Sep 2020 – Jul 2022 · 1 yr 10 mos

Sep 2020 – Jul 2022 · 1 yr 10 mos

Mar 2019 – Aug 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Accountable to deliver profitability and growth target for Coles online. Lead overall strategic development and program of work to achieve cost reduction and revenue growth.

Jul 2016 – Mar 2019 · 2 yrs 8 mos

• Manage national fulfillment operations of Coles Online. Accountable for improvements in profit, sales growth, customer value proposition, delivery fee income, cost reduction, customer satisfaction, systems/processes and operational excellence.
• Set up a same day delivery network nationally for full grocery range making Coles one of the only
• few major retailers globally offering this service.

Jun 2013 – Jun 2016 · 3 yrs

• Provide strategic and operational lead management in the end to end international supply chain to improve safety, service and cost across Coles Supermarkets, Liquor and MIX Apparel business.
• Supporting sales of $1+bn, responsible for an operational budget of $80m+ and team of 12 to manage import from 45 countries and 83 ports, 6 overseas consolidation centres/warehouses, network design, vendor management (more than 320 suppliers), ocean freight, Australian Customs, domestic transport and distribution centre/warehouse operations.
• Researched, procured and operationalised two offshore consolidation centres: a multi country offshore consolidation warehouse in Tanjung Pelepas, Malaysia and a warehouse/consolidation centre in Thailand.

Sep 2012 – Jun 2013 · 9 mos

• Responsible for setting up a new route to market for non-Australian made products and negotiating trading term with merchandising suppliers to increase product margin.
• Devised and introduced “Ocean primary freight” program for direct sourcing and drive COGS reduction through negotiating pricing at manufacturing country.
• Defined new route to market for MIX clothing from China and South East Asia enabling pick and pack “store ready” pallets offshore to reduce cost, lead time and store markdowns.

Sep 2010 – Sep 2012 · 2 yrs

• Responsible for the development, commercialisation and delivery of a supplier collaboration programme with Coles’ top 300 suppliers over a $12b Cost of Goods Sold (COGS).
• COGS Program: Worked with Coles suppliers to identify end to end efficiencies in merchandising and supply chain, resulting in incremental margin.
• Vendor Management: Designed a multi-tier vendor management program, to standardise governance and collaboration process across the supplier base.
• Network Optimisation: Re-engineered the supply chain operations to improve operational capability and physical infrastructure across supermarket.

Jul 2009 – Sep 2010 · 1 yr 2 mos

Nov 2008 – Jul 2009 · 8 mos

• Bizintegra Systems Pvt Ltd is a full scope IT Company formed by 10 experienced IT professionals with aprox 150 years of experience between them in companies like i2 Technologies, Red Prairie, Essar Steel, Tata Steel and Reliance.
• Our vision is to focus on providing solutions that enable our customers to reduce the time, complexity and costs of developing and managing their IT systems. We work as affordable extension of IT teams of our customers & provide high quality services with significant cost reduction.
• Bizintegra has great expertise in developing software solutions based on SAO architecture using cutting edge Microsoft products such as .NET, MOSS 2007, Biztalk, Performance Point Server, Commerce Server, and Communication Server. The core areas of focus of the company are web development, document management, content management and knowledge management.

May 2008 – Nov 2008 · 6 mos

• Lead the transportation management team (5 functional and 10 technical consultants) to implement green-field distribution and transportation management solution across ~15 distribution centres and ~800 stores.

Jul 2004 – May 2008 · 3 yrs 10 mos

• Lead operational consulting projects to solve diverse business problems in capacity and material planning, distribution planning, inventory and order management. Offer technical and management consultancy within the industrial, hi tech and metals sectors.