Amanda Derrick

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About Amanda Derrick

A proactive, holistic, and confident human resource professional driven to improve organisational culture and performance through genuine strategic and operational business partnering. Naturally curious, I’ve a genuine passion for embedding within the business and effectively collaborating with senior and operational leaders to develop innovative strategic plans and day-to-day solutions ensuring individuals, teams, and businesses flourish whilst aligned to business objectives. With significant strength in leadership and coaching, I value add though critical thinking, problem solving, and people enablement. Comfortable with the uncomfortable, working in an agile and fast-paced environment is where I shine. I bring value in my unique ability to flex between strategy and operations, combined with building trusting and empowering relationships to seamlessly fuse people, process, and performance together enhancing the employee experience whilst driving capability. Bringing an element of humour and a down-to-earth approach, establishing relationships across organisations has ensured a proven track record of delivering on key financial, people, and strategic objectives. I’ve repeatedly succeeded in delivering best practice solutions on complex employee matters and strategic human resource initiatives with a knack for identifying issues and trends within the business, identifying opportunities to add value, and working collaboratively to implement solutions. My diverse experience in both operational and partnering leadership allows me to thoroughly understand business levers, drivers, and risks. Coupled with a strong commercial acumen and a thirst for breaking down roadblocks and barriers, I enrich business divisions and teams alike.