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Aidan is a seasoned HR professional, with around ten years' specialist reward experience, following a comprehensive generalist grounding.

 

Aidan was quoted at length in “People Management” (25th February 2010), discussing the benefits and drawbacks of working as an interim reward manager. The following link opens a scan of the relevant article in a new window.

 

Aidan Crossey quoted in People Management, 25th February 2010.

Operating as Pay The Reckoning Limited, Aidan has successfully completed projects for the following clients:

 

NICE (the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence). Here, Aidan advised the Chief Executive and other senior managers on a significant organisational change when NICE took over responsibility for the testing of medical devices from the Department of Health. This included developing a terms and conditions standardisation policy, negotiating the finer details of this with “opposite numbers” in the Department of Health and making presentations to the Department of Health and NICE employees on whom the change would impact.

 

Having successfully managed this project, Aidan was asked by NICE to assist with a more complex piece of work in 2010/2011.  Around 30 contracts, which had been let to around 25 external providers were due for renewal.  NICE had decided to carry out the functions of around a third of these contracts in-house and to re-let the remainder as a single external contract.  Aidan worked with senior management in NICE, with current providers and with the incoming external provider to ensure that all aspects of the TUPE process were handled effectively.

 

London Borough of Greenwich.  Here Aidan worked with the HR Director and the senior HR team to develop a strategy for saving in the region of £10M through adopting a more flexible approach to managing terms and conditions.

 

National Offender Management Strategy (NOMS, part of the Ministry of Justice).  Here, Aidan worked with the senior HR and finance team to carry out a review of salaries across the HR Shared Service Centre.  The client was expecting to secure significant additional business and wished to ensure that its reward policies remained fit for purpose in the context of the new organisational structures which would emerge.

 

London Borough of Barnet. Here, Aidan performed an interim Reward Manager role while Barnet Council restructured its HR department and prepared to recruit a permanent Reward Manager. Key achievements included reviewing the way in which senior managers' salaries were benchmarked and subsequently managed, working with managers in the Environment Directorate to restructure pay (reducing ancillary/overtime payments), working with managers in the Children's Social Care department to develop proposals for increasing salaries in light of a very challenging labour market, reviewing the current policy on company car provision and finalising the implementation of a flexible benefits programme.

 

Ministry of Justice. Here, Aidan assisted with some complex business restructuring, providing advice and assisting with the negotiations with Trade Unions and staff. The restructuring included the proposed creation of a new Northern Ireland Office, the creation of the Supreme Court and transfers of staff in the Boundary Commission from the Office of National Statistics to the Ministry of Justice. In addition, Aidan played a key role in introducing new mileage rates across the Ministry, as well as publishing a guide for managers on operating the Ministry's pay systems.

 

Before “going solo”, Aidan held a number of compensation and benefit roles, with Alfred McAlpine Business Services (2006-2008), Edexcel Limited (2002-2005), Royal College of Nursing (2001-2002), London Borough of Lewisham (1999-2001) and Mencap (1998-1999). The generalist element of his career was gained in the BBC (1988-1997), where he worked his way through the HR ranks, eventually becoming Head of Personnel for BBC Education in 1995.

 

Although Aidan's “major” has for many years been compensation and benefits, he has continued to keep abreast of developments in HR generally and would be interested in discussing ways in which Pay The Reckoning Limited can work with your company to add value.

 

June 2011


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