Experience

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  Spring Sheep Milk Co. New Zealand

  • Commercial Manager

    • Jun 2021 - Present

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  Synlait Milk Limited

  • Auckland, New Zealand

  • Milk Price Intelligence Analyst

    • Feb 2019 - Jun 2021
    • Auckland, New Zealand

    Managing Synlait milk price and associated public announcements to suppliers and the market. Forecasting, modelling and economic insight key skills.Owning milk component costs as an input across the Synlait business.Working across teams within the organisation to develop milk price understanding and manage risk associated with this key cost.

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  Commmerce Commission

  • Auckland, New Zealand

  • Senior Analyst

    • Dec 2015 - Feb 2019
    • Auckland, New Zealand

    Project Manager for the 2017/18 milk price calculation review, assessing Fonterra's base milk price calculation is compliant with the dairy industry restructuring Act. Responsible for writing the publication material for the review including the emerging views paper on asset beta as well as the draft and final decision papers. Working within a team to produce a default price quality path for New Zealand gas pipeline businesses. Areas of responsibility included demand forecasting, forecasting operating expenditure allowances and general modelling. Project managed the Gas Pipeline reset from draft decision to final decision, organising a large team and managing key stakeholders. Project was successfully delivered on time with allowable revenues for the four regulated gas pipeline businesses of $1.4 billion.

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  Fonterra

  • Auckland, NewZealand

  • Finance Manager - Marketing and Category

    • Oct 2014 - Jul 2015
    • Auckland, NewZealand

    Managing advertising & promotion spend through budgeting and month end processesAd-hoc commercial analyses of projects and scenarios related to marketing and category initiatives including NPD analyses, building and manipulation of commercial models and performance tracking.

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  Kantar Worldpanel

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Client Executive

    • Sep 2012 - Aug 2014
    • London, United Kingdom

    Market Research working on the Dairy Crest Account. Brand development, Strategic insights and reporting are the core roles.

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  Fonterra

  • Business Analyst

    • 2009 - 2012

    Business Analyst within Commercial and StrategyUndertaking commercial analyses on projects across operations. Projects taking between one week and three months to complete.During this time also performed role of transport modelling expert for the organisation using various modelling tools to advise on new site developments relative to transport.