Summary
Overview
Work History
Skills
Keyskillsattributes
Attentiontodetail
Recentachievements
Careerstatement
References
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Tania Barnett

Palmerston North,Highbury

Summary

Insightful Manager with experience directing and improving operations through effective employee motivational strategies and strong policy enforcement. Proficient in best practices, market trends and regulatory requirements of industry operations. Talented leader with analytical approach to business planning and day-to-day problem-solving.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience

Work History

Knowledge Base Administrator

NEW ZEALAND TRANSPORT AGENCY
  • Creating content in plain English for contact centre staff
  • Reviewing content and keeping all information up to date and relevant
  • Strategic outlook
  • Relationship management.

Customer Advisor – Ministerials

NEW ZEALAND TRANSPORT AGENCY
  • Ensuring statutory deadlines and complaint resolutions are upheld when answering official correspondence
  • Research and compile draft material for official correspondence
  • Exceptional written and oral communication skills
  • Excellent relationship management
  • Prioritising, high work loads with competing priorities (
  • Problem solving
  • Identify and manage risk associated with Official Correspondence and business units
  • Provide advice and assistance to NZ Transport Agency and external stakeholders.

Team Leader – Contact Centre

NEW ZEALAND TRANSPORT AGENCY
  • Build, coach, develop and lead a high performing team of 11 Senior/Customer Service Representatives
  • Manage individual performance
  • Performance management
  • Relationship management
  • Activity promotes the strategy of Waka Kotahi.

Manager – Commercial Licensing

NEW ZEALAND TRANSPORT AGENCY
07.2021 - Current
  • Strategically focused with shared visions and goals
  • Significant and proven leadership experience within a regulatory environment leading and creating a high performing team of 9 direct reports
  • Excellent change management experience and the ability to lead through change with a focus on driving continuous improvement initiatives to reducing service level agreements timeframes by 50%.
  • Strong relationship management and networking skills
  • Proven experience building people capability, including coaching, mentoring and managing performance development plans.

Portfolio Manager – Lower North Island (acting Two Months)

NEW ZEALAND TRANSPORT AGENCY
05.2024 - 07.2024

Develop, motivate and lead a high performing team to achieve compliance, safety, and regulatory assurance int he commercial transport industry.

Contributing to wider Safer Commercial Transport Leadership direction and performance of the group.

Jointly accountable for development of national strategy for safer commercial transport function.

Portfolio management of regulated sectors to collaboratively develop, and implement nationally, a regulatory assurance programme of work.

Liaise with and use intelligence function to identify areas of critical risk within the sector and put in place programmes to mitigate the risk.

Work Force Planner

NEW ZEALAND TRANSPORT AGENCY
01.2008 - Current
  • Accurately report all statistics across all lines of communication
  • Time management
  • Prioritising work and call volumes
  • Effective collaboration with internal stakeholders and staff.

Skills

  • Resourceful and Analytical
  • Operations Management
  • Performance Improvement and Management
  • Relationship management
  • Decision-Making
  • Continuous Improvement
  • Strategic & Business Planning
  • Team Building and Leadership
  • Problem solving

Keyskillsattributes

  • Drafting high demand documents and reports relating to 111 emergency lines.
  • Extensive experience in managing demanding workloads and competing priorities without sacrificing quality.
  • Responsible for collation and drafting of Official Correspondence within Operations and Regulatory business groups, in particular through the regulatory failure period
  • Delivering a combination of technical knowledge and expertise to Managers, peers and Ministerial Services in a timely and efficient manner.
  • Experience in building key relationships with a variety of people at all levels in addition to connecting with our internal and external stakeholders.
  • Experience with interpreting and applying the Official Information Act, the Privacy Act in addition to Land Transport Legislation.
  • Proven experience in leading high performing teams and promoting a positive work culture.
  • Proven experience of regulatory practice within Government

Attentiontodetail

Attention to detail is paramount in all the above examples and over the years I have developed the ability to remain composed in all circumstances while holding myself accountable to a high standard of work.

Recentachievements

  • Exceptional performance rating for the last two performance years
  • NZ Certificate in Regulatory Compliance (Core Knowledge) (Level 3)

Careerstatement

Highly motivated individual. My passion lies in an organised world where planning effectively helps achieves goals and brings order to chaos. A self-starter with an innovative view on life. My achievements don’t lie in one place but have instead developed throughout my career in different environments and companies resulting in a high performing leader.

References

Referees available on request

Timeline

Portfolio Manager – Lower North Island (acting Two Months)

NEW ZEALAND TRANSPORT AGENCY
05.2024 - 07.2024

Manager – Commercial Licensing

NEW ZEALAND TRANSPORT AGENCY
07.2021 - Current

Work Force Planner

NEW ZEALAND TRANSPORT AGENCY
01.2008 - Current

Knowledge Base Administrator

NEW ZEALAND TRANSPORT AGENCY

Customer Advisor – Ministerials

NEW ZEALAND TRANSPORT AGENCY

Team Leader – Contact Centre

NEW ZEALAND TRANSPORT AGENCY
Tania Barnett