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Melbourne, Vic, Au

Accountable for client success, operational excellence, and commercial performance. Drive collaboration with cross-functional teams, foster a positive work environment, and lead client strategy for the region

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

TQSolutions is Australia’s leading advisory firm for Talent & People Strategy, Recruitment, and Careers related Consulting projects. As a Principal Consultant, I worked across talent advisory, talent strategy development and consulting.Implementation of Talent Acquistion model and strategy:Nearmap · Feb 2021 - Nov 2022 Nearmap is a global geospatial aerial imagery company with operations in Australia and North America. Employed part of the TQ Solutions project, supported on the current and future state diagnostic design of their talent strategy. Key outputs: EVP/Brand project, tech hire sourcing solutions, implementation of SmartRecruiters and creating a direct sourcing model.

Victoria, 3800, Au

Director Monash TalentJun 2019 - Feb 2021 Monash Talent is a start-up initiative by Monash University to address the employability challenge of students. Responsible for driving the delivery of 3,000 internships and graduate placements into key industry partners.Head of Talent Acquisition Monash CollegeDec 2017 - Jun 2019 Reporting into the Chief People Office, the remit was to lead the transformation of the talent function, develop and embed a TA strategy focused on the uplift of the function by driving operational and strategic talent acquisition initiatives for the College.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

I have held three roles during my career at Korn Ferry. My first two roles involved leading and implementing RPO accounts for Schweppes/Asahi in Melbourne, Australia and TalkTalk in London, UK. In these roles, I oversaw the establishment of RPO and managed teams in multiple locations, recruiting 1000 and 2000 hires annually respectively. Key initiatives included implementing Page Up, employee branding, assessment, search solutions, reporting, and implementation of Workday, KF assessment, and competency framework.My last position at Korn Ferry was as a Global Director Sales Operation COE based in Los Angeles, USA. In this role, I led the set up of a Centre of Excellence (COE) responsible for managing global tender responses and delivering talent solutions for large-scale, complex multi-region programs. This involved solution design, pricing, leading discovery sessions, and pitch presentations to clients.My skills include Workday integration, talent strategy, and global talent acquisition

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

Responsible for managing all aspects of managing the internal recruitment function across 3200 hires p.a. across Australia, NZ, Singapore and UK (Smiggle expansion). Focused on driving process improvements and initiatives: sourcing channel effectiveness (talent pool/community creation), EVP program, workforce planning.

Sydney, New South Wales, Au

Account manage the HRX RPO newly acquired IAG account. Key focus on embedding in scope elements of the contract. Maternity leave contract

Sydney, Nsw, Au

RPO Talent2 Telstra: Responsible for leading the recruitment campaign and assessment centre process of volume hires for Bigpond contact centres.

Diemen, Noord-Holland, Nl

Specialist in the banking and finance team.

Australia - China (Including Hk) - New Zealand - Singapore, Au

Diploma, Project Management (Agile)

Customer Experience Strategy And Design

Human Centred Design

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Graduate Certificate Of Business, (Human Resource Management)

Ba, Adult Education - Hrd