Can you tell us about your new role?
My role looks at the North American supply chain. Currently our suppliers have numerous Rolls-Royce contacts across all four businesses; this increases both costs and inefficiencies, and suppliers don’t know who to listen to. I will be setting supply chain strategies and policies for regionally-based suppliers and company operations, and will lead the delivery of these strategies on behalf of the Customer Facing Business Units (CFBU’s) to optimise supply chain value.

What are the challenges you see?
The main challenge I see is that Rolls-Royce needs to stabilise the supply base, grow capabilities and drive efficiency and effectiveness throughout the organisation.

Other areas I am keen to focus on are; working with suppliers who are struggling to meet our current workload to make sure we meet our demands.