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VERA STAMBOLZIOVSKA-• - • Bitola, North Macedonia SUMMARY Resourceful Talent Acquisition Manager with strong background in human resources practices, principles, and procedures. Proficient in assessing and anticipating skills to find the right staff placements and specialise in building, maintaining, and managing talent. Progressive leader with demonstrated experience across developing and implementing robust recruitment frameworks and strategies. People management experience across small and large teams, both internal and agency recruitment. Innovative, results driven professional. Highly competent communication, negotiation and stakeholder management skills as well as developing strategies and initiatives that improve company profitability and growth. Knowledgeable about employment law and effective organizational planning. EXPERIENCE Rouge Recruitment & HR Consulting, Managing Director / Founder Aug 2018 - Present We are a Boutique Recruitment & HR Consulting Business delivering best practice Industry Solution to organisations. We specialise in Contract and Permanent Recruitment across IT, Corporate and Sales & Marketing, We partner with our clients for all their Talent needs and develop and Implement a successful Recruitment Framework, HR Framework including Policies & Procedures, Talent Management, Market Mapping and Talent Insights. Managing Director, responsible for the business initiation, development and successful service across both clients and candidates with multiple skillsets and industries, across all levels. We develop and implement recruitment policies, processes, and procedures that improve the efficiency and effectiveness of recruitment efforts by streamlining the company’s recruitment process, reducing the time to hire by an exceptional %. We analyze and reporte on key recruitment metrics, providing insight into the effectiveness of recruitment efforts. Create a comprehensive set of recruitment policies and procedures to ensure a standardized and compliant recruitment process. Negotiation of competitive compensation packages that retained key talent and attracted top talent, Kimberly Clark, Talent Acquisition Manager Feb 2022 - Sep 2023 KC is a global manufacturer and provider of essential, personal care products across ANZ – brands include Kleenex, Huggies Nappies, UbyKotex, Depend, VEVA. As a Talent Acquisition Manager across Australia & New Zealand (ANZ), I was responsible for developing company wide talent acquisition strategy which resulted in an improved efficiency, reduced time-to-hire and a 25% increase in employee retention. Successfully rolled out new systems which improved the process contributing to a reduction of Time To Fill (TTF) from 80 days to 60 days in a period of 6 months. Created new and adopted Global employer brand strategy that increased the company’s visibility among top talent. Analyzed current and past hiring data to identify areas of improvement and develop targeted talent acquisition strategies. Utilized datadriven insights to identify hiring trends and optimize the recruitment process. Developed a comprehensive onboarding program that decreased employee attrition. Developed and maintained strong relationships with external recruiters and staffing agencies to ensure access to quality talent. Negotiated competitive compensation packages that retained key talent and attracted top talent. Responsible for further implementing business EVP initiatives and strategies across ANZ. Transport for NSW, Talent Acquisition Specialist - Contract role Feb 2021 - Dec 2021 TfNSW is an agency of the New South Wales Government established on 1 November 2011, and is the leading transport and roads agency in New South Wales, Australia Joined the business on a >6 month consulting contract, responsible for the end-to-end recruitment needs across a number of transformation projects - Evolving Transport and Corporate Function Review, for the Corporate Services, SER, OOS, P&C divisions. I manage requirements with a range of skill set whilst working on approx..20 roles (multiple positions within each role) at any one time. I successfully delivered on recruitment project of 11 positions within the IT field in line with the Diversity and inclusion KPI’s for which resulted in a gender balance outcome. I have also worked across Executive / Director level requirements across a number of varied skillsets. Working with stakeholders across the organisation and parenting with Directors, Senior Managers and Managers across the business to ensure an efficient and successful recruitment process is achieved. Negotiated competitive compensation packages that retained key talent and attracted top talent Allianz Australia, Senior Talent Acquisition Consultant - Contract role Jul 2019 - Nov 2019 VERA STAMBOLZIOVSKA - page 1 of 3 Allianz Australia employs approx. 4,300 staff across ANZ, providing wide range of insurance risk management products and services across personal insurance, Industrial, Corporate, Workers Compensation. I joined Allianz on an initial 3 month contract as the Senior Talent Acquisition Consultant to partner across multiple portfolios on the recruitment requirements of approx. 45 positions at the time of a dynamic environment. Responsible for the end to end process of identifying and recruiting top talent at all levels across Digital (UX/UI), Marketing, HR, Technical, Workers Compensation. By managing the process internally, I minimised the use of external suppliers in turn saving the organisation of over $100,000 in recruitment fees. Analyzed current and past hiring data to identify areas of improvement and develop targeted talent acquisition strategies and developed and implemented a talent acquisition and retention plan that improved employee satisfaction by 25% within the time of contract. Streamlined the company wide talent acquisition strategy that resulted in an effective time to fill and employee retention. Negotiated competitive compensation packages that retained key talent and attracted top talent Ventia Pty Ltd, Senior Talent Acquisition Consultant - Contract role Sep 2018 - May 2019 Ventia provides a comprehensive range of operational maintenance, design and construction, remediation, and asset and facilities management services to clients and customers across the resources, telecommunications, transport, energy, water, health and industrial sectors. An ANZ role, responsible for both Strategic and Transactional role with accountability of heading up the recruitment needs and requirements of the Asset & Infrastructure Services (A&IS) Business Unit across both corporate and field requirements. Strong Stakeholder Management with divisional leaders such as General Manager, Contract Manager, Senior Project Managers, Executive Manager, Program Director across multiple sites within the A&IS function. Overall volume approx. 50 at any one time. Reduced external supplier / agency spend by close to $65,000. Negotiated competitive compensation packages that retained key talent and attracted top talent. PepsiCo, Australia & New Zealand, Talent Acquisition Manager - ANZ Sep 2017 - Aug 2018 PepsiCo Australia & New Zealand is part of the global PepsiCo Inc., family which is comprised of four major divisions: PepsiCo Americas Beverages, PepsiCo Americas Foods, PepsiCo Europe, PepsiCo Middle East and Africa. PepsiCo Australia & New Zealand employs 2,500+. Maternity Leave consulting contracr, in this role i was heading up the Talent Acquisition Team across Australia and New Zealand, responsible for a team of 4 consultants across a matrix environment / ANZ. Whilst working within a talent acquisition centre of excellence and executing national talent acquisition strategies aimed at attracting passive/active talent, whilst promoting PepsiCo ANZ employer brand, enhancing HR’s recruitment capability, reducing agency dependency and building talent pipeline strength. Business partnering Globally across the organisation including C level stakeholders (CIO, CEO, GM’s). I was directly responsibility for all local-based recruitment – 40 positions at any one time whilst overseeing recruitment across all other ANZ sites – approx. 80 positions. Successfully embedded Talent Acquisition process across various sites (NZ). Recruitment requirements across all disciplines – Finance, Marketing, IT, HR, Supply Chain. Within the first quarter of employment, I identified areas of improvement which included a negotiation of new contracts with external suppliers together with a close monitor or process and team practice, resulting in a saving of approx. AUD 30,000. Analyzed current and past hiring data to identify areas of improvement and develop targeted talent acquisition strategies. Developed a talent acquisition strategy that focused on sourcing passive candidates, resulting in an increase in qualified applicants. Negotiated competitive compensation packages that retained key talent and attracted top talent. Responsible for Employee Value Proposition (EVP) strategy and initiatives. PM-Partners, Resource / Talent Acquisition Manager Jun 2016 - Jul 2017 PM-Partners is a Project Management Consulting firm with over 20 years’ experience across public and private sector. Project management specialists in Delivery, Resourcing, Capability and Training, having trained over 9500 professionals across the Project Management field. The company assists organisations in setting up projects, programmes, PMO’s. With 5 direct reports nationally, I successfully managed whilst also being operational, the Resourcing function of the organisation to professionally source, select, retain, and manage a team of resources across the entire project portfolios. This was achieved by successfully developing and implementing a recruitment process and innovations and managing the overall utilisation of Resource Specialists. Responsible for weekly reporting to executive directors and presenting on recruitment data including, costs, revenue, work volume, forecasting. With this, I was also responsible for implementing best practice process particularly across declining accounts of work. The change in recruitment strategy to attract and attain talent resulted in a large reduction in advertising fees and a re-negotiation of the advertising contracts. Responsible for Employee Value Proposition (EVP) strategies. Partnering with internal Account Managers, Senior Management as well as external clients to ensure the resourcing function was delivering on requirements as per SLA’s. Ausgrid, Talent Acquisition & Redeployment Manager Jan 2014 - Apr 2016 VERA STAMBOLZIOVSKA - page 2 of 3 Ausgrid is a State Owned, engineering-based Corporation whose shareholder is the New South Wales Government, employing 4,500 employees within NSW. The Ausgrid electricity network provides power to 1.6 million homes and businesses throughout Sydney, the Hunter and the Central Coast. With 12 direct and approx. 200 Indirect reports, responsible for development and implementation of a strategic and operational recruitment and redeployment policy and procedure across the organisation that supported Ausgrid’s workforce plan and developing a culture of optimisation and utilisation of talent in an agile and robust way that it in line with the organisations values and culture. In this time, I was successful in developing and implementing a centralised recruitment model across the organisation which managed close to 1000 positions across the organisation which had traditionally worked in silos. With this I also successfully developed, implemented and managed a Career Transition Centre across two locations within the organisation providing career transition training and advise to approx. 200 affected employees. Responsible for managing budget and stranded costs associated with affected employees and I recommended a new cost centre be created to capture the redeployment costs, it was accepted by the CEO and was implemented to capture the resource costs. Supported and worked across the successful management of the voluntary redundancy program across the organisation along with the management of costs, recruitment, onboarding of labour hire contract and process across the organisation Futurestep, Project Recruitment Business Partner (RPO) Aug 2013 - Dec 2013 Futurestep is the global industry leader in high-impact recruitment solutions; offering fully customized, flexible strategies to help organizations meet specific workforce needs. With established experience and as subject matter expert in recruitment process effectiveness, client and candidate management, project management along with stakeholder engagement, my main responsibly were to establish the recruitment program and processors within the organisation and extend client relationships through the excellence of recruitment. With this, I was responsible for project managing recruitment needs for approx. 85 positions spanning across Executive Director, Director and Program Manager level.Integral member of the business with strong and effective relationships across the business and liaison with Executive team, Deputy Director General, Director General, while demonstrating a high level of ethical behaviour & personal integrity. Fire & Rescue NSW, Senior Project Recruitment Specialist - Contract Role Feb 2013 - Aug 2013 EDUCATION Graduate School of Business Master of Business Administration - HR Management • Feb 2010 - Sep 2013 SKILLS Highly Organized • Creative Problem Solving • Problem Solving • Leadership and Teamwork • Microsoft Office Word • Flexibility and Adaptability • Self-motivation • Leadership Skills • Microsoft Excel • Decision Making VERA STAMBOLZIOVSKA - page 3 of 3