Shruti Mewara

Build and maintain programme critical path schedules and project planner boards for workstreams. Produce steering group/EPMO status reporting and maintain risk, issue, decision, and change registers, including secretariat support.

Prepare, review, and update project documentation and compile programme status reporting for governance bodies. Provide secretariat support and assist with financial management (invoicing and accruals) and contract management, while maintaining key registers across workstreams.

Provide coordination and secretarial support for multiple workstreams, including creating and collating governance and ministerial status reports. Manage programme planning and workstream plans, including risk and issue management and financial management for workstreams.

Support two workstreams within the Firearm Transformation Programme by monitoring programme-control processes and registers. Maintain and develop the programme schedule and coordinate weekly stand-ups and leadership status reporting.

Create and execute project plans and schedules to ensure end-to-end delivery. Monitor and control progress, quality, and risks, manage stakeholder relationships, and oversee project resourcing and scope day-to-day, including post-project review improvements.

Maintain the programme work plan and manage programme control processes and registers. Coordinate programme reporting (including budget reporting), provide secretariat support, and record governance meeting minutes.

Help plan and manage multiple streams of work and support methodology deliverables and project documentation. Coordinate status reporting, track risks and issues, maintain documentation and registers, and support governance and programme meeting administration.

Develop detailed project plans, milestone plans, schedules, budgets, and financial forecasts. Support risk identification and mitigation across agencies and vendors, coordinate reporting requirements with regional councils, and draft Official Information Act (OIA) responses.

Lead operations workstream activities including managing external stakeholder relationships with iwi groups and partner agencies. Oversee operations budgeting and forecasting, grants funding management, and lead project work such as land boundary identification in ArcGIS and hygiene equipment sourcing.

Coordinate programme planning and implementation aligned to project goals, including support for project financials and budget planning. Maintain project work plans and schedules, produce executive reporting, manage change controls and registers, and support issue management and quality assurance reporting.

Manage supplier relationship management and pricing negotiations. Track purchase orders and on-time delivery for domestic and international freight, handle supplier communications on defects and discrepancies, and support stock analysis, replenishment, and liquidation strategy.

Draft applications for sourcing and funding approvals and coordinate invoices. Support reception and administration, manage newsletters and social media marketing, and assist with creating and editing content for the Diabetes NZ website.

Create budget allocation plans and pricing/listing details based on inventory requirements and sales forecasts for multiple brands, including Tommy Hilfiger, Arrow, Paris Hilton, and Sugarush. Manage vendor and supplier relationships, negotiate pricing and delivery, perform merchandising quality checks, manage stock allocations across stores, and support marketing campaign planning.

Support production by performing quality control for orders and sourcing trims and fabric from local stores. Create and maintain production and mood boards and coordinate day-to-day communication with factories for production timelines.

Facilitate organisation of the production process and track inventory and outgoing shipments. Support production development and manage issues related to production and sampling, including preparing presentations for incoming buyers.

Completed the PRINCE2 Practitioner Certificate in Project Management.

Completed the PRINCE2 Foundation Certificate in Project Management.

Earned a Bachelor of Science in Apparel Merchandising, Design and Production, with primary emphasis in Merchandising and secondary emphasis in Consumer Behaviour.