Matthew Shepherd (Maicd) Email & Phone Number

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

MKS Health Technologies is an Australian owned supplier of innovative health solutions, focusing on providing genuine solutions to assist communities achieve a safer and better quality of life.MKS Health Technologies offers a range of Community Transmission Reduction (CTR) products which help communities to stay safe and reduce virus transmission as much as possible. Due to the current and real health crisis affecting the planet, there is an increasing need for safe, automated and effective solutions to aid in the protection, hygiene, sanitising and disinfection of people and high touch points to reduce potential viruses spreading throughout our communities.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

MKS Consulting Solutions Pty Ltd is a multi-purpose vehicle that provides expert consulting services across various industries including manufacturing, professional services and specialised product sourcing.

Sydney, Australia

Core Environmental Systems is a progressive solutions-based company that was established to address current known concerns across energy and waste sectors. Core through its global network sources innovative new technologies focused on delivering real benefits to communities and industry. Core recognise that the growth in the battery market came with unwarranted safety risks. Our Enviro Cell not only fully mitigates that risk but delivers superior performance.Core Environmental Systems is challenged with discovering new global sustainable technologies in the energy and waste sectors. Current innovations include Enviro Cell ® and BlackHOLE TM.I bring a passion to delivering genuine solutions to make a real difference in global healing. The Enviro Cell is the next generation in battery technology – safer, recyclable, smaller, lighter & more energy efficient than current Lead Acid and Lithium-Ion. The BlackHOLE is a clean, self-sufficient waste processing machine that is capable of processing most Commercial and Industrial (C&I) & Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) into reusable bi-products with the ability to generate electricity.

Haymarket

Commercial and procurement professional with over ten year’s experience in large, highly complex construction, manufacturing and supply chain environments across multiple industries.Ausgrid has been operating for over 100 years and manages the largest electricity network in Australia. Its electricity network provides power to 1.6 million homes and businesses throughout Sydney, the Hunter, and the Central Coast. Regions, made up of more than 200 large electricity substations, 500,000 power poles, 30,000 small distribution substations and almost 50,000km of below and above ground electricity cables.• Management of multiple categories across the Ausgrid business to mitigate risk, identify opportunity and drive continuous improvement in line with policy and legislative requirements. • Lead a small team of analysts and contract managers to deliver portfolio objectives ensuring business continuity while identifying business efficiencies through market research, category analysis and spend trends.• Development and management of the sourcing road map and procurement pipeline for future planning, resourcing requirements and financial targets.• Review of existing contractual arrangement including securities, liabilities, insurances, liquidated damages defects liability periods and supplier KPIs to plan and prioritise based on business risk and opportunity.• Engaged by the business for multiple discrete projects due to my ability to engage complex stakeholders and manage teams to deliver outcomes.Achievements• Achieved over $4.8M in cost avoidance as a result of diligent deep dive analysis into proposed fleet agreements with third party providers.• Management of a highly sensitive and political HR & IR initiatives as a result of industry legislation changes, resulting in large scale FTE reductions in a highly-unionised environment.• Delivery of $3.3M in savings through leasing negotiations for light vehicles.

Chatswood

Directs, Group Services - Procurement & Supply Chain.Leighton Contractors is an industry leader mining, infrastructure, industrial, telecommunications, energy, civil construction, health and services sectors. They employ more than 14,000 people across Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, and Botswana in Africa, making Leighton Contractors one of Australia’s most recognised and diverse industry leaders. • Delivery of targeted cost savings• Influence senior stakeholders • Lead development of strategic suppliers and the ongoing relationships• Manage and mentor cross functional teams of divisional managers• Implement strategic category management plans at a group level • Cross Op-co evaluation of supply base to deliver companywide efficiencies• Negotiate supply contracts and set supplier KPI’s for continuous improvement• Analyse market trends and conditions to make informed business recommendations• Develop spend profiles to identify areas of opportunities • Develop source to contract strategies• Drive and manage change processAchievements• Identification of $5M cost savings within professional services category• Successful engagement of senior internal stakeholders to gain approval of complex strategies in challenging and difficult environments• Led cross functional teams of functional managers to deliver agreed strategic initiatives within committed timeframes• Successfully managed the navigation of internal barriers to ensure on time delivery of critical objectives • Development of strategic category plan delivered on time and to budget• Ability to influenced business decisions at an executive level

Granville, Australia

Company ProfileDowner is Australia's leading provider of rolling-stock vehicles and related maintenance services. Downer specialises in design, manufacture, commissioning, maintenance, and refurbishment of railway rolling stock, comprising mainly diesel-electric locomotives, passenger vehicles, freight vehicles, associated rail transportation equipment, and heavy engineering products for markets in Australia and overseas. • Provide specialist project management support to deliver discrete projects critical to program success• Overall responsibility for the successful planning, coordination and execution of the selected “Special Projects” including:o Implementation of new Rail Safety Legislation into business procedureso Identification and management of internal manufacturing to low cost country sourcing to deliver project savings and efficiencieso Negotiation of critical logistic contracts worth circa $9M without impacting the project objectiveso Reconciliation of inventory and forecast spares requirements• Led cross functional teams to successfully deliver critical path projects in agreed timeframes• Establish governance regime for each discrete project, reporting into the Executive Leadership TeamAchievements• Successful completion of multiple projects delivering a direct cost saving of over $6M as a result of low cost country sourcing• Successful negotiation of major contracts with key logistics providers in a time sensitive environment enabling project deliverables without disruption to the projects critical path• Delivery of committed financial controls in line with project expenditure• Successfully executed each phase of the project life cycle from Define (Initiation) through to Debrief (Close out)• Successful engagement of project functions to identify project risks allowing effective mitigation strategies

Granville

Granville

Botany

Diploma Of Business, Business Administration And Management, General

Cert Iii Fabrication Engineering

Advance Negotiation & Mediation

Certificate Iv Transport & Distribution

Certificate Iii Transport & Distribution