10 years. Such an awesome acheivement, from a kid from West of Sydney. I started at Aldi Prestons as a casual, my first day consisted of sweeping the floors until they gave me a start at voice picking thank you Elizabeth Lopesi Jase, & Toni for giving me that start & the motivation to do better. I knew it when I got there I wanted to be a section leader, I gave it my all to try & become a leader. A year & a half in, that dream became a reality from getting promoted to a casual section leader, then 1 year after that I became a head section leader for multiple departments, thank you too my director at the time Amenda P. who gave me the opportunity & believed in me. Just wanted to do the best I could to build my career, many ups & downs, a world lockdown, large product growth & a whole lot of people I have had the pleasure to meet.
I have had the pleasure to meet some members of the board, CEO’s & senior management from all over the world to show them around the departments we work in & I use to think what a privilege. I’ve built great relationships from these kind of opportunities & in return Aldi have helped me become who I have wanted to be within this company.
Throughout that time in the warehouse I was able to employ much over 150 people to permanent which was one of my favourite conversations when offering.
I then had a short year & abit as a leader with the minchinbury DC which where I had great leaders & colleagues who made my time enjoyable & learnt a lot!
My time eventually came to an end & I decided to join national supply chain & go from high vis to suits & it has been such an awesome experience, I had to move away from the leadership role & start from scratch again to get in there as there was no leadership positions & it was a grounding experience because I felt like it was all starting over again. I had tried to be an open book with the knowledge I had learnt from all those years in the DC & could hopefully bring that to the NSC department. A year into my technician role I was back in the team leader position looking after transport of inbound freight that leads into our DCs, something that I love doing & am very passionate about.
A quick shoutout to my colleagues within the regions & the national office you all have helped me develop to where I am today, so thank you.
Where next? I don’t know but somewhere within Aldi I will be here. Just chasing the dream to be whoever I want to be, it will be up to myself as a person to have the drive to get there.
So whoever I have crossed path with, hired, had a laugh with, worked alongside thank you for this, the people are what make it well worth coming in because if the people are happy the output will be there.
J
#slowissmooth&smoothisfast
Liene sounds like a fantastic addition to the team! 💙