Alia Youssef

Transformation Leader from an Engineering background with a 12 years of experience across Mars Inc, and Procter & Gamble. A unique career with a track record in complex program delivery, and performance improvements.

Belgium

About

• Transformation Leader from an Engineering background with a 12 years of experience across FMCG multinationals: Mars Inc, and Procter & Gamble. • Pursued a unique career with a solid track record in complex program delivery, and performance improvements. • Recognized for execution-driven leadership style, governance rigor, and enabling high performing organizations.

Experience

  • Mars (3 yrs 8 mos)
    • Regional Enterprise Project Management Office (PMO), BNLX Region, Snacking: M&M's®, Snickers®, Twix®
      Mar 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 4 mos

    • Continuous Improvement Department Head - Olen Site, Food: Ben’s Original Rice®
      Nov 2022 - Feb 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos

      • A member of the Site Leadership Team with a key role as a strategy partner to the Plant Manager. • Created the strategy and master plans for CI, Industrial Engineering, Capability, and Transformation programs. • Deployed a PDCA governance structure enabling rigorous execution & delivery of the site’s strategic plans. • Led site performance digitization to identify and eliminate losses in line with segment goals. Achievements: • Empowered & engaged my team to deliver several breakthrough projects, with an associate survey score of 4.85/5. • Created & trained a robust Loss Elimination process, enabling site’s UPDT reduction of 8% within one year. • Organized the execution of a cost saving program delivering 9% cost reduction exceeding the yearly target. • Award: ‘Food Reinvention’ for leading an implementation through a BCM with a highly accelerated execution.

  • Procter & Gamble (Full-time · 8 yrs)
    • Packaging Renovation Senior Manager - Brussels Innovation Center, Fabric Care: Ariel®/Dash®/Fairy®
      Aug 2020 - Oct 2022 · 2 yrs 3 mos

      • Managed packaging materials’ portfolio of 75M Euros including plastics, corrugates, and labels. • Led new suppliers’ technical qualifications, and new material/material modification implementations. • Ensured packaging materials supply resilience by steering business continuity plans for all materials’ portfolio. • Created standard technical guidelines to reduce quality failures in the Packaging Customization processes. Achievements: • Piloted a new printing technology massively enhancing produce-to-demand flexibility. • Successfully delivered savings of ~3M Euros within 15 months via material optimization and loss elimination. • Award: ‘Equality & Inclusion Winner’ for leading the affinity group promoting ethnic equality in the workplace.

    • Contract Manufacturing Senior Manager - Brussels Innovation Center, Home Care: Febreze®/Mr. Proper®
      Jun 2017 - Aug 2020 · 3 yrs 3 mos

      • Managed operations, supply chain, implementations, and governance of 2 CMs; acting as SAP for P&G. • Proposed, negotiated, and deployed executional agreements and supply chain parameters. • Created and drove external continuous improvement & capability building programs in CMs. • Activated the first Europe supply Business Continuity Plans in P&G responding to Covid19 outbreak in Italy. Achievements: • Award: ‘Solution Focused’ for qualifying a new contracted production line in 2 months during Covid-19 crisis. • Award: ‘Leading with Courage’ for creating and deploying a better synchronized external warehousing process.

    • Production Line Manager - October 6 Site, Baby Care: Pampers®
      Mar 2016 - Jun 2017 · 1 yr 4 mos

      • Led all Safety, Quality, Performance measures of a production line. Leading 22 technicians and operators. • Coordinated work processes between all stakeholders to deliver accurate and on time productions. • Sustainably step-changed all line’s KPI results, and successfully managed to maintain performance on target throughout a 3 months-long failure of the line backup battery system. Achievements: • Achieved unprecedented success in ‘small count’ product implementation, which then was used as a benchmark. • Renewed ‘abnormalities’ daily management system which improved ‘Perfect Shifts’ to 24% across the plant. • Award: Best achieved KPIs’: for achieving top results in the plant (quarterly measure).