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Melbourne, Australia

Bayer CropScience supplies leading brands to the agricultural sector backed by expert advice in the areas of crop protection, seeds and plant biotechnology, and non-agricultural pest control.This role is responsible for managing the end to end Supply Chain for ANZ and developing and implementing processes that efficiently ensure the supply and distribution of the forecasted requirements for $600M+ CropScience and Environmental Science products in Australia and New Zealand, as well as APAC inter-company exports. This includes ownership of all aspects of demand planning, distribution planning, warehouse & logistics, raw material and active ingredient procurement, customer service, master data, toll manufacturing and packaging technology.Key deliverables include:- Ensuring the commercial sales targets are met in ANZ by ensuring product is delivered as per service levels to customers.- Managing inventory to ensure working capital costs are minimized but that flexibility to capture opportunity sales is maintained.- Continuous improvement across a complex network of 400+ SKUs and 700+ consignment locations

Melbourne, Australia

Bayer CropScience supplies leading brands to the agricultural sector backed by expert advice in the areas of crop protection, seeds and plant biotechnology, and non-agricultural pest control.Leading organisational focus and realisation of profitable growth through excellence in our planning, administrative and operating processes, systems and tools. Operational ownership of our national logistics network, demand and distribution planning functions, and customer and pricing master data, coupled with a Business Excellence focus on driving improvements to the Order to Cash process as well as managing and executing on a pipeline of business improvement projects.Key deliverables include:- Supporting global Order to Cash transformation program- Re-engineering $200M consignment business operational processes- Driving logistics costs to best in class less than 1% of sales

Melbourne, Australia

WPV oversees the running of local competitions across Victoria that enable over 1200 men, women and children from 20+ clubs to enjoy the sport of waterpolo. The associations was established in 1937 currently turns over in excess of $600K annually. Despite producing many Olympians over the years, our mantra is clear that "everyone can play"As a board member, I share the responsibility for owning and enacting strategic planning processes, governing across our operations through policies and objectives, ensuring the availability of financial resources and the budget process, and having overall accountability to stakeholders for the performance of Waterpolo Victoria. My specific focus is on continually improving the standard of referees and ensuring our competitions run as smoothly and sustainably as possible.

Melbourne, Australia

Orica Chemicals supplies general chemicals across a diverse range of markets. These include agriculture, building and construction, food and beverage, pharmaceutical and personal care, plastics, pulp and paper and water treatment industries.Orica's Watercare business designs and delivers water treatment technologies, including MIEX® technology, to customers and communities in Australasia, North America, Europe and ChinaLeading a global team of experienced business improvement professionals, my role is to build and drive a sustainable business improvement culture through Orica's Chemicals group. This role has ultimate ownership and oversight of all business improvement activity across all businesses within the Chemicals group. We are tasked with driving improvements that directly impact the group's bottom line through cost reductions and/or releasing capacity for growth.Key deliverables include:- Developing and managing business improvement governance and framework- Day to day interactions with Executive Committee and General Managers to enable them to structure, drive and manage their project portfolio- Reducing process complexity- Driving cultural change

Melbourne, Australia

Orica is the world’s largest provider of commercial explosives and blasting systems, delivering innovative solutions to the open cut and underground mining, quarry, civil construction, tunnelling and oil and gas markets.The global supply chain role is focussed on driving Supply Chain Process Excellence across the enterprise with a focus on end-to-end process ownership. Key responsibilities include:- Building the framework to drive end-to-end systems thinking through the executive team- Standardisation and consolidation of the associated group-wide KPIs/metrics- Development of supply chain segmentation to allow effective internal and external benchmarking- Driving a culture of continuous improvement across the wider Orica

Melbourne, Australia

Orica is a leading global supplier of mineral processing chemicals and services to the mining industry.As business improvement leader, my role is to develop and implement a sustainable business improvement program into Orica's Mining Chemicals business unit. This involves developing and endorsing governance and frameworks to encompass business improvement activity within the business. Key deliverables include:- Developing and managing business improvement governance and framework- Project portfolio management- Guiding and mentoring projects and leaders through the end to end project lifecycle- Leading key strategic business improvement projects- Driving cultural change

Melbourne, Australia

National Australia Bank Group is a financial services organisation with over 12,000,000 customers and 50,000 people, operating more than 1,750 stores and Service Centres globally.The Process Architect role was to lead the continuing development of a Standardised Kaizen Operational Tools Model for the Enterprise, in the context of shaping, facilitating & driving the Kaizen (continuous improvement) principles across the Group - to achieve better productivity, convergence, service improvement & sustainable cost reduction. This includes the resource management and business ownership of certain Kaizen Operational Tools (process management, content delivery, ideas capture and workflow capacity management).

Melbourne, Australia

National Australia Bank Group is a financial services organisation with over 12,000,000 customers and 50,000 people, operating more than 1,750 stores and Service Centres globally.As an internal consultant, this role was focused on managing efficiency and improvement projects across multiple NAB business units using various methodologies (including Lean, Six Sigma, BPF, Kaizen, etc).

AGL is one of Australia's leading renewable energy companies and is Australia's largest private owner, operator and developer of renewable generation assetsAs process improvement specialist, my role is to build a process asset for the business while identifying key improvement opportunities in key customer facing areas. Examples of ResponsibilitiesChange ManagementExample projects:Drive realignment of the cross functional sales campaigning process for our business and residential customers. Increasing the margins and reducing costs on delivering 500,000 new customers each year worth $125MM in GMStreamline onboarding of customers through SAP delivering an estimated increase of $900K in revenue by getting customers setup and billable faster and with less errors.

As black belt for Asia, my role was to drive change initiatives around cycle time and defect reduction in the OTR (Supply Chain - Chemical) and ITO (Sales – Equipment & Chemical) areas. Key focus was around change management and ensuring acceptance of new processes for varied cross-functional local, regional and global customers.Examples of ResponsibilitiesChange Management• Identify, plan and drive to completion continuous improvement projects which have significant business impact (>>$1MM), are cross functional and global or regional (Asia) based.• Example projects:o Drive process improvement initiative around Chemical Order to Remit process (Supply Chain), by standardising processes across 5 different plants in 5 different countries. Expected business impact of US$5.3MM o Drove process improvement initiative around Equipment Inquiry to Order process (Sales), resulted in 210%+ growth in bookings VPY (approximately $6MM) by streamlining process, reducing cycle times, allowing increased capacity and better utilisation of resources.

As area manager, I was tasked with growing the sales in my area while managing customer satisfaction and retention. I managed 4 direct reports who were involved in the day-to-day management of customer accounts.As boundary selling champion I was the primary contact for other GE businesses (eg: GE Money or Medical Systems) that may have cross-business selling opportunities in Australia/NZ. Examples of ResponsibilitiesArea Manager• Provide leadership, resources and support for sales team.• Ensure overall area profitability with aggressive margin and sales growth targets.• Selling solutions targeted at high-level management.• Lead special projects to reduce the non-value added work my team performs at customer sites – Lean.• Lead GE Water’s community service program locally

As district representative, I was tasked with growing the sales in my area while managing customer satisfaction. Primary customers were in refining, power, chemical, dairy and automotive industries.Examples of ResponsibilitiesIdentification and implementation of process improvement opportunities at customer site• Role required strong understanding of customer processes and internal management of change.• Utilised Six Sigma methodology to prove benefits of projects. Completed numerous Customer Value projects resulting in over $800K in savings as well as significant environmental improvements.• Troubleshooting existing customer problems utilising GE’s broad range of solutions and “hands-on” approach.Make aggressive sales targets• Exceeded sales plan in 2003, 2004 & 2005. • 23% growth 2005 vs 2004

Bachelor Science, Chemistry

Bachelor Engineering (Hons), Chemical Engineering

Exchange Student / Study Abroad

Vce

Activities and Societies: Captain of Swimming, Captain of Water Polo, 1st XI Hockey