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Brisbane City, Qld, Au

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Leading consulting projects to provide advice for commercial and government clients on a broad range of strategic issues and providing structured decision making tools and techniques. Have undertaken over 20 consulting projects with clients including:- Queensland Treasury- Queensland Health- Ports Australia- NSW Ports- North Queensland Bulk Ports- eleXsys- Queensland Rail- Queensland Department of Education- Queensland Public Trustee- Brisbane City Council- Queensland Department of Premier and Cabinet

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Leading consulting projects for GLG Consulting. GLG Consulting takes a phased approach with its projects to ensure the client is getting excellent value for money at each milestone. Have completed over 25 projects with clients including:- eHealth Queensland- Queensland Police Service- Metcash- Pure Battery Technologies- Redland City Council- Bowen River Utilities- Department of Transport and Main Roads Queensland - Mulgowie Farming Company- Queensland Fire and Emergency Service- City of Gold Coast Council- Adelaide Crows Football Club and Crows Children's Foundation- Australian Glass Group- BSE Maritime Solutions (purchased by Austal)Projects specialising in:- Financial, operational and strategic planning- Business and functional reviews and opportunity identification- Developing actionable and achievable improvement plans- Transformation and performance improvement - Business analysis and logistics optimisation- Process implementation- System implementation- Pricing, vendor management and contract negotiation - Line management support

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Brisbane, Australia

Responsible for all areas of the Rocla Poles and Sleepers businesses, Australia's premier manufacturer of concrete communication poles, electrical transmission and distribution poles and rail sleepers. Managed relationships and negotiated agreements with largest customers. Successfully introduced S&OP and production planning processes, sales incentive program and launched CRM tool, resulting in increased revenue by 31%, increased production by 15% and increased EBIT by 36%.

Brisbane, Australia

Led Fletcher's company-wide Accelerate transformation program across its Australian and New Zealand Building Products and Distribution business units, including Tradelink, Stramit, Rocla, Iplex, Fletcher Insulation, Tasman Sinkware, GBC Winstone, Humes, Firth, Winstone Wallboards and Tasman Insulation, delivering in excess of $200m of annualised cost, efficiency and customer driven benefits. Managed a team of business analysts to identify and implement significant value adding opportunities, and provide governance and structure for the Accelerate program.Created and implemented the major project governance and reporting model to ensure that key capex and strategic projects were properly set up, governed and managed, resulting in the successful roll out of key major projects (>$5m in size) in the division.Developed and facilitated capability building program in hard and soft transformation and change skills (consisting of 12 modules), which was delivered in person and remotely to in excess of 1,000 employees company-wide, with outstanding feedback from participants.Developed the 5 year digital roadmap for the Building Products division, including core system upgrades and add-ons, CRM, new technologies and customer interfacing apps.

Sydney, Australia

Led, coached and mentored senior business and operational leaders to implement transformation programs at a number of Australia's largest and most successful companies to enable them to prosper throughout the economic cycle. All of these Transformation programs resulted in significant improvements in financial performance, productivity, organisational capability, employee engagement and culture. Leadership roles in Transformation programs across the resources, oil and gas and power industries resulted in combined recurring savings in excess of $5 billion per annum.

Brisbane, Australia

- Led Cement Australia's Strategy, Engineering, Projects and Procurement functions- Full P&L responsibility for Cornwall Coal & Geocycle business units (combined revenue A$60m+)- Reported directly to Cement Australia's CEO- Member of Cement Australia's Senior Executive Team- Managed team of 150+ people- Led and executed 10 year business strategy, reshaping Cement Australia’s position to move from local manufacturing to a mix of local and imported product, managing the organisational redesign and customer realignment along with closure and disposal of 2 cement plants and approval of A$150 greenfield plant at Port KemblaCement Australia is Australia's largest producer and distributor of cement, fly ash, and slag. It is jointly owned by Hanson and Holcim and has turnover of approx A$1bn. Cornwall Coal is a subsidiary of Cement Australia based in Tasmania that produces and sells 0.5Mt of coal per annum from underground and open cut operations. Geocycle is a subsidiary of Cement Australia that processes and blends in excess of 30kt of industrial waste per annum to use as an alternative fuel in the cement making process.

Brisbane, Australia

- Full P&L responsibility for Geocycle business ($25m+ revenue)- Doubled Geocycle's EBIT within 2 years- Led Cement Australia’s Technical Engineering Support and Procurement functions- Reported directly to General Manager – Manufacturing- Directly managed team of 80+ people- 2IC of Cement Australia’s Manufacturing division (500+ employees)Geocycle is a wholly owned subsidiary of Cement Australia, that transforms waste generated by industry into a fuel source in the cement making process,. I led Geocycle through a period of significant growth, cultural change and process improvement, resulting in a doubling of revenue and EBIT within 2 years.

Sydney, Australia

- Managed Cement Australia's A$100m+ per annum capital expenditure portfolio - Led company-wide annual strategic review and planning process- Developed and presented business cases for Board approval of key investments and strategies- Direct report to Cement Australia's CEO- Key influencer and thought leader across the business

Sydney, Australia

- Led Strategy Development and Planning for Australia / New Zealand business- Led and transformed Supply Chain and Marketing functions- Reported directly to GM - Australia / New Zealand- Member of the Australia / New Zealand Executive Team- Launched Linea weatherboard in Australia, running multi-media campaign including television, print and billboards

Sydney, Australia

• Conducted strategic sourcing diagnostic for Australian multi-media company, identifying A$20-30 million of potential cost savings• Advised multi-national telecommunications equipment provider on partnering strategy for major project bid

Sydney, Australia

Manager in the Resources Banking division, managing a loan portfolio to resources, manufacturing and utility companies. Managed the bank’s distressed loan portfolio, successfully recouping over 95% of value from distressed loans and assets by implementing innovative value adding strategies.

Sydney, Australia

Graduate for major Australian based multi-national building products company (now operating in Australia as Hanson). Six monthly rotations included head office roles in corporate treasury, accounting, taxation and internal audit, and accounting role at a manufacturing plant

Master Of Business Administration (Mba) (Hons), Strategic Management, Finance, Palmer Scholar

Activities and Societies: Wharthogs Rugby Club, Wharton Crew, ANZ Club

Bec (Hons), Accounting, Economics

Activities and Societies: House President - St John's College, Intervarsity Rowing 1988-1991

Cpa Qualification, Accounting

Graduate Diploma, Applied Finance And Investments

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