Cathey Brimage Honored for Excellence in Human Resources

    ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA, March 16, 2015 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Cathey Brimage, Director of Human Resources, Stamford Hotels and Resorts, was recently named a VIP Member of Worldwide Branding. This special distinction honors individuals who have shown exceptional commitment to achieving personal and professional success.

With a quarter-century of industry experience, Ms. Brimage has extensive experience in senior human resource leadership roles, covering a variety of industries including building materials, mining and exploration, retail, medical, academic, legal and hospitality. She has HR expertise in change management, performance management, workforce planning, training and assessment, stakeholder management, business strategy, employee relations, project management, business process and employee engagement.

Ms. Brimage's duties in her current role serving as a member of the senior leadership team, requires that she applies her commercial acumen and pragmatism in aligning human resources strategy with business objectives. She is responsible for drafting policies and procedures and handling stakeholder management and industrial relations. In the future, she will continue to develop her professional portfolio, adding value to her profession whilst maintaining a bias for action.

While working for BHP Billiton, an Anglo-Australian multinational mining, metals and petroleum company, Ms. Brimage had budgetary responsibility for cost recovery of more than $5.46 million per annum. She has many other achievements that she has been proud of throughout her career, in particular the project that she had been involved with that saved the Hills Home and Hardware Products business, after it had suffered a heavy loss due to the GFC. Within three months, it was able to sustain and deliver a double-digit EBIT percentage.

Ms. Brimage has been successful because of her resilience, perseverance and the opportunity to work within a wide range of industry sectors during her career, which commenced in the paralegal field. She then moved into human resources as an adviser, before pursuing management opportunities. Her career has seen her active involvement in a range of diverse industries including building materials, mining and exploration, retail, medical, academic, legal and hospitality. The 24-hour operational nature of hospitality work has been her greatest challenge. Among the many highlights of her career was when she achieved savings for Boral in excess of $2 million through the implementation and delivery of a more rigorous enterprise agreement negotiation process.

Complementing Ms. Brimage's professional experience is her education, in which she earned a degrees in human resource management and business management.

In addition to Worldwide Branding, Ms. Brimage also maintains affiliations as a fellow of both the Australian Human Resources Institute and the Australian Institute of Management, as well as a member of the Australian Industrial Relations Society of South Australia.

Stamford Hotels and Resorts is a renowned hospitality provider of luxury hotel, resort and accommodations services. For more information, visit http://www.stamford.com.au.

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