Global insurance company Aviva has appointed Carole Jones (pictured) as its director of global HR strategy and organisational development

This newly-created role puts Jones in charge of developing global people-strategies

Jones will focus on ensuring HR policies and systems are consistent across the world. One of her first priorities will be to implement a cloud-based HR software system that will put all 36,100 employees on the same platform.

She has recently returned to the UK from the US, where she led HR for Aviva's North America region. While there, she worked on the company's 'one Aviva' vision, helping to unite the US and Canadian business and its people behind the single brand. Before moving to the US, she worked on the 2008 rebrand of Norwich Union to Aviva.