Head of Procurement and Facilities Management

• Sep 2020 - Present

Head of Procurement and Facilities

• Feb 2020 - Jun 2020

- Continue to build up the greenfields procurement function, delivering savings of 4x the cost of the team in the first year - Shortly after joining took responsibility for existing Facilities team, managing a portfolio of 8 corporate offices and 30+ on campus centres for 850 employees- Oversaw several large corporate office fitouts in Melbourne and other Australian cities- Led the team of 9-10 people with 4 direct reports

Head of Strategic Sourcing

• Mar 2019 - Feb 2020

- Set up a greenfields centre led procurement function, including implementing policy, procedures and strategy, strategic sourcing and vendor management.- Led the team of 7 people with 3 direct reports

Head of Procurement Performance

• Nov 2017 - Jan 2019

- Overall responsibility for Procurement Strategy, Policies, Processes, Governance, Compliance, Risk Management, Reporting, Analytics for the Group Procurement team- Lead a team of 4-5 direct reports, including Analytics Manager, Procurement Analysts, Master Data Manager, Procurement Systems Consultant and Governance / Process Advisor

Head of Procurement Transformation

• Oct 2015 - Nov 2017

- Secondment as a Project Stream lead for a successful implementation of Ariba Source to Contract (S2C), Procure to Pay (P2P) and Guided Buying. System is fully integrated with SAP S/4HANA and SAP Successfactors- Lead a team of 4 direct project reports, plus a wider consulting team, to design, build, test, data migrate, undertake all change management activities.

Head of Procurement Delivery

• Jun 2015 - Nov 2015

- Lead the Procurement Delivery team (8 FTE) at Medibank, covering both IT & Non-IT indirect expense categories.

Manager, Indirect Procurement

• Feb 2014 - May 2015

- Lead the Indirect (Non-IT) Procurement function, and the analytics teams at Medibank (4-5 FTE). Categories include Marketing, Distribution, Property, Professional Services and Corporate Services

Marketing & Distribution Category Manager

• Oct 2011 - Jan 2014

- Manage a $120m Marketing and Distribution spend portfolio. - Manage two direct reports - Procurement Analyst and Category Specialist, with additional responsibilities for $60m Corporate and Property categories, including travel, fleet, uniforms, document management, utilities and facilities management.

Sourcing Manager

• Jan 2004 - Oct 2011

- End-to-end strategic sourcing process delivery and savings achieved. Major categories include IT Hardware & Software, Marketing, Financial Services, Medical Services. Participate in global category management and sourcing activities. - From 2009 onwards assumed responsibility for IT vendor management and software asset management / licensing.

IT Procurement Analyst and Contract Manager

• Dec 2001 - Dec 2003

Senior Commercial Manager

• 2011 - 2011

Strategic Sourcing and Procurement integration projects following the AXA/AMP merger Strategic Sourcing and Procurement integration projects following the AXA/AMP merger

Strategic Sourcing Analyst

• Sep 2000 - Jun 2001

National Projects Estimator

• Apr 1999 - Aug 2000

Estimating & tendering for national telecommunications construction projects, including procurement of subcontract services Estimating & tendering for national telecommunications construction projects, including procurement of subcontract services

Contracts Engineer

• 1998 - 1999

Managed a $2.5m road surfacing contract, on time and on budget Facilitated implementation of new Oracle procure to pay and job costing system. Ensured efficient operations and reduced downtime by scheduling and coordinating road-surfacing crews, transport fleet and subcontractors. Managed a $2.5m road surfacing contract, on time and on budget Facilitated implementation of new Oracle procure to pay and job costing system. Ensured efficient operations and reduced downtime by scheduling and coordinating road-surfacing crews, transport fleet and subcontractors.