Vicky Cohen

Current

• EMEA People Operations Policy Specialist at Google

Past

• Senior Recruiter at Google
• Human Resources Manager at Pure
• Director at Liberty Consulting Ltd

• Team Leader / Senior Recruitment Consultant at Spring.com
• Senior Permanents Developer at Reed Plc

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Education

• Chartered Institute of Personnel Development
• Oxford Brookes University
• St Thomas R.C. Primary, Sevenoaks

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Vicky Cohen’s Summary

Skilled in: Human Resources, People Policy, Recruitment and Training Managment.

Passionate about working with technology companies and love fixing processes, negotiating, communicating and using my creativity to deliver innovative results.

Vicky Cohen’s Specialties:

HR, policy development, negotiation and alignment, recruitment, training, management. Understanding of compensation, payroll, benefits.

Vicky Cohen’s Experience

• EMEA People Operations Policy Specialist

  Google

  (Public Company; GOOG; Internet industry)

  October 2008 — Present (10 months)

  Responsible for the development, communication and implementation of Google's people policies for all 31 of our EMEA offices. Supporting roughly 25% of the company headcount.
  
  Developing processes to improve consistency, compliance, communication and clarity in our people policies. Ensuring that our policies are in line with the company philosophy.
  
  Member of a committee to roll out some policies globally.
  
  Delivered other EMEA-wide projects:
  
  * Helping Googlers to take ownership of their workload and improve their work-life balance.
  * Keeping EMEA recruiters up to date on developments in employment legislation and provide statutory employment legislation info.
  * Developed three internal websites to share information between various functions within People Operations.
  
  Awarded a 'Spot Bonus' for leading a project team that over-delivered on it's remit to give EMEA-based Googlers ownership of their team's efficiency.

• Senior Recruiter

  Google

  (Public Company; GOOG; Internet industry)

  January 2007 — October 2008 (1 year 10 months)

  Partnering with hiring managers and EMEA Directors to plan headcount and execute recruitment and career progression strategy.
  
  Sourcing and interviewing candidates, candidate management, negotiation and administration. We do not use recruitment agencies.
  
  Hiring Googlers of all levels in various functions: Business Operations, Web Analytics, Partner Solutions, Engineering, Top Accounts, YouTube.

• Human Resources Manager

  Pure

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Broadcast Media industry)

  August 2005 — January 2007 (1 year 6 months)

  Pure was a HR and recruitment client of Liberty Consulting.
  
  HR Management: Non-executive director to the board. Developed and implemented all policies and procedures relating to health and safety, data analysis, recruitment, employment terms, disciplinary and grievance, learning and development, commission and payroll. Aligned and updated employment contracts.
  
  Learning and development: Initiated quarterly appraisal and performance review process. Developed academy-style career development program. Developed desk and operational training material.
  
  Remuneration: Benchmarked and set all salaries. Developed incentive, commission and reward program for sales team. Performed annual salary reviews. Calculated commission payments and payroll. Set up stakeholder pension scheme and administrated staff shares and options.
  
  Recruitment: Increased headcount by over 300% in 17 months. 12 months after I left staff retention was 100%.

• Director

  Liberty Consulting Ltd

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

  February 2002 — August 2005 (3 years 7 months)

  Acting as the outsourced Recruitment, HR and Training arm of our client base.
  
  Recruiting, supporting and training a wide range of skilled staff in the new media, sales and travel industries. Our services were economical - providing significant savings over traditional recruitment agencies - highly ethical and very relevant to our clients who became loyal supporters of the business.

• Team Leader / Senior Recruitment Consultant

  Spring.com

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

  May 1999 — September 2001 (2 years 5 months)

• Senior Permanents Developer

  Reed Plc

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

  July 1997 — April 1999 (1 year 10 months)

Vicky Cohen’s Education

• Chartered Institute of Personnel Development

  CIPD, Merit , Chartered Institute of Personnel Development, Certificate in Personnel Practice , 2006 — 2007

• Oxford Brookes University

  Bsc Hons , Anthropology , 1992 — 1995

  Activities and Societies:

  Member of the Entertainments team - setting up sound and lighting rigs for events and gigs.
  Charity work for Oxford based organisation for the homeless
  Member of the juggling club

• St Thomas R.C. Primary, Sevenoaks

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