Kerrie Doherty
Solihull,United Kingdom
Summary
Accomplished HR professional with extensive expertise in talent acquisition, onboarding, and employee relations. Demonstrates strong commercial acumen and critical thinking skills, effectively implementing HR strategies and policies to drive organisational success. Proven track record in workforce planning, performance management, and succession planning, with a focus on compliance with employment law. Adept at mentoring staff and fostering a culture of continuous improvement through coaching and change management. Career goals include leveraging international HR experience to enhance global talent strategies.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
year of post-secondary education
Work history
Senior HR Business Partner
Baxi UK&I
02.2022 - 06.2025
- Current role - Senior HR Business Partner (Sales, Product, Solutions, Marketing, HR & Finance)
- Reporting directly to the HR Director within a shared service model, I serve as a member of the HR Leadership Team (HRLT), I lead a team consisting of both HR Advisors (HRAs) and recruiters.
- Enhanced organisational effectiveness via strategic workforce planning, partnered with 2 ELT members for restructuring both the Sales and Finance functions to ensure their readiness for future growth as the business transitions to a Solution Selling model, supporting the CHMM initiative. This ensuring we are strategically organised to meet the ambitions of our global strategy.
- Partnered with business leaders to align HR strategies with business objectives. I work to identify, plan, and manage talent while driving high performance and effectiveness.
- Developed robust HR strategies to enhance company culture.
- Continuously improving People Manager capabilities through formal training and coaching programs to support a change in behaviours and culture.
- Advising managers on compensation decisions based on benchmark data, job analysis and external competitiveness.
- Fostered a diverse and inclusive work environment through proactive initiatives, established the Women's Network at Baxi and also founding member of the Construction Inclusion Coalition.
- In addition to my HRBP responsibilities, I serve as the UK lead for recruitment, managing the recruitment strategy across multiple sectors, including manufacturing, field engineering, contact centres, field sales, and support services across five UK & Ireland sites.
- I successfully implemented a centralized resourcing team model, reducing agency spend and supporting the company's Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) initiatives, with a strong focus on becoming an employer of choice.
- Successful implementation of Workday across the UK & Ireland business within a tight 9-month project timeline. My involvement included assisting in the design and build of the system, as well as overseeing the delivery of training across the business.
HRSS - Recruitment Business Partner
Atkins
11.2016 - 02.2022
- Responsible for the delivery of recruitment in the F+G and Atkins Europe.
- (F+G has approx. 1300 UK Atkins Europe approx. 800 Ireland, Norway, Sweden Denmark.)I manage the delivery of experience hire, temp & contractors and early careers recruitment. Having a team of 7 in India to deliver the experienced hire recruitment operation, they support me with the delivery of talent attraction campaigns, selection and onboarding of new hires into the F+G and Europe, ensuring delivery is cost effective, efficient and in a timely manner.
- In this role I also work with Early Careers to deliver the required numbers for Apprentices, Placements and Graduates, I also lead the Early Careers champions within the business and ensure engagement and collaboration with universities and learning providers ensuring that social value is met within projects.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams, fostering productive working relationships.
- Managed business relationships by establishing and maintaining partnerships with stakeholders.
- Acted as trusted advisor to business unit leaders, providing support, guidance and mentorship.
- Fostered a collaborative work environment, promoting teamwork and innovation ensuring that D&I is delivered in line with our people strategy, and I am an active member of the ED&I steering group within F+G
- Evaluated performance metrics, driving continuous improvement efforts.
- Prepared and presented persuasive business proposals and recommendations to senior management and external stakeholders.
Recruitment Delivery Manager
Atkins
09.2019 - 05.2021
- Overseeing the delivery of recruitment services from our office in Bangalore.
- Overseeing 42 people in centre aligned to their functions, sourcing, operations and recruitment delivery. Educating teams on best practices to uplift speed and accuracy.
- This role also was point of contact for our HR Shared services team, so collaboration with Starters, Lifecycle and AskHR.
- Managed stakeholder expectations to limit concerns and queries during project delivery.
- Evaluated team performance and highlighted opportunities to improve productivity and efficiency.
In-house Recruiter - Corporate Services
Atkins
11.2016 - 09.2017
- In this role I support the corporate business with all aspects of employee life cycle process, including on and off boarding.
- I manage stakeholder relationships across the global business supporting roles of all levels including senior placements within the business.
- In my time at Atkins this time around I have supported the Corporate business with a large-scale restructure within the HRSS, whilst supporting the Energy business as an advisor.
- Working as part of a large HR & Recruitment team I have maintained up-to-date knowledge of HR legislation for continued regulatory compliance.
- Met tight deadlines under pressure to expedite recruitment process.
- Managed high-volume of candidates during peak recruitment seasons, ensuring smooth operations.
- Utilised social media platforms effectively to advertise vacancies, attracting a wider pool of candidates.
Resourcing Consultant
Mackenzie Jones
11.2015 - 11.2016
- Within this role I supported the Retail Director with the attraction of candidates across all levels of retail to deliver on a number of Key accounts.
- Roles included Area Managers, Store Managers and Assistant store managers from a predominately food retail background.
- I successfully sourced from a number of leading job boards, social media and utilizing my strong retail network.
Resourcing Consultant
Global Project Partners
01.2015 - 11.2015
- Supporting this executive search business on retained roles across engineering sector.
- I would support the Directors in the delivery of executive roles by identifying candidates to work in highly skilled roles in the Energy and Infrastructure area.
In-house Recruiter - Talent Attraction
Atkins Global
10.2011 - 10.2014
- As an In-house recruiter for Atkins my role includes candidate attraction campaigns, recruitment advertising, new attraction initiatives, employer branding, and building pools of talented potential employees working alongside 3rd party recruiters to ensure the best talent for Atkins.
- I manage the end-to-end process for recruitment of my businesses, I have also resourced for teams to work as part of a large joint venture working with external businesses to support on a Client project.
- Organised job fairs, improved employer branding.
- Negotiated salary packages to secure mutual satisfaction between employer and employee.
- Developed detailed job descriptions to attract top talent.
- Worked towards exceeding targets agreed on with clients regarding number of candidates placed.
Education
Diploma of Higher Education - CIPD
Solihull College and University Centre
Solihull 09.2023 - 05.2024
Skills
- Business Partnering
- Critical thinking
- Change Management
- Talent & Succession
- Coaching Mentoring
- Commercial Acumen
- Employment Law
- Performance Reviews and Improvement
- Reward strategy
- HR policies compliance
- Employee onboarding oversight
- International hr experience
- KPIs implementation
- Workforce planning
- Employment law knowledge
- Employee Relations
- HR Strategy
Previous Work History
Prior experience can be provided.
Timeline
Diploma of Higher Education - CIPD
Solihull College and University Centre
09.2023 - 05.2024
Senior HR Business Partner
Baxi UK&I
02.2022 - 06.2025
Recruitment Delivery Manager
Atkins
09.2019 - 05.2021
HRSS - Recruitment Business Partner
Atkins
11.2016 - 02.2022
In-house Recruiter - Corporate Services
Atkins
11.2016 - 09.2017
Resourcing Consultant
Mackenzie Jones
11.2015 - 11.2016
Resourcing Consultant
Global Project Partners
01.2015 - 11.2015
In-house Recruiter - Talent Attraction
Atkins Global
10.2011 - 10.2014
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