Rachael U.

HR leader with 5+ years building people functions that startups and lean teams actually run on, not just policy binders that sit in a drive. I've built HR from zero at two companies and improved it at a third: ✅ Designed onboarding from scratch: new-hire satisfaction hit 95%, ramp-up time dropped 35% ✅Took performance review completion from 30% to 84% by rebuilding the appraisal framework ✅Cut cost-of-hire by 80% by replacing headhunters with direct sourcing and referrals, and cut time-to-fill by 28% ✅ Drove employee engagement above 70% across different countries in Africa, Asia, North-America, Europe, etc ✅ Automated HR admin work, cutting manual processing time by 50% What I help clients with: ✅HR function setup for startups with no HR yet (policies, handbooks, compliance, systems) ✅End-to-end recruitment: job descriptions, sourcing, screening, interview coordination ✅Onboarding & offboarding design ✅Employee engagement, culture, and retention programs ✅Performance management frameworks (KPIs/OKRs, appraisal cycles) ✅Payroll & benefits administration ✅HRIS setup, data cleanup, and reporting Tools: BambooHR, Workday, ADP Payroll, HiBoB, PeopleHum, MS Excel I work directly with founders and leadership, not just executing tickets. If you need someone to either build your HR function from the ground up or fix a specific piece of it, message me with what you're working on and I'll tell you honestly whether I'm the right fit.