James Anderson

CEO | General Management | Executive Leadership | Safety Advocate

Kilsyth South, Victoria, Australia

About

An experienced and qualified professional with strong exposure across complex, vertically integrated, end to end Supply Chains, Operations and Procurement. A passionate safety leader with proven ability to make sustainable change. My career has included leadership of both transformation programs and business-as-usual activities to achieve sustainability and ongoing revenue and profit growth. A motivational leader, I build high-performance teams and drive productivity within a safety-focused culture, and inspire accountability and target achievement. Key skills include optimisation of manufacturing capability, major capital projects, creation and execution of sustainable procurement functions, change management, process engineering, logistics management, outsourcing, off-shoring, low cost country sourcing, leading high level negotiations and development of high performing teams.

Experience

  • Chief Executive Officer at Alpine MDF Industries Pty Ltd.
    Mar 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 4 mos

  • Timberlink Australia I New Zealand (6 yrs 2 mos)
    • Executive General Manager Manufacturing
      Dec 2021 - Nov 2022 · 1 yr

      P&L accountability. Led large teams across two regional manufacturing sites processing radiata pine sawlog. 8 direct reports covering a broad functional span including: Safety, Environment and Quality Systems, Technical and Sustainability, Resource Management (log supply and residue sales), Capital, Site Management, Manufacturing Technologies, and Operational Excellence

    • Executive General Manager Operations & Supply Chain
      Nov 2019 - Dec 2021 · 2 yrs 2 mos

      P&L accountability. Led large teams across three regional manufacturing sites processing radiata pine sawlog. 10 direct reports covering a broad functional span covering: Safety, Environment and Quality Systems, Technical and Sustainability, Resource management (log supply and residue sales), Capital, Site management, Manufacturing Technologies, Operational Excellence, Sales & Operations Planning, Procurement, Warehousing & Logistics

    • Executive General Manager Supply Chain & Procurement
      Jul 2018 - Nov 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos

      Accountability procurement spend, from raw materials through to market. Led teams across 7 distribution locations delivering large volumes of goods to market, managing outbound and inbound vehicle movements. Management of the Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process, budget planning. Led the major capital procurement function responsible for a 5-year pipeline of investment.

  • Career Break + Independent Management Consultant at Freelance
    Feb 2016 - Oct 2016 · 9 mos

    Providing strategic management advice across supply chain, procurement and business planning.

  • Carter Holt Harvey Woodproducts Australia (Full-time · 12 yrs 2 mos)
    • Head of Procurement
      Feb 2010 - Dec 2015 · 5 yrs 11 mos

      Greenfield role created as a result of a business restructure. Accountability for around $b pa in direct operational procurement across both Australia and New Zealand, a broad range of spend categories covered: Distribution, 3PL, Property, Chemicals, MRO, Engineered Contractor Services, Energy, IT, Capital, Raw Materials, Fleet and Product for Resale. The role also have accountability for all external residue (bi-product) sales.

    • Planning and Optimisation Manager
      Nov 2006 - Feb 2010 · 3 yrs 4 mos

      Focused on ensuring optimal network manufacturing and planned predictable product availability, this role managed the S&OP planning process for 9 manufacturing sites delivering to a national sales network of around 2700 customers, generating revenue of $b in Australia. Managed $m inventory program supporting market demand and delivery performance.

    • Operations Manager
      Nov 2003 - Nov 2006 · 3 yrs 1 mo

      The Operations Manager is the senior executive onsite and person responsible for leadership of 200+ staff and accountable for $m in revenue and an EBITDA of $m pa. Safety, capital, manufacturing, leadership, supply chain

  • Supply Chain Manager at Carter Holt Harvey Woodproducts Australia
    Apr 2001 - Mar 2003 · 2 yrs

    Initially commencing as the Sales Manager (VIC, SA, WA), I progressed to the role of Supply Chain Manager. This role included responsibility for end-to-end supply chain, including warehouse and distribution across the Eastern Seaboard (in-house and 3PL), a large-scale inventory program and significant revenue generation.