The challenge
A global PLM transformation needed a more credible value story, clearer ownership and stronger alignment between corporate delivery and Pet Nutrition’s real operating needs.
What changed
- Lead the $72m Pet Nutrition PLM programme within a wider $239m cross-segment enterprise transformation.
- Rebuilt the business case from first principles, replacing optimistic assumptions with a grounded value case.
- Created and led a specialist team with clear accountabilities, governance and ways of working.
- Built alignment across all 11 Pet Nutrition organisational entities and their senior finance and technical stakeholders.
- Led key sourcing and early design decisions for external manufacturing, supplier collaboration and orchestration.
- Reshaped ownership when Phase 2 needed more momentum and helped realign the cross-enterprise delivery model.
A $72m Pet Nutrition PLM programme within a $239m cross-segment enterprise transformation, spanning eleven organisations and senior functional and finance leaders.
A value case that leaders could support, more focused design decisions and a delivery organisation better able to recover momentum.
A practical foundation for PLM that balances global standardisation with the realities of R&D and product development.