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minaxi mistry, Business Excellence

minaxi mistry

Business Excellence·ABB

United Arab Emirates

Master's degree, MBA

Work experience

Total years of experience: 10 years, 11 months

Business Excellence

October 1999 - August 2010

ABB

United Kingdom

October 1999 - August 2010

Jun 2010 to Aug 2010
Project Management
- Simultaneously managed four engineering projects to deliver both financially and technically proficient solution to customer satisfaction and deadlines. Managed customer and team relationships to achieve targets (short assignment - emigrating to Egypt)
Oct 2004 to Jun 2010
Operational Excellence Manager
- Reporting to Global Executive level; Analyse and manage change globally; design and align a business-wide operational model
- Roll out new sales, offshoring and outsourcing strategies
- Market research, and compose marketing plans, new product marketing strategy, product positioning and organise customer events
- Leading multiple teams both locally and internationally, building trust and relationships, to communicate new ways of working using training/workshops (MEA and globally)
- Managing cost saving projects and deliver successes on time, from own developed plans and recommendations
- Quality/ efficiency KPI monitoring and reporting, whilst improving end user deliverables
- Taking a lead role in implementation of a new SAP business system; specific responsibility associated to sales and distribution and supply chain
- Acquisition leader, co-ordinating market analysis and alternatives assessment, due diligence, and integration planning
Sep 2003 to Sep 2004
Head of Supply Chain,
- Strategising purchasing function; introduced methods enhancing net working capital
- £30M Spend; achieved cost savings of £0.5M in the first 6 months
- Restructured and managed an SCM team of 8 people
- Develop purchase plan to achieve the organisation’s revenue and cash flow targets
Oct 2002 - Sep 2003
Senior Analyst - Business Planning
Oct 2001 - Sep 2002
Sales Engineer, ABB
-Achieved a success rate 1:3 proposals progressing to orders, totalling over £2M of sales
-Customer liaison and support field sales force
Oct 1999- Sep 2001
Grauate Training Scheme, then Acquisition Project Co-ordinator

Company industry:
General Engineering Consultancy
Job role:
Management

Education

Henley Management College

July 2008

July 2008

Master's degree, MBA

United Kingdom

Dissertation grade A+ 'Engineering Skills Shortages in the UK'

The University of Sheffield

September 1999

September 1999

Master's degree, Control Systems Engineering

United Kingdom

The University of Sheffield

June 1998

June 1998

Bachelor's degree, Mathematics and Physics

United Kingdom

Skills

Project Management Change Management
Expert
Project Management Change Management
Expert
Organisation and Scheduling
Expert
Organisation and Scheduling
Expert
Business Improvement
Expert
Business Improvement
Expert
Communication
Expert
Communication
Expert
Problem Solving/ Analyser
Expert
Problem Solving/ Analyser
Expert
Project Management
Intermediate
Project Management
Intermediate
Creative Thinking
Intermediate
Creative Thinking
Intermediate
Project Management Change Management
Expert
Project Management Change Management
Expert

Languages

English
Expert
French
Beginner
Gujarati
Intermediate
Arabic
Beginner

Training and Certifications

Certifications
Leadership, Communications, Scheduling, Cost Control, Risk, Analysis, Processes & Applications
George Washington University
Jan 2010 - Aug 2010