Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand
Currently Pou Ratonga Rangapū | Corporate Manager for Te Kāhui, I lead all corporate functions including finance and procurement, IT, facilities management and property, human resources and payroll, health, safety and wellbeing, accountabilities reporting, media and communications and engagement. I am passionate about leading our team to success and high performance while navigating the challenges of being a relatively new organisation. Previously I have held several multi-disciplinary leadership positions including Te Kaunihera o Tāmaki Makaurau | Auckland Council, ANZ Bank and Medibank (AUS). With over 15 years' leadership experience across both the public and private sector, I have created and implemented strategy, driven significant change and efficiency projects, led culture improvement programs, while delivering financially robust and sustainable results. I am passionate about diversity, inclusion, equity and belonging ensuring that everyone feels comfortable to be their real selves at work. Degree qualified and commercially astute, I have a broad background of experience and am currently completing further post-graduate study. An experienced event and conference speaker, I've has presented keynote addresses on D&I, talent, brand and change across Australasia. I am always open to discussing potential opportunities - please get in touch if you feel my background and expertise may align to your next speaking opportunity.
Valkyrie Consulting works alongside your business to make things run better—plain and simple. With my diverse experience in corporate management - including strategy, finance, HR and recruitment and leadership - I bring practical business improvement ideas and options. I can help you sort out what’s not working and build on what is. I take a straight-up, transparent approach. For me, it’s about helping your business run smoother, your team perform at their best, and setting you up for long-term success. I am currently working with a number of clients, if you feel I may be suited to support you and your business goals - let’s talk about when I may have capacity to work with you.
Te Kāhui Tātari Ture was established on 3 April 2020 and under the Criminal Cases Review Commission Act 2019 able to accept applications from 1 July 2020. Anyone convicted of a crime in a New Zealand court, and who believes they have suffered a miscarriage of justice over their conviction or sentence, or both, can apply to Te Kāhui for an independent review of their case. In my role as corporate manager I ensured that our organisation performed the duties as set out in the Crown Entities Act and other relevant legislation and statues. Ensuring the efficient and effective running of the organisation, my core role was enabling Te Kāhui to achieve its purpose and deliver its functions. My key areas of oversight were finance and procurement, IT, facilities management and property, human resources and payroll, health, safety and wellbeing, outreach and education, accountabilities reporting and communications and media.
Auckland Council is one of the most diverse organisations in New Zealand, contributing to large-scale projects that are shaping Auckland. In my role I led 5 diverse teams and two specialist SMEs across People and Performance. These included talent acquisition, redeployment and career transition, talent acquisition administration (including workforce transactions, pre-employment checks, contract generation and support administration), graduate and intern programmes, employer brand and systems, reporting and our ATS. My role led the strategy in this space as well as providing overall leadership to up to 40 direct and indirect reports. With significant deliverables, I was accountable for people management and performance, service delivery, budget management and reporting as well as supplier management (including both AoG Recruitment Service panel suppliers and other supplier agreements). Auckland Council has both legislative requirements and strategic priorities linked to Māori outcomes and Te Tiriti o Waitangi and this was a key part of my role.
I am proud to have been part of the leadership team who set up #Melbrecmeetup in early 2016 in order to create and leverage a stronger, more collaborative talent community across Melbourne. Upon my return to New Zealand I joined the #AucklandRec organising committee, taking the lead role during this time. These networking groups bring together HR professionals to focus on talent - allowing people to have a safe space to contribute and evolve their own practices and ways of working. These meetups feature a range of topics including trends in the industry, new tools to try and insights that enable all participants to share knowledge to keep getting better at what they do.
In one way or another, ANZ New Zealand touches the lives of almost every New Zealander. Through some of New Zealand's best known financial brands, including ANZ, OnePath, ANZ Investments, UDC Finance, Bonus Bonds and ANZ Securities, ANZ enjoys remarkable scale, diversity, resources and influence. I led a team of resource development consultants who supported the New Zealand sales and service centres in Auckland and Wellington, New Zealand. Focused on recruitment and succession strategies for both centres, my role was to ensure the performance of the centres was supported by ensuring the right talent was in the right place, at the right time. A priority for this role was managing multiple internal stakeholders to deliver in tight time frames and budgets and as the only onsite HR leader, I was the key point for payroll and collective agreement queries. While in role I launched multiple new talent tools and training, introduced career coaching and interview support to our frontline staff and completely diversified the way ANZ contact centres sourced and selected talent, winning the National Accessibility Award for ANZ in 2017.