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Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

• Responsible for developing and executing sourcing and category management strategies to support the business in acquiring key materials and resources. Identify and implement opportunities to refine procurement.
• Conducted numerous end-to-end procurement activities resulting in the execution of multiple stand alone and framework agreements across 7 procurement categories.
• Created an interactive category map to outline ATCO’s procurement categories, as well as category management plans.
• Designed and automated RFT evaluation templates that increased the efficiency of the tender evaluation process.
• Created new procurement processes and procedures for three key categories to ensure best practice procurement initiatives and alignment with internal policies.
• Championed the linkage of contract IDs and supplier quotes with SAP to improve the audit trail and provide enhanced expenditure data on purchasing patterns.

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

• Provided comprehensive oversight of commercial and contract management across multiple categories. Undertook detailed supplier contract performance and business reviews to identify and implement opportunities to.
• Designed improved purchase-to-pay processes to align stakeholder purchasing behaviour with strategic procurement objectives.
• Designed and facilitated improved user training programs for purchase-to-pay systems, reducing user enquiries and freeing up time to perform more value-add tasks.
• Created stakeholder training packages for the contract management system.
• Established contract management reporting processes and templates to support procurement activity pipeline planning.
• Refined Oracle contract management processes to monitor expenditure and ensure alignment of spend with internal financial thresholds and procurement policies. Show less

Perth, Australia

• Led initiatives across the business to align commercial strategies with key organisational objectives. Negotiated supplier contracts, contract amendments and influenced key decision-makers and stakeholders during.
• Leveraged stakeholder relationships and enhanced tender management and bid processing strategies to achieve overall cost reductions of $500,000.
• Improved safety, enhanced supplier performance and identified prohibitive process gaps and redundancies through a comprehensive understanding of current market and industry trends.
• Responded to business-critical operational issues and made recommendations to prevent reoccurrence.
• Created an enhanced and automated critical month-end inventory data and system analysis report for commercial, finance and procurement teams. Show less

Europe/Australia/Asia

In search of adventure and self-development, I embarked on a memorable once-in-a-lifetime journey to multiple destinations in Europe, Australia, and Asia. Along the way, I met delightful people, ate amazing meals, took in breathtaking sights, and spent treasured time with family and friends. As a travel enthusiast, I love to seize the opportunity to see.

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

• Oversaw the global parcel supply chain, including all small pack transportation and logistics contracts valued at $65 million annually. Drove the development and execution of functional excellence initiatives..
• Secured cost savings of $1.2 million by leveraging data analytics and stakeholder feedback to lead company-wide cost reduction, business transformation and system optimization initiatives.
• Implemented business intelligence tools to automate critical reporting, freeing up 15 staff hours per week to be directed to value-add projects.
• Drove a 90% reduction in invoice-processing time for a critical supplier. Show less

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

• Key Responsibilities
• Built a robust visual cross-3PL optimisation tool, which identified significant savings;
• Recognised for the cross-3PL optimisation tool & offered a full-time position within the company;
• Analysed large data sets to determine engines and generators to be classified by law;
• Identified and classified over 8000 Engines and generator sets on time;
• Determined license requirements for end-use products;

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

• Key Responsibilities
• Developed my business engagement and stakeholder relationships skills;
• Gained an understanding of the business processes and procedures used;
• Influenced stakeholders in a high profile, reputable power technology and logistics business;
• Successfully mapped and assessed the Functional Reliability Verification (FRV);
• Mapped the Quality Control (QC) systems used in house;

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Supported design of cooperative system for robotic forklift and unmanned robotic scouts.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Supported design of an autonomous robotic forklift able to navigate static and dynamic environments.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Collaborated on design and build of thermoelectric generator module.

Master Of Science (M.Sc.), Engineering Management

A Master of Science in Engineering Management achieved in 2012.

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Electrical And Electronics Engineering

First Class Hons achieved in 2009.