Part of the Lucerne Agri-Investments group. Developing and growing a retail supply facility with prepacked Fruit and vegetable bags, along with a product staging offering. Predominantly tomato, pepper and butternut sorting and prepacking, with seasonal supply of stone fruit and citrus. Staging with capabilities to re-pack and label of bulk deliveries into Northern regions retail.

Part of a start up project in Ethiopia to deliver an alternative cell phone service provider. Managing site acquisition payments, operating in parallel with Civil Work and Technical operations

Identified and stopped an internal theft syndicate resulting in product shrinkage reduction of approximately R3m pa.Accomplished project build and implementation R18m deboning line. Furbish and opening of 1 retail outletIncreased delivery optimization of daily kg delivered from 65 – 90 tonnes delivery per day, an increase of 38%.Implementation of deboning plant SOP’s, quality specifications, staff training and KPI introduction and administration.Successfully coaching and mentoring of the team to create a positive environment from a previously unorganized group of individuals.

Working alongside a small start-up team, successfully completing the facility build within the agreed time frame.Through daily communication, a very solid customer relationship was forged that enabled smooth product launches, as well as a positive problem solving partnership.Production planning that incorporated the processing of 9 allergen groups, avoiding any allergen risk to the consumer.Development and successful launch of over 100 product lines at the pre-agreed launch dates. This included ready to eat meals, salads, vegetables and prepared fruit.Successfully implementing systems, SOP’s, best practices resulting in a ‘Green’ David Jones technical audit, meaning no major issues found on food safety or quality procedures implemented.Devising and implementing a staff-training matrix that resulted in the up-skilling of inexperienced staff.

Successfully turning a -5% net profit into a +9% net profit business within my first 18 months. Challenging material suppliers to reduce cost pricing by incentive additional volume commitments along with revised Service Level Agreements (SLA). Materials and packaging procurement combined, over 8% savings achieved.Alternative distribution solutions resulting in over 3% distribution cost savings.Increase of sales by 30% achieved by driving confidence and communication lines with the customers. Additional sales also a positive overhead impact by diluting overhead % of sales.Leadership and strong management resulting in me accomplishing a motivated, cohesive team.De-unionizing the business through introduction of monthly staff forum meetings.

Requested to spend time at a Brazilian Sister facility to implement manufacture and distribution strategies. This resulted in step improvements including material yield increases and over 25% increase of airfreight service levelsMechanization Capital investment and lean principals, achieving +350% production efficiency of a range of product cutsImplementing a satellite onward distribution center in London, that I remotely managed; resulted in 99+% service level.Obtaining 100% from 30% of the Woolworths business by demonstrated step improvements with quality and service.Accomplished 100% delivery of 2,000 tonnes of frozen sea freight avocado pulp per year from SA to Rotterdam

Introduction of accurate growing programsRepaired damaged customer relationshipPlough-in reductions by up to 20%Achieved green status with BRC audit

responsible for speciality lettuce and little gem UK operation from growing programs through to harvest. also responsible for Spanish season growing program and logistics to the UK for winter supply supplying Tesco, Sainsbury, M&S and Safeway.