Meet Anne Lise Coleman, our CS&L Excellence Lead

Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Tell us about your journey with MDLZ?

I have had the most enriching and amazing opportunity being part of the MDLZ team for almost 15 years! Highlights have been walking through the big chocolate and biscuit factories in Australia and overseas; learning from my peers locally and overseas whilst building strong connections… the journey has been amazing. So far; I have had 9 roles within supply chain; ranging from roles within quality and leading the quality agenda, leading the project commercialisation team, business development lead, supply chain logistic operational excellence lead as well as being part of business integration roles. My journey has been so enriching, working with all functions within the business whilst being part of an evolving and growing business unit in ANZ.

Tell us about your current role?

My Current role as the CS&L Excellence Lead is building capability, coaching on supply chain excellence tools and leverage lean methodologies to identify opportunities & develop roadmaps for driving best practice across the supply chain logistics network with ANZ. This includes simplification when needed & looking for opportunities to digitise and automate. A core part of this role is to create a continuous improvement (CI) mindset and to provide tools and technique capabilities to develop organizational self-sufficiency.

Can you share what your team is accountable for within MDLZ?

Develop & drive the supply chain logistics Excellence roadmap, supports the implementation of lean systems to enable breakthrough results.

Lead the development of our supply chain logistic strategic plan to unlock efficiencies and improve ways of working and ensuring collaborative efforts cross functionally.

Facilitation of learning events to ensure ongoing learning across other teams in supply chain as well as I am super excited to be part of leading and enabling the execution of the digital roadmap and data science.

What do you enjoy most about your function (Supply Chain)?

Supply chain functions cover from sourcing of ingredients, manufacturing, storing and distribution of our famous products with teams focused on the best customer service.

This is enabled through a large span of roles within supply chain such as procurement, supply and demand planning, manufacturing operations supported by safety, quality, operations, engineering, business development as well as operational excellence, warehouse, logistics, digital transformation, project commercialisation and customer supply chain. Each one of the roles collaborate to unlock the end-to-end supply network efficiencies and bring ideas to market.

I like that there are so many roles and opportunities within. In my experience, supply chain teams have the drive to excel and we consistently deliver breakthrough results.

Can you share an exciting project or innovation that you have led or been part of?

mmm… there has been so many of them! I will never forget my first project as project commercialisation manager launching Sour Patch Kids in Australia those years ago! That was so exciting to be part of the team to make the 1st batch of Australian Made Sour Patch Kids.

What is your advice to anyone looking to work within MDLZ or someone just starting their journey with us?

MDLZ is a great place to grow and learn whilst surrounded by amazing people and products. Brace yourself for a good challenge; it is worth it!