Jill McClay

Jill McClay

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Head of HR
London, England, United Kingdom

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  • Fastmarkets
    Head of HR
    Fastmarkets
    Jul 2024 - Current (2 years 4 months)
    Senior HR leader in a private equity–backed, high-growth organisation operating globally. Trusted C-suite business partner, driving end-to-end people, culture, and operating model transformation to support rapid scaling, post-investment change, and sustainable value creation in a demanding, fast-moving environment.
  • Altus Group
    Director, HR
    Altus Group
    May 2020 - Apr 2023 (3 years)
    Strategic business partner for Software, Product, Corporate and Professional Services business units in Canada, US, UK, France, Australia and India.
    - Defined the people and culture strategy and led the execution of a multi-million dollar Global Service Centre in India, including org design, compensation strategy, pay structures, payroll, benefits, EVP, recruitment and onboarding
    - Acquisition integrations
    - Trusted advisor to the C-suite and Senior Leadership team of each business unit
    - Led the implementation, adoption and change management of global HR initiatives, programs and policies such as hybrid working, employee engagement, career pathing, talent assessments and succession planning
    - Partnered on transfor
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    World Traveler
    Jill McClay
    Dec 2018 - Mar 2020 (1 year 4 months)
    Sabbatical to continue my passion for traveling and meet personal goals. I lived out of a backpack for 500 days, traveled to 4 continents and covered 99,000 kilometres. Travel brings so many skills to my toolkit - organization and planning skills are essential along with patience, humility, resilience and being comfortable with the uncomfortable.
  • Herjavec Group
    Director, Human Resources
    Herjavec Group
    Sep 2016 - Oct 2018 (2 years 2 months)
    Head of Global HR operations for award winning, dynamic and high growth Cyber Security firm with 300 employees (Canada, USA and UK).
  • SIGMA SYSTEMS
    Human Resources Manager
    SIGMA SYSTEMS
    Nov 2015 - Sep 2016 (11 months)
    Maternity leave contract covering the full HR lifecycle for employees in the North America & LATAM regions of this private equity backed SaaS organization. In addition to providing day to day HR management, guidance and counselling to employees, selected achievements include:-
    • Project Manager for global implementation of multiple Success Factors HRIS modules
    • Supported high growth business strategy by recruiting Corporate, IT, Professional Services and Sales roles in the US, Canada and Latin America
    • Partnered with sales team to present the Sigma Culture deck and win a multi-million dollar deal
    • Led and developed a team of 2 Human Resource Generalists
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    Manager, Sport Command Centre
    Toronto PanParapan American Games Organizing Committee
    Jun 2015 - Jul 2015 (2 months)
    • Management and execution of the Sport Command Centre within the Main Operations Centre for all sport competitions
    • Implement operational plans, policies and procedures
    • Issue management and daily reporting identifying critical issues and trends across all venues and sporting competitions
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    Recruitment Specialist
    Toronto PanParapan American Games Organizing Committee
    Jan 2015 - Jun 2015 (6 months)
  • Bell
    Manager, Leadership Development
    Bell
    Apr 2013 - Jun 2014 (1 year 3 months)
    Part of the Award winning Campus team at Bell supporting the Graduate Leadership Rotational Program for new Grads, including full cycle campus recruitment and program management.
  • Virgin Mobile Canada
    HR Manager
    Virgin Mobile Canada
    Oct 2009 - Apr 2013 (3 years 7 months)
    Provided comprehensive generalist support to contact centre of over 300 employees
    • Coordinated alignment project to Bell HR systems, policies and procedures following acquisition
    • Strategic planning for high volume contact centre recruiting led to 100% reduction in agency spend
    • Increased the quality of hire by implementing the “Furst Person” recruitment screening tool, and therefore decreasing turnover costs
    • Supported managers in the resolution of complex employee relations matters through coaching and consulting, assessing risk and understanding the legal environment
    • Led annual performance reviews, compensation and recognition programs
    • HR Prime for restructuring and change management projects
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  • Eden Scott
    Consultant
    Eden Scott
    Apr 2008 - Jun 2009 (1 year 3 months)
    Played a key role in building the newly formed Public Sector Division of Scotland’s leading Independent Recruitment Consultancy for clients such as the National Health Service and Central Government
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    Resourcing Specialist
    Thus acquired by Cable Wireless
    Jul 2007 - Apr 2008 (10 months)
     Managed up to 40 professional and technical telecom vacancies at any one time across all business disciplines and UK locations.
     Reduced time to hire across all positions by average of 15% through leveraging relationships with business units and implementing standardized processes
  • Intense
    HR Manager
    Intense
    Jun 2007 - Jul 2007 (2 months)
  • Intense wwwintensecocom
    HR Officer
    Intense wwwintensecocom
    Apr 2001 - Mar 2006 (5 years)
     End to end recruitment to increase headcount from 14 to 135 employees for this high tech Photonics engineering start-up
     Implemented all HR programs from scratch including compensation models, performance reviews, company handbook and introduction of corporate values
     Redundancy consultation and strategic planning for 25% reduction in workforce
  • Polaroid
    HR Graduate Trainee
    Polaroid
    Nov 2000 - Mar 2001 (5 months)
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  • Quantic School of Business and Technology
    Executive MBA
    Quantic School of Business and Technology
    Jan 2020 - Jan 2021 (1 year 1 month)
  • University of Toronto
    Certificate of International Project Management
    University of Toronto
    Jan 2016 - Jan 2017 (1 year 1 month)
  • Glasgow Caledonian University
    Bachelor of Arts (B.A, Tourism Management
    Glasgow Caledonian University
    Jan 1997 - Jan 2000 (3 years 1 month)
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