Sharon is an accomplished senior people professional with highly developed skills, knowledge and experience, having worked at strategic and operational level across all areas of human resources and organisational development. Upon joining South East Employers, she brought with her 30+ years’ local government experience, having worked at metropolitan borough and unitary councils which included collaborative working with a range of public sector partners and wider stakeholders. 

Her substantial experience enables her to effectively utilise her people management expertise across a wide spectrum of services within both local government, education and wider public sector settings. 

She is an experienced leader and manager who has a proven track record of inspiring, motivating and developing team members to deliver high levels of performance. Sharon has also coached and trained all levels of people managers on application of best practice. 

Sharon is an evidence-based thinker with highly developed problem-solving skills, adapting to changing environments and financial challenges. Sharon continually strives for excellence in customer service, utilising her innovative and solution focussed individual experienced in strategic business partnering and stakeholder engagement and abilities to influence and negotiate at all levels.  

She is effective communicator, who provides clear credible guidance and advice, enabling effective resolutions to complex employee relations cases and workforce challenges. Sharon has highly developed communication and consultation skills, has negotiated collective agreements with recognised trade unions on terms and conditions of employment. Sharon has worked with regional and national partners sharing best practice, discussed workforce challenges, current market trends and explored future strategies. 

Sharon has worked with all levels of management, enhancing their people management skills, encouraging a coaching culture, introduced people manager and employee self-service resources and toolkits. She is proactive in listening and responding to changing customer needs.  

Sharon’s specialist skills and knowledge include developing workforce strategies and plans to enable effective delivery of organisational wide and service level priorities. Utilising critical thinking and problem-solving skills to shape and deliver business transformation. She has demonstrable experience of managing and influencing change both within her own service areas and across the wider organisation. She has led on service redesigns and remodelling, reducing costs and closer aligned services to overall business needs. Sharon is effective in organisation development and design techniques that enable maximising use of digital enabled solutions.  

Her innovation through use of digital technology systems and solutions, creates organisational opportunities to shape future workforce culture and improve employee engagement. Sharon has led on large scale HR/Payroll system replacement initiatives that delivered return on investment. She has designed workforce dashboards and produced data analytics for people managers. She was a trail blazer through delivering a digital platform for schools’ recruitment and won a nationally recognised award, excellence through technology via Personnel Today.   

Sharon creates positive environments for effective employee engagement and inclusion and introduced supportive and preventative health and wellbeing initiatives. She has introduced employee value propositions (EVP), employee benefits, flexible and agile working and a volunteering strategy. She is competent delivering presentations that engage audiences and conveys key messages.  

Sharon has commercial skills and has accomplished growth in HR traded services to 100+ schools and academies and generated income of £1.5m+ per annum. She has commissioned external provider contracts, with combined value of £10m+ and generated savings to the business through creation of internal contingent workforce staffing pools that closer align to operating needs. 

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