Kimberly Johansen-Sainsbury
Chelmsford,Essex
Summary
An exceptional and highly skilled human resources and talent professional, with several years of experience in a number of different industries, most recently in the clinical research sector. My skills and experience have allowed me to support teams globally and have function autonomy in a number of areas, including onboarding/off-boarding, interview scheduling, ensuring updated and correct ATS and being the lead person for the development and implementation of new hire documentation. I have an extensive background developing company processes and procedures and implementation of HRIS (Workday). Key strengths also include strong communication and organisation skills. The ability to seek solutions to problems and apply extensive analytical knowledge to create and develop processes that support the business needs, as much as the employee needs. Keen to continue my career development by undertaking CIPD studies and using my experience to date to continue to be a successful HR professional.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work history
Senior Talent & Culture Coordinator
VERISTAT
07.2021 - 08.2024
- Responsible for Talent Acquisition operations ranging from interviews, testing and hiring from offer letters to onboarding reducing the time by 25% to onboarding new candidates.
- Solely responsible for the background check process and implementation of new vendors, decreasing time of completion by 50%.
- Facilitated new hire on-boarding programme by scheduling training initiatives, resolving issues and processing paperwork.
- Support Talent and Culture/HR team with day one orientation as well as focusing on employee-based questions and support from visa tracking, system management and data management.
- Offer/contract of employment & resignation process; automated offer process resulting in 75% quicker turnaround of documents from verbal to issuing to candidate.
- Support to the HR Business Partner: Providing generalist human resources provision to the EMEA business locations
- Sickness absence management, Payroll Support, Off-boarding documentation, Benefits and Reward Management.
- Helped implement new HRIS; workday, responsible for creating offer and interview procedures within the system; aided in the creation of Talent Acquisition process manual.
- Assisting with complex HR matters including assisting in disciplinary investigations and note taking, Employee Relations support.
- Maintained and organised employee files for accurate, easily retrievable records.
Talent & Culture Coordinator, TA
VERISTAT
07.2021 - 10.2022
- Responsible for providing support to the Talent and Culture team, primarily around matters of: Recruiting, hiring, supporting, and retaining our talent.
- Involved with talent acquisition, onboarding, and adhoc projects as requested.
- Serves at the forefront of Veristat's candidate experience and supports the employee lifecycle through onboarding.
- Ensure that employees and managers have appropriate support and resources from the broader Talent and Culture department.
Talent Acquisition Consultant
OPRA
05.2019 - 07.2021
- Started career with OPRA as a temporary employee to gain skills and knowledge across the plethora of recruitment activities.
- Transitioned into the role of full-time resourcer: Actively undertook candidate searches using LinkedIn and other platforms Assigned to a large corporate client to resource roles Arranged testing and interview sessions Inspecting right to work documents Worked on numerous assignments including recruiting the Head of QA for a CRO and working with the same organisation resourcing a Head of BD.
- Able to connect with companies and individuals to ascertain their needs and requirements and to question accordingly to obtain the required information.
- Worked with and supported the wider company team on resourcing for several clients on retained/partnership searches placing people into long and short-term assignments to flex with the client needs.
- Also learned the fundamentals of Human Resource Management.
Self-employed - Sports Massage Therapist
06.2018 - 05.2019
Coach
PREMIER SPORTS
01.2018 - 08.2018
Scientist Internship
AMS SPORTS
08.2017 - 12.2017
Fitness Instructor
ENERGIE FITNESS FOR WOMEN
06.2012 - 02.2013
Education
Level 3 Extended Diploma - Exercise and Sports Science - Exercise Science
Writtle College
Writtle, Essex 09/2011 - 05/2013
BSc Kinesiology and Exercise Science - Kinesiology and Exercise Science
Elon University
Elon, NC 08/2013 - 05/2017
Skills
- Attention to detail
- Communication
- Document control
- Project Management
- Microsoft Office
- Operational support
Accomplishments
- Basnight Outstanding Female Athlete Award Winner
- 2 x Track & Field Conference Championship Winners
- Conference Outstanding Performer
- Multiple qualifier for NCAA Regional Championship
Timeline
Senior Talent & Culture Coordinator
VERISTAT
07.2021 - 08.2024
Talent & Culture Coordinator, TA
VERISTAT
07.2021 - 10.2022
Talent Acquisition Consultant
OPRA
05.2019 - 07.2021
Self-employed - Sports Massage Therapist
06.2018 - 05.2019
Coach
PREMIER SPORTS
01.2018 - 08.2018
Scientist Internship
AMS SPORTS
08.2017 - 12.2017
Fitness Instructor
ENERGIE FITNESS FOR WOMEN
06.2012 - 02.2013
Level 3 Extended Diploma - Exercise and Sports Science - Exercise Science
Writtle College
09/2011 - 05/2013
BSc Kinesiology and Exercise Science - Kinesiology and Exercise Science
Elon University
08/2013 - 05/2017
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