Vivian Olonade
Vice President, Operations
Singapore
***********@*****.***
+65-96704749
https://www.linkedin.com/in/vivianolo/
SUMMARY
To obtain a business commercial and operations consulting role with the potential to effect positive change and restructuring to improve efficiency, productivity, and profitability in organisations. I intend to pursue permanent residency in Canada and my profile has been submitted to the Express Entry Pool. WORK EXPERIENCE
Vice President, Operations
EGIS Healthcare Technologies Pte Ltd
Apr 2018 – Present
Lead and manage all areas of business and operations in the organisation across various offices and territory. Maintain and grow the business and look for opportunities of new investment in new technologies to create new product lines and diversity in product portfolio of the company.
Responsible for managing project implementation to meet customer acceptance, schedule and budget
Leading business and operations of a company with regional offices in 3 cities, with more than 35 employees of diverse talents in all areas of Finance, HR, Admin, Operations, Marketing, Business Development
Lead a team to obtain successful 2 major national hospital clusters (including >20 hospital institution and sites) Clinical Laboratory system renewal, and development of new specimen collection module to be used in the hospital with Agile SCRUM methodology.
Provides leadership to the technical support teams in the planning, managing and implementing maintenance services to meet the company service level agreement with the customer
Support the effort of business development team to coordinate and give technical presentations at trade shows and to major customers at product seminars and conferences
Formulating training and incentive plans, maintaining efficient team structure and performance through analytics, processes and tools, maximizing new client engagement
Maintain profit margins according to established objectives develop or maintain internal control systems to ensure accountability.
Recruitment of new talents, restructuring of teams to improve efficiency and communication
Develop and establish strong relationships with external partners, suppliers and vendors Operations Intelligence Manager
DishDash.co
Oct 2017 – Mar 2018
Lead the operational and business restructuring to help the Corporate food delivery startup business implement structures, processes, and systems to ensure the new structure is able to support the scale-up of operations. To act as an external and internal consultant to review workflow processes and Activity-based management to ensure efficiency and productivity. Hiring new talents that will fit into the sustainable growth plan of the company, and improve employee engagement, internal and external communication.
Restructuring and transitioning to scale-up and growth
Strategy for operations, business development and partnerships
Identify and implement functional workflow structure and framework
Overcoming challenges, executing organizational changes and improvements
Account management and customer service turnarounds
Talent management, training and development, vendor engagement and support Operations Manager
The Gallup Organisation(s) Pte Ltd
Aug 2016 – Jun 2017
Responsible for the Profit and Loss statement, Monthly Regional Operations Report (Management Accounting Reports) of the region. Fully accountable and responsible for expenditure and revenue of the Singapore revenue cost center
(including South East Asia, Japan, Korea, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Hong Kong).
Leading and managing team of diverse talents including project manager, designer, course coordinator, IT engineer; exercising strengths based leadership and managing a local office of 25 employees with extended regional headcount of around 35-40 people contributing to regional business revenue
Leading and executing million dollar multi-phase office renovation project in the CBD area from start to completion
Managing vendor and project profitability through monitoring project realization rates, balancing budgets, costs and creating product and service differentiation to optimize profits
Leading financial accountability ensuring profitability; Regional P&L responsibilities, Southeast Asia, Japan, Korea.
Steering management team collaboration resulting in cross-divisional team engagement, effective utilization and increasing productivity per person.
Proven significant positive results on team engagement and productivity turnaround.
Ensure profitable project realization rates, efficient vendor management, delivering with exceeding client satisfaction and engagement
Shape a positive and continuously improving culture Chef de Partie – Greenwood Fish Market @ Quayside Isle Chef de Partie – Orgo Bar & Restaurant
Commis – Bar-Roque Grill
Aug 2015 – May 2016
Comprehensive Food and Beverage Industry experience over a year in Fresh Fish restaurant and retail, Mediterranean Cuisine, Contemporary French Cuisine.
Strategic planning and set up of new imported fresh fish retail market and restaurant with >150 wine labels and 130 seats
Kitchen management and training
Menu creation
Events management
Independently Manage bar and dessert kitchen
Participate in Epicurean market events at the Marina Bay Sands
Cold kitchen food prep
Fish filleting skills and seafood processing
VP, Product Division
EGIS Nanotech Pte Ltd
Oct 2013 – Jul 2015
Setting up new company distributing Nanotechnology Medical Textile from Asia to Europe and American markets.
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Responsibilities include company registration and negotiation of legal agreements
Concept, design and creation of marketing collaterals
Plan, organise and participate to global trade fairs
Successfully certify product to comply with international requirements to use in clinical setting Operations Manager
EGIS Healthcare Technologies Pte Ltd
Oct 2013 – Jul 2015
Managing all operations and commerical aspects of the business.
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Conceptualise and execute strategy for business and operations
Tightening processes via value chain analysis, creating new solutions and new markets
Mitigate and manage risks
Ensure continuous improvements in customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction & quality assurance through planning and implementation of site audits, workflow consultations, annual conferences and value added services
Responsible for regional business developments, regional business contracts, tenders, site upgrades and reversing customer loss scenarios
ISO recertification quality assurance projects
Provide coaching, challenges and confidence to a team of more than 15 IT support engineers and product team leads in regional projects across regional offices
Reorganisation of team structure into domain knowledge branches, to cover wider product knowledge and ensure higher rates of customer satisfaction
Project director for national blood bank software upgrade project Product Specialist
Johnson & Johnson Pte Ltd (Ethicon)
Feb 2013 – Jun 2013
In charge of sales and acting as SME for product domain knowledge for training of doctors and nurses and operating Theatre support.
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Best High Impact Presenter and Excellence Award
Manage and expand customer accounts by integrity and insight selling
Establishing and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders across multiple levels and departments in hospitals
Plan and conduct customer education seminars, trainings and workshops
Provide technical support to surgeons in operating theatres Technical Support Specialist
Johnson & Johnson Pte Ltd (Ortho Clinical Diagnostics) Mar 2010 – Jan 2013
Set up of new Asia Pacific Technical Support Center to provide call center troubleshooting and investigation technical And product scientific support to customers in Asia, America, and Europe with follow-the-sun call routing, and Lab Experience center.
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Pioneering Asia Pacific Technical Support Center startup : Office infratstructure, call center, technical, marketing, business and customer support service startup
Manage team KPI with 5-10 members, effect transparent communication channels with global affiliates
Design and Implementation of regional customer satisfaction survey
Responsible in ensuring customer service quality assurance
Subject matter expert providing in-depth analytical, technical and scientific troubleshooting and investigations in 3 languages, 8 countries, and across 8 product lines
Training, certification, and compliance to US FDA regulatory and technical support international complaint handling procedures
Design, plan and participate in presentations and demonstrations for regional customer visite vents
Regional instrument installations, commissioning of analysers and trainings
New technology and instrument remote monitoring launch and support
Set up and maintain regional marketing and scientific gournal database Research Assistant, Laboratory of Molecular Pathogenesis Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan
Aug 2009 – Dec 2009
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Edit draft scientific papers and journal publications of Postdoctoral fellows/Assitant Professors in English EDUCATION
Master of Business Administration
University of Liverpool, England
2018 - 2021
Bachelor of Science, Biomedical Science (2
nd
Upper Honours)
Nanyang Technological University
2006-2009
Final Year Research Project
Tokyo Medical and Dental University
2009
INSTEP student exchange program
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2008
LANGUAGES
English – fluent/ native
Chinese – fluent/ native
Cantonese – fluent/ native
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Strategic entrepreneurial commercial and people oriented leader with experience across Healthcare IT, Medical Devices, Hospital Surgical, Internet Technology, Food and Beverage, and Management Consulting industries; working in multinational corporations, small-medium enterprises and startups. Visionary strong in business profitability, organizational restructuring, customer engagement turnarounds. Breeds innovation, collaboration and partnerships through diversity, motivated to stimulating and moving teams to advance businesses across organizations. Computer Skills - Proficient with Microsoft Office, Microsoft Powerpoint, Microsoft Excel