David Newsam

Program Manager and Senior Project Manager of multiple cross-functional global transformation programs and projects.

• 2024 : Planning for enterprise data warehouse transformation from SAP BW to BW4 and Snowflake.
• 2023 - 2024 : Structured from inception, launched the marketing data transformation program "Marketing Data Foundations & Analytics", collaborating closely with WPP to plan and build the Nestlé marketing data foundation to drive data-driven brand campaign strategies.
• 2022 - 2024 : Managed consumer insights project to deliver strategic forecasting models for the World of Coffee Nestlé coffee business unit.
• 2020 - 2023 : Program Manager for Connected Planning demand & supply chain transformation program. Managed Wave 1 Pilot scope (USA, TH) through to onboarding of global scope and approval of Global business case for 400+ factories worldwide. Migration from SAP APO to OM Partners Supply & Demand Planning analytics solution.
• 2017 - 2024 : Program Manager for Commodities advanced analytics program, leading the initiative from ideation / creation to full data-driven forecasting and statistical model insights across 40+ commodities. Other scope included volume forecasting (SAS Viya then migrated to Azure Databricks) at plant / material level across all RAW and PACK, and the text analytics machine learning program to reclassify spend in the correct categories.
• 2018 - 2019 : Project manager for marketing brand simplification and sustainability project, resulting in new brand standards for CMYK colour template leading sustainability improvements and cost savings.
• 2017 - 2019 : Transformation Program manager for organisational transformation of corporate Procurement organisation into a global Hub and Spoke organisation.
• 2006 - 2012 : Systems Management technical expert for Tivoli suite of products, scripting in Perl and Shell, global deployment of monitoring for SAP and all other data center technologies.

Project Manager for Global Data Center Strategy, including evaluation and execution of strategy in Asia and Europe.

• End to end project manager and strategist for consolidation and relocation of Primary Nestlé Zone Europe Data Centers from Frankfurt-region to Switzerland.
• Preparation and evaluation of data center strategies, business case models, and decision matrices for CIO decision.
• Risk management of critical facilities, IT, and business risks to ensure contingency for Europe-wide SAP and complimentary applications.
• Managed strategy for power investment in Bussigny data center alongside facilities lead, resulting in significant investment in power infrastructure.
• Planning and execution of all Zone Europe data center relocation activities (services, applications, infrastructure, network).
• IT sustainability champion for Nestlé IT key markets and resource-saving initiatives.

Project manager for Global Nespresso Program to integrate the Nespresso organisation into the Nestlé active directory domain, ways of work, support and Human Resources user management processes.

• Managed full project scope across 7 Nespresso markets: USA, Canada, UK&I, Nordics, Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland.
• Integrated the full B2C model including boutiques, call centers, regional headquarters, and support desks.
• End-to-End accountability for the migration planning and execution.

UNIX technical SME for Veritas Cluster Server and VXFS volume management solutions

• Providing 3rd level enterprise support of Veritas cluster and volume management solutions on UNIX to Global customers

Systems management subject matter expert for data center automation, monitoring and software distribution.

• Systems management SME for Canada-wide Project to replace automated banking machines (2000+) on Intel-based platform.
• Management of Tivoli gateway and configuration manager solutions.
• Novell networks administration, Microsoft server administrator.
• Mainframe support of branch-wide network.