Derby, England, United Kingdom
Hi, I'm Ala! If you are curious about me: - I choose employers carefully: for over 15 years I worked for one employer and grew from an HR administrator to an HR Director. - I value diversity of thought and experience: I lived in 4 countries and speak 4 languages. - I am passionate about helping women grow and break the invisible glass ceiling: I have coached 120+ women at work through the career coaching program I developed. - I believe strong data and governance is the backbone to drive change and transformation. I led global upskilling initiatives in the engineering, finance and HR department. - I am currently studying Human Biology undergraduate course at University of Derby.
In my current role I lead change projects related to upskilling and talent management. Railway Safety is a focus area where I manage the upskilling of managers on career conversations. In Finance I focused on identifying the right level of competence for Finance Project Managers allocated to High Criticality Projects. In HR I planned the roll out of an open mentoring program for 1500 people.
Alstom is global transportation leader, present in 63 countries employing 80,000+ people. Alstom acquired Bombardier Transportation in 2021 where I was employed. My current role is to look after global key competences & upskilling for signalling and turnkey engineering.
➔ As a Global Data Performance/Analytics Manager, I drive global alignment process around key HR KPIs and perform analytical projects for a product line with over 17,000 employees: ● I consolidate the global people capacity of the product line on dedicated tool in Qlik sense that enables to track headcount evolution, attrition, and HR data quality issues at global, regional, country and site level. ● have self- learned Power BI and produce a variety of HR analytics on attrition, span of control, gender balance, performance appraisal, for all HR colleagues within the product line. ➔ As a Global HR BP for the Innovation department I support a culture of innovation: ● using innovative tools (Lean Start-up methodology, Think Wrong tools ) I lead a cross-functional project team that investigates, tests and rolls out ideas on how to reward, recognise and motivate innovators in the company. ● I reviewed the job library and aligned all people to the right jobs and competencies ●I helped the organisation set-up the global Data Science and AI metier/department
Having learned Swedish language during my master in Sweden, I joined Bombardier Transportation as an HR administrator for Nordics Countries at the shared service in Romania. Within two years I was promoted to a Team Leader for both Nordics and UK teams. Then was sent on a short mission to the UK to strengthen relationships and help local HR, and finally was promoted to an HR Business Partner and transferred to the UK. In Feb 21 Bombardier Transportation was acquired by Alstom.
Served 250+ employees from Engineering, Supply Chain, Quality, Project Management, and Operations department. Working with Head of Departments, Site managers and Global HR functions leads from these areas. - Guiding and coaching managers with all types of employee relations (e.g. disciplinary, grievance, attendance, policy updates), diversity, reward and talent management, and employee engagement activities. - Managing talent activities: talent reviews, identification of high potentials and critical roles, performance management and improvement, succession planning, recruitment, and redeployment of people. - Managed an unionised Services depot for two years where I gained experience in pay negotiation and trade union relations. - Led successfully the “Investors in People” re-accreditation in January 2021 - Led multiple people data analytics activities, e.g. analysis on voluntary attrition, gender pay gap root causes, graduate programme success, diversity from sponsorships, employee engagement results; - in the absence of a clear immigration policy, I have researched and roll-out the process to sponsor new hire's visas, managed all the duties related to company sponsorship licence and implemented retention agreements for employees on visas funded by the company. - Created and delivered training for managers and site admins regarding the GDPR policy. - Managed the roll out of the company Employee Engagement Survey and action planning for three years. - Led various policy and template updates: e.g. parental bereavement leave, holiday pay, shared parental leave, visa sponsorship retention agreement.
Led HR teams of 20+ members responsible for delivering HR admin Services to employees in the UK and Nordic Countries. - Responsible for team members' objectives setting, performance and development reviews, talent review and coaching. - Defined, implemented, and reviewed processes & work instructions related to employment contract management, payroll data entry, country-specific benefits, reporting, maintenance of organisational charts, recruiting administration, and employee support queries. - Focused on continuous improvement of HR admin processes within my team and winning the Continuous Improvement Competition Award. - Involved in setting the strategy for the Shared Service Center (SSC) and its implementation at a company and team level. Organised the SSC Strategy Market Place event for employees to understand and participate in different strategy pillars. - Speaker at the Business-Driven Shared Service Center Conference in Sweden on how to measure and enhance Employee Satisfaction.
- Providing professional services of research, analytics, and data management to global leading companies, many of them part of the 500 US Fortune List - The project research area ranged from company profiling (financial and strategic analysis) to industry and country reports and analyses. The projects were conducted both through primary (i.e. e-mails, phone calls, interviews) and secondary research (i.e. free and paid e-resources) in English, Russian or Swedish language. - Areas of experience: transport and logistics, supply chain management, financial analysis, feasibility studies on market expansion, etc. - Successfully managed business research projects from companies such as McKinsey and BSG Consulting.