Robert Whyte Email & Phone Number

Georgetown, TX, US

 Helping strategic customers navigate the complex commodity market landscape. Lead the Ventura Foods risk management team working with both internal and external customers - develop correlated and uncorrelated procurement strategies. Set RM goals to motivate the various category team members to hit volume and VM objectives. Manage the risk management.

 Developed Ventura Foods’ risk management program in conjunction with our business department heads. Also collaborated on establishing process, policy and customer targets. Set up and executed the six distributor risk management programs for commodity and value-added programs internally and externally. Established the initial CCD risk management customer.

Wayzata, MN

 Managed the commodity risk profile for eleven customers, seven of which were Fortune 200 companies (representing 8% of all North American vegetable oil usage). Through the execution of futures and options strategies, customers were positioned $40 million below the 2004 market average. Over three years, grew the program from three customers to eleven.

Fargo, ND

 Directed the daily running plan for a multi-seed facility, improving operational effectiveness to manage within the $110 million budget. Interpreted industry trends and analyzed the competitive global landscape in order to identify North American opportunities. This resulted in improvements in long-term facility effectiveness and profitability.

Winnipeg, MB Canada

 Pioneered the use of canola oil into the Asian and Latin American marketplaces by selling new customer on the advantages of this product including logistics, pricing and consumer trends. Analyzed, developed, recommended and executed commodity hedging strategies and segment budgets to determine price direction in the North American, Asian, and European.

London, ONT And Calgary, AB, Canada

 Established procurement budget and executed purchases to meet the Canadian business units’ program needs for Canada.  Trained, coached, and motivated team of nine merchants in the weekly merchandising meetings. Team met/exceeded performance objectives. Set annual targets and performed annual reviews for the team each year. Analyzed, developed and.