John Laing Email & Phone Number

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Sydney, Australia

Led end-to-end transformations that have delivered significant incremental client CFO endorsed top and bottom line benefits; involved in more than 30 transformations across Asia. Filled the role of Chief Transformation/Operating Officer for many clients and onboarded replacement. Illustrative client examples include:CONSUMER & RETAIL- Developed 10-year Operational strategy, implementation and change management roadmap - Identified capacities by 15% without increasing invested capital for supply constrained producer - Improved margin by 15% through network optimisation, product, and channel segmentation- Completed E2E supply chain diagnostics that delivered 20% cost reduction and improved service- Go-to-market strategy development and logistics optimisationPRIVATE EQUITY- Sell side market strategy and vendor due diligence – market strategy and initiatives for synergy capture - Buy-side post-acquisition integration support, and advised buyers on potential acquisition of:-- Global food manufacturing and retail assets, -- Pharmaceutical manufacturing assets, -- Packaging and contract manufacturing assetsHEALTH AND AGE CARE- Completed whole of organisation diagnostic- Launched change infrastructure, and set up transformation- Led implementation and delivered in year and program financials in full and on time- Completed go-to-market strategy and performance improvements for health and age care services- Provided intervention and turn around support for “off track” transformationFINANCIAL SERVICES- Set up and led the transformation office, detailed design of initiatives- Improved top-line growth and reduced costs across portfolio range of servicesAGRICULTURE- Served clients in ANZ and Asia in protein (red meat & poultry), pet food, grains and edible oils. OTHER- Australian COVID-19 supply chain and logistics and coordination of industry partners for PPE sourcing- Support and modelling for critical national shortage of DEF (AdBlue)

Sydney, Australia

Delivering sustainable transformational change that improved performance and organisational healthTECHNOLOGY, MEDIA AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS- Completed organisational restructure- Designed and delivered capability building program delivered a top decile improvement in org. health- Designed and worked with client teams to implement initiatives that:-- Increased go-to-market speeds by 4x, -- Reduced costs by 10%, -- Reduced working capital by 75%, and -- Improved service levels to tier 1 as measured by external benchmarkMINING- Analysis and identification of drivers to improve OEE of all mobile open cut mining equipment- Improvement in equipment performance through maintenance department- Implementation of performance dialogues across all departments on site

Sydney, Australia

Global lead and responsibilities for Demand and Supply Planning covering Australia, Asia, US and Europe- Global Supply Chain Strategy and Network Optimisation- Global Demand and Supply Planning, Global S&OP deployment and best practice implementation

Sydney, Australia

Supply Chain lead for Nestle C&S Operations; concurrently Market Lead for Demand Planning- Led operational integration of Uncle Toby's Snacks integration - Global pilot for Advanced Analytics in Demand Planning, and Market Mix Modelling- Winner of the Nestle Global Business Excellence Award- Turned around business operational performance - delivered 30% improvement in EBIT margin through:-- Improved customer delivery levels (+7%),-- Reduced working capital and obsolescence (-50%), -- Improved forecast accuracy (+35%)

Supply Planning lead for Unilever Home & Personal Care business (incl. Import/Export & CoMan)- Delivered improved customer delivery levels with lower levels of working capital (15% reduction)- Reduced write off costs (70% reduction) while supporting an increased rate of innovation- Standardised regional supply contracts and completed sourcing studies, SAP APO implementation

Lead for Unilever Edible Oil Refinery (incl. site services)Delivered operational performance turn around across metrics such as:- Improved operational performance (lower costs, improved ROIC)- Improved safety and environment (40% reduction in incidents) - Product quality improvements (25% improvement in right first time quality) - Increased Industrial delivery service improvement from 90% to 99.8+%, (incl. 12 months at 100%)

Production Process Improvement; Production Manager (shift) and Maintenance Engineering ManagerProcess and operational improvement- Implementation and negotiation of enterprise agreement- Implementation of operator maintainer concept- Implementation of preventative and predictive maintenance routines resulting in higher OEE- Process optimisation saving $10M in waste reduction

Adjutant, Troop Commander: 8th Combat Engineer RegimentTroop Commander: 4th Field Engineer RegimentCommissioned: Sydney University Regiment

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Distinction Average

Award: Outstanding Performance in Human Resource Management

Bachelor Of Engineering (Be), Chemical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Sydney University Regiment: all corps infantry officer trainingThesis: Project Evaluation - assessment.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Pure Mathematics & Chemistry

Activities and Societies: Sydney University Regiment: all corps infantry officer training

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