Ratwatte Ashan Email & Phone Number

Sri Lanka

Agriculture industry

Leading a new initiative for the organization in moving Key Global accounts into Strategic partnerships. This entails leading collaborations across teams internally and externally to define and achieve clear deliverables, changing organizational culture, building internal infra structure, building strategic teams and understanding customer DNA.

Leading and driving cross team collaboration to manage global expectations, Customer reach and profitability in the Asia Pacific region for the company’s flagship products

Sri Lanka

Established and directed the business across the region of 5 countries ensuring that business needs were understood and addressed from both a customer and company perspective

Sri Lanka

• Successfully launched and built a business in South Asia to achieve US$50 million in the region in the first five years of operation.• Hired, trained and built a competent 15 member sales force and a 4 member technical support team• Built a comprehensive distribution channel compiled of distributors, own warehouse and direct channels to reach 5 countries across South Asia.• Built a strong key customer base in the region driven by relationships built personally by me. • Launching over 20 products in 4 categories in 5 countries in the region. • Managed the company’s flagship product in the APEC region to achieve US$80 million

Vietnam

• Embracing, successfully applying and coaching the unique Cargill Green Book culture of achieving profitable growth through customer satisfaction, engaged employees and enriched communities into the Sri Lankan and Hanoi businesses. • Leading Employee Engagement Surveys held annually in Cargill and developing action plans to address the issues in the survey. Achieved 61% employee satisfaction in Hanoi compared to 47% of my predecessor, through successfully developing and implementing an effective action plan researching and integrating local cultural needs. This was an exceptional accomplishment considering the language barrier.• Practicing a modern 360 degree HR system with clearly defined performance expectations and training needs which are reviewed bi-annually. Championing and coaching employee reward and recognition programs to achieve engaged employees and develop world class employees.• Leading and implementing a worldwide Safety initiative into the business units managed by me to achieve zero lost time accident over the past 5 years.• A member of the Vietnam leadership team that was selected ‘The Most Successful Business in Cargill Animal Nutrition Division’ worldwide in 2003.