Associate Manager
Nestle
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :16 years, 6 أشهر
Manufacturing with 14+ years’ experience (India, Nigeria & Ghana) in Major
Food/FMCG Industries.
Career Summary:
• Exposure to: Tomato Paste and Tomato Mix re-processing & packaging, Heinz’ Complan
Children’s drink manufacturing & packing, Dabur Honey re-processing and packing, Dabur
Ayurvedic health drinks,
Reporting to: General Manager (Manufacturing)
Key Role:
The overall responsibility is to look after complete Operations of Plant (Production, Quality
Assurance, Engineering, and Logistics & Stores) of Tomato Paste Re-Processing & Packaging
Unit having annual capacity of > 3500FCL. SKU 1.1Kg, 400gram, 210gram and 70gram (Flexible
Packaging-Sachets) having Universal and VOLPACK Machines.
Unit spread across 3.7 Acres, Operates 24x7x 6 days, Factory Manpower- 98 Permanent staff &
300 outsourced Staff.
Direct Reports: 5 Production Dep’t, 5 Factory Warehouse, Stores & Logistics Dep’t.
Responsible for Indirect Reports: 25 Factory Production Operators/Staff, 4 Forklift Operators
and Contractual Staff: Average 250per/day.
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Key Accountabilities
Operations: -
• Responsible for managing manufacturing Operations of the entire factory.
• Responsible for ensuring and adhering to Manufacturing Targets (Plant Performance, Production
plan, Dispatch Targets Wastage Control, Labour, Cost, OEE), Conformance to Schedules, Stock
Reconciliation, Material Variances, etc.)
• Responsible for driving improvement Projects (Cost saving, Manpower Reduction, Reduction in
Sales return, Plant Utilisation and Machine efficiencies)
• Conducting Plant Operational review meeting involving all stakeholders, dep’t HOD’s and team
on regular basis to review plant performance, sharing information and escalating major issues
with higher management
• Responsible for upkeep of general appearance of factory premises to ensure a safe, clean, healthy
working environment.
• Leading plant team & coordinate with R&D team for new product development, trials and their
commercial roll out.
• Coordinate with respective dep’t to ensuring regulatory/statutory compliances, SHE practices are
adhered.
• Ensure operation and maintenance of equipment are done as per the SOP/practices /supplier
guidelines and schedules with proper training to engineering/production team.
• Responsible for People Management (Manpower Planning, conducting performance appraisal,
selecting, training, grievance resolution, welfare activities, etc.) in consultation with HR function.
Stores and Logistics:
• Responsible for overall Stores Management, inventory control of Raw and Packing Material
within the factory and an external factory warehouse having an area of 5000sq meter.
• Manging procurement of Raw/Packaging material in coordination with Group Supply chain team
to ensure its availability as per production plan.
• Independently responsible for Procurement and day to day coordination for Secondary Packaging
Material being procured from Ghana (CFC, BOPP Tape, Salt etc.)
• Responsible for complete Storage and distribution/Transfer of Finished goods from factory to
factory external warehouse and Sales Warehouse.
Finance:
• Coordinating with Finance Function and ensuring monthly reconciliation/Stock Take activities
are completed as per company policy within given timelines.
• Being an authorized signatory for the company for Fund Transfer, I have to ensure payment is
being done only after due diligence has been taken and all proper procedures/norms has been
followed.
Quality Assurance:
• Coordinating with Dep’t HOD and working together with him to ensure our products are of
high quality and meet all necessary quality specification and statutory requirement with focus
to resolve quality complaints and defects.
• Responsible for closure of actions points coming out of any audits related to Quality/SHE
/complaints in operations functions.
• Facilitating QA dep’t in procurement of Lab equipment from time to time.
• Lead a major role in audits or routine visits conducted by in house staff/External agencies
• Member of Factory EHS, Food Safety, Audit Preparatory and emergency response committee
team.
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Key Achievements:
• Successful installation and commissioning of Tomato Mix Processing Plant in (Capacity
8000Kg/hr), Spiral Cooler - Cooling Capacity of 10, 000Kg/hr, 3 Universal Pack Machines.
• Played a key role in successful production roll out of Gino Tomato Mix Brand in variants of
70gram, 210gram, 400gram and 1.1Kg.
• Achieved Monthly Plant Utilisation > 90%
• Year - 2017, Delivered 104% dispatches for 70gram SKU. Overall Factory Dispatch > 95%
• Reduction in Sales returns for 1.1Kg SKU by 55%. YTD 2018- 1.1% against Year 2017- 2.5%
• Developed a new alternative vendor to supply CFC in additional to our sole single supplier of
CFC to mitigate the challenges which comes with a single supplier.
• Selected for implementation of SAP Production Module across 3 Factories of the group in Africa
by March’19.
• Streamlined documentation & day to day reports used in Production and Stores function which
helped in Analysing department KPI’s which helped in having smooth month end stock
reconciliation
Reporting to: General
Reporting to: Production
Reporting to: Production Manager
Key Accountabilities:
• Independent responsible for filling dep’t operations of factory comprising of 40 permanent
associates along with Contractual workmen. (Products Manufactured- Re-packing of Honey,
Medicinal tonics, etc.)
• Responsible for reducing Cost of production (Reduction of losses, Improve productivity etc.)
• To Improve GMP of plant.
• To meet production targets.
• To establish system which help operations like traceability, Human & Product safety.
Reporting to: Operation Manager
Key Accountabilities:
• Sub-contract Unit Production & planning. (Hair Oil Manufacturing Unit).
• Coordinating with NPD Team for commercial roll out of new product.
• Sub-contract packaging material planning and ensuring availability of the space.
• Coordinating with the Vendors (Packaging Material) to ensure resource availability for the plant
• Monthly reconciliation of Stock all PM & RM (SAP Vs Physical)
Reporting to: Plant Engineer
Key Accountabilities:
• Assist Plant Engineer in production & maintenance activities of plant (Cerelac Processing &
Filling)
• Hygiene and food safety including HACCP implementation
• Maintain high level of housekeeping in plant, 5S, and documentation for maintenance dept.
Projects:
• Installation &Commissioning of Stick Pack machine(FFS)-Nestle
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• Installation & commissioning of Tin Can Line for Cere Meal/Cerelac
• Installation of new silos for automated conveying of raw material through a single tipping
station.
Managerial Leadership and Conflict Resolution,