Our Expertise
Since our establishment in the 1980’s, PSM’s objectives have remained unchanged in recognition of the fact that the major costs incurred by companies relate to their personnel/employee resource, often accounting for 80%-90% of overheads. PSM’s team of HR Managers are qualified and highly experienced HR professionals with extensive knowledge across a diverse range of market sectors, possessing expertise in a broad range of personnel, training and development subjects. In brief, a team of dedicated and commercially orientated HR professionals who can assist your company by providing:
Human Resource Management Advice
Utilising the extensive depth and breadth of expertise available within PSM’s team of professionals, to service the HR requirements of all clients whether they be in the service, manufacturing, private or public sectors.
SME & Corporate Environments
Possessing the breadth of experience to be equally effective and meet the commercial HR requirements of SME’s (Small to Medium sized Enterprises) and multi-national organisations with subsidiaries in the UK where no formal HR function exists. Alternatively, PSM’s team are well positioned to support existing HR functions in corporate organisations in the completion of either specific projects or to cover periods of peak workload.
Flexible Annual Contracts
Designed to meet your existing and future needs, encapsulating all aspects of employment including employment law, recruitment, training and development, assessment and management of staff, coaching/mentoring, as well as day to day HR administrative requirements.
Commercially Focused HR
Which will enhance the efficient use of employee resources; releasing line and senior management’s time to enable concentration on their strategic and functional responsibilities and consequently improving the bottom line profitability of an organisation.
Our Team
Colin Perkins
HR Manager / Director
Originating within engineering and being experienced in a range of sectors including freight forwarding, transport, haulage, printing, travel and retail, Colin established PSM to provide a generalist HR support function for SME organisations covering all of the principal aspects of HR expertise including Employment Law, Employee Relations, contractual documentation, recruitment, training & development and HR strategy.
Colin’s experience encapsulates all aspects of HR, combined with a profound and strategic understanding of line and senior management issues. His experience includes an in-depth knowledge of managing employment law, employee relations, Tribunal claims and Merger & Acquisition projects; development of performance management systems, management of redundancy, restructuring and TUPE transfers projects and management coaching/mentoring.
Colin’s interests are wide ranging, covering the inevitable love of gardening and family days, to driving his Lotus which he has enjoyed for some 20+ years and above all trekking and travelling to and across far flung places. These have included Nepal, trekking in the Himalayas and travelling from Kathmandu down to the Chitwan National Park, Cambodia (“Angkor Wat”), North Vietnam from Hanoi through to the Northern mountains, Eastern Africa from Nairobi down to Zanzibar, through Belize (British Honduras) from Belize city and across to see the Mayan ruins on the border of Guatemala, but is holding back on Syria for a while! Alan Whicker has nothing on our Colin!
Allison Murray
HR Manager
Allison is a highly qualified Human Resource professional with a Master Degree in Human Resource Management, supplemented by a broad based generalist HR career encapsulating multiple sectors across both corporate and SME commercial organisations and ranging from facilities management of catering, cleaning, security services through to leisure and retail services.
Allison has been extensively and proactively involved in all core HR activities over the last 10 years, most recently in the retail sector and has specialised in creating effective and professional working relationships with senior and line management teams, by providing practical, pro-active and commercially orientated advice on every aspect of the HR profession. As a consequence, her responsibilities have included the effective interpretation, implementation and management of employment law, recruitment across a broad range of roles, compensation & benefits, training & development, the implementation and management of discipline/performance management & grievance procedures including the management of appeal procedures and restructuring/redundancy programmes, TUPE, and performance management & appraisal/development systems, all whilst ensuring that these added real “bottom line” monetary value to the organisation.
Allison enjoys spending quality time with her family and visiting her parents in Bournemouth and loves listening to music, watching action films and socialising with her friends, but above all, ensuring that she instils a sense of fun in everything that she does, both at work and play.
Nicola Clarence
Senior HR Administrator
Nicola is a highly experienced administrator and secretary with strong customer service skills.
She has joined PSM HR Managers after working in the education sector and has previously gained valuable administrative experience in the recruitment and architectural industries.
She is currently building a successful career in Human Resources and has completed her Level 5 CPD award in Advanced HR Management.
Personally, Nicola enjoys spending time with her daughter and husband, taking her Whippet x Saluki Luna for walks and runs a photography company with her husband gaining a excellent reputation in the boxing world.
Jacob Kirkham
HR Administrator
Jacob has joined PSM after working for 5 years within the retail sector and discovered his interest in HR through his Business A-Level and his mums work, also in HR. He is building strong foundations for an exciting career in the HR sector.
In his spare time, Jacob enjoys spending time with his family and his partner. He takes great care of his car and can easily spend hours detailing and cleaning it. His partner also shares this interest and they often clean their cars together at weekends. In addition, he also enjoys helping out at his grandparents horticultural nursery, and often goes there during his breaks for some lunch.
Alison Black
Bookkeeper
Ally joined PSM HR as a highly experienced accounting and bookkeeping professional with experience in the management of accounting functions across a wide range of SME sectors, having gained accreditation with The Institute of Bookkeepers and in her “spare” time, completed her BSc in psychology.
She joins PSM HR after spending a year working with a small, select group of private clients and simultaneously taking time out to enjoy her newly born grandson. Ally therefore brings to the PSM team her extensive accounting and bookkeeping knowledge in order to secure our accounting function and in the process, gaining more knowledge of the range of services and support provided by PSM in the management of human resources for their extensive range of clients across the UK.
On a personal level, Ally can be found most weekends on a hockey pitch, having played in goal to National League level and more recently being selected for England Masters alongside coaching young England hopefuls. In her downtime Ally enjoys bee keeping and spending time with her family, so a really “busy“ bee both in and out of work !
Jamie Cunningham
HR Manager / Director
Jamie is an experienced Human Resource and Employment Law professional, originally focusing on commercial law and subsequently transferring his legal expertise into the HR and Employment Law profession. In Jamie’s previous HR role, he supported significant numbers of varied clients across a vast array of sectors encompassing airlines, investments banks, international shipping, travel & tourism to freight, the NHS, care industry and rail, simultaneously providing commercial advice, documentation and support on all HR and related matters and adding value to the HR expertise and its application within organisations with staff numbers ranging from ten employees to over a thousand.
Jamie has extensive experience representing and defending Employment Tribunal claims, in leading business change through M&A, TUPE and advising on business strategy and employee relations, creating and implementing new employee documentation and developing, writing and delivering bespoke training courses on a range of HR related subjects to meet a specific business objective or HR strategy.
He has previously worked in an advisory capacity to the recruitment industry on HR, commercial and employment law matters, specifically assisting employment businesses to navigate through the laws surrounding recruitment and prior to this period, for the HMRC Solicitor’s Office in London. Jamie’s qualifications include an LL.B (Hons) in Law and the Certificate in Legal Practice from the prestigious Inns of Court School of Law and he is a qualified recruiter.
Jamie is a family man who enjoys spending time with his partner, four young children and going out on country walks with their mad dog and trying to keep fit. If he could, Jamie would spend as much time as possible tinkering with classic cars, particularly his vintage VW Beetle, however he acknowledges that some understanding of a vehicle mechanics, would enhance this hobby, but this minor knowledge deficit does not seemingly detract from his overall enjoyment of cars of course!
Suzanne Wilson
HR Manager
Suzanne is delighted to join the PSM team, and brings with her a wealth of HR experience across both the public and private sectors.
Suzanne started her HR career whilst completing a training programme at Harrods, with HR being one of the departments she worked in and she has never looked back since. Following on from Harrods, she worked in education, then spent a number of years in food retail, where she built her operational and commercial skills. Since then she has worked within the Defense and Pharmaceutical industries, honing her skills to enable her to align HR and business strategy to deliver tangible commercial benefits.
Suzanne joins us from within the SME sector, where she has specialised in providing clients with pragmatic, down to earth advice, based on their individual requirements, including restructuring, redundancies, performance management, complex disciplinaries and grievances and mediation.
Suzanne prides herself on listening to her clients and working alongside them as part of their management team to find a solution for the business that is both people and commercially focussed.
In her spare time, you can find Suzanne walking her dog and playing walking football (more active than it sounds) or pickleball. She loves great food, cocktails and the beach, ideally combining all 3!!
Madeleine Perkins
Financial Director
Initiated her career within British Airways in a variety of roles from secretarial through to senior PA responsibilities. Alongside two others she conceptualised a specialised Care in the Community Service to assist disadvantaged local residents and this is still operating to serve the community some 25 years later.
Madeleine is a joint owner of both PSM and simultaneously purchased and developed a major property and established and managed a serviced office organisation. During this period, she further expanded her range of skills to incorporate sales, accounting and facilities management, somehow also finding the “spare” time to complete a BA in the Classics.
Since appointing a bookkeeper to oversee the day to day accounts for PSM, Madeleine has now taken time out to spend with her granddaughter and whilst maintaining oversight on the finances for the Company, she can enjoy her creative side again, among a variety of her interests she enjoys upholstering antique furniture and making exquisite leaded stained glass panels.