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Liz Taylor,
FCIPD
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Background
Liz Taylor is commercially oriented with a strong results focus. She is an experienced international HR generalist with a track record of working effectively across borders and cultures in Europe, USA and Asia. Personal credibility is based on integrity and close working relationships with local business leaders. Comfortable with responsibility, she welcomes any HR project requiring a fresh, pragmatic perspective in challenging times.
Liz’s strengths are:
 | Strong interpersonal and influencing skills
| Proven ability in creating and developing new teams
| R-designing business structures to realise growth potential.
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Liz commenced her career in high street retail as a graduate trainee with BhS and was quickly promoted to Commercial Manager. Moving to Habitat as Department Manager, Liz then joined their new store openings team and subsequently developed a career in training, resulting in promotion to Training Manager.
Changing industry sectors, Liz joined Scottish
& Newcastle plc as Training Development Manager, Welcome Inns (pubs in Scotland). Further
promotions to the newly created S&N Retail resulted in Liz becoming Management Training Manager and
then Management Development Manager, before taking responsibility for Executive Management Development
at Group level for S&N plc. She was appointed HR Director, S&N International in 2000 and HR
Director, S&N Venture Markets in 2004.
While with S&N, Liz twice attended company programmes at IMD Switzerland, the
S&N Senior Management Programme and the S&N Driving Change Programme.
In 2008, having successfully managed Venture Markets’ transfer to Carlsberg and
Heineken - a £100m turnover business, 220 people, with significant cost savings and morale maintained
during the 6 month transition - Liz left to establish a consulting career.
HR Leadership
| Recruited high calibre, culturally diverse senior teams in market to help start-up businesses
flourish
| Effectively integrated S&N Group policies in market and designed reward policies
to match business
needs
| Worked closely with local MDs and coached junior team members to ensure people
best practice
| Encouraged a leadership style to increase employee involvement – Venture Markets
consistently had the highest response rate and results in the S&N Employee Survey
| Ensured local employment laws respected without compromising S&N values,
such as reward for performance | | | | |
Training & Development
| Co-developed S&N’s performance management process (PDP - Performance, Development, Potential)
| Co-designed S&N’s International Graduate Programme, actively promoting the trainees across
S&N and sought out as a mentor for their career progression | Designed and ran various selection
centres, all with line manager involvement | Experienced in the design and development of behavioural
and functional competency frameworks | Designed and delivered a range of development programmes
(National Training Award 1992 – Retail Development Programme, pubs)
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Change Management / Transition
| Planned and implemented international restructures and integrations, resulting in cost savings
and improved business efficiency | Influenced and aligned local MDs on changes required to support S&N strategic direction, identifying tactical solutions as required | Ensured the successful adoption of matrix structures after a long period of Operating Company independence | Designed and introduced communication processes focused on employee commitment during times of significant change | | | |
Commercial Focus
| Accepted as a full member of country management teams, contributing to strategic planning | Worked closely with local MDs to resolve people issues decisively, resulting in annual savings up to £100K | Managed £500K annual budget with commercial realities in mind, outsourcing non-core activities and up-skilling internal resource to reduce external consultancy fees | Regularly met customers to understand their businesses, promoting the Venture Markets’ aim to add value | | | |
Other Activities
| Active Committee member for the IMD Alumni Club in Scotland | Current Associate of Napier University’s HR Academy, providing business input to faculty programmes
| Past Chair of the Chartered Institute for Personnel & Development (CIPD) in Lothian and the Borders.
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