David Chambers

Current

Senior Communications Consultant at Watson Wyatt

Past

Senior Consultant at Watson Wyatt Worldwide
European Reward Manager at Watson Wyatt
Reward Manager at Capital One

Contractor at TheHRPeople
Reward Analyst - Contractor at Reality Group
Self Employed Contractor at various
Senior HR Advisor - Reward and Employee Relations at Manukau City Council
Senior HR Advisor at Inland Revenue (New Zealand)

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Education

University of Waikato
University of Waikato

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David Chambers’s Summary

David is a compensation, benefits and reward communications specialist, with a particular focus on employer brand and total reward communication, strategy and training. David works as a Senior Communications Consultant with Watson Wyatt, following an 11 month assignment as the European Reward Manager with the same firm.

David is an expat Kiwi, who has lived in the UK for the last 9 years.

David Chambers’s Specialties:

Compensation and Benefits, Reward / Total Reward communications, Employer Brand and employee engagement.

David Chambers’s Experience

Senior Communications Consultant

Watson Wyatt

(Public Company; WW; Human Resources industry)

April 2008 — Present (1 year 8 months)

Appointed to a permanent position as a Snr Consultant within a team of 30+ Communication specialists and an in-house design studio. I lead one of three Account Teams with a focus around total reward, EVP, pension change and flexible benefits communications. My work includes business development, proposals and pitches, communication strategy, planning and design. Recent client projects includes global compensation communications, brand development for total reward, design and delivery of TRS, flexible benefits and pension change and engagement projects. Clients in 2009 have been global companies, drawn from the oil and gas, pharma and bio sciences industries. Manufacturing, engineering and legal clients make up the balance of my communications work.
Senior Consultant

Watson Wyatt Worldwide

(Public Company; WW; Human Resources industry)

February 2007 — October 2007 (9 months)

Senior Communications consultant working within the Watson Wyatt Benefits Practice. Client work largely relates to employment branding, total reward, pension and benefits based communications and related change programmes
European Reward Manager

Watson Wyatt

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; ww; Human Resources industry)

April 2006 — February 2007 (11 months)

Interim role - Watson Wyatt Limited Compensation and Benefits Manager
Design and implementation of annual compensation and benefits programme, salary reviews, reward communications and member of HR Leadership team. Large focus on pensions, risk insurances and compensation policy, practice and design.
Reward Manager

Capital One

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; us:cof; Financial Services industry)

January 2003 — September 2005 (2 years 9 months)

Senior Compensation Analyst (Jan 2003 to Nov 2003).

Manager European Compensation and Benefits team.
Contractor

TheHRPeople

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Human Resources industry)

August 2002 — September 2002 (2 months)

Project piece - Assisting London based HR consultancy in build of business plan, market research and successful securing of venture capital
Reward Analyst - Contractor

Reality Group

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Logistics and Supply Chain industry)

January 2002 — June 2002 (6 months)

Project based Reward Analyst and lead on Incentive Design
Self Employed Contractor

various

(Government Agency; Human Resources industry)

April 2001 — October 2001 (7 months)

Brief period Contracting to two local government entities, prior to travelling:

Manukau City Council (NZ) - Researched, Developed and recommended strategy and policy detail for Competency based compensation and supporting broad band structure for highly unionised organisation, attaining endorsement from Executive team, CEO and relevant union leaders.

Whangarei District Council (NZ) - Review and recommendations around core remuneration practicies and policies and incentive approaches.
Senior HR Advisor - Reward and Employee Relations

Manukau City Council

(Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Government Administration industry)

1997 — March 2001 (4 years )

Core responsibilities: Policy owner for Employment and Industrial Relations, Equity and Diversity and Compensation and Reward. Led trade union collective contract negotiations and partnership development, managed disputes and grievances, set up new web based recruitment channel, completed submission to Parliamentary Select Committee regarding sweeping changes to employment law, input to restructures, designed change management approaches and supporting policy, investigated and managed harrassment claims and developed process for same.
Senior HR Advisor

Inland Revenue (New Zealand)

(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Government Administration industry)

February 1984 — March 1997 (13 years 2 months)

1996 – 1997 Regional Senior Human Resource Advisor covering 800 Staff
in four locations
1993 – 1996 Team Leader, Audit (Fully trained as an Auditor)
1984 – 1993 Various technical and clerical roles
1988 – 1995 Union Delegate and Industrial Branch Chair for Public Service
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David Chambers’s Education

University of Waikato

MBA , Business Management , 1994 — 1996

Graduated MBA with Distinction
University of Waikato

Post Grad Dip Mgt Std. , Management Studies , 1993 — 1994