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Melbourne, Australia

Working in the Legal & Risk team, responsible for the global insurance program, business continuity planning including identification and mitigation of business continuity risks in consultation with site management and external risk engineers. Also responsible for operation of a Singapore based Captive and engagement with both reinsurance and insurance markets in London and Australia. Achievements Include:• Working with Berkshire Hathaway risk engineers and production site personnel to identify and mitigate business continuity risks globally.• Preparation and implementation of a revised Business Continuity Planning process for production sites globally.• Preparation and implementation of COVID-19 Business Continuity Planning for business units globally.• Preparation and implementation of a global product recall procedure to ensure that the right people are engaged at the right time to focus on efficiently mitigating risk.• Review and alignment of global fronting programs to enhance insurance and tax regulatory compliance.• Presentations to and engagement with Lloyd’s and Australian based underwriters for all insurance classes, particularly property, liability and D&O.• Leading a clearly defined, efficient insurance data collection and verification process for Nufarm subsidiaries globally.• Minimising the impact of unfavourable insurance market pricing cycles and insurance claims.• Effectively controlling the relationship with our global insurance brokers to ensure that they add value.• Reviewing insurance requirements within contracts, proposed acquisitions, and capex projects.• Preparation and delivery of Board and Executive level presentations.

Melbourne, Australia

Working in a contract risk management project role in consultation with the Group Resilience & Risk team (NZ) during a time of change at Fonterra. Achievements include:• Formulation and implementation of a new Incident Response Plan for the Australian business.• Delivery of risk management training to the Australian leadership team (Directors and General Managers).• Rewriting the head office Facility Recovery Plan.• Preparation of a bespoke BCP for a new national hypoxic environment distribution centre.• Updated and improved Product Recall & Withdrawal procedures.• Review and updating of BCP’s for all production sites.• Preparation of a critical risk register.

South Melbourne

Insurance & Risk Manager – Australia /New ZealandApril 2009 – Nov 2016Working in the Legal & Risk team with responsibility for the group insurance program and operational risk management. Working with all levels of the business to protect all assets, business continuity and company reputation across 12 manufacturing plants and various owned and non-owned distribution centres. Achievements Included:• Working in consultation with external risk engineers to identify and mitigate business interruption risks. • Creation of Business Continuity Plans.• Working as a business partner for stakeholders at all levels across many projects ranging from construction, operation and closure sites, marketing promotions and sales activities to ensure risks are identified and treated appropriately.• Leading the crisis management team from first notification through to closing reports, including liaising with regulators and Police.• Delivery of training to key personnel in Australia and New Zealand.• Creation of a comprehensive group general insurance program together with a simplified budget process.• Minimising the impact of unfavourable insurance market pricing cycles and insurance claims.• Efficient resolution of major insurance claims.• Effectively controlling the relationship with insurance brokers to ensure that they add value.• Reviewing insurance requirements within contracts, proposed acquisitions, and capex projects.• Creation of Executive level quarterly risk reporting to provide certainty that key risks across the business were owned, monitored and appropriately mitigated.• Preparation and delivery of Board and Executive level presentations.

Melbourne, Australia

Responsible for general insurance, WorkCover self-insurance and operational risk management for Kraft’s Australian and New Zealand operations.Achievements include:• Creation of a comprehensive group general insurance program together with simplified budgets.• Leading a clearly defined, efficient insurance data collation process.• Working in consultation with FM risk engineers and site management to identify and mitigate potential business interruption risks• Preparation of business continuity plans.• Working with the crisis management team.• Investigation of Australia’s largest product recall that resulted in a $64M insurance claim.• Minimising the impact of unfavourable insurance market pricing cycles and insurance claims.• Effective resolution of major insurance claims. • Provision of insurance advices to Kraft businesses in the Asia Pacific region.• Qualifying Kraft for its Victorian WorkCover self-insurance licence.• Ensuring the financial viability of self-insurance by creating, implementing and maintaining efficient and effective systems of work.• Designing technology solutions to automate many processes, increasing efficiency and reducing the chances of careless data entry errors.