Elli Siltala Email & Phone Number

Finland

Helsinki, Fi

Helsinki, Finland

As a member of Valio Executive Board I'm responsible for Business Units Fresh, Cheese, Butter, Spreads and Trading, Valio Finland retail sales, Valio Aimo wholesale and food solutions, Valio Sweden, Valio Baltics, direct export of consumer products and primary production.

Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland

Responsible for offering best customer experience for consumers, retail customers and horeca customers in Home markets: Finland (1 200M€), Russia (90M€, exit April 2022), Sweden (130M€) and Baltics (130M€). Profit and loss responsibility globally for the largest Business Units at Valio: Fresh products, Cheese, Butter and Spreads. Global brand and marketing. Project owner and business responsibility for acquisition of Finnish food service wholesaler Heinon Tukku. Lead Russia exit Feb-Apr 2022… Show more Responsible for offering best customer experience for consumers, retail customers and horeca customers in Home markets: Finland (1 200M€), Russia (90M€, exit April 2022), Sweden (130M€) and Baltics (130M€). Profit and loss responsibility globally for the largest Business Units at Valio: Fresh products, Cheese, Butter and Spreads. Global brand and marketing. Project owner and business responsibility for acquisition of Finnish food service wholesaler Heinon Tukku. Lead Russia exit Feb-Apr 2022. Personnel 8 + 600. Show less

Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland

Responsible for commercial operations in all Valio markets. Leading domestic and international sales and marketing in Finland as well as Valio subsidiaries in Sweden, Russia, Baltics, Usa and China. Annual net sales responsibility 1,8 B€

Helsinki

Responsible for Valio Finland Sales and Marketing, Valio Group Communication and Smart Data development. Annual net sales 1B€, personnel 150. Chairman of the board for Valio Russia and Valio Sweden.

Helsinki, Finland

Responsibility of Valio's fresh products business unit, i.e. milks, juices, yoghurts and other snacks, creams and other cooking products. P&L, product portfolio development and marketing communications.

Helsinki, Finland

White cheese, butter and spreads business unit

Helsinki, Finland

Food service and part of retail sales in Finland, Account sales, Field sales, Trade marketing, Customer service, Consumer service, Graphic design services, Customer training, Nutritional marketing services, Food service marketing, Ordering system development, CRM development. Organization of 5+85.

Helsinki

Manage Ruokakesko account with a group of three people and responsibility of Field sales in Finland, with a group of 32 people.

Manage the product and brand portfolio of Valio yoghurts and lead the launch of Valio OLO digestion yoghurt. Manage fresh dairy (milks, yoghurts, cooking products etc.) exports, mainly to Sweden and Russia. Lead the team of three product managers.

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Parsippany, New Jersey, Usa

Launched Valio Real Goodness lactose free milk in the US. Position included both planning and executing the launch of a new business division. Areas reporting to this position were sales, marketing, production and support functions.

Manage innovative concept development team which combines R&D and marketing capabilities, support international business development and seek growth for value added concepts (Valio Lactose free milk, Valio Gefilus, Valio Evolus etc.).

Manage Valio global brands’ strategies in the Home Market Area (Finland, Russia, the Baltic states and Sweden)

Manage brand strategies and marketing communications for Valio cheese and spread brands.

Manage the marketing, advertising and product development for cheese and butter brands, and co-ordinate exports to Valio Belgium.

Master Of Science (M.Sc.), International Business

Hhj - Hyväksytty Hallituksen Jäsen

Approved member of board

Executive Program 2017