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Marie Van Rooyen

Marie Van Rooyen

Neutral Bay,NSW

Summary

Dynamic individual with hands-on experience in learning program management, design, development and delivery and talent for navigating challenges. Brings strong problem-solving skills and proactive approach to new tasks. Known for adaptability, creativity, and results-oriented mindset. Committed to making meaningful contributions and advancing organisational goals.

Overview

31
31
years of professional experience

Work History

Head of Manufacturing Transformation

Weir Minerals
01.2025 - Current
  • Learning and development: Established a supervisor's safety leadership development program by defining responsibilities and required competencies. Subsequently developed a learning program to address needs. The forum runs weekly, allowing participants to learn from each other and on the job. Knowledge is developed by leveraging internal subject matter experts and curating existing content.
  • Spearheaded transformation initiatives, aligning manufacturing processes with strategic goals, resulting in a process improvement in operational efficiency.
  • Managed profit and loss for a large manufacturing organisation, driving output targets and reducing costs by 10% through effective resource management.
  • Defined and implemented optimisation, automation, and digitisation strategies, enhancing competitive proposition and achieving an increase in technology adoption.

HEAD OF BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION

Weir Minerals
09.2022 - 12.2024
  • Learning and development: Developed 3 eLearning courses by using Articulate Rise, Adobe Premier Pro and published to Workday as a digital offering. The program was included as mandatory learning to achieve WINS foundational exit criteria for foundational level. more than 400 operational leaders have completed the program globally providing a 5 star feedback rating on all indices.
  • Developed a change facilitator coaching program consisting of 10 sessions run over 20 weeks delivered over 3 timezones. The sessions were crafted to use interesting content and media to develop curiosity and facilitate debate. Participants completed fortnightly assignment which I marked and provided detailed feedback which we discussed in a group forum.
  • Developed change leadership capability, driving digital transformation and continuous improvement, resulting in adoption of technology and business process improvement.
  • Developed Thriving through change and Building Resilience program and delivered to all Elastomer employees exiting Weir due to transfer to Malaysia. I used Percipio content and curated relevant content and developed an activity booklet, engaging graphics and reference guides to support employees as part of the Wellbeing company offering.
  • Established a process and program management framework, achieving strategic themes and outcomes, enhancing project success rates.
  • Reinvigorated a digital community, leading to increased adoption of digital processes and a 70% improvement in operational performance.

Head of Change Information Systems (IS)

Weir Minerals
03.2021 - 09.2022
  • Learning and development: Developed the framework, process and designed the content and delivery platform for Weir Minerals Information Systems. The program consists of more than 45 blended learning offers still in use and being maintained by the team I built during my tenure.
  • Developed the Information Systems Learning Platform with the help of en external consultant using SAP Enable Now to provide on the job business process and work instructions for 3,000 global Weir Minerals Information Systems Users.
  • Developed a change management framework and capability development program for Weir. More than 300 attendances with above 90% satisfaction rating.
  • Applied the framework to strategic (e.g. Service Transformation, Salesforce Adoption) and other projects to facilitate adoption of new processes and technology. Currently 37 projects in flight or completed.
  • Established a community and developed capability of 260 global change ambassadors.
  • Established ways of working and a team to develop global standardised business processes.
  • Established the IS learning team, developing learning and on the job support for all IS - 45 courses and 4,000 enrolments.
  • Launched the IS Knowledge Platform, providing on the job support to 4,000 IS users.
  • Established IS engagement channels with more than 7,000 visits per month

Business Partner - Change Management

Cochlear
01.2018 - 01.2020
  • Learning and development: Developed a learning program to equip all Cochlear employees to understand and make the required changes to respond to changes in medical device regulations. The program provided an overview to the entire value chain including engineering, sales, manufacturing, distribution and all support functions. I worked with global subject matter experts to develop the content.
  • Business Partner to the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) and Head Clinician to facilitate organisational and process redesign to comply to European Medical Device Regulations, impacting on suppliers, manufacturing, engineering, sales, IT, marketing, quality, legal and global supply chain. Resulted in development and adoption of new processes and successful registration of devices.
  • Business Partner to the Digital Refresh program to define a new global operating model, establish Agile ways of working and processes to deliver digital customer experiences.
  • Learning and development: Developed a role based learning program to provide clarity to adopt the new operating model.
  • Developed the change framework and capability for Cochlear.
  • Developed Tableau change readiness dashboards for the CEO to assess readiness and impacts of strategic initiatives.
  • Facilitated multiple leadership alignment and stakeholder management sessions to support strategic initiatives.
  • Coached and supported 12 technology project managers to apply the change management framework, including customer facing projects for digitised services.

Change Management partnership with Ajilon

Australian Defence Force
01.2016 - 01.2018
  • Development and implementation of change management strategies and activities designed to address the change impacts as a result of the Defence Estate Management SAP implementation, impacting on 300 locations.
  • Learning and development: Hired a team of contractors to develop the learning content for the SAP Garrison and Estate management system impacting on all Australian Defence employees.
  • Resulted in successful change implementation for all defence bases.
  • Change management coaching for the leadership team.
  • Development of engagement and learning programs. 900 events delivered.
  • Delivery of onsite engagement programs to facilitate business ownership and leadership.

Business Owner

Adapt2 Consulting and 2PS Consulting
01.2000 - 01.2016
  • Managing a small change management niche consulting firm with business partners. Working as an independent change and project management consultant supporting multiple clients, across many industries to achieve business transformation and technology adoption. Clients served:
  • Learning and development: The learning service offering was specialised to support large scale ERP implementations. Solutions included on the job support aids, using digital delivery technologies, eLearning and classroom delivery. Learning administration was managed using a proprietary Learning Management System. Project scope ranged from 100s to 1000s of people impacted running 5 -25 learning sessions concurrently.
  • Fraser’s Property - merger Australand, SAP Project Manager
  • SAP Services - trusted advisor to government clients, change management audits on high value accounts
  • SAP Education - Trusted SAP trainer delivering Leadership and Project Management Business Process Training. SAP trainers need to maintain an average 4.8/5 score rating.
  • Woolworths - Established Change Management team for SAP
  • NSW Police - Learning management system, running of RFP process, and learning maturity assessments
  • Ausgrid - SAP implementation partnering with Fujitsu
  • Nikon - in partnership
  • Airservices Australia - partnering with Harms Consulting to deliver SAP change management services
  • Metcash - partnering with Fujitsu to deliver SAP change management services
  • Australand - partnering with Harms Consulting to deliver SAP change management services
  • UGL
  • Fujitsu
  • Sydney Water

Business startup and development

DACG niche consulting
01.1994 - 01.1999
  • Founding member of a niche ERP change and learning consultancy, responsible for growth from 4 initial employees to 100. Business development of change management service offering. Start up role included business development, account management, profitability reporting, hiring and team development, development of client offerings, tender response and partner relationship management.
  • Key accounts included:
  • Federal government
  • George Weston Foods
  • Australian Broadcasting Corporation
  • Johnson & Johnson
  • Shell
  • Zurich

Education

Doctor of Philosophy - Business Analytics

Queensland University of Technology
Brisbane, QLD
01-2025

MBA - Business Administration And Management

RMIT University
Melbourne, VIC
12-2021

Graduate Certificate - Business Administration

RMIT
01.2021

Master's degree - Science, Nutrition

Stellenbosch University
01.1991

Certificate IV in Workplace Training And Assessment -

TAFE NSW
Sydney

Skills

  • Learning program design and management
  • Learning content design, development and delivery
  • Learning delivery and facilitation
  • Communication development
  • Operational transformation initiatives
  • Stakeholder Engagement and Management at executive and labour level
  • Effective communication of complex ideas
  • Strategic initiative development and delivery
  • Digitisation, Business Data Analytics and technology adoption
  • Agile transformation leadership
  • Matrix organization project management
  • Leadership coaching and change capability development
  • Strong commercial acumen

Accomplishments

  • Only individual finalist for the Weir Values Award 2025 for aiming high through improvement and efficiency. I was recognised for my work in developing change leadership to drive LEAN outcomes for the company and resilience-building programs during capacity optimisation.
  • Presented on the topic of “Defining and Driving a 5 Year Transformation Program” at the Rethink Change conference 2025 attended by more than 300 change management experts and customers, receiving excellent feedback.
  • Awarded a scholarship under the National Industry PhD program to develop metrics, analytics, and guidelines for successful business transformation.
  • Developed and delivered Change Capability Development program consisting of 3 courses, attended by more than 300 participants receiving 5 star rating.
  • Developed a 5 year transformation program working with the senior leadership team.
  • Developed change management toolkit using MIRO, PowerBI, Microsoft Project for the Web, Power Platform, SharePoint and Articulate Rise.

PERSONAL INTERESTS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

  • Long distance swimming
  • Sustainable living
  • Mental health and psychology
  • Digital platforms
  • Reading
  • Writing

Software

SharePoint

SAP

Salesforce

42Q

PowerBI

Workday Learning Admin

Adobe creative suite

Canva, Visme

Articulate Rise

Timeline

Head of Manufacturing Transformation

Weir Minerals
01.2025 - Current

HEAD OF BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION

Weir Minerals
09.2022 - 12.2024

Head of Change Information Systems (IS)

Weir Minerals
03.2021 - 09.2022

Business Partner - Change Management

Cochlear
01.2018 - 01.2020

Change Management partnership with Ajilon

Australian Defence Force
01.2016 - 01.2018

Business Owner

Adapt2 Consulting and 2PS Consulting
01.2000 - 01.2016

Business startup and development

DACG niche consulting
01.1994 - 01.1999

Master's degree - Science, Nutrition

Stellenbosch University

Certificate IV in Workplace Training And Assessment -

TAFE NSW

Doctor of Philosophy - Business Analytics

Queensland University of Technology

MBA - Business Administration And Management

RMIT University

Graduate Certificate - Business Administration

RMIT

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