Neil Christian

I turn complex supply-chain, systems and AI programs into change people actually adopt, and prove it in the numbers.

Director-level transformation & implementation leadership, supply chain, enterprise systems, applied AI.

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EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Lineage Logistics

DHL Supply Chain

CEVA Logistics

Visy

Kraft Heinz

Kmart

Kez's Kitchen

01 / PROFILE

Profile

Transformation and operational-excellence leader accountable for outcomes, not milestones. 12 years combining continuous improvement and program delivery into measurable financial results across supply chain, warehousing, transport and enterprise systems.

Full P&L ownership of an eight figure operation proved line credibility; I chose delivery and strategy. I build the transformation capability, not just the projects: portfolio governance, initiative pipelines, ELT investment cases, CI standards and the coaching that makes gains hold.

Equally credible on a warehouse floor, in a systems design review and in front of a global C-suite.

02 / CAPABILITY

Capability

CAP-01 / STRATEGY

Strategy & Transformation

Portfolio origination, ELT investment cases (NPV/IRR), and benefits realisation.

multi-million six-initiative portfolio Six-initiative APAC portfolio

nine-figure Investments influenced

CAP-02 / SYSTEMS

Systems, AI & Automation

TMS/WMS/ERP delivery, applied AI/RPA, evidence-based vendor challenge.

multi-million regional budget BY TMS 3 countries

six-figure annualised savings AI order automation

CAP-03 / OPERATIONS

Operations & Cost

Lean/CI at scale, transport turnaround, and offshoring.

eight-figure quantified savings Career savings delivered

246% Transport EBITDA swing

Full Toolbox

Blue Yonder TMS

E2Open

Oracle SaaS

Manhattan Active WMS

SAP

project44

Samsara

Ultimo

Power BI

Qlik Sense

Sisense

Sigma

SQL

Python

Jira

ServiceNow

Microsoft Suite

03 / PROGRAMS

Selected Programs

PRG-01 / TRANSPORT

Transport EBITDA Turnaround

Took transport strategy from white paper to execution for a loss-making business.

246% EBITDA swing

PRG-02 / BY TMS

Blue Yonder TMS APAC

Delivered BY TMS across Australia, Singapore and Vietnam with end-to-end accountability.

multi-million Program budget

PRG-03 / AI AUTOMATION

BY AI & Pallet AI

Implemented AI and RPA across manual order processing and order-to-cash workflows.

six-figure Annualised savings

PRG-04 / SYSTEMS

E2Open TMS 15 Sites

Managed end-to-end delivery of E2Open TMS across 15 APAC sites.

15 Sites migrated

PRG-05 / EVALUATION

Evidence-Based No

Assessed AI for customer service and recommended against it. Human model was demonstrably cheaper.

REDIRECT Funding saved

PRG-06 / LINE P&L

Department of Health Site

Full P&L ownership of a 110,000 sqm operation for 11 months, 24/6 Operation.

eight-figure Operation value

04 / PRACTICE

Applied Practice

PRC-01 / INFRASTRUCTURE

Self-Hosted Infrastructure

Multi-host virtualised estate run under formal change control. Every change is risk-classified, gated, and verified against live state.

PRC-02 / AI WORKFLOWS

Applied LLM Workflows

Retrieval- and context-engineered AI for document analysis with explicit ground-truth hierarchies to control hallucination.

PRC-03 / DEFECTS

Zero-Defect Discipline

Documented failure-archaeology practice. Every incident recorded as symptom, root cause, evidence and a permanent rule.

PRC-04 / DATA

Data & Automation

SQL, Python and shell automation for scheduled jobs, data pipelines, reconciliation checks and operational reporting.

05 / EDUCATION & CREDENTIALS

Education & Credentials

EDU-01 / DEGREE

B.Eng (Mechanical)

Monash University, 2012

EDU-02 / DEGREE

M.Eng (Management)

RMIT University, 2014

EDU-03 / CREDENTIAL

PMP

Project Management Institute, 2024

EDU-04 / CREDENTIAL

MIEAust

Engineers Australia, Professional Rank, 2018

EDU-05 / CREDENTIAL

Six Sigma Green & Yellow Belt

2015

06 / CONTACT

Contact

Open to Director of Implementation / Head of Transformation conversations.

Melbourne, Australia

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