David Hallam

Maternity leave cover assignment for industry-leading software product company specialising in the insurance industry, operating across 38 countries and employing 3,500 throughout AMER, EMEA and APAC. (Planning to return to Australia at contract end)

• People Partner for the EMEA delivery services business unit covering employees groups based in Ireland, UK, Spain, Poland, Germany, Italy and France. Also supporting smaller units in AMER and APAC.
• Partnering with COEs including talent management, talent acquisition, mobility, compensation, benefits & equity & diversity to deploy tailored people solutions to the business.
• Successfully implemented reduction in workforce program within the business unit that impacted employees across four different countries across AMER and EMEA.
• Key contributor to building people team knowledge bases for different geographies such as Ireland, UK, Spain and Australia.

Project assignment cover contract for a global engineering consultancy employing approx. 3,000 employees across Australia and New Zealand and 15,000 employees globally.

• Providing advice covering all P&C specialist areas including talent management, mobility, remuneration review, benefits, governance, diversity, employee/industrial relations and workforce planning.
• People & Culture partnering with leaders across Water, Dams & Hydropower and Environment & Waste businesses.
• Part of working groups to develop COVID vaccination policy and psycho-social safety safety program.
• Facilitation of Workday HRIS implementation in partner organisation units across Australia.
• Developed and lead roll out of a mentoring program across Water, Dams & Hydropower business.

Secondment cover contract for large public healthcare service provider employing of 15k employees across four main hospitals in metropolitan Brisbane, QLD.

• Hybrid role providing high level advisory service and partnering with leaders within to Women's and Children's and Surgical departments generally in relation to general misconduct, performance, ill health, workforce planning, org change and recruitment.
• Interpretation and guidance on complex queries on collective agreements and statutory entitlements.
• Coaching and upskilling management on relevant employment law updates.

Maternity cover contract for large multinational engineering and maintenance services company working in energy, resources and utilities sector with approximately 3,000 employees across Asia-Pacific region.

• Generalist position servicing headcount of approximately 300 across South East Queensland and New Zealand, providing whole employee life cycle service for blue collar and white collar workforce in areas including induction and on-boarding, performance and behaviour management, remuneration review, mobility and talent management.
• Partnering with specialists in Organisational Development, Payroll, Safety and Industrial Relations to provide comprehensive HR service.
• Increased performance of blue collar workforce by introducing a performance review cycle.
• Member of bargaining team in negotiation process for a new collective agreement covering 75 blue collar employees covering electrical and mechanical trades.
• Implementation of Global HR programmes and initiatives at local level such as a new HRIS, new reward and recognition offerings and harmonisation of contracts.

Passenger rail transport services company with ownership and management of passenger rail network across Queensland employing circa 6,000 people.

• Working within team on 12 HR Advisors providing Employee Relations Case Management service across whole organisation.
• Providing advice on performance management, misconduct and complex health matters in a highly unionised environment.
• Investigation of more serious allegations such as bullying and harassment.

Major retail business employing over 200k employees in across all food & drinks, general merchandise and distribution businesses.

• Working within a team of 35 ER Professionals delivering advice across all trading divisions (Supermarkets, BigW, Dan Murphy's, BWS)
• Advising on a variety of employee relations matters typically including terms and conditions, application of relevant enterprise agreements (total of 52 Collective Agreements), performance management, misconduct and complex health issues
• Investigation of more serious allegations such as bullying and harassment
• Managing a case load of up 30 cases at any given time within challenging SLA's such as expected resolution within 30 days
• Mentoring more junior colleagues to handle ER cases with an increasing level of complexity
• Contributing to the development of the delivery of a new shared service e.g. redistribution of tasks in peak service demand times to ensure KRA's are met

Maternity cover contract for a major Australian banking and financial services group with approx 48k employees across the Asia-Pacific region

• Providing advice, assistance and coaching to Line Managers at various levels of complex employment relations related issues including interpretation of statutory entitlements, enterprise agreements, equal employment opportunity, anti-discrimination, grievance and disciplinary matters (including holding disciplinary meetings) and performance management
• Undertaking complex investigations of various disciplinary and anti-discrimination related complaints
• Liaising with professionals both on-shore and off-shore in Group Investigations, recruitment and legal in management of cases which ranged from initial advice up to termination of employment, where appropriate
• Managing case load of 20-25 cases at any given time within challenging SLA conditions

Major global IT, healthcare services and management consultancy business with appox. 110k employees

• Working in team of 8 Employee Relations Advisors and 1 ER Manager and wider team HR team of 120. Delivering ER Advice via a shared service model across 4 business units covering approximately 10,000 employees spread across the UK, Ireland and Europe.
• Provision of advice and guidance on terms and conditions for fragmented workforce employed under several different sets of terms and conditions and/or collective agreements.
• Advice typically on matters such as misconduct, grievance, health, absence management and TUPE.
• Resolving employment disputes through separation agreements from negotiation to drafting and finalising formal agreements. Representing the organisation during pre-tribunal conciliation hearings.
• Liaising with employees and insurers regarding applications for Income Protection benefits and and ongoing claim management

Global IT equipment and services business employing approx. 150k employees of which approx 10k based in the UK.

• Working within a small project team and a wider team of 10 HR Professionals to lead consultation with 1000 incoming staff on a contract worth £125m for Virgin Media in North East & Scotland
• Recruiting Line Managers and Engineers to a tight time schedule to ensure the contract commenced with appropriate level of people resource.
• Developing the management skills of line managers and leaders through running workshops on absence and performance management
• Providing advice and coaching to managers to handle ER matters such as misconduct, grievance, health, terms and conditions and absence management

Operating in social housing construction and facilities management sectors. Connaught Partnerships employed 10,000 people prior to a collapse and subsequent takeover by Morgan Sindall Group in September 2010.

• Working in a team of 3 HR Advisors reporting to a HR Business Partner for a business with a fragmented structure covering headcount of approx 2000 employees
• Providing comprehensive 1st and 2nd line advice to managers on discipline and grievance procedures covering 2 business sections with a combined headcount of approx 700 employees and business worth £35 million per year for a FTSE 250 company
• Responsibility for collation of metrics for monthly regional HR reports
• Supporting managers in critical, high risk or complex discipline and grievance processes
• Management of TUPE transition of employees in and out