ANAND JOHN

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Role Applied: OPERATIONS MANAGER

A food manufacturing operations industry professional with 16 years of international experience in manufacturing operations encompassing Production Management, Lean Operations, continuous improvement,team development, performance management,coaching, food safety and health and safety management.

Hold a bachelor in fisheries science (BFSc,Kerala,India) and MBA in operations(UK).

Previously associated with Greencore, Northampton,UK as factory production Manager.

Worked in the sea food manufacturing industry in India, Africa and UK(ready meals), experienced in fast paced automated production lines, managing team performance to achieve operations and quality KPIs.

Vast experience in applying lean management on the production floor and a continuous improvement driver through problem solving and improvement projects.

Experienced in driving KPI based manufacturing environments in large teams consisting of different nationalities..

A good communicator, coach, very approachable leader with multicultural understanding, sense of responsibility for the team, accountability and sincerity.Expert in change management and risk management.

ORGANISATIONAL EXPERIENCE

Techbank,UK Operations and Training consultant Nov 2018-present(Remote).

Greencore, Northampton, UK Factory production Manager Oct 2010-till Oct 2018

Bakkavor Pizza-Holbeach, UK Production Team manager dec’09-Sep ’10

Nile perch Fisheries Limited, Tanzania Assistant production Manager may’05-apr’08

Accelerated Freeze Drying Company Limited, India Production Executive mar’04-mar’’05

KEY RESULT AREAS

TechBank,UK

Supporting the business as a consultant in developing operational and marketing strategies for ever changing market conditions in the current covid scenario.

Keeping global franchise holders updated and trained on new projects and supporting CEO with the ongoing improvement projects targetting £5 million sales improvement through customer retention.

Review and reassign operational KPIs to the team consisiting of IT,Marketing and sales and NPD.(An improvement of 30% YOY sales through continuous improvement and product improvement).

At Greencore, Northampton, UK -factory production manager

Highlights of the role.

Lead a team consisting of 700 staff operating across different shifts 24 x 7, consisting of people from more than 20 nationalities. Team consisted of 7 direct reports who manage production of each zones.

KPIs that my team was responsible for were Health and safety Audit scores, accidents and near misses, factory Material variance, GMP (audit scores), factory Labor variance, Customer complaints numbers, service level achievement and quality audit scores,budget and P&L management, external audit scores etc.Maintained customer service at 99.5% and more throughout my time,reducing customer complaints by 10%.Health and safety audit score were improved from 75% to 93% with team effort and regular reviews.

I play lead role in the coaching team managers and looking after their learning and development and also managing succession plans of the future talent .Supporting HR team in talent acquisition and performance management are part of daily routine.

I played the factory lead for new product development production trials and successfully managing the trial process within production. Participation in pre-production and post-launch reviews and discussions were also part of the role 85 new products were successfully launched and stayed in production during my time in Greencore.

Continuous improvement and Greencore manufacturing excellence:I was an SME(subject matter expert) on Greencore manufacturing excellence programme in operational improvement and I train and sign off junior managers on line balancing tools,lean projects etc.

I have supported other business Units of Greencore (Northampton site consist of 4 business Units), by successfully managing other Greencore factories during promotions and skill shortage.

Effectively communicating between internal suppliers and customers through Business unit meeting, cell reviews, complaints feedback, trial meetings and daily and weekly planning meetings, Governance, internal P&L meetings etc.Daily KPI review attendance by team was kept on 98% and above.

Represented Greencore and upheld its values during onsite and offsite customer visits. Acted as ambassador for the factory for product quality and customer satisfaction.

Managing team safety, food safety and production efficiencies to achieve daily, weekly, monthly and period targets.

At Bakkavor Pizza-Holbeach, UK

Highlights

Successfully managed production team to achieve planned targets on a daily basis.

Actively maintained parameters for health, safety and hygiene.

Managed the team with proper training process thereby improving the team performance on a day to day basis.

Successfully achieved KPI targets, continuous improvement activities and increased production efficiency by improving material usage, individual skills and total waste reduction at different levels.

At Nileperch Fisheries Limited, Tanzania

Highlights

Actively liaised and generated business growth with Kenyan owners and successfully established a well respected production and quality control system in the organization.(Nileperch Processing)

Played a pivotal role in taking care of all core activities related to human resource, improving operational efficiency and exploited many new and innovative management techniques.

Managed all resource planning and price negotiation, in-house and third party inventory, international operational and supply chain functions.

Actively suggested new and improved ideas for betterment of manufacturing systems.

Recruited, built and coached new executives, supervisors and junior managers.(5 managers and 30 skilled staff during my time.).

Proactively ensured uniform high standard of product quality and operational efficiency.

Improved and restructured existing health and safety systems.(12% increase in audit scores during my management).

Implemented new measures for cost reduction, waste reduction and improved productivity by 15%.

At Accelerated Freeze Drying Company Limited, India

Highlights

Streamlined the functioning of 3 purchase and pre processing sites spread across India, i.e. Kerala, Orissa and Mumbai. (Prawns processing).

Conceptualized, planned and executed the production and quality development programme of main production plant.

Continuously improved operational efficiency and raw material utilisation and involved in recruiting and mentoring new middle management team.

Proactively restructured shift patterns, working practices and controlled overall quality functions.

Actively improved HACCP practices and other quality control systems and successfully created steady improvements in quality and product consistency.

Trainings and other qualifications

Internal auditor for HACCP,ISO22000 and ISO 9000–trained by TUV-SUD

Food safety Level 3.

HACCP level 3.

IOSH.(H&S)

Coaching for performance certified by Greencore

Situational leadership certified by Greencore.

EDUCATIONAL DETAILS

2009-2010- Master of Business Administration (MBA) (operations), University of Northampton, UK. (Passed with merit).

2000-2004- B. F. Sc. (Bachelor of fisheries Science), Kerala Agricultural University, India with OGPA 7.8/10.

PERSONAL VITAE

Date of Birth: 30th December 1980

Languages Known: English, Hindi, Kiswahili, Malayalam, Tamil.

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