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​