Stephen Brown
About
Stephen Brown is from Singapore. Stephen is currently Global HR, Sustainability & Communications Director at Berge Bulk, located in Singapore. In Stephen's previous role as a HR Director - APAC at Rolls-Royce, Stephen worked in Singapore until Sep 2018. Prior to joining Rolls-Royce, Stephen was a Head of Talent Management - Asia-Pacific at Rolls-Royce and held the position of Head of Talent Management - Asia-Pacific at Singapore. Prior to that, Stephen was a Senior Talent Consultant - Marine & Asia-Pacific at Rolls-Royce, based in Singapore from Jul 2010 to Mar 2013. Stephen started working as Head of Learning & Development - Corporate headquarters at Rolls-Royce in Derby in Nov 2009. From Nov 2008 to Oct 2009, Stephen was Head of Development & Resourcing at Lloyds Banking Group. Prior to that, Stephen was a Senior Leadership Development Manager at Hbos Plc, based in Leeds from Mar 2006 to Nov 2008. Stephen started working as Senior Divisional Talent Manager at HBOS in Jan 2004.
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Stephen Brown's current jobs
Global HR leader for HR, Crewing, CSR and Sustainability, Communications and Training. Under my leadership, my team has won 14 global awards in 5 years: - Safety4Sea Award 2026 - Crew Welfare. - Livewell Leadership Award 2025 Wellbeing Organisation of the Year Award. - Livewell Leadership Award 2025: Organisational Wellbeing Strategy Award. - Learn X Award Winners 2025: Best Learning & Development – Leadership Development (Industry Specific: Maritime/Fisheries) - Learn X Award Winners 2025: Best eLearning Design – Simulation (Industry Specific: Maritime/Fisheries) - Learn X Award Winners 2024: Best Learning & Talent Development Programme. - Seatrade Global Award Winner 2024: Environmental Champion. - Brandon Hall Group Award 2024: Best Measuring the Impact of Leadership Development. - ESG Shipping Awards 2024: Community Contribution. - ESG Shipping Awards 2024: Environmental Leadership. - Employee Experience Awards 2023: Best Remote Learning Experience. - Seatrade Global Award Winner 2023: Health & Wellbeing at Sea. - Learn X Awards Winner 2022: Best Learning & Talent Development Programme. - Brandon Hall Group Award 2021: Best Unique Innovative Leadership Programme. I work with the executive leadership team to ensure the HR long-term strategy supports a rapidly expanding and highly profitable business that is leading the industry in decarbonisation. I lead and coach a bright team of HR, CSR, Communications and Crewing professionals. Responsible for the engagement and wellbeing programmes, communications strategy, branding and the company CSR initiatives.
Stephen Brown's past jobs
Led regional HR team in business partnering and service delivery, supporting 5 businesses across 14 countries in APAC – Civil Aerospace, Marine, Rolls-Royce Power Systems, Digital and Defence. Drove a significant business change agenda, including start-ups, ramp-ups, M&A, integration and JVs. Partnered the business on business transformation, talent, employee experience, leadership development, reward and ER. Priorities included enabling greater line manager capability, improving the employee experience, integrating talent acquisition, talent management and resourcing plans to plan for growth, introducing a new career development framework and leveraging digital and AI to proactively source, connect and engage with employees, build talent pools, improve analytics and workforce planning. Delivered shared services and payroll across APAC, including the establishment of a new shared service centre in Bangalore in 2017. Responsible for talent acquisition, senior hiring and resourcing RPO services across APAC. Shaped and delivered leadership development and learning to support capability development. Responsible for the delivery and optimization of Workday across APAC as the our primary HR IT solution.
Designed and implemented a new talent strategy for Asia-Pacific. Leads the talent identification, management, development and succession planning approach in APAC for our Aerospace, Marine and Industrial Power Systems businesses across 13 countries. Lead facilitator for regional and country talent reviews for the businesses in the APAC. Responsible for strategic sourcing, marketing mapping and recruitment for senior leadership roles. Responsible for building an external pipeline of interns, graduates and MBA students across APAC, including in Singapore, India, China and now for the first time Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam and Malaysia. Put an integrated regional plan in place to address leadership capability gaps, through global / regional programmes in collaboration with external partners. Provided consultancy to specific businesses/functions on organization design projects, including with joint venture partners such as Singapore Airlines.
Responsible for the global leadership, talent and capability planning approach for 7,000 Marine staff in 34 countries, ensuring strategic priorities are translated into workplans to deliver effective solutions. Established high potential pool member identification, development planning and cross business talent movement in the Marine sector. Led on sector strategic workforce planning, executive resourcing and organisation design. Led talent reviews and succession processes with the Marine Executive board. Provided consultancy support on leadership development, talent management and pipelining for the Asia-Pacific region (2000 staff in 20 countries).
Responsible for the L&D strategy for the Corporate functions in Rolls-Royce, including HR, Finance, Commercial, Business Development, IT and Risk. Launched competency frameworks for all functions, using self assessment methodology. Managed outsourced supplier list and company learning management system.
Led a national team of 50 people through a major period of organisational change. Launched the corporate online management academy and learning curriculum. Sourced major programmes for the corporate university and managed the national supplier list, delivering annual cost reduction measures while improving quality and customer feedback.
Accountable for development of the L&D strategy for the Group Functions in the bank - HR, Finance, Risk, IT, Commercial, Business Development, Legal. Accountable to the functional leaders in HR, Finance, Risk, IT, for group-wide functional capability planning, talent and succession planning, leadership development and training.
Developed and launched the new talent management & succession planning strategy in I&I division, encompassing talent reporting for the executive board, running executive talent reviews, delivery of the talent management cycle and completion of retention risk audits. Finalist in the 'Award for Innovation in Career Development' category of the Personnel Today Awards 2005.
Led team of 9 consultants providing core L&D workshops delivered by internal and external consultants, executive coaching, mentoring, online management development tools to executives, senior managers and colleagues. Project-managed the launch of two new businesses in General Insurance – the new Sales Centre in Leeds and Halifax Claims at Home in the Midlands requiring the induction and training of over 500 external hires. Achieved the award of GISC accreditation for the Halifax General Insurance training and competency regime.