Michael Specht Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Responsible for directing Timely's Go To Market strategy for our APAC Regions, but predominantly Australia and New Zealand. Working closely Head Office Product and Marketing functions, but will be ultimately accountable for meeting Timely’s revenue growth targets for the region.Ownership of our two key revenue functions across the region, Sales and Success.

Melbourne, Australia

Built a brand new function at Timely covering onboarding and ongoing account management to drive revenue growth through product usage and feature adoption.Worked to ensure that as many of our customers as possible reach a “success state” in the first 30 days. Built an Account Management team who worked with our most valuable customers to understand their needs, educate them on new developments, and guide them into new tiers and revenue streams. During this period Timely grew ARR by 300%.

Melbourne, Australia

Bridge is an easy to use app for tradies that want to streamline their business by professionally handling new customer leads, right through to quotes, invoices and payments.http://bridgeapp.com.au

Melbourne, Australia

Ensuring our customers receive value from using our software. Fairly simple in concept but generally tough to execute.Also involved in partner development and our international expansion.

Ensuring our customer receive value from using our software. Fairly simple in concept but generally tough to execute.Also involved in partner development our international expansion.

Melbourne, Australia

Navigo Research is an independent advisory group operating under the Navigo brand. Navigo Research provides HR technology focused advisory services that are tightly integrated with industry based research data.This research data is created and maintained by Navigo Research from our own field activities and is specifically focused on the ANZ market.Navigo Research's sole purpose is to provide critical advice and guidance to our customers, regarding the best possible use of HR technology and how to leverage that investment to gain strategic advantage.Key Projects - Production of Australian HR Technology Report, HR Technology Market Scan for Higher Education Services, System Selection Process for a National Healthcare, Financial Services and Retirement Living organisation.

Melbourne, Australia

Member of the Leadership team, reporting to the Managing Director. Core responsibilities include:- Leading definition and monitoring implementation of organisation strategy - both operational and growth. - Identification and Management of key strategic partnerships.- Managing implementation of new growth initiatives. - Product development strategy and direction.- Business development.

Melbourne

Fixed term engagement responsible for the end to end management of their Time, Attendance and Rostering (Kronos) project; including business case development, board approval, selection, implementation, risk management, vendor management and overall change management. Project involves migration of all non-medical staff (5,000) from their existing rostering system in use for the past 20 years. Working with Industrial Relations and HR Consulting team to ensure solution meets all award rules and facilitated changes to existing practices that did not comply with current conditions. Other projects and activities managed: Implementation of new Enterprise Agreements (Victorian Nursing and Mental Health), Re-implementation of Leave Rules within Chris 21, eRecruitment system upgrade and Employee Self Service upgrade.Achievements: On time and on budget Kronos implementation, identified in excess of $500K in leave over accruals.

Inspecht offers a range of management consulting services specifically focused on the implementation of HR/Payroll and Recruitment solutions. Activities include HR Technology Strategy Development, Project Management (PRINCE2), System Selection, HR Process Definition, Recruitment Strategy Development and Change Management.Key projects include: online recruitment technology assessments for 3 mid-sized agency recruiters, technical project management of a HR/Payroll (chris21) and Time & Attendance (Kronos) program for one of Victoria’s leading energy providers, and development of product roadmaps, business strategy assessment for eRecruitment vendor.

Project Management of solutions supporting the development, introduction, evolution and management of solutions for the Corporate Services functions (Finance, HR, Knowledge Services, Compliance, Legal, RE, IT, Quality)

Providing the critical IT interface into the Nortel Melbourne organisation to ensure IT needs are understood, agreed and implemented to meet external customer and business requirements. Also ensuring that the customer and business groups understand and appropriately adopt the wide range of IT services and solutions available.

Developed the project change management plan to ensure successful stakeholder engagement during the SAP Replacement program (HR/Payroll/Finance/Supply/Plant Maintenance). The change plan covered execution of change impact assessments, development of learning needs, SAP role development, business process change analysis, program communications, and facilitation of project realisation kick off workshops. Established stakeholder engagement processes and communication methods for execution throughout the project. Directed local site based change consultants on plan implementation.Due to previous SAP cut over experience I led the project cut over war room during both system cut over's. Coordinating communication across 9 different mine sites for 150 project resources.

Development of a corporate wide People Systems Strategy to align with to IT and HR objectives and broader WMC goals. The strategy required the establishment of an Executive Steering Committee, membership included IT, HR, EHS and Corporate Security, to provide executive oversight and direction for the program. The strategy covered a full migration of legacy applications to SAP over the next 2 to 3 years including high level scope, costing and resource requirements.This role was limited in duration due to the take over of WMC by BHP Billiton.

Overall product strategy and management for the development of EmployeeConnect’s HR product. The product provided an “employee-centric” approach to typical HR processes within an organisation, while including the traditional HRMS function the workflow engine supported comprehensive employee and manager self service functions (ESS & MSS). Provided industry knowledge for the development product marketing, go to market strategies, including presentations to key partners and industry analysts such as Gartner. Executed all major tender responses and pre sales support for major corporate sales prospects.Consulting and project management to major clients (such as SingTel Optus, BHP Bilition, AGL, Lion Nathan, and NSW Department of Corrective Services) through the implementation life cycle, including design, implementation and benefit realisation.

Part of the management team for the Global SAP Project assigned to Nortel Networks head office in Canada. Managed the team (15 people) responsible for all data conversion, interfaces and customisations to support deployment of SAP, the new HR Data warehouse, and ESS applications using SAP and ACTA ETL tools. Provided development team interface with implementation partners Accenture and PwC. Recommended and implemented development standards and associated interface architecture to support the SAP implementation and associated data warehouse.I managed the final deployment of SAP in to Asia Pacific covering 5,000 employees in 5 countries. Developed the deployment plan covering user testing, change management, training, process implementation, data conversion, system decommissioning and cut over. Assisting with the transition of people, processes and technology for HR systems within Asia to PwC.

Management and development of the HR Systems strategy across Asia, to align with regional HR strategy and overall corporate direction.Managed the annual operating budget, team of seven staff across three countries. Led HR systems program for Asia ensuring all projects were completed in accordance with the Nortel Network project management methodology.Asia Pacific Technical/Process lead for Nortel’s SAP HR Blue Print process.

Project management for the deployment of corporate HR systems into Asia Pacific. Analysis of HR processes to enable closure of HR Service Centre. Asia Pacific representative for HR Systems Roadmap to ensure alignment with regional and corporate HR strategy.IT support for the Asia Pacific HR Service Centre, specifically, desktop, network, call centre phone system, email and corporate applications. Consolidation of the HR core system, deployment of corporate reporting tools, data standards and call centre case management tools. Asia Pacific representative for HR Systems within Nortel Networks.