Head of HR - Global Purchasing, Supplier Quality, Trading Division & Property @ I currently part of the HR leadership team at Jaguar Land Rover and responsible for the overall Functional People Strategy for 4 functions within JLR including Global Purchasing, Supplier Quality, Trading Division & Property which cover approximately 1,600 salaried employees globally including the UK, China, Brazil, India and USA leading a team of three HR consultants.
The role includes partnering the functional first line teams on all HR agenda matters including Transformation, Organisation Design, Change Management, Compensation Planning, Talent Management, Strategic Workforce Planning, Resourcing and Employee Relations. From September 2015 to Present (4 months) Coventry, United KingdomSenior HR Business Partner - Global Purchasing & Supplier Quality @ From June 2013 to August 2015 (2 years 3 months) Coventry, United KingdomHR Business Partner - Supply Chain Functions @ Partnering the Executive Vice Presidents for the Purchasing, Planning & Control and Quality functions within the Supply Chain sector developing and delivering the global functional people strategy across the Supply Chain Units (SCU's) within Rolls-Royce
In addition I partnered the Purchasing Shared Service Centre (PSSU) Supply Chain Unit and the executive team of cira 400 employees across the UK, Germany, North America and Singapore.
The functional element of the role included a significant project designing and implementing a key organisational change to streamline the organisation to create integrated supplier management teams.
Functional responsibilities and achievements include a integrated and consistent talent management process across several functions, leading on creating a high performance culture within the functions and PSSU as well as introduction of a new grading tool and ongoing governance across the functional roles.
Line patch responsibilities include ownership of the people plan globally for PSSU and helping support the business expand globally across North America and Asia as well as the UK.
I also am the Reward representative for the Supply Chain sector responsible for design and implementation of the Management Reward review f and the sector lead on reward and recognition projects. From November 2011 to June 2013 (1 year 8 months) Derby, United KingdomHR Manager - Jewson South, East & London region @ Partnering the Regional Director and Executive team within the South, Eastern and London regions. This role was responsible for 2,000 employees within the region with sales of £0.4 billion across 200 branches with support of a HR Advisor in the London region.
In this role I owned the regional people plan including the delivery of a new management development framework at staff, management and executive level, the development of a new engagement frameworkand introduction of new reward mechanisms.
I also lead on a project that developed a new talent succession tool that was piloted within the South and East region that then expanded nationally for Jewson and introduced company wide across Saint-Gobain Building Distrubtion within the UK and Europe. From October 2005 to November 2011 (6 years 2 months) Coventry, United Kingdom
MA, Human Resources Management @ Coventry University From 2006 to 2009 BSc 2.1, Economics & Business Management @ University of Wales, Swansea From 2002 to 2005 5 A-Levels, Psychology, Business, IT, Geography, General Studies @ Truro College From 2000 to 2002 GCSE's, 11 A* - C @ Penrice School From 1995 to 2000 James Hunt-Davies is skilled in: TUPE, Employee Engagement, HR Policies, Succession Planning, Performance Management, Management, Change Management, Talent Management, Coaching, Employee Relations, Human Resources, Management Development, Organizational Design, Personnel Management, Project Planning, Recruiting, Strategy, Talent Acquisition, Workforce Planning