Cherie Orr

Being part of the global SP&S Leadership team and the NE&ME Senior Leadership team to ensure that the logistics functions within SP&S maintains high level of service and compliance. Overall responsibility for order management, warehouse management, transportation, returns, major component control and operational governance. Ensuring that the teams remain engaged in the overall SP&S targets and strive to work to improve processes. Establishing department goals and targets including improvement projects that look at continuous improvement within SP&S and the logistics function. Develop and empowered of management and the teams by means of succession planning, training and trust culture. To lead and develop the workforce, ensuring maximum productivity and effectiveness with high performance culture of business excellence and continuous improvement, with motivated employees and retention of key staff.

Being part of the global SP&S Management team and the NE&ME Senior Leadership team to ensure that the SP&S function within NE&ME maintains high level of service and compliance. Overall department responsibility for the end to end NE&ME supply chain consisting of planning, sourcing, order management, warehouse management, transportation, returns and operational governance (104 employees in total across several countries). Ensuring that the teams remain engaged in the overall SP&S targets and strive to work to improve processes. Establishing department goals and targets including improvement projects that look at continuous improvement within SP&S. Designing and implementing a robust function within the region aligned with the global blueprint and strategy. Develop an empowered team by means of succession planning, training and trust culture. To lead and develop the workforce, ensuring maximum productivity and effectiveness with high performance culture of business excellence and continuous improvement, with motivated employees and retention of key staff.

Responsible for working within the SP&S function to ensure top quality of customer delivery and experience to all customers (internal and external). Responsible for ensuring customer focus and delivery with best practice sharing as well as ensuring that synergy and productivity opportunities are developed and implemented. Continued alignment with global processes and systems whilst delivering excellent service to operations and bringing unified approach to the Order Management & Customer Care boundaries. Working to find solutions for the customers for delivery adherence with other functions including but not limited to Procurement, Engineering, Technology, EHS and Quality. Delivering the highest level of customer focus and operational and economical results sustainably and safely. Operational responsibility for the warehouses within NE&ME which consist of both a 3PL global warehouse and a regional distribution centre. Ensuring that materials are stored, picked and packed in a timely manner to the customer whilst keeping safety at the forefront of all operations. Ensuring that the 3PL and warehouse are efficient and effective throughout all their operations and developing an overall supplier partnership with the 3PL. Ensuring that transportation from the warehouses to site is completed compliantly and in a timely manner. Overall management and governance of the function (59 employees across 4 Countries), design, develop and implement strategy for the function ensuring agreed targets and key performance measures are achieved. Establish close relationships with other SP&S personnel, operations and customers.

Responsible for working within the supply chain to ensure best customer delivery and experience to all customers. Responsible for ensuring customer focus and delivery with best practice sharing as well as ensuring that synergy and productivity opportunities are developed and implemented. Continued alignment with global processes and systems whilst delivering excellent service to operations and bringing unified approach to the Order Management & Customer Care boundaries. Working to find solutions for the customers for delivery adherence with other functions including but not limited to Procurement, Engineering, Technology, EHS and Quality. Delivering the highest level of customer focus and operational and economical results sustainably and safely. Management and governance of the function (25 employees across 3 Countries), implement strategy for the function ensuring agreed targets and key performance measures are achieved.

Responsible for the provision of spare parts (including order processing, planning and warehousing/logistics) to wind farms throughout the UK and Ireland as part of an overall NE&ME strategy. Responsible for ensuring customer focus and delivery along with best practice and ensuring synergy and productivity opportunities are fully recognised. Ensuring alignment with both regional and global processes throughout the supply chain whilst delivering an excellent service to operations and bringing unified approach to SCM across business unit boundaries. Representing UK&IE within the NE&ME region, influencing the strategies of NE&ME and global SCM to meet regional and country needs. Working closely with interdependent functions such as procurement, technology. EHS & quality to deliver excellent service. Ensure the highest level of customer focus at all times to deliver operational and economical results sustainably and safely.

Organisation, control and regulation of order management activities with the objective of ensuring customers have dedicated support with their sales and return orders for spare parts and required services whilst optimising the order management processes and the use of resources. Responsibility within the team for creation and delivery of circa 20,000 order lines to ensure adherence to Siemens Gamesa terms and conditions. Ensuring that the ordering procedure is conducted to high standard with Procurement and supplier engagement to allow first line response for queries. Planning, optimisation and control of department resources to increase the profitability in the area of responsibility. Selection, management, assessment and development of employees in the area of responsibility to ensure long-term corporate success with motivated employees. Derivation of team/individual objectives from Group and Business objectives to measure, report, control, and (where necessary) to give coaching in the overall results. Initiation of order management processes, pinpointing approaches to problem-solving, integrating various objectives to secure local plant/project objectives. Ensuring that the ordering procedure is conducted within applicable laws and regulations to ensure economic success, efficient operation and compliance

Responsible for defining and delivering strategic objectives, ensuring the departmental structure, targets and resources functions are aligned to the Vision, Mission and Strategy of Siemens Energy Service, supporting the delivery of all business objectives. Implement continuous departmental improvements that ensure adherence of Procurement Best Practice. Set clear defined objectives for team which are monitored with performance reviews. Ensure departmental governance – PO’s are raised correctly and in a timely manner to ensure goods and service are provided for all areas. Strong staff development and empowerment by means of clear succession planning. Develop, maintain and monitor the vendor approval procedure and register. Lead in delivery for World Class Procurement Status Global reporting of KPI’s Lead of EDI/MRP Project delivery within region

Ensure that all procurement procedures, practices and personnel meet standards and compliance within Siemens guidelines. Provide the Support team with clear defined objectives which are monitored with performance reviews given. Ensure that purchase orders are raised correctly and in a timely manner to ensure goods and service are provided for all areas. Ensure that corporate initiatives are communicated and understood within the Supply Chain department. Develop, maintain and monitor the vendor approval procedure and register. Communicate and respond to all CCM alerts raised within the business unit. Ensure that the reporting of departmental KPI’s are correct and completed in a timely manner. Take a lead for the computerised ordering system from the UK and communicate with DK colleagues on the possibilities and implementation. Be the lead to complete world class procurement evidence portfolio. OneSRM champion role take on which inolves the implementation, training and monitoring of OneSRM purchasing tool for Energy Service. Ensure that the SharePoint area is upto date and relevant to internal customers.

Managing the major supplier for Energy Service Fossil outsourced stores and logistics provider, co-ordinating and improving services for ongoing site outages both on the Fossil and Renewables side of the business. Monitor, record and act upon KPI’s for the vendor at all levels internally and externally t the department. Work as a lead for the department to ensure that the assistant buyers and buyers have support available to ensure sites run correctly. Developing and implementing commodity strategies to ensure best price and service for the company. Provide costs for tenders to the customer. Develop and implement company procedure to ensure compliance within the field service area.

My duties included working with the Energy Service Fossil sites to ensure that all goods and services were available for site outages by purchasing of strategic products and services. Day to day control and management of purchases to ensure services are completed. Supplier sourcing, evaluation and development within company guidelines. Negotiate and implementation of supplier service level agreements on behalf of the company. Liaise direct with site managers to ensure completion and correct closure of all projects.

Job costing by co-ordination with manufacturing, strategic procurement and external suppliers to establish an accurate estimation on spare components for power stations. Establishing the market selling price with reference to previous sales data. Preparing quotations to send to the customer and then converting the customer purchase order into a sales order. Scheduling all required materials and activities, dealing with external suppliers to include enquiring and placing purchase orders. Preparation and release of working instructions to manufacturing. Managing and controlling the contract budget to ensure that the targeted profit levels are met. Expediting all stages of the manufacturing process to ensure that the delivery commitment to the customer is met. Dealing with customer queries and keeping them up to date in the progress of their quotations and orders

Sourcing, processing and project managing end fitting and ancillary components (machined and raw material items), developing supplier strategies, developing supplier agreements, enhancing supplier relationships, compiling then analysing quotations from suppliers, stock analysis and control, project budget analysis, creating and implementing a vendor rating system, vendor rating analysis, sourcing new suppliers and helping the Procurement Manager as necessary. I was involved in assisting the implementation of a new ERP system. There was also an assistant buyer who was a direct report to myself and I was responsible for setting their workload and analysing their daily duties.

Sourcing, processing and project managing raw materials, enhancing supplier relationships, compiling then analysing quotations from suppliers for bids, tracking and recording savings against standard costs, vendor rating analysis and helping the Supply Chain Manager as necessary.