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Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

Temping for GBL part of Salt as a temp Executive Assistant to the COO, Ministry of Education.

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

Reveal is a New Zealand tech start up with a 10-year history in the civil engineering and infrastructure space. I was a key member of the Executive Leadership Team as they pivoted towards launching a range of digital services and products aimed at NZ and international markets. In addition to supporting the CEO, for seven months I was also responsible for business operations and support for the services team in a fast-growing organisation.Both roles offered full support to the team and ELT along with a range of responsibilities from answering the 0800 phone, drawing up contracts for clients, to writing minutes of board meetings.

London, United Kingdom

Bupa is an international health insurance and healthcare group employing 80,000 people globally.● Full PA service to the Director of Internal Communications and Wellbeing, enabling her to operate at maximum levels of performance.● Strong and detailed budget management of multiple cost centres and projects.● Project managed and delivered the global Bupa Awards programme.● Supported global leadership communications and responsible for editing the Group CEO weekly newsletter and communicating organisation change. ● Global campaign collaboration across a matrixed organisation.● Event management included global leadership workshops and office events.● Advanced Word and PowerPoint skills to deliver presentations and documents.● Resilience coach and First Aider for 600 people.

London, United Kingdom

Citymapper, the ultimate transport app.● Managed the CEO’s diary end-to-end and arranged international travel.● Full range of administration support to CEO, leaders and a fast-growing team. ● Office management and organised team events.● IT support, tracking assets and advised preferred mobile networks for travel. ● Recruitment coordination included candidate communication and scheduling interviews.

London, United Kingdom

CrowdEmotion uses emotion-sensing software to measure audience engagement. ● Streamlined internal company processes and led projects, freeing the CEO's time to focus on sales and strategy.● Supported the Board and Shareholders, ensuring corporate compliance.● Introduced a strategic planning tool, embedding process into company.● As Scrum Master, implemented productivity-enhancing company processes that held the software development team accountable to company targets.● Led daily coordination meetings with software developers, resulting in obstacles and distractions being identified and resolved rapidly.● Managed HR including employee contracts, payroll, HR policy development and compliance.

London, United Kingdom

Teach First, a registered Charity, recruits talented graduates into teaching.● Coordinated the internal process for recruitment of the Head of Local Areas, resulting in a smooth process for candidates and senior management involved.● Created an organisation and department-wide induction programme for the successful candidate.● Established the meeting infrastructure and business reporting protocols for 11 business units. ● PA support for new Head of Local Areas.

London, United Kingdom

Vision Critical provides a cloud-based customer intelligence platform that allows companies to build engaged and secure communities of customers.● Executive support to the President, International Business, involved email and diary management, expenses, and international travel, with alignment of direct reports across six time zones. ● Created and implemented an internal communication strategy and event calendar for the UK MD.● Researched and negotiated corporate rates for three preferred hotels, reducing costs by 15%.

London, United Kingdom

TNS is a global market research company. ● EA support for two Executives involved extensive email and calendar management, catering, international conference calls, minute taking and follow-up on action items.● International travel and visa arrangements for two teams.● Health and Safety Officer for 100 people.● Created an induction manual for new EAs.

Wellington, New Zealand

Promoted to this newly created EA role focusing on the business with retained responsibilities to the Board, Shareholders and Company Secretary. ● Partnered with two Executives to deliver high growth and business transformation.● Managed weekly reporting and communication of 15 business units, mitigating head office risks.● Coordinated the Big 5 strategic planning process, reporting and accountabilities.● Managed two budgets and coordinated budget process for 15 business units.● Responsible for the cross-function integrated go-to-market calendar.● End-to-end event management of international sales meetings in Europe and North America, global company strategy sessions, VIP visits and local team events.

Wellington, New Zealand

I joined Icebreaker as EA to the CEO and managed all day-to-day activities and provided business support. ● Board support involved setting the meeting schedule, board papers, and minute taking.● Shareholder communication included a share buy-back process and annual AGMs.● Assisted the HR Manager with recruitment and induction of 100 new employees in a 12-month period.● Managed two private rental properties including monthly and annual accounts and a property sale.● Onboarding liaison for new senior leadership team. This new leadership team grew the company from wholesale to launch retail and ecommerce and grew the team by 250 people globally.● Proposed and introduced a new executive support team structure.