Hayley Aghanian

A skilled People and Culture Director, who has led the implementation of successful culture change initiatives with the aim of embedding core values & behaviours, developing HR processes, improving employee engagement and creating high performing teams.
Successfully progressed into a Senior Leadership role through displaying empathy, effective data analysis, embracing responsibility and applying high levels of emotional intelligence. Passionate about the identification of people’s strengths and helping them to feel fulfilled, so employees can positively drive the success of the overall business objectives.

Main responsibilities:
• Responsible for developing and implementing the People First Strategy in line with the overall Business objectives. This included creating a Mental Health and Well-being policy
• Responsible for all HR related activities within the company, taking advice from an external HR consultant
• Deliver the annual Employee Engagement survey and responsible for implementing improvements to continuously increase feedback scores
• Delivering L&D training to the Senior Management and Management team, created in collaboration with a Behavioural Change Consultant
• Review and deliver employee incentive initiatives, including remuneration and reward strategies
• Responsible for recruitment, retention and training across all departments, including implementing progression plans and training requirements for all employees
• Continuous promotion of the company values and behaviours during regular one to one’s and appraisals
• Coaching & Mentoring the Management Team to enable them to successfully manage their teams in line with the culture of the business
• Lead with the Senior Management team to Improve Organisational Health & Culture
• Attending Board meetings and analysing high level data from each department to make strategic and commercial decisions to drive the success of the company
• Chairing the monthly Continuous Improvement meetings with the Senior Leadership team, and ensuring actions are communicated and completed
• Managing various People Projects throughout each department, to hit Employee Engagement KPI’s

CIPD Level 3
Equivalent work experience
• Mental Health First Aider/MHFA England
• The Coaching Academy’s Life Coaching Diploma AC
Ongoing
• Psychology A-Level – Oxford Open Learning
Ongoing
• Manufacturer’s Alliance Team Leader Course
100% Pass score on criteria