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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

• Led the planning and activation of new employer brand and recruitment marketing assets incorporating new culture videos, recruitment messaging, social media tiles and imagery.• Supported a program of mini process improvement projects including TA operations manual, hiring manager portal, PD library, interview question bank, policy and procedures, SmartRecruiters system training etc. starting with the development of project charters (scope, timelines, resource requirements) through to their execution. • Recruited a range of roles (US and Australia) including resources for a new PMO as well as ran the graduate recruitment program for the AI team.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

• Delivering Growth Markets (APAC, UAE, and Brazil) Director+ hiring across all functions and lines of business.• GM change champion for HiredScore, an AI driven shortlisting tool integrated with the Avature ATS.

Melbourne, Australia

Leadership of the TA function.• Optimisation of SuccessFactors (known internally as me@mc) Recruiting and Onboarding modules to support the realignment of roles and responsibilities as well as improve the experience for hiring managers and candidates.• Implemented COVID recruitment model, shifting recruitment and onboarding to a fully online/remote experience. • Full life-cycle recruitment of senior level roles across the business.

Melbourne, Australia

• Responsible for the external market mapping and talent pooling for corporate and site critical roles.• Provision of market intelligence and research to the business in relation to core capabilities (tailings, block caving) and target companies/operations.• Full-cycle recruitment across corporate and site functions across Australia, PNG and Indonesia.• Project work includes mining workforce planning (incorporating succession planning and retention strategies), PageUp optimisation and supporting the delivery of the biannual Talent Council.

London, United Kingdom

Recruitment (London + Melbourne)• Australian Unity (Jan-Feb 2019) - Full life-cycle recruitment of a broad variety of roles across the retail platform, including private health insurance, banking and mortgage broking. Roles include executive manager – business enablement, head of digital channels, control assurance manager, executive manager – quality improvement, executive manager – product as well as roles across the four contact centres. ATS – Success Factors.• Cbus (July- Oct 2018) - Full life-cycle recruitment of senior roles across the industry super fund including investment management, digital media, business intelligence (data science and engineering), corporate services and strategy roles.• Recruitment of a team for the London office of a new global business unit within a privately-owned consulting firm. In addition to consultants and director hires, a full market map and talent pipeline for senior/consultant roles was produced for future direct hires by the internal team.• Successful delivery of market map and qualified short-list for a new director level appointment within the investment and advisory group.Technology - GradDNA• Leveraged graduate recruitment experience to support the design, development and launch of a graduate job-matching mobile app using psychometric test results to match students and graduates to employer internship, year out placement and graduate schemes. Involved with UX/UI design, developer management, product management strategy, user research, user engagement strategy, content marketing and stakeholder management.• Worked with end-user clients on re-engineering graduate recruitment to incorporate new mobile-enabled selection tools into their internal process.

London, United Kingdom

As the TA specialist embedded in a global business line (Buildings + Places before transitioning to End Markets Group, following the $11bn acquisition of URS), I was responsible for developing and delivering an executive and critical hires programme. Key responsibilities• Full life-cycle management of executive and critical mandates. Responsible for direct sourcing and mining leadership networks to identify, attract and engage and hire high profile talent into the business.• In conjunction with business line and regional leadership, developed business cases to position and secure budget for key hires. Managed allocation and tracking of budget from B+P investment fund as well as conducting analysis of the annual operating plan to proactively develop key hire target list.• Complex executive compensation structuring offer negotiation and onboarding for external hires as well as leading the process for internal international transfers.• Responsible for gathering, understanding and disseminating market intelligence as it related to recruitment and retention of top talent. • Key roles included global and regional business line leaders (UK, Europe, North America); market sector leaders – healthcare, education, sports and hospitality (EMEA, South-East Asia, and North America); head of corporate finance; EMEA head of real estate; head of admin services, UK; economic development director; operations directors; global director of resilience; strategic development director, oil and gas; managing director, UK.

Melbourne, Australia

Responsible for establishing, building and leading the TA centre of excellence (COE) for the Australia and New Zealand business, with 5000 employees across five regions and seven business lines. Ensured TA was appropriately resourced to deliver a high quality full recruitment service to a rapidly changing and growing business.Key responsibilities• Leadership of matrix team of FTE and contract resources, delivering 1200+ hires ranging from interns to exec hires. Delivered extensive value-add market mapping, talent identification and attraction for bid development activities. Resources flexed to support peaks and troughs in project-driven business.• Maintained active portfolio of full life-cycle recruitment for senior corporate services and leadership roles.• Re-engineered graduate recruitment; refreshed branding, introduced job profiling, aptitude tests and assessment centres and incorporated rigorous programme and system management. 160+ graduates hired with a 20% reduction in TTF, 27% female hires (not previously measured) and a reduction in cost per hire to $1100.• Transitioned all recruitment from HR generalists to specialists and reduced agency use from 36% in FY10 to 12% FY12 and reduced spend from $6M in FY10 to $2.2M in FY12. • Standardised process and policies across five regions, rolled out ATS training new and existing users allowing for improved data accuracy and integrity. Introduced and measure KPIs, metrics and reporting. Progressed from tracking 60% of hires to 100% in Kenexa.

Sydney, Australia

Leadership of Honeywell Building Solutions customer service function for across South East Asia and Pacific requiring the management of service call centre; delivery of key strategic initiatives such as customer retention; identification of “share of wallet” opportunities and the customer advocacy programme.

Sydney, Australia

• Designed, built and led the staffing COE for the Australia and New Zealand region. Conducted thorough change management with HR, senior leaders and hiring managers to promote recruitment services and upgrade recruitment capability across the business. • Rolled out and trained Staffing and HR on Taleo across the Pacific and South-East Asia resulting in improved data integrity enabling more accurate analysis and the introduction of reporting and metrics.• Implemented new graduate and apprentice recruitment process; created new branding and collateral (adopted globally); introduced and facilitated assessment centres; improved candidate and hiring manager experience through strong programme management and effective use of resources. • Key deliverables included implementation of preferred supplier agreement; international recruitment campaigns to fill key skills shortages; assessment of regions for RPO suitability, Taleo adoption, training and optimisation, roll out of manager and candidate satisfaction surveys, process and policy improvements.

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