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Olufemi Johnson

PERSONAL STATEMENT

I am a B.Sc. and MBA qualified and results driven experienced manager interested in joining the supply chain and/or manufacturing function of a forward-looking organization in a managerial role.

I am an energetic and skillful influencer, with keen qualitative aptitude and excellent ethics.

Can translate strategy into profitable business tactics, have extensive experience working in multi-racial and multi-domestic teams, able to quickly establish cost efficient structures and teams, able to build intra and inter business relationships, able to quickly understand business processes and locate self on the P&L, with extensive experience in general operations management and proven ability to manage resources to achieve result.

CAREER SUMMARY

I have been responsible for plant performance, including infrastructure and capacity planning, process certification, production planning and scheduling, procurement resource planning, distribution and transportation planning, labor structuring, cost forecasting and gross margins.

I have enjoyed the challenge of change management, efficient resource utilization, productivity planning and implementation, cost reduction through effective process implementation, commissioning of new factories, project cost management, establishment of standard operating procedures, recipe formulation, training and integration of new employees, quality monitoring and vendor/suppliers vetting.

I have over 15 years cognate experience.

PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS

Leadership and Mentoring

In my capacity as the Head of manufacturing I led a team of 4 direct reports and 160 indirect reports to achieve accountability for Budget implementation, Procurement and inbound logistics resource execution, and Planned cost delivery, I also delivered accountability for gross margins & Productivity, total manufacturing cost and non-production spend along with accountability for coaching and development of subordinate managers.

In my capacity as a Production manager I led a team of 4 direct reports and 120 indirect reports to achieve production targets with accountability for Production planning and scheduling, Product Quality and Food safety, and labor structuring.

In my capacity as distribution manager I led a team of 4 direct reports to achieve accountabilities for outbound logistics planning and depot management

I was a member of the change management leadership team Kraft/Cadbury integration team for West Africa.

I was directly involvement in recruitment, training and performance appraisal activities.

Project Management

I was responsible for the installation and commissioning of 85T/day candy continuous process plant in West Africa after a 12 weeks experiential program to the Cadbury Candy plant in York, UK (2014):

Jointly led the Site coordination for Mondeleze International Global Quality Chain Management System Audit (2013)

I was responsible for the Implementation of SAP manufacturing for Cadbury West Africa I was the manufacturing process lead (2012)

I was responsible for the Installation and commissioning of 45T/day gums manufacturing plant in West Africa after a 16 weeks exchange program to the Cadbury Trident plant in Barcelona, Spain (2010):

I led the distribution network redesign to improve delivery time and schedule adherence of trucks in Nigeria (2008)

Production/Quality management

I established Standard Operating Procedures for new and existing factories.

I trained operators and technicians on the tenets of GMP, HACCP and 5-S

I trained and integrated pioneer factory team members in new plants

I led product process and shopfloor activity flow redesign to improve ergonomics and reduced headcount resulting in 22% reduction in direct labour cost.

Productivity improvement

Led a team of 2 direct reports with accountability for plant productivity savings, and tracking of value optimisation initiatives across manufacturing and supply chain delivering $6 million in benefits

Introduced new raw material spec (21% reduction in price) with minor recipe reformulation

Conducted shopfloor manning audit and workload study leading to 12% reduction in head count.

Introduced new packaging material design to eliminate cost of ink leading to 5% reduction in final packaging cost.

Trucking route realignment leading to 27% reduction in turnaround time for northern Nigeria bound trucks

Standardization of trucks to reduce in-transport product damage leading to 70% reduction in in-transit good damage.

Investigated root course and suggested strategy for waste and variance reduction in the batch process plant. Leading to reduction in raw materials waste generation from an average of 6% to 1.4% and monthly adverse variance from an average of 22million Nigerian naira to 4.3million Nigerian naira.

Achieved 34% increase in gross margins from 26% to 35% on a major brand in my capacity as manufacturing manager.

Supply chain management

Deployment SAP for product replenishment planning, inventory planning & execution

Delivered transportation cost as per budget.

Implementing agreed transportation value optimization initiative leading to reduction in turnaround time by 27%.

Realigned the finished goods quality management system to the Mondeleze International Standards.

Engineering and Facilities Management

Installation and commissioning of four shell and tube heat exchangers and their ancillary equipment (Pumps, Pipes, tanks etc.) (four 90T/day helix candy cookers).

Supervised the installation and commissioning of four vapor separation and dehydration units. (Vapor separation chambers).

Supervised the installation and commissioning of two 20,000 CFM dehumidifiers.

Supervised the installation and commissioning of 3 vapour absorption chillers.

Supervised the installation of two 2,000 CFM dust extractor.

Supervised installation of facilities equipment (compressed air, steam and water conduit pipes, valves, cable trays etc).

SKILLS

Software – MS Office applications (Word, Project, Excel, PowerPoint,) SAP, Minitab

Excellent presentation and communication skills

Managerial skills

Business management Skills

Project management Skills.

Supervisory skills.

Conflict resolution skills.

Leadership skills

WORK HISTORY

MANUFACTURING MANAGER, CADBURY NIGERIA PLC (MONDELEZE INTERNATIONAL, WEST AFRICA)

2013 - 2016

CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT LEADER, CADBURY NIGERIA PLC (KRAFT FOODS, WEST AFRICA)

2011-2012

PRODUCTION MANAGER, CADBURY NIGERIA PLC (KRAFT FOODS, WEST AFRICA)

2009 - 2011

DISTRIBUTION MANAGER, CADBURY NIGERIA PLC (CADBURY SCHWEPPES, WEST AFRICA)

2007 - 2009

SHIFT OPERATIONS MANAGER, CADBURY NIGERIA PLC (CADBURY SCHWEPPES, WEST AFRICA)

2005 - 2007

FACILITIES ENGINEER, CADBURY NIGERIA PLC (CADBURY SCHWEPPES, WEST AFRICA)

2003 - 2005

TRAINEE MANAGER, CADBURY NIGERIA PLC (CADBURY SCHWEPPES, WEST AFRICA)

2002 - 2003

APPLIED PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY TEACHER, STATE POST-PRIMARY EDUCATION BOARD, NIGERIA

2001 - 2002

EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

MBA, MANCHESTER BUSINESS SCHOOL (THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER), UK, 2012

BSC. CHEMICAL ENGINEERING, LAGOS STATE UNIVERSITY, NIGERIA, 2000

MEMBER, APICS, (ID, 1803312), 2012.

REFERENCES

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