Switzerland
Business and organization leader with proven track record to deliver strong and sustained P/L and organizational development and productivity results. Experienced in successfully leading large portfolio of brands and multi-regional businesses. Successful in accelerating established businesses, fixing struggled ones and entering into new whitespaces. Broad experience in defining and executing winning business strategies, portfolio choices and portfolio management, innovation strategies, commercial and trade game plans, optimal supply chain solutions. Proven brand builder. Strong track record of building winning teams including right sized organization design – on the ground and dispersed, capability development and organization restructuring. Top talent development. In depth experience across range of industries including beauty, food, health care, baby care. Numerous positions in local and regional businesses in general management, marketing, finance, trade/shopper marketing. Management consultancy experience prior to business. Education in finance and marketing. Life and work experience across wide range of countries and cultures.
Lead global Nutritional Health (VMS) category with its transformation from stagnant €1bln play into source of disproportional growth with cumulated P4Ys growth of well over 50% behind both organic business acceleration, future fit portfolio & capabilities intervention and strategic M&As. Key work included: • Definition of global category vision and business strategy • Business expansion delivery into strategically attractive new spaces including geo expansion, channel expansion including bold acceleration of e com play, portfolio expansion into attractive and untapped demand spaces • Elevating global nutritional health brands - Elevit, Berocca, Redoxon and Supradyn -behind clear brands positioning and architecture, brand platforms, comms and consumer engaging models and assets. Transforming these brands into megabrands creating winning platforms for effective and scaled play across strategic WTP choices. • Transforming innovation into core growth strategy and POD & superiority delivery with innovation pipeline up by over 50% and innovation model embracing both the need for much faster, more agile innovation incubation and delivery while creating right focus for selective game changing disruptive innovation • Unlock new capabilities and business models. This included HCP intense, digitally focused model in regulated Elevit new baby play, step changed e com behind strategic M&As and hence capabilities transformation, transformed brand shopability and winning at shelf. • Bringing together people to champion Health Nutrition mission. Lead global category team with representation of all six continents and functional leaders. Create dynamic and capable global category team through both talent development and talent acquisition, cultivating trusted advertising agency relationship
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Deliver disproportionate growth and “future fit” of Kellogg’s portfolio play. 1. Expand Kellogg’s play into new categories, food forms, channels and business models; 2. Build new to the company capabilities and way of working both externally and internally to unlock growth, agility and disruptive progress. This includes ideation, innovation, brand creation, commercialization and supply chain; 3. Shape new Brand Incubation and NBD Unit for Kellogg’s operation. All delivered through organically developed ideas and bringing in available assets.
Leading the Marketing & Innovation function / operations and portfolio/business strategy for European and EMEA Snacks Portfolio Deliver transformed double digit growth performance through reshaped portfolio play, revitalized brands, business transforming innovation, new channels and broad geo expansion Develop talent and build new capabilities including: a) bold expansion into digital, e gaming and e commerce, b) agile supply chain and SPRINT innovation / transactional learnings c) D2C and alternative channels