Macmillan Monthly. August 2023
Welcome to the August edition of Macmillan Monthly and we have a huge bumper Summer edition for you!
In this issue, we give you the details for our upcoming FuturExec: The Academy event and share our latest interviews with Kelly Singleton Chartered Fellow CIPD – CPO at Aryza Group, and Alison Bell FCIPD People and Corporate Affairs Director at MTR Corporation. We also look at the changing landscape for payroll professionals and discuss some controversial hiring decisions where cutting costs has been favoured over hiring experienced HR professionals.
Below, we launch our latest HR Insights Survey: The HR Agenda, we want to hear from people at all stages of their HR career journey, so please take part and share this survey with the rest of your team.
If you would like any more information, please don't hesitate to get in touch with a member of our team.
HR Professionals - Have your say in our latest HR Insights Survey
The HR agenda is ever-growing. The role and profile of HR professionals have shifted dramatically over the last few years. But what does the HR profession of the future look like, what's on their agenda, and what will impact career choices for HR professionals? Over four decades at the forefront of HR recruitment consultancy has ensured Macmillan Davies is fully entrenched in the HR community and we are passionate about supporting HR professionals now and in the future.
We want to hear from people at all stages of their HR career journey, so please do share this survey with the rest of your team. The full report will offer current market rate salary information by industry sector and location and will be published online at www.mdhr.co.uk. All participants will receive a preview copy by email if contact details are provided. All data is confidential and will not be used for any other purpose than talking to you about this survey.
HR Headliners – Kelly Singleton – CPO at Aryza Group
In the latest edition of our HR Headliners series, Kerry White, Executive Search lead at Macmillan Davies talks to Kelly Singleton, CPO at Aryza Group, a global FinTech organisation, about her career to date, using data to drive the people and business agenda forwards and how they plan to use more sophisticated data in their decision making going forward...Read more
The rise of payroll professionals?
As HR recruiters, we’ve recently seen a huge spike in demand for Payroll Talent. Over the years we’ve seen the landscape for payroll professionals change considerably – from companies traditionally having their own dedicated payroll professional, to many moving to an outsourced function. Now it seems we are seeing many businesses reverting to their own dedicated resource. Ant Coen, Principal Consultant in our London office investigates the changes and speaks to Wendy Drinkwater, a freelance payroll professional, and the former Head of People Payments (Talent and Payroll) at ITV to get her views...Read more
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Recruiting HR Professionals – Cutting Costs v Talent & Experience
It might be slightly controversial, but several of my senior network have been surprised by recent hiring decisions at the top end of their HR function. I have heard several HR professionals feeling like they are reporting into someone 'with less experience' or someone who has come from outside of the HR function. But the question is why? We reached out to our HR network to find out more...Read more
Macmillan Meets…Alison Bell, People and Corporate Affairs Director at MTR Corporation
In the next edition of our ‘Macmillan Meets…’ interview series, Simon Cutner talks to Alison Bell, People and Corporate Affairs Director at MTR Corporation. Together they discuss her career to date, whether HR should have a place around the boardroom table, and how she gets the right balance between her work and home life...Read more
FuturExec: The Academy Event - Engagement unleashed – How HR can harness employee voice to influence workplace culture
Join us this October for our latest in-person event in our 2023 programme - FuturExec: The Academy from Macmillan Davies.
Date: Thursday 5th October 2023, 8am – 10am
Venue: Sedulo, The Regency Club, 62-66 Deansgate, Manchester, M3 2EN
From creating a happy and positive culture, engaging remote teams and ensuring your employees have a voice, our speaker Laura McGowan, People & Culture Director at Sedulo will talk about the post-Covid engagement journey that Sedulo has been on and will share some of the learnings and successes of the last 3 years. You will then get the chance to discuss, in peer groups, the cultural and engagement challenges in your organisation and brainstorm a range of solutions.
Laura McGowan, People & Culture Director, Sedulo
With over 22 years working in HR across a variety of industry sectors, Laura now holds the position of People & Culture Director at Sedulo – a mid-tier, top 75 financial advisory firm based across four cities in the UK. Laura is passionate about encouraging all employees to use their voice to play a part in the future success of their organisation and building a culture that supports honest, transparent knowledge sharing and excellence through feedback.
If you are interested in attending the event, please contact Hollie Coyne to confirm your place by emailing hcoyne@mdhr.co.uk