MAJOR city employer, Fusion, part of the BGL insurance group, has today announced the appointment of a new Associate Director for HR.

Della Garmory will lead the HR and Development Teams across Fusion’s UK sites in Peterborough, Coventry and Sunderland. A key part of Della’s remit will be to develop further the HR and training strategy to ensure that Fusion, which now totals more than 1483 employees, has capable and motivated employees who will make a difference to its growth and success. The strategy will include embedding the company’s comprehensive ‘Wellbeing’ offering, developing appropriate recruitment and retention mechanisms as well as reviewing talent and succession across all sites.

David Thompson, managing director of Fusion, said, “Fusion has been through a tremendous period of employee growth over the last year and Della will play a key role in ensuring that our HR strategy continues to be seamless. So many of our employees join Fusion with the view to making it a long-term career and Della will help to ensure that the opportunities available to our staff continue to expand.”

Della Garmory, new associate director for HR, added: “As an employer Fusion has a very positive reputation in the local areas that it operates in. The learning and development opportunities available to staff are fantastic and I am looking forward to helping drive the success of these programmes even further.”