CATEGORY MANAGER, PARMALAT AUSTRALIA, 24
At 24, she’s one of purchasing’s youngest rising stars, but Alexandra Goffey already has an MA in business and is one of the youngest purchasers in Australia to hold the MCIPS qualification.
“Supply management offers growing opportunities as more organisations recognise the value a strong procurement function can deliver,” she says. She began her career as a procurement officer at the Department of Emergency Services in Brisbane on the Queensland Government’s procurement professional graduate programme. She joined milk and dairy producer Parmalat Australia as a procurement officer before becoming category manager for direct materials. Her projects included developing a strategy to determine whether to manufacture juice in house, saving AUS$250,000 (£141,000) by improving packaging and ingredients sourcing.
She has won strong praise from Stephen Rowe, CPO of Parmalat Australia, who praises her skill in working with senior executives internally and at vendors, as well as with factory production managers and planners, which “reflects our vision of Alex as a future leader”.
