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Melbourne, VIC, AU

Melbourne, VIC, AU

• Company Description: Yarra Valley Water, one of Australia’s largest water utilities. YVW delivers essential water and sewerage services to more than 30% of Victorians and manages a $5.1 billion asset base. YVW has a.
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• Future of WorkWinner Best Remote Working Strategy 2023 HRD AwardsWinner Cultural Excellence Award Human Synergistics 2022 (only second time award issued in APAC)Women in leadership positions increased from 39% in 2021.

Caulfield East, VIC, AU

Issy-les-Moulineaux, FR

• Transdev Melbourne is an Australian bus operator in Melbourne operating a fleet of 509 buses on 45 routes. It commenced operations in August 2013, taking over routes and operations from 5 previous operators. It.
• Organisational Change – Lead organisational wide change program in 2015. This program involved 2 restructures, recruitment and selection of 15 new line manager and the implementation of an industry first 24/7.
• Strategy- Transformed HR department to ensure a more commercial business unit.
• Recruitment and Diversity – 600% uplift in recruitment of front line staff. Annual recruitment of over 250 frontline staff and 15 people leaders in 2016. Reduced time to fill by 2 weeks resulting in savings of $760k.
• Talent Management –Launched a Transdev Australasia first, driving academy as strategic long term workforce planning iniative program will turn a profit
• Employee Relations –Developed strategy and lead bargaining team to roll 13 enterprise agreements into 2. Value of 2 deals being over $352mill in labour costs over 4 years.

Melbourne, Victoria, AU

• Responsibilities:Transdev is a global multi modal public transport company with over 4400 employees in Australia and New Zealand. Public transport is one of the fastest growing industries in Australia and key to.
• Member of multidisciplinary tendering team which successfully won as a consortium the Sydney light rail tender valued at $1.6 billion.
• Conducted strategic review of national Injury Management and Workers Compensation performance and developed specific recommendations and initiatives to reduce our premiums by over 30%.
• Provided legal and employee relations advice (Transmission of Business and Due Diligence) in a corporate acquisition of a bus company in Perth.

• Award winning women’s fashion accessory business. Vertical retailer with ODM designs of Italian leather handbags, jewellery and shoes. Turnover of over $2.4mill during 4 years of operation.Responsibilities: Lead a team.
• Awards- Named Dynamic Magazine’s Entrepreneur of the Year in 2012.
• Sales and Operations – Start-up was profitable after 3 months achieving average gross margins of around 70% and average annual turnover of approx. $600k.
• Business Development - Commenced wholesaling and exporting products internationally within 18 months, with this new channel ultimately providing for 30% of revenue by year 4.
• Sourcing and Supply Chain - Sourced ODM contract manufacturing suppliers in China, Indonesia and South Korea to improve profit margins and international shipping partners to keep freight costs to a minimum.
• Innovation and IT - Launched Australia’s first design your own leather handbag website winning several awards.

• OI (Owen’s Illinois) is the world’s leading glass packaging maker, creating recyclable packaging for many of the world’s best loved brands. The global business has 80 plants in 23 countries and over 27,000 employees.
• Recruitment - Overhauled site recruitment practices and reduced time to fill by 2 weeks with annual savings in labour costs of $142k.
• Workplace Bullying – successful negotiated settlement of serious bullying claim saving company liability for a workers compensation claim with value of approx. $350k.
• Payroll - Implemented payroll outsourcing project which was projected to delivery $350k in cost savings over 3 years.
• Learning and Development - Created new in house coaching program for Senior Leaders aligned to new competency framework.
• Workplace Health - renegotiated contract with alternate health services provider for routine medical testing and pre-employment testing resulting in savings of $150k over 2 years

Lake Forest, IL, US

• Hospira, a Pfizer company is the leading provider of injectable drugs and infusion technologies in the pharmaceutical industry. Hospira’s footprint covers over 5 continents and over 70 countries. Pfizer is a publically.
• Organisational Transformation - Lead strategy and implementation of organisational transformation project in Operations. Preliminary results showed 7% increase in employee engagement, 9% increase machine effectiveness.
• Project Management - Lead payroll outsourcing and time and attendance project which delivered $130k in costs savings in first year.
• Employee Relations - Developed strategy and lead bargaining team for 4 successful collective agreements rounds valued at $49 million, achieving up to 15% under budget and always without any industrial action.
• Organisational Change - Lead strategy and implementation of 4 multi-site organisational wide restructuring projects involving union consultation and redundancies.
• Lean Cost Reduction Program - Provision of HR expertise and support with a total manufacturing cost reduction program in 2008

AU

• Responsibilities:Managed the federal portfolio for Airline, Gas and Oil industries. This group included Qantas, Virgin Blue, Kleenheat, Elgas and Shell.Senior Advocate in Australian Industrial Relations Commission for.
• Successfully developed strategic relationships with key business executives e.g. Qantas, Elgas etc which resulted in close working relationships between the TWU and their organisations and a 15% reduction in disputes.
• Designed and lead proactive initiatives to initiate change including development and communication of an alternate business case involving a restructure within the airline industry to avoid union disputes, business.
• Lead negotiation of 30+ national collective agreements and acted as second chair in 10+ negotiations
• Providing advice to State Branch Secretaries requiring capability to be politically astute
• Lobbying and developing various submissions to Federal Government Departments and Senate Committees on behalf of TWU’s interests, many of which were adopted

Russell, Australian Capital Territory, AU

• Responsibilities:Policy development around new and existing allowances for members of the Australian Defence Force (ADF), involving preparation of formal submissions to the Defence Force Remuneration Tribunal.
• End to end case officer for multiple successful DFRT decisions to increase various general and specialist allowances in Defences’ favour.
• Sound stakeholder engagement with key Special Forces leaders such as Directors of the Special Air Services Regiment, Commandos, Clearance Divers and Bomb disposal unit at the age of 22 years old
• Successfully developed strong working relationship with various external stakeholders such as the Armed Forces Federation and the Returned and Services League

Russell, Australian Capital Territory, AU

Responsibilities:1st Rotation – Directorate of Litigation2nd Rotation – Executive (Headquarters Australian Theatre)3rd Rotation – Directorate of Salary and Allowances

Double Degree, Bachelor Of Commerce, Bachelor Of Laws

Certificate, Entrepreneurial And Small Business Operations

Post Graduate Diploma Of Legal Practice, Law

Bachelor Of Laws (Llb)

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