Antoine D
About Antoine
January 2018 to date: Part-Time HR Manager / Interim HR Manager
To date, nearly 15 companies (IT services firms, software companies, call centres, start-ups, etc...) have placed their trust in me. Examples of assignments carried out :
- HR audit and compliance work (contracts, internal rules, single risk assessment document, mandatory workplace notices).
- Creating the HR function from scratch (processes, policy, strategy).
- Help with meeting legal obligations: setting up the works council (CSE), GDPR compliance, managing the 'forfait jour' fixed annual days arrangement, setting up an incentive scheme.
- HR development: creating a staff handbook, introducing career development reviews, the skills development plan and a remote working charter.
- Personnel administration: help with managing leave and working time.
- Recruitment: sourcing, qualifying candidates, interviews, onboarding.
- Training staff in the HR function
Previous professional background
September 2015 to January 2018: HR Manager France - Engel & Völkers France
Business launch in France (from 2 to 35 employees) - Creating the HR function (real estate collective bargaining agreement IDCC 1527):
Personnel administration:
• Setting up the mandatory registers, the personnel files, the workplace notices, leave management, the organisation of working time, etc...
• Setting up HR dashboards (personnel, leave and probation period management),
• Drafting the internal HR policies (expenses management, working time monitoring, organisation of the annual appraisals),
• Occasional support for the administrative management of the self-employed sales agents.
Applying legal and collective bargaining obligations:
• Drawing up employment contracts/amendments (managers on fixed annual days, senior executives, manager and non-manager sales representatives, part-time, etc...),
• Handling disciplinary procedures
• Creating and updating the internal rules,
• CNIL data protection filings,
• Employment and legal monitoring.
Individual and collective employee relations:
• Organising the staff representative elections and running the meetings,
• Setting up an employee induction programme,
• Running HR interviews (career, fixed annual days, probation period reviews, end of contract)
• Negotiating contract terminations,
• Supporting the managers, senior management and employees in handling individual conflicts,
• Weekly contact with the head office based in Germany to ensure the application of the 'group' HR guidelines (daily use of English).
October 2014 to September 2015: HR Manager France - Orbium SAS
Business launch in France (from 2 to 9 employees) - Creating the HR function in France (Syntec collective bargaining agreement IDCC 1486):
Setting up the French HR policy:
• Setting up the office: mandatory workplace notices, staff register, supplementary health cover, welfare cover, employment contracts and amendments, travel orders, luncheon vouchers…,
• Drafting the internal HR policies (expenses, leave, Sunday working, overtime),
• Setting up the training policy,
• Managing employee postings abroad and employees posted to France by the subsidiaries,
• Legal monitoring: collective agreement provisions, disciplinary matters, headcount thresholds…,
• HR support for employees and skills management,
• Administrative monitoring: approving leave, expense claims, invoices, payslips, social security filings…
Recruitment in France and internationally:
• Developing partnerships with schools, universities, job boards and recruitment agencies,
• Running careers fairs,
• Setting up an employee referral policy for France,
• Setting up a pay scale for France,
• Telephone and face-to-face interviews, employee onboarding,
• Recruitment support for the Polish and German offices.
International HR projects:
• Developing and automating the HR indicators for the group (320 people),
• Introducing HRIS tools for career management and recruitment: searching for, assessing and selecting the chosen providers, monitoring the implementation, helping to train the new users,
• Analysing the management style within the company and proposing improvements.
May 2014 to September 2014: Human Resources Officer - MCA Ingénierie
International (Luxembourg, Netherlands, Sweden, Germany) and French entities: 150 people - Syntec collective bargaining agreement (IDCC 1486)
• HR and administrative management (leave, travel, sick leave…),
• HR support for employees and skills management,
• Issues relating to postings and expatriation,
• Producing and presenting the single annual report,
• Running the works council and staff representative meetings,
• Managing contract terminations: mutually agreed termination (including for protected employees),
• Producing HR dashboards,
• Setting up training (group schemes, individual training entitlement),
• Monitoring the annual appraisals.
July 2011 to January 2014: Recruitment and HR Projects Officer - euro engineering
Recruitment
• Sourcing engineers, technicians and managers on specialist job boards: 43 hires made (profiles: calculation engineers, mechanical design, project managers, etc... specialising in the rail, automotive, agricultural machinery sectors, etc...),
• Face-to-face and telephone interviews.
Skills management
• Drawing up a skills map and job descriptions,
• Conducting annual appraisals and exit interviews (and making use of the results).
Employment law and employee relations
• Employment monitoring and handling litigation: mutually agreed terminations, dismissals,
• Posting employees abroad,
• Relations with the staff representatives and preparation of the meetings.
HR project management (multi-site: 14 branches)
• Taking part in setting up employee induction programmes,
• Taking part in the working groups on the change of name of the company (overhaul of the HR processes),
• Collecting the apprenticeship levy for the 14 branches of the company.
April 2007 to July 2011: Various HR assignments (HR assistant, HR consultant, recruitment officer)
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