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Director Supply Chain/MIS

Work Experience

Groupe Pernod Ricard
Global Drinks manufacturing and marketing ($4Billion)
Project manager Supply Chain Integration 2001-2002
Manage successful integration of Seagram/Pernod supply Chain operations following company merger.

Seagram Spirits and Wine Group
Global Drinks manufacturing and marketing turnover ($5Billion)

European Supply Chain Director 1999-2001
Directly responsibility for European Distribution and internal consultant for global operations. 5 supply and 15 distribution sites in Europe. Costs of $40 million pa.


Chivas Brothers Ltd.
Scotch Whisky manufacturing/distribution subsidiary of Seagram ($700m)

Director Supply Chain/Customer Service Director 1997-2001
Ownership of: global import/export commercial activities; supply chain management; customer service; logistics and NPD. Scope: $20mm costs pa, $100mm inventory. Led restructuring activities reducing number of employees from 100 to 60.

Seagram European Re-engineering/Customer Fulfillment (Paris)1995-1997
Project Management of investigation, recommendations and implementation of Pan-European supply chain strategy. Later expanded to cover Global Supply Chain

Director of Planning/New Product Development 1993-1995
Responsible for: Strategic Forecasting/Planning; SOP/MRP and New Product Development. Re-organised NPD processes to reduce lead-times and create responsive customer orientated function.

Director of MIS 1990-1993
Responsible for UK MIS operations for Chivas Brothers Ltd.
Introduced various enabling technologies (e-mail; PCs and networking) to traditional IBM mainframe user base. Reduced MIS cost base by 20%.

MIS Systems Development Manager 1987-1990
Developed Enterprise wide MIS strategy across 20 sites with 200 users and 10 business critical applications

Business Analyst 1982-1987
Various MIS/Business improvement projects

Education

Executive MBA (University Glasgow) 1987
BA History and Politics (University Strathclyde) 1978

Skills

Change Management
Led global supply chain re-engineering initiative across 30 national distributors. Introduced centralised inventory planning, 30 dedicated forecasters with a 60% reduction in inventories ($100m).
Championed the introduction of world class customer service culture across pan-European supply teams (5) raising service levels from 70% to 98.5% and reduced lead times by 50%.
Business project leader during successful implementation of three business critical MIS processes: global e-forecasting (Logility); Pan-Euro Distribution (JDE) and Euro Manufacturing/Supply Chain (Peoplesoft).

Communication
Negotiated introduction of global supply strategy with 30 distributors and 5 suppliers after winning corporate approval for joint business/external consultancy vision during re-engineering initiative.
Gained approval for £20 million investment in green-field automatic distribution centre servicing global supply base.
Simplified NPD global planning process. Won the confidence of both manufacturing and marketing while reducing lead-time by 40% and delivering 5 global product introductions on time and budget.
Collaborated with retail partners to develop ECR processes which reduced inventory and communication costs allowing sharing of savings between businesses
Controlling and directing
Successfully ran global distribution network with responsibility for $100m inventory; $20m spend and 60 direct staff.
Led successful integration of supply chain following global merger with major competitor maintaining service level and costs during process.
Drove integration of Pan-European sales/back-office services reducing 12 locations to 4 and introducing single MIS platform.

Versatility
Successfully drove significant performance improvement in a range of technical areas: MIS; NPD and Supply Chain.
Comfortable in a range of leadership roles ranging from functional and project management to internal consultancy.

Other

Versatile commercial/supply chain Director with international operational; project; new product development and MIS experience. Proven change management; communication and leadership skills developed in a global blue chip environment. Significant expertise in radical performance improvement and process innovation

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