Dear Colleagues,

I am delighted to inform you that we have two new appointments within the HR  UK-IRE Teams!

Amy Winston-Roberts, HR Director, Wrexham

As our Wrexham site continues to grow and evolve, we also need to ensure that our HR function is enabled to deliver on our new Group strategy, Focus. Together. For patients & society.

With this in mind, I am delighted to announce that Amy Winston-Roberts has been appointed as the HR Director for Wrexham and will also be an active member of the Wrexham Senior Leadership Team. Amy will report into me with a dotted line into Matthias Krieger, VP Manufacturing Site, Wrexham. Amy joins us on the 3rd May.

Amy joins us from A.H. Worth, a manufacturing company comprising of three fresh produce manufacturing plants, where Amy was the HR & HSE Director since 2019. Prior to this, Amy worked in a variety of different HR roles across industry sectors such as R&D, Manufacturing, Oil & Gas and Construction. Some of Amy’s key achievements during her tenure at A.H. Worth have been actively managing a cultural change programne, supporting the roll out of company values, creating a focus on employee engagement, driving the people and HSE agenda on merger and acquisition proposals and creation of a leadership development programme.

Amy holds a Masters Degree in HR Management from Glyndwr University, Wrexham, has a CIPD Level 7 (Advanced) Diploma from Glyndwr University, Wrexham and a BA (Hons) Management & Business from the University of Glamorgan (Coleg Llandrillo Cymru).
Amy relocated from Wrexham to Suffolk in 2013, therefore is delighted to be returning to the Wrexham area, having previously lived in North Wales (near Bangor) and studied in Wrexham. In her spare time, Amy enjoys spending time with family and friends, keeping fit, eating out and travelling.

We would also like to take this opportunity to thank Liza O’Brien for stepping into the ad-interim HRD role for Wrexham since last December. Liza has truly embraced this new challenge and has been a very active member of the Senior Leadership Team and the site HR team, despite working remotely from Dublin due to Covid-19 travel restrictions. Liza will work closely with Amy to ensure a seamless handover whilst also returning back to her HRD Dublin role.
Huge thanks as well to Elaine McFarlane for stepping up into the HRD Dublin role since last December to cover for Liza. Elaine has been a tremendous support to Tim Shanahan and the Dublin Senior Leadership Team, and also to Liza, allowing her to focus on the Wrexham site.

Please join us in thanking Liza and Elaine for their dedication and collaboration over the last few months, and also welcoming Amy to Ipsen and wishing her every success in her new role.

Larisa Fedorova, HR Director, Bath Road

Our HR organization continues to evolve to meet the needs of our business and also to ensure we are providing opportunities for individual growth and career development.

I am delighted to announce that Larisa Fedorova has been appointed as the HR Director for Bath Road, which includes directly partnering with GPPS and Corporate Functions based at Bath Road. Larisa will also be an active member of both the UK and Ireland Leadership Team (UKILT), the Site Management Committee (SMC), and will have HR oversight of our Bath Road community. Larisa will also partner with business leaders in Commercial and Corporate Functions on talent management initiatives and will oversee Great Place to Work for Bath Road.

Larisa will be based at Bath Road and will report into me with a dotted line into the General Manager, UK and Ireland Specialty Care. Becky Newby will report into Larisa, whilst Jo Siriboe, HRBP for Milton Park and Bath Road, will continue to report into me.
Larisa started her career at Ipsen in 2009 as an HR Specialist based in Russia and has since progressed into a variety of different HR roles including Acting Human Resources and Administrative Director, Russia, Global Compensation and Benefits Manager, through to Larisa’s most recent role as HR Development Director, Global CHC.

Some of Larisa’s key achievements within this time have been leading on the HR integration of Akkadeas company in Italy, leading a project to develop the CHC Marketing competency framework, taking part in different organizational development projects and supporting CHC people development. In addition, Larisa has been responsible for overseeing the 2019 Global Employee Engagement Survey, as well as leading the follow up project of upscaling of Employee Engagement measurement and management in Ipsen.

Larisa relocated from Russia to France in 2015 and will now relocate to the UK in around June this year. Being a curious person with a passion for learning, Larisa is looking forward to moving to the UK and meeting new colleagues!

Larisa holds a Master of International HR Management from Kingston University and also a degree in Civil Law from Moscow University of Finance and Law.
In her spare time, Larisa enjoys learning French, painting, going to exhibitions, reading books, watching old movies, travelling around France and also Venice.
Larisa joins us on Monday 7th June.
Please join us in congratulating Larisa on her new role and wishing her every success in this next chapter of her career at Ipsen.

Jo Briggs
Senior Director, HR Operations UK and Ireland Global Hub

Nicole Launay-Key
VP HR, Technical Operations

Marie-Aude Julien
Vice-President Human Resources, Ipsen Consumer HealthCare