Emma Oberholzer

Envevo is one of the UK's leading ICP and EV Chargepoint installers operating across the UK, ROI and KSA.

• Lead end‑to‑end People strategy across the organisation, shaping culture, capability, and organisational design to enable long‑term business performance and growth.
• Partner with the CEO and executive team as a strategic advisor on workforce planning, leadership effectiveness, organisational health, and transformation priorities.
• Build and scale a high‑performing People function, including Talent Acquisition, Business Partnering, L&D, Reward, and People Operations, ensuring operational excellence and strong business partnership.
• Modernised core people processes (performance, succession, talent development, reward) to create a more agile, transparent, and data‑driven employee experience.
• Implemented a coherent people analytics approach, enabling data‑led decisions on workforce efficiency, capability gaps, organisational design, and culture initiatives.
• Implemented leadership development and succession planning, strengthening the talent pipeline and enhancing leaders’ ability to manage change, scale teams, and deliver strategy.
• Played key role in business strategy and transformation efforts, ensuring people, culture, and organisational design were aligned with operational and financial goals.
• Developed strong, trusted relationships with senior leaders and the Board, providing insight on people risks, culture, organisational capability, and workforce trends.
• Directed People‑related M&A activity, overseeing HR due diligence, TUPE processes, and cultural integration plans to ensure smooth organisational alignment and minimise business disruption.
• Drove the company’s ESG agenda from a People perspective, embedding sustainable people practices, strengthening governance, and advancing social impact initiatives as part of the wider corporate strategy.

Parsley Box is a leading manufacturer and retailer of nutritious ready meals, specifically targeting the over 65's.

• Responsible for creating and delivering the company's first people strategy, ensuring alignment to business goals and changing requirements.
• Member of senior leadership team, partnering CEO and CFO to deliver change.
• Member of Remuneration Committee, responsible for shaping and implementing company's first reward strategy, including pension review, bonus, share options, life insurance and additional flexible benefits.
• Setting standards for a high performing team through the curation of our company values and principles and implementation of our performance assessment framework, enabling us to identify our highest performers.
• Crafting an employee experience that recognises and rewards high performance while ensuring high levels of employee engagement.
• Implemented a communication strategy that supports our hybrid ways of working, giving everyone a voice and the opportunity to 'speak up'. This includes quarterly business updates, employee forum to share ideas and gain feedback, and creation of our intranet site.
• Subject matter expert on all people and employment law matters.

Nucleus Financial is an award winning fintech with an advisor-built financial platform based in Edinburgh.

• Diagnosis, design and delivery of the people strategy to drive continued growth of the business, aligned to business goals.
• A trusted partner to the senior leadership team ensuring people related strategies deliver maximum results.
• Established a well-respected people team who truly partner the business, understand key priorities and ask difficult questions to continually evolve and improve what we do.
• Implementation and ongoing management of key reward strategies including our share incentive plan (SIP), long term incentive plan (LTIP) and annual bonus scheme designs.
• Member of our people governance committee and remuneration committee, presenting on key projects for discussion/approval with the executive team and board.
• Responsible for the full people lifecycle, leading the people team to deliver our talent acquisition and employer brand management; reward strategy and benefits management; performance management architecture; people partnering and planning; culture and engagement; diversity and inclusion agenda; and data management and reporting.
• Led a human-centric culture first acquisition of our outsourced partner, resulting in 60% headcount growth of Nucleus. The success of the project resulted in market leading people engagement levels, achieving 96% organisational alignment and 97% pride in the company.
• Crafted an enhanced future flexibility model and principles that will enable all areas of the business to continue to support flexible working beyond Covid.
• Led the team to be recognised and awarded at the HR Network awards for "Workplace of the year", "Employee engagement of the year" and "HR team of the year".

• Responsible for organisational design, ensuring the right team to support the achievement of business strategy.
• Established people planning sessions, working collaboratively with senior leaders using people data and insights to build effective people plans for their area.
• Oversaw, investigated and resolved employee relation matters, including grievance, disciplinary, performance and absence management, to achieve favourable outcomes.
• Transformed our resourcing strategy to deliver an exceptional candidate experience every time.
• Created and embedded our internal progression framework, helping everyone do their best work. The framework supports 25% of our people progressing each year through promotion and our crowd sourced progression process.

Optos, founded in 1990, is a retinal-imaging medical device manufacturer headquartered in Scotland, with offices in Europe, Australia and the US.

• Advising on employee relations matters, including disciplinary, redundancy, maternity & paternity rights, grievance procedures, absence management and performance management and annual appraisal process for all UK and European staff.
• Managing all aspects of recruitment across UK and Europe, filling on average 70 roles per year.
• Development and implementation of new employee induction programme, including corporate induction for all global employees.

• Part of the senior management team, supporting the directors and board to develop and deliver HR strategy aligned to company strategy.
• Advising on all employee relations matters, including a complex case load and tribunal claims.
• Creation of performance management standards, coaching and mentoring the management team on best practice and how to deal with performance issues.
• Management of in-house talent acquisition function.