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Highly skilled international business executive with extensive experience leading organizations to deliver outcomes aligned to commercial, operational and customer expectations. Focus on a culture of ownership and accountability, building strong empowered teams working with capable processes and business tools.• Broad experience in all aspects of Operational Management within global corporate companies and SMEs.• Senior Project Management in major complex projects up to $15M – addressing diverse stakeholder goals and objectives.• Financial Control & Performance Management - Optimise business performance focusing on overall operating costs, manufacturing efficiency and product portfolio management; Reporting and analysis of key financial data including data based at product, group and business division levels reporting directly to Executive Level and on regular occasions regional and board levels.• Commercial Acumen - Preparation of tenders, license agreements and contract review across diverse industries.• Auditing / Quality Assurance - Extensive problem solving; Drive Continuous Improvement Process (CIP); Introduced and delivered Quality Systems according to international standards, independently certified.• Stakeholder Engagement - Extensive presentation work within public and private audiences; Broad experience with sales strategy, marketing and business development including various sales capacities to OEM customers, government bodies, infrastructure groups and independent dealer networks.• Workflow Planning & Resource Optimisation - Effective planning and tracking of projects; Extensive experience with multi-site operations/projects and associated challenges of multi-cultural work environments; Strategic development and management of an organisation’s infrastructure needs including human capital management, systems, procedures, IT, OH&S and environment; Supply chain management, Stock Control.• Strategic Planning - Develop and deliver objectives aligned to overall strategic corporate goals; Develop long term strategic plans; Establish and manage operations to diverse KPI’s; Create empowered Project Managers and teams by establishing structured project accountability; Manufacturing Planning and Processes: focused on Lean Thinking.• Sales Leadership - Create sales strategies, driving sales for organisations; Set sales objectives, deriving marketing programs off the back of those targets; sustainable sales growth in every role, embracing innovations, marketing and putting good systems in place.

Listed skills include Continuous Improvement, Control Systems Design, Executive Management, Project Management, and 46 others.