NEIL CHRISTIAN
Neil Christian

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.

Employment History

Lineage Logistics
DHL Supply Chain
CEVA Logistics
Visy
Kraft Heinz
Kmart
Kez's Kitchen
Optus
PSW

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 capability, not just the projects: portfolio governance, investment cases, CI standards, and the coaching that makes gains stick.

Equally at home on a warehouse floor, in a systems design review, and in front of executives.

Capability

CAP-01 / STRATEGY

Strategy & Transformation

Portfolio origination, 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, AI/RPA, evidence-based vendor assessment.

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, offshore operating model.

eight-figure quantified savings Career savings delivered
246% Transport EBITDA swing

Selected Programs

PRG-01 / TRANSPORT

Transport EBITDA Turnaround

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

246% EBITDA swing
PRG-02 / BY TMS

Blue Yonder TMS APAC

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

multi-million Program budget
PRG-03 / AI AUTOMATION

BY AI & Pallet AI

Deployed AI and RPA across manual order processing and order-to-cash.

six-figure Annualised savings
PRG-04 / SYSTEMS

E2Open TMS 15 Sites

Delivered E2Open TMS end to end across 15 APAC sites.

15 Sites migrated
PRG-05 / EVALUATION

Evidence-Based No

Assessed AI for customer service and recommended against it. Inference cost made a human model cheaper.

REDIRECT Funding saved
PRG-06 / LINE P&L

Department of Health Site

Ran a 110,000 sqm operation for 11 months with full P&L accountability.

eight-figure Operation value

Applied Practice

PRC-01 / INFRASTRUCTURE

Self-Hosted Infrastructure

Multi-host virtualised estate 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 ground-truth hierarchies to prevent hallucination.

PRC-03 / DEFECTS

Zero-Defect Discipline

I keep a documented failure log. 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.

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

EDU-06 / CREDENTIAL

Future Leaders Development Program (FLDP)

Visy, 2017

Contact

Open to Director of Implementation / Head of Transformation conversations.

Melbourne, Australia