Kilsyth South, Victoria, Australia
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.
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
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
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.
Providing strategic management advice across supply chain, procurement and business planning.
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.
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.
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
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.