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Sydney, Nsw, Au

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• Category planning and strategy• Business and stakeholder alignment• End-to-end strategic sourcing • RFP’s, RFQ’s, eReverse auctions• Supplier relationship and performance management• Sourcing life cycle management• Financial planning and reporting

• Lead category strategy development and implementation.• Manage and run strategic sourcing events, trade marketing plans and tenders. • Negotiate with suppliers to provide outcomes that deliver value to business stakeholders.• Supplier relationship management including governance framework, reporting and performance management.• Perform and manage range reviews, identify new suppliers and drive change in range.• Coordinate alignment between online, content and marketing teams to implement digital merchandising.

Sydney, Australia

• Responsible for building and implementing category strategy and market assessments.• Tendering and negotiation of the framework agreements and contracts.• Stakeholder engagement and collaboration.• Execution and Implementation of new contracts and change management.• Analysis and reporting of achieved savings and other performance measures.• Manage suppliers’ performance and activities, including KPI tracking, performance reviews etc.• Managing or contributing towards procurement category projects from time to time.

Sydney, Australia

• Manage category strategy, supply market, spend and ad-hoc analysis.• Support the tendering process, provide analytical support in tender evaluations and negotiations.• Manage suppliers’ performance, activities include KPI tracking, performance reviews etc.• Prepare category dashboards and performance management reports.

Sydney, Australia

Managing a full project team in engaging major retail clients in Sydney and Melbourne. Led a cost saving achievement of $7m, a 200% increase from 2016 and 300% from 2015.Annual profits and saving doubled for two consecutive years based on the expansion of current project scopes, development of new projects and stronger client/supplier relationships.

Melbourne, Australia

• Worked with senior managers, procurement, finance, legal and over 200 suppliers in a fast-paced retail environment. • Supervising, coaching and mentoring of Analyst.• Facilitation of tool development, data testing and implementation with the data and acquisition teams.• Creation of manuals and procedures for new review scopes.Achievements• Broke various monthly saving records at Coles Supermarket in 2014.• Assigned to lead the Liquorland account due to outstanding results.• Doubled the annual saving for the Liquorland account in only two month and developed major scopes three months after commencement.

Melbourne, Australia

• Role involves a large variety of responsibilities, including staff training, tool development, process design, facilitating teams’ claims sign off, vendor/client relationship management, claims follow ups and all claim backups for invoice purposes.• Establishing and developing key relationships with a variety of people from the client’s management team.• Identified saving by analysing large quantities of data and validating this through client systems such as SAP, Excel, RMS, microstrategy tools and a variety of in-house client specific software. Achievements:• Achieved over $2m in cost savings in nine months through investigative analysis.• Contributed towards 70% of group results in June which broke the Asia-Pacific record.• Recovered over $5m in savings for the Coles Supermarket business over two years.• Led the team to become the highest performing team in Melbourne.• Was the featured employee of the week and recognised globally in Nov 2013.• Selected to represent Australia for an organisational development executive program.

Auckland, New Zealand

Carry out financial analysis for client accounts statement, accounts payable cycle and expenditure cycle. Make recommendations for the investigated results which are based on technical and quantitative analysis. Key Achievements: Appointed to be the only Analyst to relocate from New Zealand to initiate the Coles project from the Melbourne office due to the outstanding performance and high growth potential.

Advanced Diploma In Procurement And Supply, Purchasing, Procurement/Acquisitions And Contracts Management, Advanced Diploma

Complete CIPS Diploma level with Distinction Average

Certified Public Accountants, Distinction

• Completed the CPA program via the study of two papers per semester. • Achieved a Distinction average and became recognised as the top.

Bcom/Ba, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Statistics And Taxation

Activities and Societies: Management Consulting Club,AIESEC, Beta Alpha Psi, Department of Economics Representative, Faculty of Business.