People profiles
Julian McCarthy
Professional Background
- Broad experience across medium to enterprise scale engagements as people and culture specialist
- HR lead for 9+ years at Nokia– working on pre and post deal execution and delivery across multiple regions
- Multiple TUPE (ARD) and M&A deals across EMEA
- Specific expertise in Africa, including Francophone environments
- Degree in French and Spanish
- Fellow of UK Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
M&A Skills & Expertise
- Builds strong client relationships for long term benefit
- Technical expert in leading TUPE (ARD) M&A deals across multiple regions
- Pre-sale bid support, due diligence and project management
- Highly skilled at multi-country projects supporting and coaching in-house HR teams
- Post merger integration, alignment and review
- Strong expertise in reorganisation and restructuring
- Bilingual in English and French, fluent Spanish
Project Highlights
- Sector experience in hi-tech, telecoms, media, NGO, BPO and financial services
- Multiple large scale people projects in telecoms sector across Europe and Africa
- Strong hands-on background in all key functional areas of HR, across business partnering, HR operations, talent, reward, development and employee relations (including unions and employee representatives)
- Experienced in start-up and scale-up environments