Phil Harrington Email & Phone Number

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Phuel is a facilitation and training company that believes people learn more from participation than observation, and people respond better to inspiration than instruction. As a Client Director my role is to partner with clients to understand their needs and create impactful solutions to support business challenges.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Mercer provide a range of services to clients from superannuation to HR consulting, the latter being known as Workforce Solutions. Mercer acquired Mettl (psychometric assessment provider) in 2018 which has continued to function independently from Mercer, albeit under their umbrella.Purpose of role: Establish the ANZ Mettl assessment practice, within the Workforce Solutions business of Mercer.Responsibilities: * Active business development and account management to grow market share.* Develop a go-to-market strategy for sales and solutions supported by global and local marketing.* Engage and up skill colleagues across the Workforce Solution practice (circa 130) on Mettl solutions.* Determine appropriate Mettl psychometric solutions for ANZ and global markets.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sova is a global HR technology business offering talent assessment solutions.Purpose of role – Build Sova’s client base through business development and client relationship management.Responsibilities:* Present to CHRO’s and leaders on talent trends, and human capital related topics.* Co-developed marketing plan to support execution of local business strategy.* Responded to RFQs/RFPs and secure new business.* Presented quarterly webinars to HR leaders from across APAC region.Achievements: * Won new clients each quarter including a seven-year, multimillion dollar, government contract.* Submitted and secured Sova on the required schemes to bid for NSW Government projects.

Sydney, Australia

Korn Ferry is a global people and organisational advisory firm.My primary area of focus was working with organisations to get the most from psychometric assessments and develop, or enhance their assessment processes. I supported organisations with their use of assessments through recruitment and selection, on-boarding, development and coaching, identification of high potential employees, and succession planning.

Sydney, Australia

Hay Group (acquired by Korn Ferry) was a global management consulting firm that worked with leaders to transform strategy into reality. They developed talent, organized people to be more effective and motivate them to perform at their best. They had over 2,600 employees working in 86 offices in 48 countries.I partnered with clients across three main areas:1. Pay - Providing insight and analysis into pay and benefits across roles and sectors in over 100 countries2. Talent - Provision of online personality and cognitive assessments for talent acquisition and development, and tools for the indentification and development of emotional intelligence in employees. Hay Group also provided 360 assessment questionnaires to identify leadership potential3. Effectiveness - Measure employee engagement and enablement, and develop effective leaders.

Sydney

SHL provides insights to understand, benchmark and make better decisions about people. My role centered around partnering with clients to:* Maximise recruitment quality in key, high volume roles (volume recruitment)* Find the leaders of the future (graduate recruitment)* Hire people who will drive business performance (managerial and professional hire)* Uncover the gap between desired and actual talent requirements (talent audits)* Identify the potential for more senior roles (succession planning)* Identifying specific development needs (employee development)

Brought on board as a Manager, Conference Development to produce conferences across Canada and The United States on a range of topics including Emergency Response Management, Internal Controls, and US Transfer Pricing. This role involved conducting thorough research into subject areas, speaking with industry experts, developing the full conference and workshop agenda, and ultimately running the conference as the Event Manager. Moved into a Marketing Manager role where I was tasked with managing the entire marketing process, from campaign Email blasts to the use of Twitter and social media.

London, United Kingdom

Managed Melcrum’s UK sales team and supported US and Australian sales teams. Tasked with growing Melcrum’s key accounts spend, and generating new business across the UK, Europe, Middle East, and Africa regions. Role involved:* Face-to-face meetings and presentations to Heads of Communication (and teams) for Fortune 500 companies* Key Account Management* Management of budgets, and compilation weekly and monthly sales reports for management and finance team* Training and development of the sales team in all regions of world in account management, business development and products * Responsible for developing the in-house training aspect of Melcrum’s business* Presentation of sales team report internally at company meetings * Assisting Melcrum’s Editorial and Events team by recommending contributors for our websites, journals and research reports, and presenters for our events* Recruited sales team* Responsible for sales team performance appraisals and setting of personal objectives and targets

Brought on board during a particularly busy period to assist with the new recruitment centre at the Wellington Head Office. Worked with the seven other recruitment consultants, plus two additional consultants on contract. Was heavily involved in telephone interviews and verbal reference checks from junior through to senior positions as well as in personal interviews. Used a bespoke eRecruitment system. NZ Post is one of New Zealand’s largest organisations and employs over 9,500 staff.

Working as part of a two-person team recruiting 35 staff for a secure residence in Lower Hutt (New Zealand). Positions ranged from Managers and Occupational Therapists to Admin staff and social workers. Managed all advertising and established procedures to ensure communication between two different government departments, Child Youth and Family (CYF) and Capital Coast District Health Board (CCDHB) was efficient. Required close liasing with Project Managers and senior Managers for both organisations.

Fulfilled a short contract (as I was going overseas) as a Recruitment Adviser, temporarily filling the post before the permanent adviser started. In this short time, I managed 25 roles covering the full recruitment process from working with line managers and crafting job advertisements, to advertising the roles, screening candidates, conducting interviews, and performing reference checks.

Compiled the results of an internal sales survey and wrote a management report with suggested outcomes. Assisted with HR generalist duties. A short term contract filling in for a HR Manager who was on leave.