Interim Vice President | Bureau Veritas

11 Month Assignment | Melbourne based | 460 Staff | 7 Direct Reports | $130 million Revenue                             

 Appointed on an interim basis for 11 months to improve the financial performance of a subsidiary of a multinational professional services firm in the Testing, Inspection and Certification sectors of Civil Construction, Resources, Oil & Gas, Marine, Power, Infrastructure and Government.

•  Created a new Commercial Department and restructured the Tenders Department improving new business conversion rates within 6 months leading to an improved overall business profitability of 3.2% for the first half of 2015.
• Provided the leadership to improve operational and labour efficiencies that took some $1.5 million worth of labour costs out of the business within 6 months.
• Led the creation of a suite of new engineering services focused on all major client contracts resulting in contract revenue increase of approx. $1.0 million in a tight operating environment characteristic by a mantra of cost downs.
• Led the change management program to restructure the Australian business delivering revenue growth in certain sectors of 10%, operating cost reductions of 4% and improved bottom line profitability by 2.0%.