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Vantaa, Southern Finland, Fi

Create and lead Fazer long shelf-life go to market supply chain organization. Drive total company level synergies. Responsibility of Fazer Confectionery and Lifestyle Foods go to market supply chain organization & processes including customer order management, demand planning, warehousing & logistics, and purchasing from contract manufacturing partners. In addition, long shelf-life supply chain and manufacturing process owner in Fazer.

Vantaa, Southern Finland, Fi

Leadership of Vantaa biscuit and Lahti crisps factories. Member of the biscuits & crisps multifunctional leadership team in Fazer confectionery. Responsibilities: safety, quality, people talent management, factory efficiency, productivity, and total cost / factory budgets. Business partnering of the leadership team in production & operational matters. Achievements: business unit production strategy and re-structuring of the crisps factory based on the strategy.

Vantaa, Southern Finland, Fi

Leading manufacturing organization of Vantaa confectionery factory (chocolate and biscuit production, about 300 blue collar and 28 white collar employees). Responsibilities: safety, quality, people talent management, factory efficiency, productivity, and total cost / manufacturing budget. Achievements: delivered significant production volume growth, improved safety performance, developed trainee program for blue collar talent to grow into white collar supervisor positions & promoted multiple candidates internally.

Blackfriars, London, Gb

Leading Nordic logistics and Finland supply chain teams. Responsibilities: financial and operational performance of Nordic logistics network. Budget responsibility of Nordic logistics budget. Forecasting, accounts receivables, logistics, and product availability KPIs.

Blackfriars, London, Gb

Ice Cream Factory Manager, Sipoo Finland. Responsibilities: safety, quality, people management, financial performance of the factory / factory budget. Achievements: significant production cost reduction, significant product quality improvement, factory strategy & organisation development and large capital investments, delivered three successful seasons.

Blackfriars, London, Gb

Lead planning team and drive S&OP agenda in the country. Responsibilities: capability building of the team and S&OP KPIs. Represent supply chain in the country leadership team. Achievements: Improved product availability, forecast accuracy and forecast bias results.

Espoo, Uusimaa, Fi

Lead demand, supply, inventory, and procurement planning team for Fiskars Home business in EMEA region. Responsibilities: product availability, inventory, procurement and demand planning in process and output measures. Achievements: significant improvement in product availability, statistical forecasting / change management implementation.

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

Lead customization planning activities (special packs) for Gillette business in EMEA region. Deliver regional Gillette customized product launches with excellence. Drive continuous improvement in the supply chain to deliver cost, cash, and service improvements. Achievements: significant project lead time reduction by value stream mapping, London Olympics promotional packs project delivered on time and in full.

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

Lead and set direction for the customer service and distribution department (about 50 employees). Responsibilities: all Pet Care EMEA in process and output measures of customer service, warehousing, and distribution operations. Quality assurance in warehousing and distribution operations. Warehouse & distribution budget. Achievements: significant productivity improvement, excellent service and quality results, certified trainer in lean value stream mapping, team members promoted internally.

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

Lead, set direction and coach a market planning team (supply, initiative, inventory, and demand planning). Responsibilities: all logistics in process and output measures for Fabric & Home and Hair care (Baby, Feminine, and Haircare until August 2008). Team and overall demand & supply planning capability building. Achievements: excellent product availability results, Nordic S&OP process re-design, integrated Clearblue diagnostics business supply chain into P&G Nordic operation & received recognition award.

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

Lead demand planning process for total Haircare portfolio in Nordic region. Responsibilities: all S&OP/demand output and in process measures for total Haircare portfolio. Achievements: step changed performance and achieved the best forecast bias results in Western Europe.

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

Demand, supply, and inventory planning for Wella retail brands in Nordic region. Responsibilities:product availability, non performing inventory, all S&OP/demand output and in process measures. Achievements: product availability at target, SAP APO key user, year on year residual / non performing inventory reduction, Nordic non performing inventory process development.