Mars’ Australian business began with selling the iconic MARS® bar in Australia in 1954, followed by the launch of PAL® and WHISKAS® in 1965. Following the building of the Wodonga factory in 1966, the growth across the four business segments has resulted in six manufacturing sites across Australia and New Zealand, where we employ more than 2,000 Associates.

Leader for Mergers & Acquisitions , Divestments, and Licensing in Asia

Finance Head for Global Skin Care (SK-II) with full P&L ownership and leadership responsibility for strategy, commercial choices, reporting / forecasting, business analytics, organization development (~30 people) and internal controls.Key business partner to General Manager, Marketing Director and Supply Chain DirectorGlobal Scope: Key markets Japan, Korea, Greater China, ASEAN, Western Europe, North America and Middle East

As Finance Director held responsibility for strategy, commercial operations delivery, customer negotiations and promotional planning and analysis, cost control (trade spend and overheads) and working capital managment, organization development (F&A department ~20 people), local statutory accounts, tax planning and optimization, and internal controls. From end 2009 took additional responsibility as Supply Chain Director with responsibility for logistics, procurement, and product customization. Led organization redesign and implemented restructuring to achieve cost and operational improvment targets.Key partner of General Manager, Marketing Director and Sales Director

Held responsibility for strategy, commercial operations delivery, customer negotiations and cost control (trade spend and overheads) for Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand & Singapore. Team of ~8 people located in 5 countries.

Led business planning, reporting, analysis and performance management for Fabric and Home Care Category across India, ASEAN (Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand Malaysia and Singapore) and Australia / New Zealand.

Led supply chain optimization, analysis of new supply chain investment and capital expenditure, delivery of cost reduction project portfolio, working capital managment and internal controls. Geographic scope Asia (China, India, ASEAN and ANZ)

Promotion analysis, customer joint business plan development, recievables management, forecasting, budgeting and internal controls.