About Sarah
Welcome, I am Sarah Cooper an HR Consultant with over 20 years experience of supporting to develop effective, value-adding HR services. I am based in Coventry in the West Midlands but work with clients nationally either Hybrid or mainly remote. I am available to work on site from your premises should the need arise.
From the operational to strategic level, I have the gravitas to execute national business transformation programmes working to build strong business-wide engagement and acceptance of new ways of working. Experienced across the full employee lifecycle, I have a solution-focused approach to the practical application of HR best practice and legislation.
English
Native or bilingual
French
Basic
Remote only
Primarily works remotely
Experience
- Fluid HRDirector and FounderFebruary 2021 - Today (5 years and 4 months)West Midlands, UKProviding HR consultancy services to organisations from startups through to scaling businesses and beyond - supporting leaders to achieve excellence by unlocking their people potential.
- PurplebricksHead Of Human ResourcesFebruary 2019 - December 2020 (1 year and 10 months)Shirley, Solihull, England, United KingdomLeading on delivery of cultural transformation. Developing people plans to take a founder led start up on a journey to becoming a leadership led PLC. Partnering with stakeholders, managers and strategic business leaders to define, plan and implement change objectives and achieve value from transformation activities. Originally a maternity cover contract, I have provided technical expertise to ensure risk-free implementation and advised on how to use opportunities to improve employee engagement and relations.- Developing and executing strategies to improve employee engagement and transform culture and leadership.- Working with strategic leaders to develop people plans, tools and processes to align teams to business business goals.- Introduction of policies, procedures and processes to achieve legislative and best practice compliance.- Serving as the technical expert on reducing business risk from change, redundancy and employee relations issues.- Advising on complex case management processes working with business leaders to achieve favourable outcomes.
- Thermo Fisher ScientificSenior HR Specialist (Interim)September 2018 - January 2019 (4 months)Loughborough, UKChallenged to deliver the people plan for the Pan European Business Transformation project within the UK&I region, I have partnered stakeholders, managers and strategic business leaders to achieve value from change objectives. A short-term contract, I have provided technical expertise to ensure risk-free implementation and advised on how to use opportunities to improve employee relations.- Developing localisation strategies taking the Pan-Europe strategies to achieve legislative compliance at the UK&I level.- Working with strategic leaders to use the opportunity to align teams to business goals.- Serving as the technical expert on reducing business risk from change, redundancy and employee relations issues.- Advising on complex case management processes working with business leaders to achieve favourable outcomes.- Liaising with local HR leaders across Europe to ensure project and plans are met and budgets maintained.
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Education
- Foundation Art and Design, ArtCoventry University1995Foundation Art and Design, Art
- Certificate, Safeguarding and Protecting Children in SportSports Coach UK2013Certificate, Safeguarding and Protecting Children in Sport