Mark Smith Email & Phone Number

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Leading the enablement of our people priorities to deliver our APA Strategy across the Electricity Transmission, Energy Solutions, Strategy & Corporate Development and Infrastructure Delivery teams.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Senior HRBP, Electricity Transmission DevelopmentSupporting the APA Group in an exciting opportunity as they accelerate their investment in Renewable Energy Infrastructure.

Sydney, Australia

In December 2019 I took on a key role to lead the people priorities and transform 3 of our largest commercial operations across the Pacific Zone. The role directly supports 500 employees across sales, execution and support functions, with an annual combined turnover of in excess of AU$400M.Key Responsibilities;.• Enhancing Organizational Agility through workforce design, efficiency programs and enabling new ways of working deployment.• Designing and executing workforce plans, to acquire and build the Future Ready Talent of the organization across the entire business model types.• Coaching our Leadership Expectations to life, to deliver our Inclusive Leadership philosophy.• Deploying strategies to drive Diversity & Inclusion in the workforce.• Partnering with each Business Unit Vice President and their Senior Leadership Teams to deliver the equity story on profitable growth and people transformations.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

In 2017 I took on a new dual opportunity to move back into the local Pacific Zone Commercial Operations. I led the people priorities for a rapidly evolving and strategic important growth engine of the Business - Field Services (across 3 commercial businesses) and as part of my development I also led the Pacific Zone Talent priorities across the entire portfolio of the Pacific OperationsKey Responsibilities;Field Services;• Leading the People priorities across the Field Services Sales, Execution and Support Functions teams (200 employees and AU $100M) to drive aggressive growth strategies as part of 5 year strategic plan to double the size of the business.• Strategic Workforce Planning – In partnership with the Field Services VP; Identifying and investing in key “entrepreneurial” roles and capability to drive growth in growing segments including; Cloud and Service Providers, Digital, Infrastructure, Education, Health and Mining, Oil and Gas. Talent:• Leading our Talent Priorities and Organizational Development Programs and Initiatives across the entire Pacific Zone operations (with a focus on Early Careers, Female leadership and Sales, frontline/mid and senior leadership development, building digital capability).• Leading Talent Review campaigns and Succession Planning processes designed to accelerate our high potential employees into key business and senior leadership roles.

Sydney, Australia

• Leading a team of 4 Human Resources Business Partners within the Global Supply Chain Operations to align our people strategies and initiatives to local business operations.• Leading the Supply Chain HR function across all activities of the HR Calendar including: Performance reviews, Performance and development goal setting, talent mapping, succession planning and salary reviews.• Leading large scale transformations in realtion to the relocation of 2 manaufactuing sites and and outsourcing 4 distribution centrees.• Working with leaders to establish effective learning and development plans at a business, team and individual level – ensuring integrated plans with 3E approach (Education, Experience and Exposure)• Talent Acquisition - working with talent acquisition team to hire candidates aligned with our workforce planning priorities.• Working with my HRBP team to lead and execute 6 separate Enterprise Bargaining Agreements within our sites on a rolling 3 and 4 year basis.• Working with leaders to create and drive action planning with respect to employee engagement and perfomance.• Utilizing HR analytics to build business cases and drive informed HR decision making• Coaching of senior leaders to enable them to effectively manage their teams and drive high performance outcomes.• Member of the Pacific Zone HR Council as the HR representative for Supply Chain Operations.• Member of the Pacific Zone Diversity and Inclusion Council

Sydney, Australia

As HR Director for Schneider Electric East Asia & Pacific Zone Manufacturing, my role was to lead our people strategy accross our 4000 strong manufacturing team that included 7 sites and 4 countries. Our operations produced the highest standards of medium voltage and low voltage electrical switchgear and transformer products for global customers. Our people strategy focussed on key intiatives that included; simplication, efficiency, quality and most importantly customer centricity and satisfaction.

Sydney, Australia

• Leading the strategic and operational HR activities for our Building Automation Business - An $80M operation that included 400 employees. • During this time i also lead 2 important acquisitions within the Buildings Automation Business.

Sydney, Australia

• Advise and assist in all generalist HR related matters including industrial relations, remuneration and benefits, change management, succession planning, policy development and implementation, performance management and training and development.• Implementing people processes and initiatives in accordance with SE HR Calender timelines.• Business Partnering with the senior leadership team to deliver practical people strategies and solutions for an ever changing workforce to deliver the best possible service to our customers.• Co-ordination of all recruitment, selection and on-boarding activities.• Co-ordination of all HR related matters for company acquisitions, including due diligence, on-boarding and cultural alignment activities.

Coaching Certificate

Bachelor’S Degree, Post Graduate Diploma - Human Resources

Post Graduate Diploma in Human Resouces

Bachelor’S Degree, Business/Commerce, General