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Hassan Yakout, Manager, Product Commercialization and RD&E- Africa, CIS and Turkey Region

Hassan Yakout

Manager, Product Commercialization and RD&E- Africa, CIS and Turkey Region·SC Johnson

Egypt

Master's degree, Industrial Engineering

Work experience

Total years of experience: 19 years, 11 months

Manager, Product Commercialization and RD&E- Africa, CIS and Turkey Region

March 2020 - Present

SC Johnson

Cairo, Egypt

March 2020 - Present

Driving different strategic programs, portfolio, and cost savings initiatives, leading 14 cross cultural/ country team members of portfolio leads, project managers, packaging, and process engineers covering eight manufacturing sites and more than three third party manufacturers

Main achievements:
1. Successfully leading FTE/ROI workstream resulting in development of a new tool to calculate the FTE consumption and the ROI for new initiatives
2. Significantly exceeding the targets of projects delivery- not only on time but also on quality and on cost
3. Building the right balance between the different strategic intents (Growth/ sustainability and cost savings/ business continuity) resulting in hitting the top line and bottom line of the business financials while allowing the long-term goals of sustainability different pillars and avoiding any sales loss
4. Supporting the business with launching disinfectant blitz program to support the community and bring more INS to the business
5. Breakthrough approach implementation in different critical business/ strategic intents
6. Leading ACT prioritization workshop to build a roadmap of F22 priorities across different functions of commercial, procurement, planning, quality, legal functions to address, study and plan for growth, cost savings and business maintenance priorities
7. Building a strong technical rigor with the support of technical sponsors (quality and engineering) to reduce/ eliminate the risks of new initiatives execution
8. Adapting McKenzie model of building three integrated system of operating system (prioritization and resources allocation), mindset behaviors and capabilities (high performance teams, breakthrough, and scoping playbook) and management infrastructure (OTTW, technical review, etc.) that allowed the great success achieved through the three clusters of the region.
9. Introducing one technical team to win (OTTW) forums to allow checking all the new initiatives and have proper time to do a technical assessment and decision

Company industry:
FMCG
Job role:
Research and Development

Manager, Quality- Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan Cluster

July 2018 - February 2020

SC Johnson

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

July 2018 - February 2020

1. Successfully participating and delivering back to basics priorities (on people, on field and on standards) to SCJ plant at Gorzow, Poland (Nov’19)
2. Maintain the green dashboard of KPIs & PPIs across the MENAPT cluster sites
3. Monitoring and strategy of supplier qualification within the Cluster
4. Responsible for the third-party manufacturers in MENAPT
5. Accomplishing all the deliverables of the assigned international assignments
1. Participating in COQ implementation and then leading scrap workshop to reduce aerosol main losses @ SCJ plant in Toluca, Mexico (Sep’18)
2. Leading COQ program at EP plant, Mijdrecht, The Netherlands and leading scrap workshops of Aerosol and liquid lines (Dec’18)
3. Accepting assignment at EP for six months to lead loss elimination teams to reduce Aerosol overfill losses and line clearance scrap (Jan to July’19)
6. Ensure standardization and lifting and shifting of best practices between Cairo and Jeddah plants
7. Great contribution in GEOS champs’ program at Jeddah plant to improve the three buckets of engagement, my manager and performance effectiveness resulting in improvement of 25 points Vs. plan of 13

Company industry:
FMCG
Job role:
Quality Control

Quality Manager, Saudi

November 2015 - June 2018

SC Johnson

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

November 2015 - June 2018

1. Successfully contributed in Lean Bronze award of the site; second site in EMEA to obtain the award with six months ahead of the plan
2. Leading Kaizen events and loss teams to eliminate/ reduce scraps, analysis times, budget functional costs, DP projects and OEE quality defect loss and quality reworking
3. Being a global process owner for fist pass yield metric, I was responsible for creating the standards, training material, deliver the trainings and bring the metric live as KPI and PPI
4. A lead in Quality pillar and a member in SDW and EM pillars

Company industry:
FMCG
Job role:
Quality Control

Plant Quality Manager

July 2012 - October 2015

Pepsico- Aquafina Plant

Tanta, Egypt

July 2012 - October 2015

1. Designing and implementing well steaming process which is not either implemented or found in any manuals that have a great impact in shortening the time of qualification
2. Making a leap in microbiological results which leads to increase the volume by 15%
3. Achieving consolidated standard satisfactory rating in AIBI Audit of 900 points vs. a plan of 830 points exceeding plan by 9% which qualifies the plant to the silver award in an unannounced audit with zero MM
4. Participating in improving the visualization; Andon, blue and performance boards
5. Following up of all corrective action as a result of a GMP, Local or IQA audit
6. Successfully worked on decreasing quality related activities downtime by 10% to improve lines efficiency through CIP optimization and defected packaging materials reduction
7. Delivering 2 hrs of quality and food safety training /year for all the population pf AF facility
8. Improving plant G3D result; by sustaining G3D food safety blue/green rating (12/12), sustaining G3D plant quality blue/green 12MR rating (12/12) and 92% in microbiology & QAS, sustaining G3D trade quality blue/green 12MR rating (12/12)
9. Improving environmental sustainability targets by reducing the water usage from 6.19 L/L to 4.5 L/L

Company industry:
FMCG
Job role:
Management

Regional Center of Excellence Lead in Methods and Testing

November 2011 - June 2012

SC Johnson

Cairo, Egypt

November 2011 - June 2012

1. Harmonizing the sampling plans and switching methodology across the region
2. Initiating and Developing FMEAs and control plans across the region
3. Initiating and developing the measurement system analysis by using Gage R&R
4. Helping initiate the strategic 5 year journey map for the quality in EMEA region
5. Standardizing EMEA quality methods and Testing

Company industry:
FMCG
Job role:
Management

Quality Assurance Manager & Lean Architect

June 2010 - June 2012

SC Johnson

Cairo, Egypt

June 2010 - June 2012

6. Developing and qualifying 7 suppliers with different industries,
7. Working in cost improvement Programs and exceeding the fiscal year target in cost savings,
8. Improving the quality of liquid packaging by changing paper labels to more shinny more reliable pp laminated
9. Leading product quality improvement projects including process capability studies, high complaint expenditure, controlling quality deviations, process optimization and process control,
10. Auditing and correcting any issues with processing and packaging instructions to ensure product quality,
11. Performing all Registration activities with Ministry of Health (Renewals, New registrations and monthly imported Active material releases and clearances)
12. Managing the Quality Management systems including initiation of quality best practices.
13. Maintaining ISO 9001 quality certifications, internal quality audit and GLP programs in the quality laboratories
14. Initiating and maintaining the company integrated system of EMS & OHSAS combined in the required certification with Positive point in MSDSs
15. Supervising all New Product developments activities including Stability/compatibility testing, local Production Line Qualification, Packaging evaluation etc.
16. Participating in Lean transformation of Egypt site,
17. Building Lean capabilities of the staff
18. Delivering successful transformation at sites to include increased safety, quality, productivity and efficiency
19. Training the shopfloor on the problem solving techniques, 5S, Autonomous Maintenance and empowering them to present their success story in front of local management.

Company industry:
FMCG
Job role:
Management

Quality Assurance team leader- industrial sector and TPM facilitator

November 2009 - May 2010

Wadi Holdings

Cairo, Egypt

November 2009 - May 2010

• Leading the quality team in the industrial sector to improve their performance
• Conducting monthly steering committee meetings and following up the related action plans,
• Facilitating the foundation and the pillars of TPM in Glass and Food companies with CCI company, initiating steering committee KPIs and cascading it to the shopfloor level.
• Training the shopfloor on teamwork, 5S, VPM, Focused improvement
• Focusing on developing process mapping to ensure the effectiveness of different processes
• Implementing BSC starting with the strategy and strategic themes, environmental scans, initiating the four perspectives

Company industry:
Industrial Production
Job role:
Quality Control

Quality Planning/ Assurance Engineer

July 2006 - October 2009

Alexandria Automotive Casting

Alexandria, Egypt

July 2006 - October 2009

• Working in business development projects; Availability tracking, Quick accurate data analysis, internal defect finding, 5S and layered process audit
• Following up in time the implementation of the corrective actions related to customer complains plus complete the needed documentation for the 8D
• Finishing the surveillance audit in TS 16949:2002 with zero findings for the first time in the company history
• Preparation of APQP doc, time plan, feasibility studies, .etc. of the new products
• Issuing the daily and monthly scrap reports for total scrap and also part related and following up of action plan out of quality circles.

Company industry:
Automotive Dealership & Distributor
Job role:
Quality Control

Education

Alexandria University

June 2015

June 2015

Master's degree, Industrial Engineering

Egypt

M.Eng. in industrial Engineerign

Alexandria University

June 2006

June 2006

Bachelor's degree, Production Engineering- Machining and Design

Egypt

- B.Sc. in Production Engineering- Machining and Design Major- Alexandria University (Sep '01-Jun '06)

Skills

operations
Expert
operations
Expert
Six Sigma
Expert
Six Sigma
Expert
Lean Manufacturing
Expert
Lean Manufacturing
Expert
Quality Management
Expert
Quality Management
Expert
Quality Systems
Expert
Quality Systems
Expert
AUDIT
Expert
AUDIT
Expert
DATA ANALYSIS
Expert
DATA ANALYSIS
Expert
ENGINEER
Expert
ENGINEER
Expert
TRAINING
Expert
TRAINING
Expert
SPC
Expert
SPC
Expert
Root cause Analysis
Expert
Root cause Analysis
Expert
operations
Expert
operations
Expert
Six Sigma
Expert
Six Sigma
Expert
Lean Manufacturing
Expert
Lean Manufacturing
Expert
Quality Management
Expert
Quality Management
Expert

Languages

English

Expert

Training and Certifications

Certifications
ISO 9001 Lead Auditor
Feb 2010
Certified Manager of Quality/ Organizational Excellence
Oct 2012 - Dec 2015
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
Mar 2010
ISO TS 16949 Lead Auditor
May 2010
Lean Six Sigma Black Belt

Training
GMP
PepsiCo University
Allergen Management
PepsiCo University
Personal Hygiene
PepsiCo University
Foreign Object Management
PepsiCo University
Crisis Management
PepsiCo University
Traceability
PepsiCo University
Sanitation Training
PepsiCo University
OHSAS 18001:2007 Internal Audit
Integral
Nov 2008
Train of Trainer
CCI- South Africa
Nov 2009
ISO 14001:2004 Internal Audit
Integral
Nov 2008
HACCP Training
PepsiCo University

Hobbies and interests

Reading
Family
Jogging