Business Chief USA February 2019

EXECUTIVE PROFILE
Fareen Mehrzai
Fareen Mehrzai is Supply Chain leader who develops and executes
integrated operations programs to expand her organisations’
footprint while optimising all aspects of commercial operations.
Mehrzai is a strong people leader with a proven track record of
mentoring and developing top tier talent. In order to ensure cost
reduction, she fosters an environment supportive of continuous
network optimisation, maximizing vendor and co-manufacturing
relationships and financial terms for mutual benefit, driving
inefficiencies out of internal and external processes and challenging
norms for step function cost improvements. A staunch proponent
of continuous improvement, as a matter of routine Mehrzai
instills a ‘Zero Waste’ mindset in individuals and teams
around her.
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Examples of how she has optimised costs, streamlined
process flows, and led large-scale initiatives include:
Strategic planning: led the re-design and re-launch of
a marketing procurement operational master plan,
enabling 150%+ of savings targets.
Process improvement: spearheaded the development
of a framework to adopt business improvement tools
and methodologies by leveraging extensive Six Sigma
knowledge, leading to savings of $60M.
Global team engagement: enhanced efficiency,
transparency, and resources while leading
a diverse team of directors, managers, associates,
and direct and indirect reports including
finance, and sales.
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