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Melbourne, Vic, Au

Dexus is one of Australia’s leading fully integrated real estate groups, managing a high-quality Australian property portfolio with an appetite for continual growth, including through acquisitions and it was my role to create a streamlined, user-friendly change process for employees from an acquired company. My role also supported various other change initiatives, including developing organisation re-design proposals and consultation plans implement change.Working in a highly dynamic environment, my role supports leaders and employees at all levels within Dexus and the acquired company to create a positive and welcoming experience during periods of transition. This was achieved through the creation of change material and frequently asked question documents to de-mystify what to expect during integration into the Dexus business and to facilitate connections between the two businesses.My greatest achievement was fully on-boarding over 50 employees onto Dexus terms and conditions of employment and integrating them onto the human resource system in time for their first official day with Dexus in mid-August. This was achieved by working collaboratively with leaders in the business and specialist groups within the people and culture team to create the frameworks required to deliver this outstanding result.

Wilson Security is a security services company that provides tailored security solutions to client to protect their operations and assets. My role provided multi-site support across Victoria and Tasmania, working completely remotely throughout lockdown.Working in a fast-paced environment, my role supported leaders at all levels, providing employee relations advice and support, including conducting investigations, leading disciplinary meetings and responding unfair dismissal claims. My role was also the human resources subject matter expert for the development and implementation of an HRIS across Wilson group entities.My greatest achievement was developing and implementing a strategic employee relations intervention to identify the root cause of significant interpersonal conflict at a site. I also developed and delivered a team building intervention to enable all team members at the site to have input into how they expect to be treated and to empower everyone to call out undesirable behaviour. This achievement is even more significant because it was implemented and delivered completely remotely, engaging a variety of stakeholders, including the union and relying on various technology platforms to create an immediate positive impact on the site.During my time with Wilson, I learned to pivot with ease from face to face interaction and delivery to remote interaction and delivery, taking full advantage of technological tools to create success.

Melbourne, Australia

Greenfield human resources position, responsible for establishing human resource frameworks within an ASX-listed environment.

Melbourne, Australia

smarterBATHROOMS+ is a bespoke high-end bathroom and kitchen renovation company that was embarking on a growth strategy and it was my responsibility to develop the people function to facilitate this growth. In this time, I developed the human resources strategy while also providing day to day operational support across the full human resources remit for the whole business.As a stand-alone human resources professional, in a business that previously did not have a dedicated human resources professional, my role was the central contact for all people matters.I spent much of time engaging with management, employees and contractors to understand how the business operated so that I could ensure compliance with employment legislation while positively impacting the business through the development and implementation of innovative human resource interventions.My greatest achievement was developing and delivering a team building afternoon for 100 employees and contractors where teams competed to design and build billycarts and race them around a go-kart track. The event was highly successful which gave the owners of the business the opportunity to provide employees and contractors an update on the business and create an opportunity for everyone to have fun while taking key learnings away about the company’s values.As a member of the management team, in this role I was exposed to key performance and financial indicators for businesses, such as sales leads and conversions, the number of renovations started and completed, cash flow, profit and loss and balance sheets, including understanding what the information means and the impact of these indicators to overall business success.

Port Melbourne

• Provide advice and support to managers, including the senior management team, to address people-related matters such as recruitment, performance management, complaint handling and investigations.• Undertaking investigations into formal workplace complaints, including developing supporting documentation• Facilitating training to upskill managers to perform their roles more effectively• Conducting exit interviews and other reporting• Ensuring employees from acquired businesses are successfully on-boarded and integrated into Rentokil Initial• Maintaining employee records in the HRIS (Workday)

Melbourne, Australia

MWH Global (now Stantec) was a multi-disciplinary consulting engineering company bringing water and infrastructure projects to life always designed with community in mind. My role provided human resource support and developed and delivered people projects across the Asia Pacific region.Working as part of geographically dispersed team, my role provided managers and employees with day-to-day human resources support and advice as well as developing and executing a variety of complex projects across the Asia Pacific region including policy development, organisational re-design, change management and diversity initiatives. My role was also the Asia Pacific global mobility contact, aiding managers and employees to navigate company mobility requirements as well as supporting compliance with immigration regulations. My greatest achievement was developing a new global mobility arrangement in conjunction with the Director, Global Mobility to create a more effective mobility agreement to meet the needs of the business while still supporting expatriates to relocate, repatriate and navigate international tax and immigration regulations. The new agreement enabled expatiates to be hired on local employment contracts whilst enjoying the benefits the global mobility program offered, creating a cost-effective structure for the business without disadvantaging expatriates. As a result of working in a truly matrixed global environment, I developed skills in building meaningful, positive relationships with senior leaders, managers and employees remotely, utilising technology. This included establishing trust and confidence that the advice and solutions that I provided were both knowledgeable and commercially focused.

Masters, Human Resources Management

Practising Certificate Program

Bachelor, Business