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Brisbane City, Qld, Au

Perth Airport, Western Australia, Au

Brisbane, Qld, Au

Providing Technology commercial advisory services

Brisbane, Qld, Au

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

• Managed the BHP Software Asset Management team. This included team members across BHP regions as well as an outsourced portfolio management team. Owned and managed relationships with a number of Software services providers and resellers (Insight, Flexera, SoftwareOne, AWS, NTT, A2K)• Owned a USD$200M+ budget across 2000+ apps, 750+ budget lines, 500+ vendors, all BHP regions• Delivered over USD$120M in cost reduction over 2 years while driving process transformation and improvement. These achievements were called out by the Chief Technical Officer in an ELT Townhall as driving significant value to BHP• Lead a number of strategic negotiations on BHP's behalf, including SAP, Microsoft, Miro, Autodesk, Apptio, Oracle, Solace, Flexera, Snowflake, RedHat and many others across the portfolio• Rationalised a number of processes and drove improvement across budgeting, forecasting, marketplace models, reseller models, approval thresholds, app owner engagement, reporting, cost transparency , accounting practices and data• Drove a significant change in culture where Software was no longer considered "free" and where all of Technology and the business understood the true cost of software• Regular Group Technology Officer and Technology Leadership Team engagement due to the size and strategic value of the software portfolio to BHP• Managed the Technology Partner Performance cadence with BHP's top 10 Technology vendors across software, hardware and services. This involved routine engagement with key vendors across the BHP Technology portfolio to ensure performance was managed, KPIs met and collaboration opportunities taken advantage of• During February 2023 to July 2023 supported the M&A portfolio to drive Technology synergies across BHP's M&A agenda. This included cost out identification, quantification and strategy development in conjunction with key stakeholders• Received outstanding Employee Perception Survey results across my time leading teams as a Manager

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

• Developed a Technology Category strategy to support work allocation, contract allocation, demand management and contract management• Developed a global OT category strategy including a number of Key OT vendors. Lead the negotiation and execution of a global agreement with Aveva and supported ABB and Schneider's strategies and agreements• Led the transition of low value, low risk contracts to BHP's Global Business Services Teams• Negotiated or managed a broad spectrum of Technology contracts including Caterpillar, Komatsu, OSISoft, Alastri, RPM, Radlink, Motorola, Infosys, Accenture and many more

London, Gb

• Executed a multimillion dollar sourcing and contract execution process for a major business and IT transformation program, including system integration, IT services and cloud services at a household name Australian consumer products company. Additional activities included cloud value case development, vendor governance implementation and IT strategy development to support long term contract management and governance• Led a major FMCG business transformation (6 work streams, 40+ team members) to support the delivery of a major SAP S/4HANA business transformation. Work streams include Source to Pay, Forecast to Fulfil, Order to Cash, Record to Report, Hire to Retire and Integrated Business Planning• Supporting operating model alignment, process design and system implementation across the supply chain to support improved forecasting, manufacturing and procurement performance

Brisbane, Queensland, Au

• Category management of indirect categories including operations and maintenance• CP Operational Excellence, including Tender Board, governance, controls, assurance and compliance• Requisition to Pay (RtP) and master data operations, including managing outsourcing service provider• CP applications (SAP, ProCon Contract Management System, supplier prequalification, SAS analytics) reporting and analytics• Key advisor and functional support to CP General Manager, Arrow Tender Board and business stakeholders• Managed functional budget, reporting, risk register, governance and knowledge management processes• Managed day to day CP operational activities and business supportKey Achievements• Promotion to CP Manager within Arrow Energy (job grade increase)• Led operations and maintenance and indirects categories (maintenance, corporate services, environment and ICT) portfolio• Lead supplier cost reduction programme leading to $25M savings• Lead contract turnaround time reduction programme leading to significant process simplification• Lead functional category management review and design leading to a new organisational model• Delivered targeted savings and operational requirements in operations and indirects category portfolio

Brisbane, Queensland, Au

• Management of RtP, master data and outsourcing service provider contract (Accenture central purchasing, master data, sourcing, material requirements planning and inventory optimisation)• Contracting and Procurement risk management, governance, reporting and analytics• HSE management and supplier prequalification, including cross industry collaboration• Procon Contract Management System management• Process improvement and value realisationKey Achievements• Streamline of reporting processes and analytics to meet CP and business requirements• Delivery of functional simplification and standardisation initiatives cross CP processes• Lead the delivery of positive shareholder audit outcome (Shell and Petrochina audit team of pre and post award contract management including materials management)

Brisbane, Queensland, Au

• RtP and master data accountability including outsourced service provider management• Material Requirements Planning accountability, including transport and Logistics integrationKey Achievements• Increased PO compliance by 20% and payment on time by 14% in 7 months• Increase stock turnover by 50% in 8 months• Renegotiation of purchasing and MRP services with a significant FTE saving and rate reduction• Restructuring of RtP teams, processes and reporting delivering significant improvements in process and customer service (simplification, education and communication)• Addressed issues relating to controls, process failures and procurement bypass• Lead initiatives to decrease inventory by 15% in 3 months and improve key processes related to supply chain planning and business integration• Defined MRP processes, structure and optimisation model for future success

London, Gb

• Senior Manager in Melbourne (2011) and Brisbane (2012) Supply Chain practice • Utilised by EY Portfolio and Project Management and IT Advisory service lines on a number of engagementsKey Achievements• Assessed the procurement operating model, procurement capability and procurement maturity at Western Power (utilities service provider)• Engagement manager of the business impact assessment of the regional rollout of a global SAP implementation at Kraft (FMCG) for enterprise wide processes• Engagement manager of an independent peer review of Orica (global chemical manufacturer) of a global SAP implementation process blueprint, as well as responsible for reviewing the supply chain management and master data processes• Engagement manager of the SAP programme redesign, planning, budgeting and implementation approach of Orica, including global process design and fit for purpose programme• Engagement manager of a quarterly programme audit of an SAP implementation at a Fonterra Australia (FMCG), including project management, change management and process impact• Led an engagement to redesign the procurement operating model, develop a procurement capability model and define an implementation roadmap at the Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads for category management • Seconded to BHP Manganese (GEMCO) as the Supply Process Lead for the Australian deployment of a global SAP rollout consisting of the implementation of end to end Supply Chain processes

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

• Senior Managing Consultant in the Managed Business Process Services on the Telstra integrated account (Top 10 global accounts for IBM)• Advisory, strategy and delivery role in supporting operations of Telstra’s procurement outsourcing and supply chain transformation programme• Subject matter expert on new initiatives, subsequent outsourcing phases and supply chain transformationKey Achievements • Worked with the business teams to drive process compliance and adhere to both IBM and Telstra procurement guidelines and controls• Broad experience in IBM applications including SAP, Emptoris, Maximo and IBM bespoke applications• Programme management of procurement application development and implementation of savings tracking tool

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

• Managing Consultant in the Managed Business Process Services on the Telstra integrated account (Top 10 global accounts for IBM)• Advisory, strategy and delivery role in supporting operations of Telstra’s procurement outsourcing and supply chain transformation programme• Subject matter expert on new initiatives, subsequent outsourcing phases and supply chain transformationKey Achievements • Worked with the business teams to drive process compliance and adhere to both IBM and Telstra procurement guidelines and controls• Broad experience in IBM applications including SAP, Emptoris, Maximo and IBM bespoke applications• Programme management of procurement application development and implementation of savings tracking tool

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

• Senior Consultant in the IBM’s GBS procurement practiceKey Achievements• Promoted to Senior Consultant in IBM, after the US$3.5B sale of PwC Consulting to IBM • Completed PwC/ IBM Seven Keys project management training• Full value procurement and strategic sourcing at British American Tobacco (FMCG) South Africa• Led SAP SRM stream at Mondi Paper South Africa (manufacturing) • Led the Self Service Procurement stream for Maersk’s FACT SAP implementation project (Copenhagen, Denmark), including catalogue content management and SRM• Awarded Service Excellence Award by IBM GBS South Africa for contributions to the practice• Awarded Bravo Award by Maersk Account Team for contributions to the account

Gb

• Consultant in the PwC SAP Practice with materials management and supply chain focus• Consultant in the PwC Full Value Procurement Practice Key Achievements• Joined PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting after receiving final year university bursary• Completed Introduction to Consultancy course in Annecy, France.• Completed SAP Materials Management training in Philadelphia, USA• Materials Management implementation at De Beers Marine (Mining), WR Grace Construction (Manufacturing) and Shoprite Checkers (Retail)• Process and systems analysis at a major retail outsourcing service provider, including logistics and warehouse management processes• Commerce One eProcurement solution rollout at the Naspers Group (Media and Entertainment)

Bbussci, Information Systems & Business Strategy

High School