Nyomie Horton

• Strategic Proposal Leadership: Led the end-to-end proposal development process, fostering collaboration across multiple capabilities and business operations to align opportunities with PAC's mission and vision.
• Pipeline Ownership: Managed the New Business pipeline, ensuring effective use and improvement of PAC tools to enhance business development operations.
• Win Theme Development: Translated win themes into competitive proposals by effectively understanding and articulating customer needs, demonstrating a broad command of PAC's capabilities.
• Cost Estimation Expertise: Facilitated cost estimation, including resource estimation and innovative cost strategies, demonstrating a deep understanding of project parameters and milestones.
• Compliance Assurance: Ensured proposal compliance with client needs, as well as contract and acquisition policies, demonstrating attention to detail and accountability.
• Risk Analysis and Management: Led risk analysis and management efforts during the new business process, ensuring captured opportunities could be translated into successful and well-thought projects.
• Continuous Improvement: Led the 'lessons learned' process to enhance PAC's processes and tools, contributing to ongoing improvements in efficiency and effectiveness.
• Business Development Reporting: Reported on business development activities, providing data for smart decision-making and contributing to strategic planning.
• Executive Collaboration: Participated in and led meetings with the National and Global Executive Leadership Team, ensuring accountability and alignment of business development efforts.
• Global Standardisation Support: Supported the Capture Manager for other regions, ensuring standardisation and alignment across all operations, and provided support to global efforts where necessary and beneficial.

Additional Contributions:

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Regularly engaged and collaborated across all business functions, including Operations, Finance, People & Culture, and Capability Teams.
• Process Enhancement: Enhanced and developed BD Process and Policy to ensure maximum operational efficiency and effectiveness.
• Learning Agility: Continually learned and applied Australian best practices, including CASG Cost Principles, Export Compliance, and Information Security.
• Security Clearance: Maintained AGSVA-granted NV2 security clearance, ensuring compliance with security requirements.

• Strategic Business Support: Demonstrated initiative, excellent communication, and organisational skills in steering diverse responsibilities, including document writing, pricing development, and recruitment activities.
• Corporate Image Adherence: Maintained a positive and professional organisational image, meeting the varied needs of the Leadership team and adapting to changing priorities in a dynamic work environment.
• Efficiency and Growth Enabler: Played a pivotal role in business growth by supporting proposal development, ensuring RFP/RFI compliance, and coordinating between Finance and Capability Directors for competitive and compliant pricing.
• Strategic Resource Planning: Contributed to day-to-day and strategic resource planning, utilising tools like Unanet, and actively participated in the annual Strategy Development process.
• Compliance Oversight: Ensured ongoing business compliance by assisting with contract administration, developing processes for efficiency improvement, and supporting compliance reporting requirements, including ITAR.
• Utilities and Supplier Management: Oversaw utilities, suppliers, inventory, and relations, managing applications, evaluations, and payment processes as required.
• Administrative Excellence: Handled administrative tasks such as calendar management, appointment booking, email correspondence, accurate data entry, and document development using Microsoft Word, Excel, Visio and Power-point.
• Corporate Events Coordination: Coordinated meetings on a Global and National scale, ensuring compliance with relevant WHS and funding parameters, and supported the implementation of the SharePoint Capability Roadmap.
• Quality Assurance and Financial Administration: Ensured compliance with PAC's Quality Management System (QMS) per ISO9001:2015, actively contributing to quality objectives and conducting performance/quality audits. Additionally, managed financial duties, including invoicing customers using Reckon and financial administration within the Unanet system.

• Business Opportunity Identification: Identified a business opportunity within the coffee industry and crafted a workable business plan for Ironside.
  
• Administrative and Management Implementation: Implemented administrative abilities and management skillsets to support Ironside's growth across all functions.
  
• Operational Initiative Development: Developed key operational initiatives, contributing to substantial business growth within less than two years.
  
• Market Trends Utilisation: Utilised knowledge of market trends to create value-added solutions, resulting in an impressive 107% increase in revenues.
  
• Efficiency Enhancement and Budget Management: Enhanced operational efficiency and productivity by managing budgets, accounts, and staff effectively.
  
• Personnel Recruitment and Training: Recruited, hired, and trained initial personnel, establishing key internal functions and outlining position scopes for a new organisation.
  
• Team Leadership and Motivation: Provided leadership and management to the Ironside team, ensuring motivation and goal-focused efforts for optimal business results.
  
• Financial Management and Accounting: Managed all business accounts, inputting income and expense details into Xero (accounting software) to track finances and address variances.
  
• Supplier Evaluation and Cost Controls: Evaluated suppliers, assessing quality, timeliness, and compliance to maintain tight cost controls and maximise operational efficiency.
  
• Budgetary Expenditure Reduction: Successfully reduced budgetary expenditures by negotiating contracts for more advantageous terms.
  
• Customer Satisfaction and Brand Building: Utilised innate people skills to identify customer needs, building a high degree of trust and satisfaction with the Ironside brand.
  
• Business Quality Assurance and Compliance: Ensured rigorous Business Quality Assurance and Compliance with Australian Standards, overseeing processes to guarantee the highest standards of quality and regulatory adherence within Ironside's operations.
  

• Complex Investigation Expertise: Conducted complex and high-profile investigations, showcasing significant attention to detail in analysing and interpreting large-scale Defence Contracts, documentation, and policies.
  
• Thorough Investigation Practices: Conducted investigations into serious and sensitive matters within the ADF, maintaining a high standard. This included interviewing victims, witnesses, and suspects, collecting evidence, and compiling detailed briefs and reports to identify investigation outcomes.
  
• Collaboration and Liaison Skills: Collaborated and conducted frequent liaison with local and federal agencies, including AFP and ABF, demonstrating effective communication and coordination abilities.
  
• Leadership and Team Management: Employed a personal leadership style to lead a team of up to six ADF investigators. Identified team members' strengths and weaknesses to achieve desired outcomes efficiently.
  
• Military Policy and Process Knowledge: Attained in-depth knowledge of military policy and processes, applying this expertise to daily duties and investigations.
  
• Security Clearance Achievement: Attained an NV2 Level Clearance to conduct duties involving matters of higher classification, highlighting trust and reliability.
  
• Middle East Deployment and Relationship Building: Completed a deployment to the Middle East Region, specifically Afghanistan. Liaised and briefed the Australian command element on current trends, investigations, and training opportunities. Fostered harmonious relationships with all Australian and Coalition Force Elements to build trust in the investigation team and gain assistance for efficient and timely outcomes.
  
• Joint Investigations Office Commander Course Completion: Successfully completed the Joint Investigations Office (JIO) Commander Course, showcasing dedication to professional development and qualification to Warrant Officer Class Two.
  
• Role Flexibility and Continuity Assurance: Performed in the role of Team Leader and frequently assumed the position of Joint Investigation Office Commander for extended periods. Ensured continuity for the team and external stakeholders in the area of operations.
  

Key Considerations:

• Continually demonstrated commitment to professional development and qualification attainment.
• Proven ability to lead and manage a team effectively, optimising individual strengths for collective success.
• Strong collaboration and liaison skills, fostering effective relationships with diverse agencies.
• Trusted with high-level security clearance, attesting to reliability and adherence to strict protocols.
• In-depth knowledge of military policies and processes, contributing to effective daily operations.
• Successful deployment and relationship building in a challenging international setting.
• Leadership in complex investigations, ensuring meticulous analysis and interpretation of crucial documents and policies.

• Garrison Policing Leadership: Conducted Garrison Policing duties, establishing and maintaining discipline and order within Defence Establishments.
  
• Criminal Investigation Expertise: Conducted minor criminal investigations, including collating written statements and reports, collecting evidence, and interviewing persons of interest.
  
• Team Leadership and Administration: Effectively led, trained, and administered a team of Military Police (MP) to ensure the capability provided an effective 24/7 policing response to the garrison, demonstrating leadership even in undermanned situations.
  
• Military Police Station Management: Managed a Military Police Station, overseeing exhibits, case loads, and ensuring all quality assurance measures were upheld to the highest standard.
  
• Equipment and Vehicle Accountability: Maintained overall accountability for all section equipment and vehicles, ensuring readiness and compliance.
  
• Reporting and Briefing: Prepared reports and delivered classified briefs for higher headquarters elements and external stakeholders, demonstrating effective communication and information dissemination.
  
• Creative Planning and Operational Adaptability: Developed creative, effective, and workable plans to ensure the needs of the command were met, regardless of manning constraints and operational tempo.
  
• Promotional and Leadership Achievement: Completed all promotional and leadership courses to a very high standard, attaining the rank of Sergeant within the first seven years of the Military Career.
  
• International Deployment - Baghdad, Iraq: Completed a deployment to Baghdad, Iraq at the Australian Embassy, serving as one of two female MPs in a security detachment.
  Conducted searches of local female employees within the Embassy and assisted in managing the entry control point for local construction staff entering and exiting the ECP.
  Implemented a process for reviewing local identification documentation, liaised with other agencies as required, and created security passes to ensure daily adherence to all security measures.
  
• Special Responsibility as Station Sergeant (2013-2014): Scheduled, participated in, and facilitated reporting for Physical Security Certification and Accreditation for the NT Region for the Domestic Policing Unit.
  

Key Considerations:

• Proven leadership in garrison policing, maintaining discipline and order within Defence Establishments.
• Expertise in criminal investigations and evidence collection, ensuring thorough and effective processes.
• Team leadership and administration skills, managing Military Police teams even in challenging circumstances.
• Station management proficiency, upholding quality assurance standards and accountability for equipment and vehicles.
• Effective reporting and briefing capabilities, communicating critical information to higher headquarters and external stakeholders.
• Creative planning and adaptability, ensuring mission success despite constraints and operational challenges.
• Rapid progression through promotional and leadership courses, attaining the rank of Sergeant within the first seven years of military service.
• Successful international deployment in Baghdad, Iraq, with a focus on security operations at the Australian Embassy.
• Specialised responsibility as Station Sergeant, overseeing Physical Security Certification and Accreditation for the NT Region.

• Quality Clerical Support: Provided quality clerical support, specializing in data entry, document management, email correspondence, and overseeing office equipment operations.
  
• Professional Correspondence and Documentation: Typed, formatted, and edited professional correspondence, while also drafting memos, letters, and minutes to support unit objectives.
  
• Efficient Document Processing: Processed high volumes of documentation efficiently, offering clerical support to a minimum of 200 ADF personnel, often in high-tempo environments.
  
• File Management and Record Digitisation: Maintained physical files and digitised records, organising them for easy updating and retrieval by authorised team members.
  
• Military Knowledge Expansion: Expanded on existing Military knowledge to assist personnel in answering questions related to Defence Policy and procedures.
  
• Defence Applications and Documentation Assistance: Assisted and supported personnel with Defence-related applications and documentation, ensuring timely and efficient handling of all matters.