Claudie Chaumette

Consultante

I have been working on transformational and HR projects within the private and public sectors. Some examples of my assignments include:

- Providing organisational design, workforce management transformation and change management expertise for a leading insurer in France.
- Bringing project/change management, as well as workforce transformation expertise to help the Paediatric Diabetes department of a North Central London hospital develop and deploy a pro-active care pathfinder that supports Type 1 diabetes patients.
- Providing HR/change management and project management expertise for a Skills Profiling project undertaken by a Resource Management department and advising on improving the Assignment Review Process of an IT business unit (600 employees)within a Utilities company.
- Leading a performance management workstream that was part of a markdown strategy project for a client in the retail sector.
- Working closely with the HR Policy Director and the Head of Pay and Reward within a Government Department to review the total reward package across the whole organisation (120,000 people in 11 different businesses) and develop options for a final proposal of a 3-year strategy to the executive team.

Sector: Consulting and Services

MBA Trainee

- I led a communications work stream that looked at enhancing the presentation and co-ordination of internal and external communications issued by the HR department and ensuring greater linkages between the communications channels used.
- I was pivotal in driving this activity towards a successful outcome, i.e.: the launch of newsletter and revamped intranet was very well-received by the client. Claudie received specific congratulations from senior management in the client organisation for her personal contribution.

Sector: Financial Services

HR Manager

I acted as a HR generalist within a manufacturing site in Belgium (300 people) to lead and implement cost reduction, performance management, process re-design projects, as well as managing daily HR processes.
As part of a global operational excellence programme:
- led the development of an overall Kaizen Blitz project plan to improve the efficiency of the HR processes and reduce the department overheads by 25%;
- led the adaptation and implementation of a corporate reward programme working closely with 2 French HR teams to adapt the US programme into a European environment, taking into account legislative and cultural impacts.

Other responsibilities included:
- Working with an oral healthcare manufacturing site in the UK to advise the HR Management team on succession planning in the supply chain business;
- As part of a restructuring plan and parallel to negotiations with trade unions, preparing budget calculations and advising HR Director on the social law for the redundancy payments and site transfers of 120 employees;
- Managing the payroll system in conjunction with the outsourced payroll provider (including implementation of Euro and payroll system upgrading);
- Recruitment and training;
- Advising line managers on staff performance and grading management to ensure fairness and effectiveness of career and salary progression;
- Liaising with 2 private legal representatives as well as 4 national institutions to deal with the company's social, financial and administrative obligations.

Sector: Health Care and pharmaceutical