Karishma Patel Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

London, Gb

London Area, United Kingdom

Leven, Scotland, United Kingdom

Leading a team of 16 skilled operators and engineers in the production of luxury single malt whisky products. Owning daily operational team meetings to track line performance and equipment efficiency against site KPIs. Coordinating and managing projects and component trials for the global Brand Change and Innovation team.Designed a tool to minimise absentee impacts by implementation a rotational plan to co-ordinate team availability, skilled labour & machine operations in line with scheduled weekly plan.Leading the manufacturing hall ‘Green Team’ to drive sustainable changes in daily operations. Such as water and waste reduction, introduction of electric forklifts in the bottling hall and collection protocols for cardboard recycling using bailer for compaction.Celebrating everyday success by highlighting and escalating positive developments made by individuals and teams during day-to-day operational practice.

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Diageo Project Black - Carbon Neutral Greenfield Brewery being built to support growth in SJG and achieve Diageo Society 2030 sustainability goals for Beer Category.Successfully integrated into highly experienced project team despite remote working team. Seamlessly adapted to fast passed environment and brought new learnings to the team in relation to carbon footprint and sustainability in service of Diageo Society 2030 targets.Identified opportunities for carbon tracking in line with sustainability ambitions and tactically established new process for Diageo and suppliers on measuring Embodied Carbon for a complex, greenfield brewery project. Created new world procedures, models and templates to facilitate carbon tracking activity and shared this both at an aspirational level and practical level to support standardized data collection - initially for Project Black, with the intentions of use for all future Diageo CAPEX projects.Engaged with key stakeholders to buy-in to new ways of working for more sustainable future.Experienced the sales vs execution misalignment and worked with process and utilities contractors to reach practical reality scenario for the expectations and management of carbon tracking workstream for the project. Owned weekly supplier engagement sessions for all tendered packages to ensure accountability for agreed expectations and track progress against them.Owned Green Environmental Accreditation concept (LEED) for project development stages, engaging with external governing body and suppliers in aid of securing LEED status.Developed skills on pack preparation to inform stakeholders on project progress & facilitate effective engagement. Gain insight to the tendering and validation processes as well as the requirement for specification, P&IDs, Layouts, Equipment General Arrangement Drawings, Preferred Supplier Lists, Basis of Design, Utilities Requirements.

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Supply chain planner for the Australia and PUB regionsBuilt strong relationships and trust with a range of stakeholders across these markets and internally at local production sites by consistently delivering against market planning objectives.Market Intelligence & Analytics – owning, reviewing and understanding the demand signal through forecasts analysis and while acting as key contributor and liaison for the market requirements within supply, material planning and operational teams.Facilitated end-to-end supply chain service by identifying risks and opportunities in the market and proactively taking actions to mitigate or reduce the impacts on poor KPI delivery to ensure optimum service to our customers.Tracking and coordinating Allocations, Innovation and Renovation projects for the Australian market on luxury products using market segmentation tools displayed on PowerBI.Optimizing the Supply Chain to meet the businesses key KPI’s while balancing Service, Volumes & Inventory for the Australian market by analysing and evaluating the supply shipment plan and demand requirements to satisfy customer needs considering network complexity and supply constraints.Developed skills in agility and resilience as a result of the continuously changing planning environment: logistical challenges of dealing with the COVID pandemic, material constraints due to the Ukraine war and capacity issues at in house manufacturing sites.Lead the S&OP Supply Review for the PUB market, analysing and understanding key market trends.Developed skills to best prioritise daily workload to better manage market service levels by segmentation, CFR and resource availability.

Coventry, United Kingdom

Collaborating with Warwick alumni to support university charity projects and student opportunities, such as the Women in Engineering scheme, Warwick in Africa and Scholars programme. Coordinated University fundraising events where students and alumni had the opportunity to work together and forge career boosting relationships.

Coventry, England, United Kingdom

Working with the University Development Team handling donations and donor information.

Rochester, United Kingdom

Collaborated with the technicians during a one-off prototype build of unique Helmet mounted display unit, capturing build process and identifying areas of improvement. The findings were summarised into a build record used to support the on-going development for the New Product Introduction team. Carried out several local improvements including shadow draw deployments, visual management updates and Foreign Object Debris reviews. Undertook the creation of all functional metrics for the Display team, producing weekly updates shared with the team. Automated the metric creation to ensure consistent output and reduce Quality Project Manager’s effort.Completed initial review and gap analysis and has taken several actions to close these gaps including a combination of formal and on the job training. Additional to standard training completed in ESD, FOD and ITAR. Took on personal learning in Simulation (Simul8), AutoCAD and Lean systems.

Harare, Zimbabwe

Completed an introduction to AutoCAD course (2D and 3D layout)Assisted with the planning of placement of air conditioning and ventilation system for a banking clientAttended site visits to various projects to assess level of progress