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Waikato, New Zealand

Ngatea

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- Responsible for the delivery of the optimised Sales Allocation Plan and optimised Global Ingredients Production Plan that maximises the value from every drop of the 18 billion litres Fonterra collects in New Zealand and processes across its 29 sites. - Responsible for ensuring Global Dairy Trade (GDT) volumes balance the optimised revenue objective with long term channel stability delivering credibility in the eyes of customers, financial institutions supporting futures markets, and a trusted reference underpinning Fonterra’s Milk Price and capital structure. - Responsible for leading the S&OP sub-stream as part of Fonterra’s Velocity business transformation, ensuring delivery of recurring and one-time targets to deliver incremental value to shareholders. - Responsible for leading, developing and talent management of the Optimisation Team. A member of the Sales & Operations Planning Leadership team, contributing to the team direction and culture.

- Fonterra has invested in a portfolio of globally sourced products to drive valuable demand opportunities and complement its NZ sourced product offering, in line with Fonterra’s V3 Strategy to - The core responsibility of the role (newly created) was managing the optimal allocation of Fonterra’s globally sourced portfolio of ingredients products. - This included establishing a process to consolidate the globally sourced supply availability; including supply, inventory, and sales plan changes.- From this identify global optimisation opportunities across the different product origins, including global ingredients demand opportunities and supply allocations substitutable with globally sourced supply.

New Zealand

Responsible for the development of competitive supply schemes that provide compelling supply options for farmers in a competitive marketKey commercial partner to the Milk Supply Team as well as the wider Co-operative Affairs business unit Oversight & people leadership of the NZ milk supply forecasting functionOversight and enhancement of the milk payments framework, including providing support and recommendations to a Fonterra Board sub-committeeSignificant involvement with the education of farmers & rural professionals for Trading Among Farmers, including presentations to large groups of these stakeholders throughout NZ.

New Zealand

Responsible for the preparation and coordination/management of the opening forecast F14 Milk Price around a time of high volatility in the market This involved engaging with a number of key stakeholders including the CEO, CFO and the Milk Price Panel (which includes Fonterra Directors) Responsible for the ongoing monitoring/management of the F13 Milk Price forecastPeople leadership of the Milk Price Analyst

Oversight & people leadership of the NZ milk supply forecasting functionProvided insightful analysis to a subcommittee of the Fonterra Board to support the development of milk payment signalsSignificantly involved with the development of milk supply schemes that provided compelling supply options for farmers in a competitive marketAccumulated competitor intelligence and provided insight on Fonterra's milk sourcing strategy. Supported the implementation of the Trading Among Farmers platform through analysis and insight.

Auckland

Worked on the development of milk supply schemes consistent with Fonterra's principlesAccumulated competitor intelligence and insightProvided insightful analysis to a Board sub-committee to support the development of milk payment signalsSupported the implementation of capital structure changes through analysis and insight

New Zealand

Responsible for monitoring Coca-Cola Oceania’s marketing spend and supporting Marketing Account ManagersCompleted month end accounting tasks including posting accruals and year-to-go forecastingReviewed actual spend with Marketing Account Managers and Marketing and Commercial Finance ManagerReported on budgeted and actual spend to Coca-Cola Australia

Responsible for month end reporting on trade funds for Lucozade, Ribena and Horlicks productsReviewed channel operating performance with National Account Managers and Business Unit Managers Returned confidence to stakeholders in the integrity of financial information by improving data quality and accuracy of reporting

Produced robust daily, weekly, and periodical reports on Sainsbury’s sales, waste, labour and shrinkage performance – communicated widely including to the CEO, CFO and DirectorsInitiated changes in data quality and integrity of reporting, and drove change in reporting processesReinvigorated spreadsheets and reporting methods to simplify and improve reporting practicesFacilitated transition of team from temporary staff to a team of permanent employees, including training new staff for the role and developing new desktop manuals to aid the new appointees in their own development.

United Kingdom

Responsible for the development and streamlining of monthly budget monitoring process Budget setting – salary calculations and development of budget setting templatesProvided technical support primarily in Excel, improving and streamlining budget-monitoring processes. This progressed to include training members of the Finance team to implement the new monitoring processes and improve on the usefulness of information.

New Zealand

Developed models to quantify the social and fiscal impacts of policy proposals – significant amount of work modeling the Government’s ‘Working for Families’ programmeForecasted the demand for social welfare payments and Crown expenditure using a range of statistical, econometric and judgmental techniquesProvided monthly monitoring reports on forecasts, explaining deviations from forecast, exploring reasons for emerging trends and giving estimates for the expected full year resultsAnswered queries from Ministers and other Government Departments/Ministries

B.Com. (Honours), Economics

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