Critical Careers - Women Building Careers in Digital Infrastructure - Book - Page 64
Critical Careers
MID CAREER
Can you talk through your career
journey and how you ended up where
you are today?
When I 昀椀nished school, I studied dance professionally for three years in
Ireland. I genuinely thought that was going to be my future career, but I
started to look more realistically at what that career would involve long
term. I realised there were limitations, particularly physically, and I made
the decision to pivot and build something more sustainable.
I moved to London and started in reception and admin roles, which was
really my entry point into a working environment. While I was in these
roles, I realised I was hitting a ceiling because I didn’t have a traditional
business background, so I started studying for a business degree parttime alongside working.
My 昀椀rst move into a more structured corporate role was with De Beers,
where I worked in logistics and exports. That role gave me a lot of
responsibility early on, managing high-value product movement and
learning systems and processes on the job. From there, I moved to
Burberry, where I shifted into supply planning within their beauty
division. That was a step up in terms of complexity, working across
product development, manufacturing and regulatory teams, and really
understanding how different parts of the supply chain connect.
Simone
Sunman
SENIOR GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGER | COREWEAVE
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I then spent several years at the LEGO Group. I moved from planning
into management, working across production sites and taking on
responsibility for increasingly large areas of the business. That was where
I really developed my ability to operate at scale, manage competing
priorities and work with senior stakeholders.
Most recently, I moved to CoreWeave. I had no background in digital
infrastructure or data centres, so I was starting from scratch again in many
ways. But the fundamentals were the same as in my other roles in terms
of understanding how systems 昀椀t together, identifying where issues might
arise and working with teams to solve them.
