Aran Brown

Current

• Senior HR Advisor at Express Couriers

Past

• Recruitment Consultant at Express Couriers Ltd.
• Recruitment Consultant at NZ Post
• Recruitment Consultant at Verax Consulting

• Recruitment Consultant at TMP Worldwide / Hudson Group
• Account Manager at TMP
• Recruitment Consultant at MBT/TMP Worldwide
• Retail Operations Controller at The PC Company
• Assistant Store Manager at The PC Company
• Sales Consultant at The PC Company

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Education

• University of Auckland

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Industry

Transportation/Trucking/Railroad

Aran Brown’s Summary

I am a Human Resources Generalist with 8 years of experience in the wider HR field including 7 years of recruitment experience across almost all areas of recruitment. I've recruited across various Industries after making my start in IT recruitment. I am current based in the Freight and Logistics Industry, working for Express Couriers - a joint venture between NZ Post and DHL.

Prior to taking on this role I recruited across the Express Couriers business for all their Management and Specialist staff as well as some of their frontline operational leaders and staff. I have designed Graduate/Cadet assessment centers, manage Employment Branding (in conjunction with Marketing), and ran various recruitment projects.

I am a passionate believer in the importance of HR. I believe HR will become one of the pivotal functions in business over the coming decade as one of the key remaining areas where a long term sustainable source of competitive advantage can be derived.

My goal is to play a key role in driving the HR function forward and proving to the Senior Exec team that HR can create extraordinary value for a business. However, there is a lot of work to do around the development of meaningful metrics in HR and showing a genuine bottom line awareness.

What is measured is managed, and HR sometimes does not do enough to show how our initiatives impact profitability. Along with an ever increasing drive to do my very best in terms of my day to day generalist activities I am on the look out for new ways to find meaningful measures of HR's contribution to profitability.

Aran Brown’s Specialties:

My areas of expertise are in Generalist HR, Recruitment, and Employment Branding. I am Familiar with IT and Freight/Logistics Industries in particular.

Aran Brown’s Experience

• Senior HR Advisor

  Express Couriers

  (Privately Held; Transportation/Trucking/Railroad industry)

  March 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)

  In this role I provide Generalist HR support to CourierPost in the Northern Region. This covers day to day activities such as managing ER and employment issues, providing advice and guidance to managers and team leaders on performance management and disciplinary processes, managing absenteeism and the like. At the moment I support nearly 400 people in my business unit.
  
  I also have set up some comprehensive reporting for my region on turnover, attendance, and Leave Liability across the whole business Additionally I have responsibility for several generalist projects across the whole business including the development of an HR Tool Kit, as well as working to develop a learning and Development framework..
  
  I am also providing support as required to the project team. This has involved developing induction booklets, generating amendments to employment agreements and managing the transition of a number of fixed term empoyees through to sorting out new high-viz vests for staff etc.

• Recruitment Consultant

  Express Couriers Ltd.

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Transportation/Trucking/Railroad industry)

  July 2006 — March 2008 (1 year 9 months)

  I was moved inhouse into Express Couriers from NZ Post (who own half of Express Couriers in conjunction with DHL). This was a continuation of my prior recruitment role at NZ Post.
  
  However, I also picked up and delivered a number of key Recruitment projects, including an overhaul of the companies job descriptions and job description library, employment branding and day to day management of recruitment suppliers.

• Recruitment Consultant

  NZ Post

  (Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Package/Freight Delivery industry)

  October 2004 — July 2006 (1 year 10 months)

  Recruitment Consultant, providing recruitment services to Express Couriers - a subsidiary company of NZ Post. Recruited to Senior Management level across the corporate functions, as well as Operational roles within Business Units Operating from Northland down to Taupo.

• Recruitment Consultant

  Verax Consulting

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Human Resources industry)

  April 2003 — October 2004 (1 year 7 months)

• Recruitment Consultant

  TMP Worldwide / Hudson Group

  (Transportation/Trucking/Railroad industry)

  2001 — 2003 (2 years)

• Account Manager

  TMP

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Human Resources industry)

  June 2002 — March 2003 (10 months)

• Recruitment Consultant

  MBT/TMP Worldwide

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Human Resources industry)

  January 2001 — June 2002 (1 year 6 months)

• Retail Operations Controller

  The PC Company

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2000 — December 2000 (1 year)

• Assistant Store Manager

  The PC Company

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  March 1999 — January 2000 (11 months)

• Sales Consultant

  The PC Company

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 1998 — March 1999 (1 year 3 months)

Aran Brown’s Education

• University of Auckland

  1995 — 2000