Shona Garner

Experience

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  Pearl Assurance

  Jan 1998 - Jan 2001

  Regional Human Resources Consultant

  Key responsibilities/achievements:Recruitment and Selection: Responsibility for workforce planning, recruitment, selection and assessment of staff for offices in the North West and Derbyshire. Change Management: Working with unions, managers and their teams to deliver and implement a new company corporate sales management structure. Employee Relations: Dealing on a daily basis with complex employee relations issues in a tightly regulated industry.

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  AstraZeneca

  Jan 2001 - Jul 2002

  Human Resources Operations Manager (Fixed Term Contract)

  One of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies, providing effective research and medicines in important areas of healthcare. Key responsibilities/achievements:Generalist HR: Responsible for one of the largest business areas on the site (500 employees), involving day to day advice on HR issues.Management Development: Working with managers and senior managers to develop, run and facilitate ‘away days’ for their team. This often involved looking at individual differences and styles, and looking at the team’s objectives and goals to align them with the department and more widely the company. Change Management: Working with the business and the management team to implement changes including a new pay banding structure which involved presentations to the business and working with focus groups and senior management team. Training and Development: Instigating, designing, and delivering a series of short employee relations workshops over the year for team leaders and supervisors. The success of the programme was subsequently rolled out into other areas of the business. I was also involved as part of a project team to look at training for first line managers across the business. Show less

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  Hercules & Hercules, Inc.

  Jul 2002 - Dec 2003

  UK Human Resources Manager

  A large multi-national manufacturing company specialising in the paper and chemical industries. A global company with headquarters and offices in U.S. and European offices including a smaller UK base in Manchester. Key responsibilities/achievements:Change Management: Involved with relocation, redundancy, and closure of two UK sites. Headed a site project team to discuss, negotiate and implement changes in conjunction with the trade unions. Worked closely with the management team to develop HR strategy in alignment with business.Talent Management: Invited to be part of a global talent management as the HR representative for Europe. Responsibility for reviewing current development processes and introducing and implementing new ideas across the company globally. Reward: Assisted with presenting and implementing a new pay review system. Involvement with the different company pension schemes for UK based employees and expatriates in Europe and the U.S. Show less

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  SGHR (Shona Garner Human Resources)

  May 2004 - Apr 2012

  HR Consultant (AstraZeneca, EEF, Octel and Westmill Food)

  Selected projects include:Interim Business Partner: Defining and developing the HR Business Plan in line with business strategy including workforce planning/forecasting, leadership and talent management, and organisation design, and reward.Generalist HR: As a consultant assisting companies to review their HR policies and procedures, staff handbooks and generalist support across a range of employee relations and diversity issues.Training and Development: Designing, developing and running training courses on a range of employee relations topics. Coaching and facilitating at group and at an individual level. Working as an outplacement consultant training and coaching people at group and on a 1:1 level. Recruitment and Selection: Assisting companies with large recruitment campaigns. Delivery and management of assessment centres as a retained recruitment consultant for a large multi-national company.Project Work: Working on behalf companies to carrying out specific projects including skills analysis and role banding, training, development and developing the staffing strategy and forecast. Show less

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  Network Rail

  May 2012 - Nov 2014

  HR Business Partner (Fixed Term Contract)
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  The University of Manchester

  Dec 2014 - Aug 2023

  People & OD Partner
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  Shona Garner Coaching

  Sept 2020 - now

  Executive Coach & Mentor

  www.shonagarnercoaching.com

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  Lexxic

  Jan 2024 - now

  Associate Coach with Lexxic - Empowering Neurodiversity in the Workplace

  1:1 coaching with individuals to develop strategies and solutions to overcome workplace challenges.

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  CIPD

  Jan 2024 - now

  Volunteer Coach & Mentor