Oversee the recruitment lifecycle process - from recruitment to on boarding
• Coordinate effective employee relations within the business
• Manage payroll, benefits, Pension, etc
• Oversee or carry out office management duties – line management of one admin staff
• Regularly meet with dept. heads to review and implement actions regarding all HR
and people issues in their business units, e.g. resourcing, performance management,
learning & development, team building, change management
• Provide a range of HR management reports as required – including the update of in-
house HRIS - reporting to the Managing Director for the Irish business.
Workforce International July 2012 – October 2012
Workforce International Contractors is an experienced outsourcing specialist who
provides cabin crew staff to Ryanair across Europe.
HR Manager (Contract Role)
HR Manager working in conjunction with the base Managers & base Supervisors in
Ryanair to deal with all issues regarding the Workforce employees sub contracted to
Ryanair in Europe.
• Dealing with all issues regarding Investigations, Disciplinary & Grievance
procedures
• Contract of employments, Leave applications
• Applications & renewals of E101/E106
Dealing with all employee queries on a daily basis
•
Beaumont Hospital Oct 2011 – June 2012
Beaumont Hospital, is a public voluntary hospital located in Beaumont, Dublin, Ireland.
It is the second largest hospital in the Republic of Ireland.
HR Consultant( Contract Role)
Initially this is a three month contract to work on a specific project, TUPE of between
1200 employees from one Hospital to Beaumont Hospital depending on the legal
outcome. This project involves reviewing the policies & procedure for both hospitals to
identify the gaps. Mapping the project plan to include the employee face to face
meetings, union meetings & representative meetings. It will also require verifying all the
terms & conditions of employment for the 1200 employees and confirming them as
authorised. Ensuring that the overall HR aspect of the project meets the deadline. I also
spent time in the Recruitment are of the business supporting them to clear a backlog of
short terms contracts, fixed terms contracts, internal competitions and organising the
packs and interviews. I then moved back into the Human Resources administration team
where I worked with the Employee Relations Managers dealing with all leave
applications, writing SOP documents, and policy documents. I would also deal with all
employee queries on an ad-hoc basis as part of the team.
Iron Mountain Records Management Jan 2000 – July 2011
Iron Mountain is the Worlds leader in Information and Records Management solutions. A
multinational organisation located in Ireland since 2002.
Position: HR Manager Ireland
Key responsibilities:
Change management: Successfully implemented a major restructuring programme
for the business, resulting in a headcount reduction and reorganisation of the
Commercial team.
Strategic HR Best Practice: Successfully developed and implemented all company
policies and procedures to provide defined structure required to evolve into a highly
skilled and performing team.
Training & Development: Monitoring the performance of employees at all levels
within the organisation, this involved evaluating training programmes for staff and
implementing new training solutions to meet business and individual requirements.
Maintaining positive working relationships with company wide support functions
including, Finance, Sales & Marketing, Service Delivery & the Human Resources team.
Employee Relations: Developed, introduced and trained all management and
employees on a new performance management structure. Coached managers in positive
implementation of performance management and the benefits of these processes for
both the employees and the organisation.
Industrial Relations: Management of all Disciplinary and Grievance processes within
the Irish organisation and supported periodically for the UK business where required.
Negotiations with unions regarding Appeal processes and also direct link with unions
during LRC & EAT cases. Although Iron Mountain was non unionised I had interaction
with unions directly in negotiations in relations to employee contracts and cases.
Drafted documentations & represented the Irish business in all cases in the EAT and
LRC.
HRIS: Introduction, Implementation and training in a new self service HR software
system.
Compensation & Benefits: Set up the company pension and medical scheme for the
employees across the company.
Project Management:
• Managed several implementations of new payroll systems. Oversaw the
company payroll process.
• Competency Development: Responsible for running a leadership development
programme for all of the middle management team showing considerable
improvement in their competencies and project management abilities.
• Introduction of the Drug & Alcohol policy into the Irish business to ensure that all
employees are free from alcohol and substance abuse to ensure high
performance.
Key achievements:
Involved in three major successful acquisitions
•
Design and implementation of internal employee incentives schemes
•
Implementation of Car Allowance policy for Ireland as part of the Compensation
•
& Benefits package for the senior management team.
Implementation of back to basic programme across the Irish and CIME Business.
•
Hobbies
I enjoy running, travelling, keeping active and generally socialising.
References
Available upon request.