Dave Botell

Experience

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  Career Moves Group

  May 2006 - May 2007

  Junior Account Manager - HR Moves

  Junior Account Manager for HR Moves recruiting HR professionals across the media and creative industries. Duties included sourcing HR professionals in a creative manner advertising and using job boards, interviewing candidates to forward for positions, building lasting relationships with clients for repeat business.

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  United Biscuits

  May 2007 - Aug 2007

  HR & Recruitment Coordinator (Temp contract)

  HR & Recruitment Coordinator - Duties included Coordination of recrutiment process for Sales and Marketing recruitment, liasing with agencies and contacts on UB's Preffered supplier lists. Screening C.V's and forwarding to department managers, arranging and assisting with first round interviews, arranging second round interviews and presentations, organising assessement days. Logging interviews and C.V's in MS Excel. Systems - Lotus Notes

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  General Mills

  Aug 2007 - Aug 2008

  HR Generalist Assistant UK

  HR Generalist Assistant - Supporting client group of approx 300 uk employees covering Marketing, Sales, I.T, Finance, Logistics and sites. Generalist duties surrounding recruitment, training, comp and bens, pensions, payroll, PA support to HR Director, ownership of holiday database, company cars, maternity and more. Systems - SAP HR and MS Office

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  United Biscuits

  Aug 2008 - Jan 2009

  HR Generalist (Temp contract)

  HR Generalist - duties include Payroll, absence management, 100% attendance scheme, ownership of the holiday database, company cars, maternity, employee relations, relocation, comp and ben's. Systems - SAP HR

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  Unilever

  Jan 2009 - Sept 2014

  HR Business Partner, TIGI Haircare: UK, Ireland and Belgium

  My role within Unilever focused on the TIGI Brand business, an exciting haircare/fashion brand at the forefront in innovation (creatively and technically) for hair fashion on the catwalk and in professional salons. TIGI hold iconic status in brands Bed Head, Catwalk, S Factor, Copyright Colour and Hair Reborn. My role was to provide strategic and operational HR business support to all functions (Sales, Marketing, Finance, I.T, Customer Relations and Education) with a client group of c.150 employees in UKI and Belgium.I partnered directors and senior management in the UKI and Belgium, ensuring the business and people strategy were closely aligned. Experience within this role: Change management, Restructuring and Redundancy, consultation and mediation, Reward and Compensation, Talent Management, Employee Relations (Disciplinaries, Grievance, Performance Management), Annual Merit and Bonus review, Payroll, Learning and Development, Policy creation, amendment, Management of key business projects and more.Systems - Peoplesoft and Taleo Show less

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  LF Europe & LF Americas

  Sept 2014 - Apr 2016

  HR Manager: European Footwear, Accessories, Gifts and LF Corporate

  Li & Fung is the leading consumer goods innovation, design, development, sourcing, and logistics solution for major retailers and brands around the world.My role was HR Manager for European Footwear, Accessories and Gifts, partnering Peter Black Footwear and Accessories (PBFA), Shubiz and LF Corporate.Experience within this role: Change management, Restructuring and Redundancy, consultation and mediation, Recruitment (Sourcing, Interviewing), Talent Management, Employee Relations (Disciplinaries, Grievance, Performance Management), Annual Salary and Bonus review, Payroll, Employee Engagement, career and learning development. Show less

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  Endemol Shine UK

  Apr 2016 - Sept 2018

  Senior HR Manager

  Endemol Shine UK (now Banijay UK) one of the UK's largest television and film production companies and is behind some of TV's biggest hits which includes All Together Now, Big Brother, Celebrity Big Brother, Black Mirror, Broadchurch, Good Karma Hospital, Grantchester, Hunted, MasterChef, One Born Every Minute, Peaky Blinders, Pointless, Sunday Brunch, Tenable, The Fall, The Island, Vicious, Would I lie to you, £100k Drop, 8 out of 10 Cats and many more.My role of Senior HR Manager provided strategic and operational support for production labels within the UK Group including Darlow Smithson Productions, Dragonfly film and television, Initial, Remarkable Television, Shine TV and Zeppotron, as well as support to ESUK's central core departments (IT, Finance, Legal and Facilities). Experience within this role: Change management, Restructuring and Redundancy, consultation and mediation, Recruitment (Sourcing, Interviewing), Talent Management, Employee Relations (Disciplinaries, Grievance, Performance Management), Annual Salary and Bonus review, Payroll, Employee Engagement, career and learning development, co-lead the annual creative and development internship scheme, managed the annual In-house mentoring scheme, project lead on the rejuvenation of the annual Employee Development review process. Project team key member on the implementation of ‘Workday’ HR system in both build and rollout. Various HR Project work. Systems: Workday Show less

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  Netflix

  Oct 2018 - Sept 2022

  Production HR Lead, UK Original Series & US Inbound Original Series

  Netflix is the worlds leading streaming entertainment service with members enjoying series, documentaries and feature films across a wide variety of genres and languages.My role for Netflix Studios was leading Production HR for U.K. original series and US inbound original series - supporting and partnering with Executives, Showrunners, Producers, Directors, Cast, Leaders and HoD’s on Production.Production HR support to: Series: ‘Bridgerton’ 4 seasons, ‘The Witcher’ 4 Seasons, ‘Sex Education‘ 4 Seasons, ‘Heartstopper’, ‘Fate, The Winx Saga‘ 2 seasons, ‘Shadow & Bone’, ‘The Queens Gambit’, ‘Lockwood & Co’, ‘Anatomy of a Scandal’, ‘Treason’, ‘Man vs Bee’, ‘The Diplomat’, ‘3 Body Problem’ and more. Features: ‘Eurovision’, ‘The Midnight Sky’, ‘Jingle Jangle’, ‘The Dig’, ‘Rebecca’, ‘Blood Red Sky’ and more. Show less

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  Sony Pictures Entertainment

  Sept 2022 - now

  Executive Director, HR : Production (People & Organisation)

  Sony Pictures Entertainment is a world leading studio, creating content across all formats and genres. HR Director, providing strategic and operational support to U.K. Production companies under the Sony Pictures umbrella (Left Bank Pictures, Eleven Film, Bad Wolf, Curio, Eleventh Hour Films and more) including HR support to their productions.HR lead on US inbound series and features in U.K, EMEA and APAC.