Experience

Kotahi Logistics LP Ltd

• New Zealand
• Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain and Storage
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Product Owner

  • Jul 2020 - Present

  Working closely with strategic customers and partners, scale Kotahi Coastal product through delivery of a door-to-door value proposition and manage delivery of strategic long term business enabler. Additionally, consulting with customers as subject matter expert for Cross Border Trade and Supply Chain innovations. Report to General Manager Product and Marketing I currently lead a Coastal Product team of six indirect reports and two Delivery teams but influence deeply across the wider organisation.

• Commercialisation Manager - New Products and Services

  • Feb 2018 - Jul 2020

  Appointed to establish a new product development function for Kotahi. This was achieved via theadoption of Customer led design and agile product development methodologies. I developed theproduct roadmap with a focus on targeting new sources of value. This function has now evolved intothe Product and Marketing team.



Fonterra

• New Zealand
• Food and Beverage Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Regional Supply Chain Development Manager South East Asia

  • Jul 2016 - Feb 2018

  Leading the Global Operations Supply Chain function in-market to liaise and develop opportunities with customers, across multiple business units, and External agencies aligned with Fonterra Group Strategy.Working with external customers to identify areas of future growth and strategic opportunities forour business to unlock, while driving alignment of practices and a control framework within theglobal operations business units.

• Supply Chain Development Manager - ASEAN/ ISMEA

  • Jan 2014 - Aug 2016

  Operating across the diverse markets of South East Asia and the Middle East, to ensure supply chain capabilities in warehousing and distribution deliver cost and performance in line with business and customer expectations. Accountable for nine ambient and five refrigerated warehouses, and the nine country operational leads and their direct reports across Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Saudi Arabia, Dubai

• China Supply Chain Manager

  • Jan 2012 - Dec 2013

  Transforming the way dairy product entered China, my Role was to disrupt the existing distributor import model and create and establish a competent end to end Supply Chain capability within Fonterra China (people, infrastructure, process and systems) to enable Fonterra China to import, manage inventory, and distribute product to customers Starting from a small project team we developed a strategy for how a business could be made transforming this industry giving control and oversight of product entering China to Fonterra. From this I recruited and built a team of 23 people, comprising and end to end procurement, importing, and distribution model within Mainland China, and established systems, inventory management, supply planning and optimisation tools, and regulatory controls.Key to the success of this business was working closely with the China sales and marketing teams to understand their needs, and the cross functional expertise in the wider business to enable the launch of new and existing products in time with business value expectations.

• Group Supply Chain Logistics Standards Manager

  • Jun 2008 - Mar 2012

  Key Responsibilities• Developing, measuring, and setting end to end processes for the physical warehouse, transport and network operations within the Fonterra Trade and Operations Group• Undertake and lead work across different cultures both geographical and organisational to ensure appropriate common group processes are developed, trained and adhered to.• Champion end to end global supply chain focus including the view of the customer for improvements in safety, quality and cost• Project Manager for the Product Customer Acceptance project ­ a long-term project designed to drive improvements in our product from a safety, quality and cost point of view for both our internal and external customers. The scope of the project incorporates all end to end customer interaction in the production and supply of Fonterra product and was recognised as one of the top Fonterra Operational Excellence projects in 2010.• Establishing health and safety standards for our logistics and warehousing operations as key member of the Fonterra Global Safe Product Handling lead team which included the Safe Stacking and Racking Standards, development of the Traffic Management Plan, and Strapping standards.• Regional development of the Safe Bulk Stacking Standards and Racking Standards across the Fonterra AME region, and Fonterra Japan.



Supply Connect

• Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain and Storage

• Co-Founder

  • Apr 2017 - Jan 2018

  Pitched and secured funding from Fonterra's Ventures and Investment DISRUPT team to setup a 10 month collaborative supply chain venture “Supply Connect”. Out of 80 concepts pitched globally, our concept was one of only three selected by the Chief Executive for funding. Our concept identified NZD12m of value creation opportunities through collaborative data sharing between food and beverage companies across the USA, South America, Europe and Malaysia. Pitched and secured funding from Fonterra's Ventures and Investment DISRUPT team to setup a 10 month collaborative supply chain venture “Supply Connect”. Out of 80 concepts pitched globally, our concept was one of only three selected by the Chief Executive for funding. Our concept identified NZD12m of value creation opportunities through collaborative data sharing between food and beverage companies across the USA, South America, Europe and Malaysia.



Mainfreight

• New Zealand
• Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain and Storage
• 700 & Above Employee

• Sales Manager, Christchurch

  • 2006 - 2008

  Key responsibilities:• Reported directly to National Sales Manager• Accountable for all commercial and service level agreements between national customer’s accounts and Mainfreight Operations based within Christchurch as well as between any key South Island accounts and Mainfreight operations.• Lead cross functional teams dedicated for key customers• Lead a team of 4 direct reports for the Canterbury sales region and stand in branch manager for a branch of 80 employees. My sales team were recognised at the annual sales conference as being the most proactive sales force due to the coaching and leadership I implemented.• Responsible for developing Christchurch branch growth strategy, identifying and targeting high value customers and ensuring those strategic relationships were fully developed and maintained.

• Mainfreight Graduate Programme

  • 2004 - 2006

  Key responsibilities:• Develop understanding of 3PL, Freight Forwarding and Domestic transport business.• Implement learning’s from University degree• Auckland Sales team, of which I was a standout member winning the national sales competition based on margin growth and customer call numbers.