Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Result-oriented and business-minded commercial planning professional with 10+ years of experience delivering value through integrated planning and analytics. Proven track record of combining insights, ingenuity, and rationale with strong collaboration and leadership to support strategic product growth and increased operational efficiency, empowering sales regions, customers, logistics, and manufacturing for success.
Oversee the end-to-end innovation pipeline to ensure it is in alignment with Fonterra’s growth ambitions and in accordance with cost guardrails. • Drove simplification across enterprise metrics, governance framework, and management system for innovation, aligning across a diverse set of portfolio owners.
Responsible for the sales allocation and production plan for 2.2 million tonnes of Fonterra’s ingredients business worth ~NZ $900 million EBIT. • Senior leadership for a diverse planning team of 19 staff. • Delivered a 27%-point improvement in start-up DIFOT through a cross-functional focus on inventory requirements, sales commitment management, and clarity on priority manufacture. • Supported the delivery of ~NZ $360m of working capital savings in FY24 through the tighter management of inventory from production to sales.
Accountable for the 24-month sales allocation and production plan of 500,000 tonnes of Fonterra's strategic consumer and foodservice products. • Managed a team of six: four planners, each responsible for a strategic planning portfolio, a Process Improvement Lead, and a Market Integration Lead. • Leadership through several change events, including a SAP system roll-out, a significant strategic reorganisation, and a global pandemic. • Team recognition from senior market leaders for flexibility, support, and collaboration provided to the sales regions through Covid-19, while also minimising surplus inventory risk. • Owner of the C&FS Supply Review (IBP meeting), which aligns business-wide stakeholders on the 24-month plan for the strategic Consumer and Foodservice portfolio and drives actions to close gaps against demand and support further portfolio growth. • Delivered PowerBI dashboards to improve insights generated from the planning process and significantly reduce reporting workload.