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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Procurement professional focused on uplift in overall capability and performance of procurement project functions. Lead initiatives across sourcing, commercial, process improvement and governance/policy related projects in client engagements.

Melbourne, Australia

Director of Network Value Engineering is responsible for the identification of benefits for our strategic customers. Network Value Engineers are the 'trusted advisors' that focus on providing sustainable business solutions through the Success Planning Process. This is a business methodology that provides support to SAP Ariba customers through the various stages of their E2E procurement and finance transformation. Benefits are identified by conducting current state diagnostics and building sound business cases with defined benefits. The main driver of the role is to build, manage and assist our customers on thier digital journey with the latest and most up to date global technology.

Melbourne, Australia

A leading provider of supply chain and procurement services globally, supporting clients through consulting services, BPO solutions and managed services - developing strategies to drive significant and sustainable results by solving challenging business problems. Clients include many leading regional and global organisations across a range of diverse business sectors.Responsibilities: •Client performance improvement programs through procurement transformation and cost reduction/mitigation programs across a diverse range of clients, industries and business sectors •Development and execution of sourcing strategies; optimisation of a wide range of category levers•Procurement engagements including strategic and rapid sourcing focus ‘quick wins’Achievements: •Strategic Sourcing: Led multi sourcing events which resulted in savings of 20% on a baseline spend of $15m•Negotiations: Led negotiations in capital project which resulted in 30% savings on a spend of $30m•Procurement Transformation: Lead multiple work streams and accountable for mentoring, training, development of procurement; include all documentation and ‘hard wiring’ of procurement savings

Melbourne, Australia

Spend Influence: $500MA multi-national blue chip packaging company which manufactures and distributes a broad range of metal, plastic and paper packaging, including steel and aluminium cans. Amcor employs over 35,000 people in over 300 sites and is represented in 43 countries.Responsibilities: •Led high risk and value (>$100m) categories in volatile commodity markets. These included direct raw materials aluminium, steel and glass raw materials•Responsible for the strategic sourcing process for a diverse range of categories; including direct and indirect categories across various business platforms trans-tasman•Implemented supplier partnerships with critical ‘partner’ suppliers: key focus on key improvement programs•Developed, recommended and implemented complex global supply strategies across a direct raw materials; metals, glass, coatings and closuresAchievements: •Cost Savings: Set up PMO and established ‘quick wins’ which resulted in $4m worth of savings within 4 months timeframe •Strategic Planning: Drafted procurement strategies which minimised risks, maximised cost benefits and ensured continuity of supply for key raw materials•Negotiations: Led in high level contract negotiations for direct raw materials with large Australian blue chip organisation and global companies: key focus on Asia supply market

Education record

Bachelor Of Arts, Business Administration And Management, General