Experience

Promo On Demand

• Australia
• Marketing Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• SHOPIFY E-COMMERCE BUSINESS & OPERATIONS DEVELOPER

  • Jul 2018 - Present

  • Oversee the setup of a new Shopify e-commerce store for a start-up, rapidly growing promotions business. • Apply my extensive experience in warehousing and inventory control to create a superior system monitoring performance, product costing, inventory control, and warehousing to create greater transparency in performance analytics and reporting. • Interface with executives to propose and obtain buy-in for strategic initiatives such as developing a new business and warehousing facility and implementing a first-rate product costing model, new business operations, and financial management system. • Maintain a significant focus on turnover, profit and cost control while applying a strategic lens to compile highly effective order processing and dispatch inventory documentation, populating relevant fields to produce compelling financial and sales reports to deliver to management. • Created a brand new business warehouse facility on time and within budget, enabling the launch of Shopify eCommerce products ahead of schedule. • Negotiated and secured a $1.2m p.a. contract with one of Australia's biggest real estate groups, designing a unique product costing model specific to their business. • Decreased costs by 60% by implementing an order on demand business model, thereby reducing stock holding and warehousing costs. Show less



DE BEERS DIAMOND JEWELLERS LIMITED

• 1 - 100 Employee

• Research Operations Manager

  • Apr 2000 - Jul 2018

  • Joined the organisation as Mechanical Design Draughtsman; rapidly progressed to the role of Project Coordinator responsible for the development of the Projects Office and ISO 9001 Project Quality System. • Approved R&D Capital Assets and Capital spend in line with all maintenance, procurement, and stock within the facility. • Liaised with multiple stakeholders and executives to develop substantial group budgets; demonstrated an understanding of business needs to ensure facilities were in place to achieve research and production output objectives. • Ensured the successful placement of 80% of the research staff in positions on offer either at the production plant in South Africa or at the new research facility in the UK to promote research continuity. • Led the development and implementation of research and projects budgeting and cost control systems. • Streamlined the implementation of the JD Edwards ERP/MRP system at the research facility without significant disruption to business activities and simplifying manufacturing functionality. • Implemented R&D Works Orders and Job Costing; integrated these with Production Finance Show less