Group CEO
54 Capital FMCG
Total des années d'expérience :29 years, 8 Mois
September 2020 - Present: Group CEO 54 Capital FMCG - Executive Board Director - Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Foods Business with 2 Vegetable Oil Companies, A Flour Mill & Pasta company, Home & Personnal Care Business with a Laundry Soap, Detergent powder and liquid company, Water company, Milk Company, Candies.
200 million USD group of companies.
Set up a Holding Executive team for a central management and re-build a complete Management team replacing most expatriates with young local talents.
5 years business plan with explosive growth for the Foods and Home care business.
5 years business plan to revamp the water business and the Pasta company.
Project Management for completion of a Solvant Extraction Plant.
Marketing plan to build two leading brands and connect with the consumer.
Re-engineering plan for Distribution using the Key Distributor model.
Supply Chain Re-engineering to eliminate fat costs.
Design a funding model via Shareholder Loan through the local banks.
FOODCO LLC (FMCG)
5PL Logistcis Solutions
Sense Gourmet (Figaro Pizza Chain)
Investments
OASIS (Repacking)
Board Executive Director.
Responsible for leading the development and execution of the Company’s long term strategy with a view to creating
shareholder value. Ultimately responsible for all day-to-day management decisions and for implementing the Company’s long and short term plans. Direct liaison between the Board and management of the Company and communicates to the Board on
behalf of management. Identify and developing of new talent.
Lead the Company in defining the strategic actions plans and its execution to achieve the business objectives.
P&L Responsible. Providing strategic leadership and strong operational management. Accountable for all strategic planning, organizing and leading Sales, Marketing and Supply Chain related management activities to meet the ambitious Business growth target for revenue and profit. Operational detail involvement as well as managing the strategic component.
Co responsible with the Respective Directors to develop and implement Sales and Customer Development in the United Arabs Emirates, the Gulf Countries and the Middle East, Marketing, Supply Chain strategies and business plans for the Company, including 3rd Party contracting, bringing together Sales and Operations Planning, customer or channel objectives, brand and category objectives, and insight about shoppers into activities that drive business and build equity, taking into account Market Dynamics and Financial Return targets. Distribution, pricing, promotional plan, innovation, margin improvement, process development & implementation, People Development planning and training.
Support to the Shared Service teams in implementing critical control points, Cash Forecast and company policies.
Development and validation of a buyer supplier matrix to link demand and capabilities from the Western Developped World to the Africa continent.
Assisting Government Organisations to assess related Investments and Promotions.
AMET Foods Product Category E1.5 bn Turnover, 17 Countries, 15 Factories, 11% Volume Growth in 2007.
Major Contribution to the growth agenda of the Foods Product Group Category by leading and driving the Manufacturing strategy and implementing the required Innovation programme with the support of a clear supply chain project network development & execution programme. Manufacturing capital was deployed (E25m) to deliver the required capacity and innovation, and a Sourcing Strategy was defined to ensure the most appropriate supply network in the region.
Co-ordinated in 2007 the costs savings program through a range of initiatives in Procurement, Manufacturing and Distribution resulting in E40m savings to maintain the profit of the Category despite the hyper materials costs inflation.
Led the development of people within Foods Manufacturing and Technology by the development and implementation of a Food Processing training program, the translation of global category strategy into the region, and the implementation of two Regional Virtual Sites as communities of Foods practitioners.
Conducted sourcing studies in 2007 resulting in the closure of two factories saving E1.0m the first year with an improved product quality and 12% customer service increase.
Member of the Unilever Global Foods Products Supply Chain Leadership Team.
E200m Turnover, 3 factories 1500 people in Supply Chain, E80m material procurement, 100 Distributor, Manufacturing of 150, 000tpa of Detergent powders, Detergent soaps, skin products, toothpaste, Culinary products.
Board Executive Director
Defined and led the program to build a capable Supply Chain in a challenging environment through the implementation of a program based on the development of an integrated Planning process, Supply Management process optimisation, Distribution re-engineering, Manufacturing reliability and Operations Excellence. Output was a significant contribution to one of the fastest growing Business operation in Africa, above 20% growth every year in the early year 2000s.
Co-ordinate Inter Company Sourcing activities between Unilever Companies in Nigeria, Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana, resulting in the closure of 2 factories saving E3.0m on three years, and the set up in only 3 years of a logistics process involving a shipment of 80 containers of finished goods per week including documentation and road or sea transportation.
Brought to Nigeria a professional Global / International Logistic Service provider, the first to happen in the region resulting in an improvement in product availability at distributors from 60% to 95%.
As the Regional Supply Chain Director for Oral Category for Africa Regional Group, led the Development of a Strategy Into Action plan for the Region, centred around a sourcing arrangement plan and capacity investment program to support growth and a Cost savings programme to support margin improvement resulting in the closure of 3 toothpaste factories in Africa saving E4.5m in 3 years, an improvement in product quality, an improvement of innovation delivery.
Member of the Unilever Global Oral Products Supply Chain Leadership Team.
E1.5bn Turnover, 17 factories, 11 operating countries.
Responsible for the development within the Business Group of a Supply Chain approach particularly in the areas of Planning, Manufacturing, Distribution and Supply Chain Enablers in order to better support value delivery, innovation and customer service targets.
Programme Manager for the Supply Chain capabilities Review of 10 Companies in 9 Countries with a team of 8 assessors based on a proven methodology developed within Unilever.
Led the development of planning processes within Supply Chain activities to provide a high level of control and responsiveness required to reliably meet market expectations, by capturing the consumer Demand and synchronising with the sourcing units using planning mechanism for consolidation. Found and confirmed the recommendation of appropriate and robust IT Application Organised a Training session on TPM (Total Productive Maintenance) techniques and contributed in the nomination of a consultant to drive the Regional Manufacturing productivity enhancement programme resulting in an improvement of the overall operational efficiencies from 72% to 78% and a cost reduction by 10%.
Droved a Customer Service and Distribution program in two Workshops in South East Africa and West Africa resulting in an overall customer service improvement in these two regions from 74% to 80%.
Strong advocate of people development. Developed and led Supply Chain courses for operating managers in Africa and Middle East, addressing basic knowledge of Supply Chain concept, then in depth Supply Chain and Customer Interface requirements, complexity management methodologies to support harmonisation and simplification.
to support these processes using good practices within Unilever emerging countries, customised to the level of complexity in Africa.
E200m Turnover, 2 factories 1000 people in Supply Chain, E100m materials procurements.
Processing and Packing of 200 000 tpa of Finished Goods (Cooking Oils (palm oil), Margarine, dressings, Culinary Products, liquid and bar soaps, personal products as toothpastes, deodorant, pomade, ..) including a Palm Oil refinery, Packaging making plants, supported by 700 people (12 Managers, 150 Supervisors) with total asset value of E50 millions .
Drive a productivity improvement program resulting in a 30% output increase in one year simply from debottlneckings activities, development of a mass balance analysis system reducing loss & waste from 8 to 2%, reduction of conversion costs by 15% and increasing service level by another 15%.
Mechanical Engineering Electro-Technical Certificate