Justin Kearney
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Senior Vice President People
Godalming, England, United Kingdom
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Senior Vice President PeopleMiratechSep 2023 - Current (3 years 1 month)Digitally transformed the HR function by implementing Zoho People as Miratech’s first HR information system, enabling manual processes to be digitized for a faster, more engaging online experience for our colleagues and easier access to people data for our leadership to make business decisions..
High Engagement Metrics: Group-wide ENPS scores in 2024 of +64%, with a Glassdoor rating of 4.5 (out of 5) and voluntary attrition at 9%. This is a remarkable achievement considering a significant proportion of our colleagues are currently based in a war zone in Ukraine. Also achieved Great Place to Work certification in our fastest growing region (India) two years in a row.
Introduced new international talent programs to devel- Vice President PeopleMiratechMay 2023 - Sep 2023 (5 months)
- Group Senior Vice President Human ResourcesLogicalisAug 2013 - Mar 2023 (9 years 8 months)- Executive Board business partner and coach
- Leading Transformational Change projects such as a major organisation redesign project in 21/22 with the introduction of a global services and solutions organisation
- Digitally transformed the HR function, with the implementation of Workday and Peakon as a continuous listening platform. Very proud of the employee engagement scores being significantly higher than the technology external benchmarks within Peakon.
- Developed a high-performing global people function, leading the head office HR leadership team, as well as the regional operation HR leaders. Invest in the development of our HR colleagues by offering Gartner HR membership for all, to develop their HR expertise. - Group VP Human ResourcesLogicalisAug 2013 - Mar 2020 (6 years 8 months)- Building HR foundations for the group, implementing group-wide values, a behavioural competency framework, job architecture framework to enable function career paths and employee engagement survey.
- Leadership Development: introduced development programmes for our top talent including the global Leadership Academy for senior leaders, global Technical Academy to development commercial skills of our top technical talent and the regional High Potential programme for our leaders of tomorrow. Retention and promotion stats for both programmes are very healthy at over 65%.
- Mergers & Acquisitions: supporting 12 acquisitions during this time period which varied in size from 20 to 1,000 employees across the globe. Involved in some of - Interim HR Director (Corporate functions)InvensysSep 2012 - Aug 2013 (1 year)Interim role, reporting to Group HR Director, responsible for providing HR leadership for all Corporate head office leaders based in the UK and the US, including the Chief Finance Officer, the Group General Counsel, EHS&S Leader, Head of Communications, CIO and Group HR Director, with two HR generalist direct reports.
Responsibilities include:
• Strategic partnering: partnering senior leaders to ensure that the people strategy is aligned to their strategic business plans and delivered upon, to enable them to achieve their goals successfully through our people.
• Change Management & Organisation Development: advising senior leaders on organisation design development and then making those changes happen
• Managing ta - HR Business PartnerGE CapitalOct 2010 - Sep 2012 (2 years)Business partnered the Chief Operating Officer for GE Capital UK, with full HR responsibility for the Operations, IT and Strategic Initiatives functions. Prior to this role, I partnered the Chief Finance Officer and Chief Risk Officer for Capital EMEA HQ, with responsibility for the finance and risk HQ functions based across EMEA, collaborating with EMEA country HR leaders in Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Germany, Holland and France and direct responsibility for HQ employees in several of these countries.
- HR Client LeaderGE AviationJan 2008 - Sep 2010 (2 years 9 months)Global HR client role, partnering with 3 Engineering Vice Presidents, with the responsibility for 600 engineering staff, located at four sites in the UK and US, based in Cheltenham UK, reporting to the Global HR leader for Engineering & Technology.
- HR Business PartnerInvensysJan 2005 - Jan 2008 (3 years 1 month)Business partnered the Main Line (£120m), SCADA (£20m) business streams, as well as the Research & Development teams, offering HR solutions to deliver each strategic business unit plan. Managed a team of 5 HR Advisors across the UK, reporting to the HR Director, and partnered three Directors.
- Regional HR Business PartnerSainsburysJan 1999 - Sep 2004 (5 years 9 months)Total responsibility for HR function of 14 stores in north west London (6000+ employees). Team of 14 store Personnel and Training Managers (PTMs) reported to me. Results driven strategic role reported
to Zone HR Business Partner and Regional Business Manager (RBM). Prior to this, I was the store Personnel and Training Manager for Calcott (the largest store in the Company at the time), Fulham and Chiswick Sainsburys between 99 and 02.
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- MA, Leisure and Business Managementthe University of Sheffield
- BA, PsychologySwansea University Prifysgol Abertawe