Kazeem Saheed Email & Phone Number

Lagos, Nigeria

Lagos, Lagos State, Nigeria

As the Raw Materials and Packaging Materials Manager for Plants 1 & 2 at La Casera Company PLC, I drive the core operations behind inventory management, quality assurance, and cost optimization. My role is integral to supporting production efficiency, cost savings, and delivering the high standards our products are known for.Key Responsibilities: 1. Sourcing and Supplier Management: • Establish and maintain relationships with reliable suppliers for essential raw materials and packaging, ensuring favorable pricing and terms. • Conduct supplier performance assessments, securing consistency in quality and on-time delivery. 2. Inventory Control and Demand Forecasting: • Strategically manage inventory to prevent stockouts and overstocking, maintaining lean stock levels to minimize costs. • Utilize forecasting tools to align inventory with production needs, adapting to consumption patterns to reduce waste. 3. Quality Assurance and Compliance: • Set quality benchmarks and ensure all materials comply with regulatory and company standards. • Partner with quality control teams to address issues swiftly and maintain high production quality. 4. Cost Management and Budgeting: • Oversee budgets for materials, consistently finding ways to optimize costs without compromising on quality. • Implement waste reduction strategies that contribute to profitability and sustainability. 5. Cross-functional Collaboration: • Collaborate closely with procurement, production, and finance teams to synchronize material availability with production demands. 6. Logistics and Delivery Coordination: • Manage logistics to ensure timely delivery, quickly resolving issues to keep production schedules on track.Impact on La Casera Company PLC:Through these efforts, I help La Casera achieve seamless production, product quality, and cost efficiency, positioning our brand competitively in the market.

Lagos State, Nigeria

- Recruited to handle the inventory management of all raw materials for QA/QC,packaging (production and orders), warehouse management, and teammanagement.- Handled planning and operations training for all personnel directly involved insupporting roles assigned to material services.- Successfully monitored and maintained inventory levels to keep the distributioncenter stocked and ready to ship products at customer requests.- Detected production problems early with robust monitoring programs.- Maintained facility budget targets by controlling inventory and other expenseswith regular reviews.- Established and maintained quality standards and consistently tested results toverify compliance.- Planned successful production based on available resources, schedulelimitations, and specifications outlined in orders.- Communicated with and motivated employees to drive productivity.- Negotiated company's contracts and delivery schedules with suppliers.- Reviewed purchase order claims and contracts for compliance with companypolicy.- Sourced and vetted new vendors to fulfill the organization's supply needs withquality materials

Lagos, Nigeria

Reduced department overtime from 13% to 5%, which resulted in over N6 Million in savings in the past 3 years. Increased team self-sufficiency from 65% to 87%. Implemented the use of labor reporting sheets to monitor efficiency ratings and raise production levels in the spooling and packaging process. Achieved 120 incident-free days by implementing new safety awareness program. Increased production 50% by driving employee cross-training programs and proper staffing, which enabled proper utilization of all equipment. Monitored factory HSE compliance activities, safety issues resolution pathways, and follow up. Elevated case-fill-rate from 92% to 100%, reduced waste by 15%, and strengthened staff morale via team-building and training. Increased both line efficiency and overall production 25% by implementing preventive maintenance and waste management programs. Saved N2million+ / year by developing program that fostered employee accountability to reduce volume of rejects and returns. Mentored 3+ high performance work teams through step progression achievement driving teaming efforts within the hourly workforce which improved production results. Successfully trained 3 staff members to become production supervisors. Implemented operational strategies that helped reduce manpower use on daily basis from 40 to 27. Individually increased production which led to a full resumption as shift production supervisor. Achieved 66,000 packs per shift on resumption and successfully ran production of 70k, 73k, and 77k packs in 12 hours with the total line capacity of 77k. Won work competitions 6 out of 9 months in 2022. Improved worker safety and reduced accidents by 50%. Maintained administrative records to comply with job requirements and ensure accurate record keeping, such as preparing work assignments, schedules, shift management, attendance, grievance documentation and production recording. Addressed personnel issues and initiated disciplinary action as necessary.

Lagos

Technical Operational knowledge on Filler Machine, Blower Machine , Vero-Pack Machine, Labeller Machine, Fin-Pack Machine & Palletizer MachineTo supervise and monitor the transfer process of finished goods to warehouse. To ensure that GMP of the equipment’s conforms to industry standards.Ensure systematic generation of Production data, manpower data and downtime lossesPlanned and implemented autonomous maintenance schedulesComplied with hygienic manufacturing guidelines.Monitored & reviewed production, quality, machine and technical efficiencies and reporting.Ensure that production operation meet with ISO 9001:2000, HACCP and CCP standardRaw material requisition, tracking & reconciliation with finished goods.Responsible for product technical efficiency.

Lagos Nigeria

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Lagos Nigeria

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Higher National Diploma, Electrical And Electronics Engineering, Upper Credit

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