Singapore
Highly motivated and dynamic professional with 12 years of expertise in Trading, Procurement, Supply Chain Strategy Development, Supply Demand Planning, and Manufacturing Operations across diverse industries. Specialize in procurement and category management across direct and indirect spend. Able to meet tight deadlines and consistently exceeds performance through team development and stakeholder management. Possess strong analytical and business acumen to inform senior management of key trends and end-to-end value creation opportunities. A team player and leader who is able to communicate effectively across cultures and different levels of the organization.
• Responsible for end-end process of cocoa beans origin purchase to delivery to factories across APAC. • Maintain and develop business relations with a global supplier base, managing annual spend of ~USD 600mio. • Managing a team of 4 pax, supervising contract management, shipment, on-arrival quality, invoicing & payment.
Established key 3PL supplier relationships and collaborated with senior management to develop and execute logistics strategies, focusing on end-to-end tender processes at regional and global levels. • Managed projects and logistics spending exceeding CHF 50 million as the regional logistics point of contact. • Crafted a logistics strategy for APAC, achieving y-o-y savings of CHF 400k - 900k per annum across a 3-year period. • Fostered productive collaborations with internal stakeholders, resulting in precise market-based product pricing.
Develop and execute South Asia strategic sourcing plans for logistics, fostering key internal-stakeholder and strategic supplier relationships to deliver yearly cost-saving targets. Manage annual spend of ~€60m. • Streamlined logistics through, footprint rationalization, supplier development, robust contracts, and internal stakeholder management. • Led end-to-end regional logistics projects, including project identification, RFQ process, cost analysis, supplier negotiations, and contractual negotiations.
• Responsible for the site's production scheduling, optimising manufacturing line efficiency, inventory management of work-in-progress (WIP), supply chain liaison to the global supply chain team. • In-depth understanding of overall manufacturing processes and help drive various business process improvement opportunities, incorporating standard project management methodology. • Developed and maintained dashboards to effectively manage various production metrics and indices.
• Responsible for supervising a group of 12 technicians and managing daily production testing operations to meet production targets. • Identify manufacturing bottlenecks and worked on improvement projects to resolve them, utilising the 4M (Man, Machine, Method, Material) and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) methodologies. • Led the department's continuous improvement task force, focusing on improving workforce productivity.
• Worked on the special process engineering team, specialising in the development of new repair process for aircraft engine parts. • Developed new engineering process to sort waste materials for recycling purposes.
• Assisted a team of 7 events coordinators in organising material supply, venue installation and tear down of overlays and interior fit-outs. • Client serving - Provided technical solutions for clients throughout the 8-day show duration.