Stuart Rodney has spent the last two years as the Chief Operating Officer in Queensland Health’s shared services business, with over 2,400 staff and an annual budget in excess of AUD 650 million.

Stuart is a Supply Chain and Logistics professional with more than 20 years experience in the industry. After obtaining a business degree with majors in commercial law and business administration and early roles in marketing and PR, Stuart started his career in transportation and logistics. Stuart worked for several companies including Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) and Nippon Yusen Kaisha Line (NYK), where he was based in Hong Kong, New York, Singapore, London and Silicon Valley in California. Stuart helped in the transformation of these businesses to improve sales and overall profitability.

Stuart gained extensive skills and experience in leading, managing and transforming businesses in the transportation and logistics industry before transitioning to Healthcare two years ago. He has been instrumental in driving efficiencies and delivering quality services at a reduced cost to customers, as well as implementing a “customer first” culture across all business lines in the Queensland Health shared services portfolio. Stuart’s strategic thinking centres on his passion of delivering “value for money”, customer centric services. 

Synopsis 
Supplying good quality health support services for the people of Queensland has it’s challenges:
·         we service an area of 1,852,642 km²
·         the population is dispersed in exceedingly remote terrain
·         Queensland is home to 20% of Australia’s  population growing at a rate of 1.5% p.a
·         challenging weather conditions  with extremes in temperature and rainfall
·         with a requirement to stockpile emergency for supplies for natural and man-made disasters
These are our challenges but also our opportunities to manage and mitigate risks in an effort to create a more flexible and resilient supply chain. Our goal is to be the Supply Chain of Choice for our customers – and our focus in the presentation is on our roadmap to doing this.