What does a typical day look like to you?

Great question. A typical day is full and varied and starts with dropping my 3 kids to school and arriving in the office by 9.30am (fully caffeinated and ready to go!). The day from there involves engagement with my internal customers (the Corporate workforce), collaboration with my P&C peers across other business units (things like planning the timeline, comms and execution of our rem review cycle), oftentimes collaboration with others across the business on various working groups / programs of work, and a good dose of planning and organising (this might be documenting actions and responsibilities from discussions earlier in the day, preparing for onboarding new starters, or data gathering for reporting).

A current focus for our Corporate workforce is resource planning in line with the organisation’s recent increase in operational sites and integration of talent, and to ensure that the various shared services departments that support the whole business (like Finance and IT) are structured and resourced in the most efficient way. This means my priority is engaging with our Corporate leaders on opportunities to organise workflow, roles and responsibilities efficiently for our current needs, and to provide flexibility for scaling in the future. This usually means succession and risk comes into the conversation, and from there, we frame job scopes, benchmark rem, and when relevant, progress through to the approvals and hiring phases. This piece has been interesting and varied, in that some of the roles we’re implementing are relatively new in our industry sector, such as cyber security and health and wellbeing roles. The organisation’s investment in new roles and talent also means I’m spending time with individual employees and new leaders as they’re onboarded to ensure they understand the various tools and resources available to them to perform to their best.

I work a part time, condensed week, which means leaving the office between 4.30pm and 5pm, spending time with my family, and typically closing out some planning and admin tasks in the evening. I have the flexibility to work from home, though choose to be on the ground in the office most of the time for accessibility to my internal customers  that plus I love our location right on the river :)