Dipl.-Ing. Vanessa Stark

Responsible for driving profitable growth for the Retail, FMCG, Agriculture and Forestry businesses for our AIME region, as well as for Automotive & Industrial solutions in Europe and Global Accounts.

Responsible for leading the Global Marketing function for CHEP Automotive and Industrial Solutions to ensure long term profitable growth, brand awareness and continuously improve the total Customer Experience

Responsible to drive customer centricity and brand positioning in chosen markets according to strategy; Responsible to drive growth in the organization through market intelligence and value based solution selling. Responsible to deliver organic growth within addressable market

Established Solutions Team with associated tools to provide support for sales force and protect, improve and grow the business. Main focus to develop compelling solutions for packaging & supply chain market needs - thereby driving organic growth.

Manager for Global Strategic Clients (adidas Group, Teleflex). Development & implementation of business - ensuring both operational and commercial requirements are realized and contiuously improved.

Focus on Ford Transatlantic project where UTi acted as 4PL. Responsibilities included total Supply Chain Optimization via tangible cost savings (freight, inventory etc) across global supply chains, Continuous Improvement, KPIs, Client Account Management.

Paint Purchasing Engineer for BMW South Africa.

Subcontracted to BMW South Africa - worked on Tier one JIT / JIS supply chain planning. In parallel worked on Masters Dissertation and developed Supply Planning Methodology. Travelled to Munich for 6 months and worked at BMW Munich on Supply Chain projects (with Fraunhofer Instituut)

Automotive Supply Chain

Operations Research Engineering Economics