Alana Mitchell

Experience

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  Chow, Tory St Wellington

  Jan 2013 - Aug 2015

  General Manager

  Managing a team of 30+ FOH staff within a busy 120 seater restaurant & bar. Overseeing all HR, finance, budgets, rosters and services.Creating successful team incentives, training, development and recruitment.Business to business development.

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  Blahnik Cafe

  Aug 2016 - Jun 2017

  Cafe Manager

  FOH manager for a busy CBD cafe team of 7 with a busy catering side business. Created team incentives, training and worked within tight budgets and targets.

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  BizDojo

  Nov 2016 - Dec 2017

  Activation Coordinator

  Working on the GridAKL programme on behalf of ATEED to develop and implement a tech cafe coworking membership for early-stage startups while managing the programme of events and meetups for external customers and internal events for the coworking community.

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  GridAKL

  Dec 2017 - Mar 2020

  GridAKL / John Lysaght is home to over 200 businesses with a focus on early-stage startups. Our mission is to help grow innovative businesses, create jobs, and enrich the innovation community for Auckland's economic future. As the Startup Hub Manager, I had the role of creating endless connections for our awesome community with the wider tech ecosystem and what an absolute privilege that was.This was quite a varied role that managed all areas of the GridAKL/Lysaght building. This covered the two coworking communities, a team of 7 awesome humans, HR, customer management, creating programmes, building operations, comms, events, finance, and reporting to multiple stakeholders. Show less

  • Startup Hub Manager

    Jul 2018 - Mar 2020

  • Programme Manager

    Dec 2017 - Jun 2018
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  CBRE

  Oct 2020 - Jul 2022

  Workplace Experience Manager

  Contracted in-house to ANZ, managing the Corporate Offices across the ANZ Portfolio.

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  EcoPortal (Beautiful H&S and Risk Management Software)

  Oct 2022 - Nov 2024

  People, Culture and Community Manager