• Spearheaded a $7 million Asian business development plan for a European business partner by researching market demands, conducting competitor analysis and preparing a profitability evaluation
• Expanded Oleo chemical business down value chain and developed new applications in health care industries by recommending $10 million internal investment projects to management team; the business proposal was endorsed and expected payback period was 4 years.
• Acquired $2 million savings on raw material purchases in a single financial year by revamping procurement strategy; created standard operating procedure to guide procurement team; created dashboard and weekly reports for management to monitor raw material price and make strategic buying decisions.
• Proposed an internal capital investment in China to set up regional logistic hub, which the company adopted and ultimately reduced firm’s year-on-year logistic costs by 30%. As the project manager, I implemented cost analysis on each section of the logistic chain, and set up trade flow for new business and financial reporting procedures.
• Developed automated product pricing reports and held weekly pricing review sessions to improve communications between product manager and sales team. Weekly pricing review session helped product manager to allocate sales to the best-selling regions, and hence average marketing margin increased 40%.