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Launceston, Tasmania, Australia

Full time retirement wasn't for me. lots of Projects going on at the moment at TIR , so I returned to help out where needed on a casual basis.

Launceston, Tasmania, Australia

Responsible for IGA and other Independent Banner Promotions. Lead the implementation of TIR's Strategic Plan. Lead and Manage all aspects of TIR's Insights program.

Launceston, Australia

Leading TIR in their strategic transformation plan over the next 3 years to become the lead example of successful independent retailer co-operatives.

Launceston, Australia

Management responsibility of planning and administrating promotional activities to provide a balanced and effective advertising structure for IGA Supermarkets and other retail banners.Foster the development of long-term promotions strategy. Direct and undertake marketing, merchandising and ranging initiatives. Provide guidance and support to all staff in the Merchandise and Marketing Departments on promotion and advertising issues.Instigated and sponsoring TIR's 3 year Strategic Plan and Business Intelligence ( Qlik ) implementation.

Woolworth'S Head Office, Bella Vista, Sydney

Manage the Indent and Local DC Replenishment teams, to ensure stock continuity, meeting KPI’s on supply rate and days stock on hand.Manage the constant flow of stock, out of the DC’s to help control capacity issues. Foster the re-engineering of the DC replenishment processes to meet current and future needs, covering people, process and technology. Develop a new suite of reporting solutions that give greater vision to current stock status, promotional preparation, and event planning.In conjunction with project teams provide major management input to new replenishment solution designs for current replenishment system upgrade.

Woolworth'S Head Office, Bella Vista, Sydney

Manage the ongoing availability and development of data analysis and support solutions for the Replenishment group. Manage the business intelligence and performance reporting, KPI and stock budgeting for the replenishment and logistic stakeholders. Determination and publishing of replenishment KPIs for Buying & Marketing's management and logistics executive requirements.In conjunction with Finance, preparation and managing of the corporate stock budgeting for Supermarkets and Liquor (combined total in the vicinity of $1.5 Billion). Lead engagement of replenishment when required to provide input or provide lead design in cross over projects and system enhancements.Manage design, testing and implementation on new Business Objects platform (SAP). The delivery on new suite of reports and management packs exceeded project expectations. Successful development and roll out of new 'WOWlink' Woolworth’s upgraded supplier web portal for performance data exchange and communication.Achieved corporate stock reduction targets of 1 day down each year.National service level KPIs exceeded targets 4 out of 5 years including a record year in 2009.

Strathfield Office, Sydney, Australia

This project was tasked with creation on the two national distribution centres in Sydney and Melbourne; each DC would have a range of 8000 slower selling SKUs linked to their closet source of supply.Responsibilities:Development of process and obtaining data for SKU ranging and transition between regional and national distribution centres. Provision on subject matter expertise on the areas of ranging, data gathering and performance analysis.Training and development of the transition team to use effectively use transition solutions and software applications.Achievements:Development of processes to easily manage the transition processes of moving over 100k of sku transactions. Design and development of ‘transaction manager’ a MS Access application that supported the thousands of transactions that were required. Used for 5 years to support network ranging changes.Commendations from business and suppliers for the data gathering techniques used and the supplier engagement process required to facilitate the transition activities.

Parramatta , Sydney, Australia

This project was tasked with the establishment of the central team roles and the processes to manage the new automatic store replenishment solution “AutoStockR” for Woolworths Supermarkets.Responsibilities:Provide leadership to maintain on time and on budget project .Engagement of all stakeholders from Business and Information Technology groups. Design and development of staff structure and role descriptions and tasks to support the automatic replenishment solution. Design and development of all the central team processes to manage forecasts, seasonal profile reviews, parameters , KPIs , reporting , maintenance processes and query processes. Recruit and train initial team members.Achievements:Successful implementation of a world-class replenishment solution. Immediate business realisation of benefits for sales and profit.Establishment of a well trained initial central team with detailed and documented processes.Recognition from executive leadership group of a successful implementation of a key plank of the Woolworths Logistics platform.

Yennora, Sydney, Australia

In 2000, Woolworth's Project 'Refresh' centralised all state offices to a new national head office in Sydney, I accepted a new national role and we started in June 2000.Key Responsibilities:Development and implementation of new national inventory control and replenishment processes. Development of data gathering, reporting, and calculation of KPIs and budgets. Replenishment process improvement and engagement with key stakeholders from replenishment and information technology.Achievements:Development of key process changes and system enhancements to allow for national replenishment – all this within the first 6 months. Successful implementation of performance reporting to replenishment and buying and marketing teams for key KPIs in supply rate and stock holding. Key KPI targets on service level and day stock on hand were exceeded. Development of WOWlink, a new supplier web portal where communication and sharing of data took place. I played a key role in the design and implementation of online reports used for forecast sharing, delivery performance, stock status, pricing and promotional plan information.

Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

State Inventory Manager Category ManagerInventory Manager - Purity SupermarketsBuyer - Purity Supermarkets