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Dharruk, Nsw, Au

Australia

Australia

This role aligns with my true passion for developing inclusive and capable leadership, driving our culture of engaged and psychologically safe people, and building our high performing workforce. Key achievement in 2023:My transition from P&C Generalist to OD Specialist had a fast start in 2023. I was able to hit the ground running and lead the engagement and new performance system annual processes - Collaborating across global, regional and local teams I was able to successfully deploy the 2023 Engagement survey and deliver critical insight through listening sessions, reporting and action planning.- Project managing the change process in Australia to successfully use a new Performance system to meet Global deadlines. This included detailed change communications, national leader briefings, insights reporting, developing new local tools and resources.- Consulted with business leaders and external partners to develop a National strategy for building capability ahead of opportunity in our early career space. Successfully providing recommendations and strategic insight into how we can best grow our future talent particularly in the Supply Chain industry

Australia

Temporarily supporting NSW Logistics and EQS on all Business Partnering activities, including coaching leaders through complex performance management cases and structural design. This development opportunity empowered me to partner more closely with business leaders to better understand what role I can play as a Organisational Development professional to create learning opportunities and foster a psychologically safe culture within critical areas of the business. I left this short assignment with a greater appreciation of the obstacles faced by our frontline employees and this has supported my development plan in ensuring our strategic plans are designed to be inclusive of all employees and are communicated in the right way.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Duties include:• Supporting and driving API integration activities for Finance, IT & P&C into a new Global business; Including, communications, data management, organisational change, and process development to support organisational effectiveness;• Shaping, supporting, and safeguarding corporate functions in talent, partnering and culture;• Designing, managing, and delivering key Global People Initiatives, Global Communications, and Global Conferences; • Embedding the newly created People & Culture Partnering team across a Global business through relationship management, data and insight, and understanding where value is needed to support an inclusive and effective functional support model.Key Achievements:• Supported a global change program with the CCEP acquisition which included process mapping, organisational design, data management, workforce transition, and relationship management;• Designing and implementing a successful Global peer to peer recognition program for the People & Culture function. This included end to end program management and stakeholder engagement with PCLT, Leaders, Comms team and external vendors to deliver an end of year celebration. Conducting a post implementation review to further strengthen and embed the next evolution of the program;• Supporting design and effectively delivering the People & Culture functional capability framework, including communications, status updates, learning content design, delivery of learning across different geographies and business markets;• Supporting the delivery of the People & culture function’s first global leadership conference. This involved coordinating and supporting delivery in each API country to ensure participation from each of the P&C teams. Managing across time zones, digital challenges, local delivery, and event set up to introduce our first Global two-way connection leverages strong program management and communication capabilities;

Sydney, Australia

Key Achievements:• Supported the Australian Business Sales function with end-to-end HR support to deliver a positive employee experience;• Management and accuracy of foundational employee data and documentation;• Employee and leader advice on core people processes and policy;• Performance, behaviour and disciplinary management and coaching with leaders;• Continuous improvement of the employee experience through identifying opportunities and leading working groups for process improvement;• Supporting business-wide projects and implementation of digital HRIS platforms;• Managing, supporting and implementing organisational restructures.

Sydney, Australia

CA Technologies is an IT management software and solutions company. Its products enable customers to manage and secure IT environments and deliver more flexible IT services.With CA Technologies, IT powers business agility. CA’s mission is to eliminate the barriers between ideas and outcomes.Key Achievements:• Drove positive change management with assisting the business through it's acquisition to Broadcom, while seamlessly supported employees through transitioning out or across to the new business;• Project managed a regional wellness event, partnering with Trek-Segafredo to roll out a global inter-office cycling challenge, encouraging employee engagement and working with facilities departments for permanent fixture of the legacy bike’s in the office gym;• Organised and hosted an offsite international conference for participating members across APJ and EMEA. Coordination included airfares, visas, team building activities and accommodation inclusive of conference package in Bangkok; • Researched and implemented new employee benefits across ANZ, including Gym partnerships, access to free physio therapy and chiropractor assessments, financial health checks, physical health checks and identifying and partnering with local vendors for ad hoc offerings; • Drove and managed 12-month DNA Culture program across al APJ countries• Coordinated monthly anniversary celebrations for employees as part of a Reward & Recognition project. This included collaboration with the senior leadership team and administrative staff to engage employee participation in the events;• Supported the Talent Development team in coordinating and delivering multiple training modules aimed at employees and managers. This project required strong organisational skills to successfully deliver each training session simultaneously across the APJ region, which included 9 countries and more than 600 employees.

Sydney, Australia

Provided administrative and technical support to the HR department with a duel focus on ANZ and APJ HR functions. These responsibilities included managing confidential employee personnel files; end to end onboarding of new hires; managing voluntary terminations; technical support with WebEx, SAP data system and raising service tickets for various administrative processes. A critical focus on the role was to efficiently manage competing priorities between regional and country functions while supporting major projects such as Talent Development Training and Employee Benefit Schemes.

Reach is a for-purpose youth organisation that encourages young people to get the most out of life.The Program Coordinator is an integral part of the NSW programs team, responsible for coordinating the delivery of education programs to schools and supporting the delivery of community programs. This role focused on creating and maintaining partnerships with schools and expanding the number of young people impacted.Key Achievements:• Project managed the shift into a new database system across the NSW office to become functional in day-to-day operations, creating efficiency and bridging the national gap between state teams. This was achieved through time management in meeting deadlines, implementing new processes, managing a team and creating a supportive environment for a difficult transition; • Researched communities and schools to contribute to growth plans by maintaining and forming stakeholder relationships, as well as, working to towards achieving objectives for school partnerships;• Assisted in implementing organisational change during a transition period of roles being consolidated or being left vacant for extended periods, taking on additional workload to reduce the strenuous impacts on staff and young people.

Master'S Degree, Human Resource Management (Specialising In Conflict And Dispute Resolution)

Ba Psychology

Certificate 3 Hospitality

Certificate 4 Hospitality And Frontline Management

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