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Gold Coast, Qld, Au

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

General Manager at Matrix PolymersAs General Manager at Matrix Polymers, I provided leadership to a team of 50 employees across Australia and New Zealand for a leading global supplier of raw materials to the rotational moulding industry. I played a key role in bringing a clear vision, strategy and fresh ideas, leveraging our global and domestic capabilities. Launched an exciting new resin grade into the market, while streamlining the product offer.General Manager Key Achievements:• Team Culture: Significantly improved a previously disjointed team culture, fostering a cohesive and collaborative environment.• Safety and Operational Standards: Dramatically improved safety and operational standards, ensuring compliance and enhancing efficiency.• Environmental Compliance: Worked effectively with environmental regulatory bodies to improve and maintain environmental compliance.• Financial Stability: Managed the P&L and delivered strong profit growth, strengthening the financial balance sheet, implementing robust cashflow management systems, meeting banking covenants, protecting downside risk of large foreign currency exposure by establishing forward hedging and reducing costs.• Operational Efficiency: Negotiated a new warehouse lease consolidating sites to improve efficiencies and cost, streamlining logistics.• Product Innovation: Launched new products and simplified the product offerings, allowing a targeted value proposition.• Supply Chain Excellence: Employed a high calibre supply chain manager and improved inventory management processes. Reduced logistics costs and improved planning and scheduling.• Cost Reduction: Restructured supply to be a hybrid model of domestic and imported products, lowering overall cost to market.• Sales Leadership: Worked with and led regional sales managers to secure new profitable sales in both granule and powder forms including the WA market.

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Resitech provides post industrial plastic recycling services across for a range of plastic processors across QLD & NSW. I joined Resitech as a personal purpose driven role to grow their plastic recycling capacity. During my tenor I secured 2 x $1M commercial contracts, rebuilt trust with a major ASX packaging company, drove behavioral safety improvements and team engagement.

Stapylton

At Adbri Masonry is Australia's largest producer of masonry products with 12 manufacturing sites across the eastern seaboard and Australia the sites are of different ages, equipment and size. I unified 12 disjointed and geographically disperse sites, integrating their strengths and maximising efficiency. Most sites operated on a 24 hour basis and processes 750,000T pa. I optimised efficiency by analysing the core strengths of each site, aligning regional market preferences and ensuring the correct products were manufactured int he correct locations to achieve the lowest product cost to market in each region.Capital spend of up to $7M pa was not managed strategically prior to myself. By strategically allocating capital based on not only stay in business but more importantly safety, energy efficiency, sustainability and growth initiatives I was able to maximise the retrun on investment ROI from the capital budgets.As the plants were all reasonably aged, safety was not at an acceptable standard. I lead and implemented a Workcell Safety Program where over a 2 year period every plant was brought up to a Category 3 interlocking standard. In additional to a very high safety focus primarily driven by strong engagement we achieved a significant reduction in all recordable incidents.Energy efficiency was significantly improved with renewable and investment in high efficiency curing systems. I designed and lead the construction of a unique concrete sleeper plant based on lean principles that increased productivity and lowered manufactured cost materially.I built a team of engaged managers that shared information. I led the mental health program through operations. Management of suppliers both materials and equipment involved building strong relationships, negotiating challenging commercial supply agreements.Product range was rationalised to improve efficiencies, DIFOT and stock turns. Quality system improved saved $600k pa.

Gold Coast

Maximising Operational performance across a number of concrete product plants producing block, retaining wall, and paving lines for commercial, residential and government applications.

Brisbane, Australia

Strategic consulting, business planning, process improvement, customer needs analysis, service and product value proposition identification, financial analysis, continuous improvement, execution and implementation.• Assist a range of business owners on improving their competitive advantages• Internal competencies and cultural review• Market research on existing and target customer base• Identification of customer pain points and decision drivers• Development and/or refinement of business and marketing strategies• Tender lead and writing• Financial Modeling for SME's• Consultation and Advice to Business Owners

Brisbane, Australia

Management of Australia's largest bath manufacturer and wholesaler. Head office and factory located in Brisbane with 4 state-based branches incorporating sales and warehousing including an export division.• Managing full company P&L and balance sheet.• Development and Leadership of Executive team.• Strategy development and implementation, • Oversee functional business units of Sales, Marketing, Operations and Finance. • Co-ordinate state branches. • Champion product development and innovation programs.• Negotiating key Supplier and Customer Contracts.• International Procurement and Supply.A key supplier to major Australian bathroom retailers Reece, Tradelink and Plumbing Plus, where Decina was a private label contract manufacturer to each. On commencing at Decina there were 2 other equally dominant domestic manufacturers. I significantly increased the focus on product development and innovation. Co-developing a world first flush spa jet. This provided a significant competitive advantage that grew this category both revenue and profit. We developed and supported new product categories with both sanitary ware and shower screens. Building strong relationships with preferred import suppliers identified in Spain and China. Managing export sales and understanding the needs of a SE Asian customer, tailored our manufacturing specifications to align. This led to exponential export growth dramatically improving financial strength, necessitating the design of new spa manufacturing lines driven by LEAN principles in turn improving productivity and lowering costs.I supported and engaged in all customer review meetings with our major retail partners I also managed the revamping of our marketing both brand and range to modernise and simplify our offer.Financial management of the business involved Budgeting, P&L management, board reporting, cashflow and balance sheet management and liaison with auditors.

Melbourne, Australia

Responsible for the full operational management of CSR's premium, continuous production, terracotta roof tile manufacturing facility. Covering materials mining to distribution and product development.• Full site P&L responsibility.• Raw material mining and extraction from 80 hectare mine site, and associated environmental compliance.• Material processing and manufacturing, process optimisation.• Warehousing and distribution of finished goods.• HR, IR and SHE.• Product Development.• Maintenance and Capital Projects.• Government liaison and licensing compliance.

Melbourne, Australia

Product and process improvement. Ceramic fabrication equipment design and commissioning. Vitreous china manufacturing. Energy & Waste management.• Budgeting and planning of 125 staff • Full HR responsibilities for staff, from recruitment, training, safety and termination.• Leadership of production team• Plant design and commissioning of new equipment.• Process improvement and re-engineering.• Departmental responsibility for; Mould making, material preparation, casting floor, glazing and firing.• Site energy contracts and management.• Government liaison and environmental licencing compliance.• Raw material mining and extraction.• Raise and justify capital expense applications.• Plant commissioning.

Sydney, Australia

Fully responsible for the management of the Raw Materials, Mold Making and Casting departments producing Australia's highest quality, vitreous china bathroom fixtures.

Perth, Australia

Responsible for clay mining, environmental compliance and reporting, quality assurance, production supervision, process control, continuous improvement and product development.• Raw material sourcing, mining applications, extraction and rehabilitation.• Establishment of Quality Assurance systems.• Process commissioning and optimisation• Product development.• Environmental compliance.

Driving Corporate Growth

Management Development Program, Business, Management, Marketing, And Related Support Services

Bachelor, Engineering

Bachelor of Engineering Mastering in Ceramics