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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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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

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.
• 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.
• 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

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

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)

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.
• Engagement manager of the SAP programme redesign, planning, budgeting and implementation approach of Orica, including global process design and fit for purpose programme

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

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)

Bbussci, Information Systems & Business Strategy

High School