Peoplemix assists senior executives, leadership teams and HR crews to build high performing workplaces by providing advisory services and undertaking short term consulting assignments across strategy creation, organisational change, leadership and mentoring, facilitation and human resources management and industrial relations.

Providing HR/IR and Organisation Consulting services during start up phase including acquisition due diligence, asset operations transitional change and building HR systems / operations support.

Reporting to the CEO and as a member of the Executive Leadership Team, I was responsible for directing Yancoal Group policies and programs for leadership and talent development, remuneration and benefits, staffing and workforce planning, industrial/employee relations, human resources systems and organisation development. The role also had governance and oversight functional responsibility for mine site HR programs.

The role also reported to both the Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors and the Remuneration Committee of the Board.

The key focus of the role was to drive the HR agenda to support a series of mergers and acquisitions that enabled the Yancoal Group to grow from a company operating one coal mine employing 300 people to a company operating 10 coal mines employing some 3,000 people over a three year period. This work was performed in a complex, dynamic environment which involved working closely with several Chinese State-owned entities.