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Tuggerah

Newell Brands operates in Australia and New Zealand in the Fishing and Outdoor Divisions. Representing Pure Fishing (Penn, Abu Garcia, Berkley, Shakespeare, Ugly Stick) and Coleman Brands (Coleman, Esky, Sevylor, Stearns, Aerobed). We are the global market leaders in outdoor recreational and fishing products, and are known for our highly recognised and respected brands. We lead the way with a reputation for innovation and quality, and inspire friends and families to come together to make lifelong memories outdoors.Responsible for:• Operational Strategic Direction - Develop the strategy, processes and IT enablers to exploitcurrent and future opportunities and demands for retail networks, distributors and consumers• Supply Chain Optimisation -Execute Optimisation strategies to achieve under budgetresults, customers service expectations and cost benefits for Oceania W & D.• Business Operations - Accountable for Managing and Leading Daily End-To- End Supply ChainOperation Functions, including the Demand Planning, International Logistics, Inventory, Warehouse and Customer Service teams.• Customer Service Management- Responsible for the operational excellence of the CustomerService Team to ensure a consistently high level of market service levels• Financial Management - Overall control of all Supply Chain financial transactions and operationalmatters, financial Oceania reporting and internal financial controls.Directs the establishment of forecasting principles, practices, policies and procedures.• Commercial - Undertakes major contract negotiationsLeadership and People Management Lead, mentor and motivate the Demand Planning, International Logistics, Inventory, Warehouse and Customer Service teams to drive high performance and accountability.

Pennant Hills

Responsible for the overall supply of goods, both Domestic and International to all Masters Stores via a Network of Warehouses including NDC, RDC, 3PL and Over 1,100 Vendors with Direct to Store Supply. Further responsible for the overall Vendor Performance against agreed KPI’s and the introduction and implementation of best practice supply chain solutions including Vendor Managed Inventory. • Managing multiple teams with cross functional responsibilities including Replenishment, Promotional Supply Management, Inventory Management, Service Level, Collaborative Forecasting and Vendor Compliance. • Deep understanding of operations and commercial activities and how they impact the supply and replenishment of goods.• Able to clearly define demand forecasts, supply availability and develop appropriate strategic and tactical plans to bridge supply and demand while managing inventory levels. • Managing replenishment partner relationships and driving best practice Vendor Performance with reportable KPI’s and measurable improvements• Development of longer term plans, including recommendations to change strategy for replenishment, including inventory reduction, service level improvements and amplifying on shelf availability• Manages the performance of replenishment system and team performance against Key KPI’s, and initiates change actions to achieve best practice. • Manages teams to achieve overall objectives and provides coaching, development and performance management• Optimises business results by actively managing operational levers, balancing short and long term priorities, to achieve strategic goals. • Uses understanding of business, industry and own team’s performance to maximise results, limit risk, and effectively direct own team or group• Communicates potential benefits of new ideas to stakeholders; identifies resources and support needed; commits to an action plan to implement new ideas

Pennant Hills Sydney

• Facilitate, coach and encourage team to look for opportunities and ideas to delight our customers• Build relationships with Masters teams and Woolworths Logistics/Supply Chain Teams• Primary contact point for development of vendor supply chain initiatives and vendor communications• Utilise and share best practices, skills and knowledge with key business stakeholders and team• Provide regular advice and updates to key stakeholder groups including communication of issues, risks, assumptions and dependencies to ensure common understanding and direction• Manage operational, stakeholder and management expectations and issues; drive and achieve effective resolution• Reduce operational expenditure through direction of initiatives that delivery financial benefit• Maintain/manage team budgets and ensure there is a ROI on all initiatives • Lead team to achieve and exceed targets• Develop strategic and business change roadmap that supports delivery of Masters Supply Chain business strategy and objectives• Set appropriate team member benchmarks and ensure achieve targets are identified• Build effective relationships Masters internal teams, Woolworths logistics, Danks teams and Trade Partners• Develop and ensure utilisation of key performance indicators for benefits realisation• Schedule and undertake store, vendor and DC visits to identify opportunities for improvement and transformation• Manage new initiatives as required from concept to delivery• Drive focus on building continuous process improvement• Assist in building culture of excellence around continuous process improvement and business transformation• Ensure future IT requirements of team are delivered to enable team to meet strategic objectives

Pennant Hills Sydney

High profile role primarily responsible for optimising the flow of product through the supply chain network. Developing and refining solutions to provide both tactical and strategic support across many of the functional teams is another key area of responsibility.Key accountabilities for this role will include:Managing change initiatives which are vendor focused including EDI Roll Out and Vendor On- Boarding to EDIControlling the introduction of new lines in the supply chain network including coordinating activities with other supply chain functional areas, using available tools and processes and communicating requirements to all stakeholders • To identify and objectively evaluate opportunities to improve store service, DC efficiencies and lower total cost across the Logistics processes. This includes:• Working with Buyers to understand what products are planned to come into the network, how they are to be handled, assessing any special requirements• Using a decision making tool to support buyers evaluate source of supply decisions e.g. Off shore or domestic and deciding whether the product can be handled through the DC• Working with vendors to understand their source of supply, pack configurations, cost drivers and developing solutions to reduce supply chain costs

Responsible for detailed cost based analysis and identification of opportunities that improve business efficiency and cost based controls through visibility into supply chain performance, developing innovative solutions and sustainable process improvements. Identification and execution of key performance metrics covering S&OP performance, and develop provider performance metrics to eliminate waste, and increase provider efficiencies. Responsible for the DIFOT management and measurement of IBSL performance across all further processed retail operations. Responsible for daily further processed inventory review and optimisation over multiple 3PL Warehouses in every state nationally across 26K Pallet Spaces equating to $650M in inventory per annum.• National Network Planning, Design & Optimisation.• Route Channel Restructure / Step Change.• Supply Chain cost and efficiency improvements, Cost to Serve Analysis.• Stakeholder identification, engagement, salience and negotiations.• Western Australian Fresh and Frozen Metro and Regional Route Network redesign and optimisation – Savings $1.17M PA• Victorian Fresh and Frozen Metro and Regional Route Network redesign and optimisation – Savings $1.6M PA• Trade Unit Utilisation and Cubic Optimisation – Savings $543K PA• National Resupply Load Optimisation and Freight Consolidation – Savings $800K PA• Strong consulting skills in problem diagnosis and solution design and delivery.• Advanced understanding of Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP) including Warehouse Management Systems (WMS), Material Resource Planning (MRP) and Master Production Scheduling (MPS).• Demonstrated Stock control using inventory principle levers.• Project Lead – Ingham’s National Hire Equipment Management Project.• Project Key Involvement – Life Cycle Awareness Project Team liaising with RMIT on packaging LCA’s.• Project Key Involvement – Ingham’s Carbon Reporting Team (PWC) and Ingham’s Strategic Sustainability Team.

Reporting to: General Manager• Managed revenue & profit deliverables, operations & labour management, implemented OHSMS, identified and reduced waste and implemented key sustainability projects. • Implemented WMS and Scan to Order systems, controlled inventory accuracy, rotation and loss control, maintained IRA of 99.5% (Externally Audited by PWC). • Detailed experience in strategic sourcing, contracts management, and vendor relationship management. • Responsible for the DIFOT management and measurement of IBSL performance across all further processed food service, distributor, retail and QSR supply networks.• Key involvement in roll out of state based FP Distribution Network, facility based Managed Warehouse implementation and MPS/MRP roll out support.• Trained, supervised and evaluated staff, coached improvement and management skills.• Grown staff into key operational roles within the Ingham’s network.

Reporting to: Site Manager• Developed and deployed Inventory Policies, Factory planning processes aligned to ERP planning system, implementation of optimised production planning systems and MRP processes that were aligned to operational performance targets.• Development and implementation of Continuous Process Improvements using ERP systems on a BPCS Platform to develop increased utilization of capacity and increased efficiencies.• Implementation and coordination of Shop Floor Control methodologies for Cost Reporting and Production management.

Reporting to: Site Manager• Responsible for achieving service and cost targets whilst effectively managing and driving improvements in, Production, Safety, Quality, Resource Planning, Product Technology, Human Resources and Process Control• Managed a Manufacture to Order facility for Tray Packed range into Woolworth’s, Coles, IGA and Franklins stores nationally.• Responsible for financial reporting and management and daily DIFOT analysis.• Reduced Waste through continuous process improvement.

Post Grad Diploma, Operations And Supply Chain Management, With Distinction

Activities and Societies: UTS Alumni UTS Business Network Legal Aspects of Contracts Administration Value Chain Management Strategic.

Bachelor Degree, Design

Activities and Societies: UTS ALUMNI  Visual Communications  Packaging Design  Marketing  Environmental Design  Client Negotiation .