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Senior leadership member, leading a passionate team of confectionery innovation experts specialising in concept development, design, external partnerships and insights & prototyping.• Analysed data, utilised commercial awareness and developed Innovation Insights, Trends & Opportunity Areas.• Consumer facing digitalisation, including Al, design, product innovation & integration into business processes.• Product & Concept development, design, visualisation & prototyping.• Built and maintained trusting relationships leading to successful and influential external Partnerships including joint business plans (start ups, retailers, external partners, schools/universities).• Led newly formed Front End innovation team, understood needs, set expectations, mentored, coached, monitored and enabled ownership, development and improved performance.• Filed patent for non-HFSS low saturated fat & low sugar confectionery solution• Designed and built physical space & provided strategic leadership of The Accelerator incubator program for Confectionery R&D from idea to shop test.• Identified improvement area and launched The Exchange - annual supplier & colleague forum which drove innovation partnerships.• Ownership of Digital Transformation business driver, focused on consumer impact & innovation process transformation.

Innovation owner for Nestlé Confectionery team.Experiential Innovation Lead• Creation, development and operation of world first KitKat "Create Your Break" concept pop-up experiences.• Rapid innovation of physical process and digital system for consumer customisation at scale of KitKat.• KitKat Studio - Best Experiential (Bronze) - Festival of Media (Asia), 2016.Business Innovation Champion• Lead development of prototyping model for confectionery division, new innovation methods & resources and champion for innovation process cutting 12 week process to 1 week.

Business lead for Nestlé Australia Confectionery Direct to Consumer businesses-extending Nestlé's market leading brands in new channels, acting with start up mindset. KitKat Chocolatory• Launch and operation of 2 boutiques in Melbourne & Sydney, including boutique design, construction, fit out and launch. Creative development & execution, development of product & packaging items, collateral, visual merchandising development and installation, boutique operations, marketing communications, agency & stakeholder management.• Led technical & creative build and execution kitkat.com.au B2B & B2C webshop (Magento), achieving YoY growth• Conceptualise & execute brand collaborations, PR events & media activities, including Australian’s first Facebook Live Shopping execution, achieving significant double digit improvement in brand health metrics for KitKat brand• kitkat.com.au Best eCommerce Solution (Silver) - Asia eCommerce Awards 2020.• KitKat Chocolatory Sydney Boutique - Interior Design Hospitality on the Go (Gold) - Driven x Design - Sydney Design Awards 2020.Allen's Lollysmiths• Conceptualisation & development of Allen's Lollysmiths - direct to consumer offer for Allen's Lollies, across both online and seasonal experiential pop up boutiques, including strategy, boutique design, construction and launch.• Development of creative and branding assets, working with creative agency to deliver branding & creative across 30+ new products, collateral, media & communications.• Development and launch of allenslollies.com.au.

Innovation owner for Nestlé Confectionery team.Experiential Innovation Lead• Creation, development and operation of world first KitKat "Create Your Break" concept pop-up experiences.• Rapid innovation of physical process and digital system for consumer customisation at scale of KitKat.• KitKat Studio - Best Experiential (Bronze) - Festival of Media (Asia), 2016.Business Innovation Champion• Lead development of prototyping model for confectionery division, new innovation methods & resources and champion for innovation process cutting 12 week process to 1 week.

Innovation lead for Nestle Chocolate team, primarily supporting the KITKAT team. Project leader for creation, development & execution of world first KITKAT Studio Concept Store- manage multiple internal senior stakeholders across supporting functions on expedited timeline- lead creative agency through creation, development, execution & day to day management of project, including staff hiring & training, operations & process guideline development & execution, creative development & approval, store design, - work with internal factory team to develop 14 new products, sourcing new materials from numerous sites- management of PR agency to deliver highly impactful campaign, using well known brand ambassadorLead in creating relationships with local creative & design schools - Enmore Design School & Billy Blue College- work with program teachers & students to develop work against a live brief for KITKAT brand, including concepts, artwork & prototypes- work with business partners on industrialization of concepts to solve business problems. Lead 5G new product development project- lead design thinking creative agency & Nestle stakeholders through platform development, ideation & concept development within prescriptive framework to create concepts with opportunity to be industrialised within current & future capabilities. -

1. Responsibility for Wonka and Club chocolate brandsMarketing leader working with a cross functional team to bring to life the Wonka & Club chocolate brands in Oceania, including brand strategy, product & packaging development and the illustrious "Wonka's Golden Ticket" promotion. 2. Pillar lead for chocolate marketing team on NCE (continuous excellence program) Coaching team through action orientated weekly meetings and using structured problem solving

1. Responsibility for UNCLE TOBYS ROLL-UPS and MILO Snack Bars brands#budget management and phasing for portfolio#development of 3 - 5 year strategy for fruit snacking portfolio#lead on ideation, development & validation of 5 year NPD pipleline for UNCLE TOBYS Fruit Snacking#project lead on ROLL-UPS formulation renovation & NPD development project in market September 2013#project lead on 2013 ROLL-UPS packaging refresh & roll out based on brand essence and proposition2. Lead on UNCLE TOBYS Snacks in store activation for key events - NPD, Back to School 2014. #project management including budget management, key visual development, oversee POS development, trade kits, sampling execution#work with cross functional team to deliver best in class executions

Responsibility for KIT KAT CHUNKY subrand, including communications, new product development, development of in store executions.# lead cross functional teams to develop new products and best in class in-store executions - including KIT KAT CHUNKY 3 Choc Mint & channel exclusive CMA, Limited Edition KIT KAT White products, Chocolate bar Summer Activation & channel exclusive CMA# responsibility for budget management and SAP P2P champion for team# lead development of packaging for new products# assist in 3Y pipeline ideation and validation for KIT KAT CHUNKY

6 month rotation with Nestle Australia Confectionery & Snacks CCSD team as part of 2 year Commercial Graduate program.

6 month rotation with Nestle Australia Confectionery & Snacks Chocolate Marketing team as part of 2 year Commercial Graduate program.

12 month rotation with Nestle Australia Grocery Field Sales team as part of 2 year Commercial Graduate program.