Tokyo, Japan
Senior business and people manager with extensive supply chain, procurement, logistics, commercial, and general management experience in Japan, Australia, and the Asia-Pacific region, across sectors such as logistics/shipping, manufacturing, automotive, and management consulting. Track record of leading and developing diverse teams, expanding business and building partnerships, negotiating commercial contracts, driving cost reduction and leading business transformation. Japanese PR; Australian Citizen and Swedish/EU National
Heading the order fulfillment, sales support and inside sales functions at Wallenius Wilhelmsen Japan. Key sales and customer management role to lead the local team (10 fantastic people) and help drive the new group-wide Customer Growth agenda in the APAC region, as member of the local management team. Ensuring order and contract fulfillment excellence, building inside sales capability, marketing/promotion efforts, and overall sales and documentation support. Most recently (2025/26), responsible to integrate Japan operations of a newly acquired shipping line into global standard order management and customer fulfillment processes. Delivered on-time-in full.
Head of the procurement function in region Asia-Pacific (Japan, Korea, China, India, Southeast Asia, Australia, NZ & the Pacific region), with dual reporting lines to CFO APAC (Tokyo) and Head of Global Procurement (Norway). Responsible to drive all strategic sourcing, contracting and supplier management activities in the region, e.g. port ＆cargo operations, agents, maritime services, terminals, vehicle processing, land-based logistics and indirect procurement. Lead negotiator on regional high-impact contracts with strategic suppliers. Hired to build this new position, processes, team, mandates and relationships from scratch. Concurrently, global business expert and process leader for new group-wide Purchase-to-Pay (P2P) process and system roll-out.
Procurement and supplier management responsible for the NEAO region (Japan, Korea, Australia & NZ). Process driver during implementation of global procurement and purchase-to-pay processes and SAP roll-out across the region. Responsible to implement indirect spend procurement across corporate functions across the region. Regional head of procurement role.
Head of Tetra Pak Japan's procurement and supplier management for packaging material, capital equipment, logistics and indirect purchasing. Leading both direct material and indirect material & services procurement segments. Developed supply strategies and managed replenishment for base materials to our Japanese factory. Lead local team and manage negotiations and overall business relationships with leading Japanese material suppliers, chemical companies, logistics companies and trading houses. Globally responsible for supplier relationships with Japanese specialty coating suppliers.
Managing project office for supply chain and logistics improvement projects at MMC's Japanese automotive plants. Inbound parts supply and factory logistics, moving towards a 3PL set-up. Collaborating with overseas MMC plants and DaimlerChrysler on global sourcing projects.
• Strategy and business transformation consulting • Advising clients in ICT (information, communication and telecom) industries (Australia). • Project Office responsible for the launch of Virgin Mobile in the Australian market (Australia) • Team leader on change management & system implementation project at mobile telecom operator (Vodafone Japan -> SoftBank) (Japan)
Conference producer in charge of the Australian telecommunication events portfolio at global business conference company.