Darren Milchman Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Australia

United HR is your trusted advisor on all people matters. By offering tailored HR outsourcing solutions and partnering with business owners, we unite to become your virtual HR Department. We make it our business to provide you with commercially astute and innovative HR solutions across the end to end lifecycle of a team member. From delivering one-off HR solutions, through to working in our clients’ business on a regular basis, we develop and implement a tailored HR strategy that meets your specific business needs. United HR assists you in building and executing a people strategy, takes control of the administrative headache and ensure your company’s compliance in an ever changing world of people management. United HR is also renowned for providing discrete & cost efficient workplace investigations. When handled internally, workplace investigations are often incredibly time consuming and costly. Whether it is a conflict relating to bullying, harassment or discrimination between team members or an unfair dismissal claim, United HR has the skills and resources to assist in resolving your issue effectively and efficiently.

Victoria, Australia

From boutique commercial settings to large scale projects, Platform Furniture offers unique productsthat represent the best of contemporary and cutting edge international design. Manufactured to the highest standards, using premium materials, and covered by robust warranties, our exclusive product range is suited to a diverse range of environments.With extensive experience across the residential and commercial construction sectors, our team at Platform Furniture have the confidence to always deliver on our promise.

Melbourne, Australia

Overall management of HR and OH&S across the 50+ store network nationally and head office.

Reporting directly to the CEO, Darren was responsible for the ongoing management of the HR, L&D, IT, Customer Service and Distribution teams having 5 direct reports and 20 dotted line reports. Having ultimate responsibility for all things people and the execution of this strategy across three states, the primary mandates of the role was to review all company policies, processes and governance, create a high performance culture and reducing head office cost. Having joined the company in the capacity of GM Human Resources, Darren was quickly identified as being able to take on other portfolios due to his vast commercial experience and thus during the restructure his role broadened to include other areas of the business.

Having joined the company in a Business Partner capacity, Darren was promoted to Executive Manager after twelve months. Reporting directly to the COO, with a dotted line to the CEO, Darren had national responsibility for all of the people function of the business. Darren joined the Senior Management Team and maintained the position until his departure. Upon taking the new role, Darren’s mandate was to create a great place to work for everyone in the organisation. Furthermore, in light of the company’s encouragement of transfers from state to state and abroad, Darren was required to create an environment which allowed for consistent management practices, adherence to company policy and process, and to provide a platform for uniform and transparent performance management. Darren had a very close working relationship with the COO and served as his go to person during his tenure.

B.Bus, Management

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