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Melbourne, Vic, Au

Australia

TQSolutions (TQ) is regarded as Australia’s leading Advisory and Solutions firm for Talent Acquisition, Recruitment and Careers related projects

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

• Partnered with Digital Hiring Managers to understand divisional hiring needs and provided data-driven insights to support recruitment strategies.• Managed the full recruitment lifecycle, attracting, selecting, and retaining quality candidates across various open roles.• Prepared and presented weekly updates on role status and collaborated on forecasting for Divisions and Projects.• Collaborated with the Talent Team and Senior Managers to design and refine innovative recruitment strategies.• Streamlined the hiring experience by establishing consistent processes for hiring multiple 'like' roles across different teams within Digital.• Utilized strong analytical skills to collect, analyze, and interpret data for accurate reporting and forecasting.• Proactively build and maintained strategic relationships to foster a smooth and streamlined process. • Demonstrated proficiency in identifying and swiftly resolving any challenges to ensure smooth process and timely problem solving.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

insights with a relentless will to win to automate/self-service to focus on insights and actions.• Proactive and collaborative stakeholder management communicating expectations with all stakeholders ensuring highest level of engagement.• Collaborate with HRBP’s, the P+R team and HRLT with Integrity to support assist an influence with specialist talent knowledge, internal restructure, rem benchmarking and relevant IP.• Collaboration and Integrity with ATS vendor and assessment partners (Including identifying new partners) to deliver TA purpose.• Contribute to the initiation of talent programs that feed into the people strategy• End to end accountability to deliver talent prioritizing quality of hire across Sportsbet as well as relentlessly striving to provide a world class candidate UX including onboarding.• Deliver the highest of quality candidates through modelling and maintaining a robust assessment process and embedding this across the business• Proactively lead and contribute to Sportsbet goal of being the destination for the best digital talent.• Contribute to and challenge the hiring managers on the future talent needs, the capabilities required and the prioritisation of these• Utilise advanced function of MS Excel and other data software to visualise, analyse and record large, complex data sets

Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory Of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Relocation from England to Malaysia

England, United Kingdom

A telecommunication company providing structured cabling infrastructure, IT and AV solutions for Global Corporations, including existing and new build fit-outs.Key Achievements:Project managed the cabling infrastructure fit-out across multiple Facebook offices, in the UK and overseas incl managing workforce, materials, flights, accommodation and time sheeting.Liaised internally between front line workers and management, as well as externally with other service providers, providing weekly progress reports and managing any changes and ensuring challenges encountered were communicated and approved by the customer.Ran daily handover progress meetings, resolving challenges encountered overnight, and providing validated up to date cabling drawings, as well as ensuring materials and equipment were available on site resulting in no delay for the day shift, delivering on time and on budget. Developed and managed a new on-boarding and induction process, including site inductions and time sheeting, invoice payments as well as health and safety reminders.

Relocation to England, United Kingdom

Workforce Manager support a portfolio of projects with approx. $300m spend pa. This role saw me manage the resource demand, identification and reporting process across a team of over 400 staff members across over 70 projects and required me to work closely with senior management within the organisation to ensure the full resource picture was understood and the end to end process (from demand to fulfilment) is tracked.Achievements:Developed and managed the formal process for capturing demand and supply of project resources across the Retails Service Portfolio; including reporting on: attrition and retention rates and perm/cont mix.Developed and managed the newly implemented approval process for project resource conversion, extensions, new hires and secondments (across Group 1 &2 levels)Developed the process and managed the reconciliation of project resource costs against the portfolio’s cost centres. This resulted in better transparency across the costing model. Developed and managed the resource forecasting model for PDA against the annual Finance Plan

Supporting the Resource Management TeamGather and analyse system and information requirements. Achievements:Managed two successful systems and processes changes. This included communication of requirements, assessing change impact, testing, gaining business acceptance, implementation and training. Defined and delivered reporting capability for team and management.Developed new reports and ensuring cheat cards and calculators are available for all vendors currently in use, proving all relevant margins, fees and T’s and C’s

Facilitated the sourcing of high calibre IT contractors in the Tech Services, Application Integration Services and Finance IT Division. Provided analytical and investigative support function for team. This involved reporting, financial analysis, systems and process investigations.Achievements:Established very strong relationships with Line Managers and staff across all levels partnering with them to increase the quality of candidates joining Australia Post that are critical to IT project delivery.Reduced the number of non panel candidates to minimize cost and administration.Investigated system alignment issues with technical staff to ensure reporting was accurate and consistent.Drove best practices in all areas of recruitment, on boarding and contractor managementDrove change and worked with managers to accept the new resource management processes and policies for recruitment.

Supported delivery and project activities including multiple projects at a timeAssist Project Managers to perform project mobilisation and scheduling activities.Provide project reporting for: Scheduling & Planning, Portfolio Performance Management, Resource Management and Risk Management.Achievements:Played an integral part in the successful delivery of multiple projects and ensuring these were running according to scheduleEstablished strong stakeholder management relationships and trustProvided a high level support to the PMO and consistently met deadlines and working with high level of attention to detail.Work closely with the PMO to develop supporting processes regarding resources, recruitment and project budgets/finances, forecasts.

AGL is Australia's leading renewable energy company and is Australia's largest private owner, operator and developer of renewable generation assets. AGL has major investments in hydro and wind, as well as ongoing developments in key renewable areas including solar, geothermal, biomass, bagasse and landfill gas. AGL also operates retail, merchant energy and upstream gas businesses and has over three million customer accounts.Duties:Actively seek information from the business / technical teams in regards to deployment activities timing, sequence and priorities.Identifying and resolving issues relating to contention and timingWorking closely with business units/external parties ensuring their buy in to ensure understanding and acceptance of project timelines.Providing process specific input to all communication materials.Delivering communications such as presentations, workshops, one-on-one meetings, etc.Developing and maintaining a network of key business stakeholders within the designated process area to promote business understanding and ownership of the Phoenix solution.Working consistently with the Change Management team to define impacts on Business units and stakeholders.Providing process-specific input to communications, and user documentation.Assisting in coordinating conversion and technical deployment - tracking task completion and assisting in resolving issuesIdentifying and presenting differences between Phoenix solution and Queensland processes to business stakeholders and fostering decisions to support configuration, design, build and test.Conducting business readiness assessment activities as required.Ensuring all deployment processes and policies are effectively followed and add value to the business.Writing Functional Designs and following them through to development

Alcatel-Lucent is the trusted partner of service providers, enterprises and governments worldwide, providing solutions to deliver voice, data and video communication services to end-users. A leader in fixed, mobile and converged broadband networking, IP technologies, applications and services, Alcatel-Lucent leverages the unrivalled technical and scientific expertise of Bell Labs, one of the largest innovation powerhouses in the communications industry.Duties:Coordinating workflow management for the Dbors team through WAMSDirecting queriesDeveloped strong Stakeholder management with internal and external clientsTracking and reporting on multiple Titan technologiesProducing weekly and monthly management reports (incl Performance, Cycle times, Data Quality, Forecasting and Leave Entitlements) Attending meetings and taking minutes and actions and publishing them to the attendees

Ericsson is the largest supplier of mobile systems in the world and supports all standards for wireless communication. They provide total solutions - from systems and applications to services and core technology for mobile handsets.Duties:Maintain all aspects of Project Administration and CoordinationManaging the project registers including issues and risksManaging the Change Requests Log for the Jersey Project.Updating Site Handler, Eridoc (in house) and ExtranetManaging and coordinating Special EventsAssisting with budget forecastAssisting with new starter details and terminations, pay changes, agency changes, additions of hours and expenses for Purchase OrdersEnsuring new contractors have the relevant equipment (i.e. laptop, phone, internet card)Following up any IT problems (resources falling off the system, HRMS not matching Eforms)Ensuring budget approval has been given for any extensions or new positionsEnsuring that line managers are contacted prior to resources finishing up on the projectDirecting queriesProducing reports across the project portfolio and other defined metrics (incl Budget, annual leave, terminations, cost savings, time reporting)

Toll is the Australian region's leading provider of integrated logistics services, generating annual consolidated revenue of AU$6.5 billion and operating an extensive network of over 700+ sites throughout more than 50 countries around the world.Duties:Maintaining a fluctuating ledger of 450 accounts for local, interstate and international courier services provided under consignmentWorking with a high volume customer queries including: cubic weight verses dead weight of parcels; rate enquiries, and delivery times.Collecting all outstanding debts and identifying and liaising with customers regarding all overdue and disputed invoice amountsMinimizing risk and increasing cash flow with minimal bad debtsEnsuring credit risk is kept to minimum and complete timely and accurate reports amongst other tasks