Industrial director, Head of Food manufacturing

PROFILE SUMMARY

+** years of growing experience within Food and Beverages in manufacturing operations, Experienced in Factory Operations Management, Expert in Lean Management - Operational Excellence / Continuous Improvement, Inspiring leader with successful track records of improving manufacturing operations and systems, its overall supply chain profitability, Agile to turn around manufacturing organizations and businesses in disarray, with strong ability to drive multicultural teams within cross- functional organizations,

I built my executive leadership and reputation working with large manufacturing corporations; Nestle, Diageo and Godrej in several countries in Central/West/East Africa and Southern Africa

Transformal manager, very good at Challenging status quo and driving value addition to improve businesses performances Bilingual: English and French

AREA OF EXPERTISE

Operations & Distribution Management cGMP and Compliance Green Field & Start-Ups Kaizen, TPM Quality & Food Safety Management Industrial Engineering Lean Six Sigma & Master Black Belt Occupational Health & Safety Organizational Development Operational Excellence Environmental Compliance Change Management Financial Management (P&L) Business Ethics & Governance Co- Manufacturing Management WORKING EXPERIENCE

SENICO SA

Industrial Director Dakar Senegal Jan 2024 – Till Date The largest multicomplex Industrial Manufacturing of FMCG factory in Sénégal; 2500 associates workers

11 products categories: Oil Refinery, Mayonnaise, Margarine, Mustard and Vinegar Spaghetti, Bouillon’s seasoning.

$350 million Cost of production, $65 million annual profitability Main responsibility

To upscale Manufacturing and Operational excellence, to unlock more competitive advantages and enable the company sustainable growth to gain and keep leadership in Sub-Saharan and other international; GODREJ Africa America and Middle East

Manufacturing Head for South Africa Market Dec 2022 – Dec 2023 Responsible of operations of 2 factories in South Africa, Office Based in Johannesburg

Johannesburg factory: Manufacturing and Fabrication of hair extension for ladies from PP Fibers o - 102 workers, $25,000,000 cost of production, $2 million annual profitability

Durban factory: Manufacturing of hair color products (Inecto brand) o - 192 workers, $12 million cost of production, $1,1 million annual profitability Regional Manufacturing Excellence and HSE Director for Africa, America and Middle East Apr 2021 – Dec 2023 22 industrial facilities, 7000 Associates

Driving HSE culture and Best practices across

Leading Manufacturing and Operational excellence, Processes Improvement, DIAGEO Cameroon S.A Douala, Cameroun

Site Director, May 2017 – April 2020

Brewing and Packaging (Beer and RTD (Ready to Drink)); 1,300,000 Hectoliters

Responsible and accountable of Manufacturing Department P&L amounting 80 million Pound QHSE and Governance;

S&OP process Lead implementer for Central and East Africa Market

Served in the company’s executive committee with strong focus in business commercial integration BASILE KOUAMEN, M.Sc Eng, MBA

MASTER BLACK BELT- Lean 6 Sigma

Manufacturing Excellence and Continuous Improvement Expert ********@*****.*** Skype: Basile. Kouamen in/basile2016 Dakar Almadies Sénégal Tel +221*********

Key Achievements

Successful implementation of World Class Manufacturing (WCM) concept and achieving Site WCM Certification within 2 years;

Initiated & implemented Productivity Improvement projects that yielded Cost saving/avoidance worth $ 2,0 million for Fy19

Project Management: Funded and executed a Capex investment worth $34 millions for factory basic upgrading & capacity increase. Stem Cultures LLC Albany NY, USA

Project Manager and cGMP and Quality Expert Instructor. March 2016 – April 2017 CAREER BREAK (MBA Classes in USA Albany NY). Dec 2015 – April 2017 NESTLÉ S.A. (West Africa Countries: Senegal, Nigeria & Cameroon). 1994 – 2014 Key Responsibilities

For 20 yrs. I held numerous positions including, Production supervisor, Director, Plant and Factory Manager to HSE and Operational Excellence Manager, driving operations with Continuous Improvement mindset to deliver Operational Excellence in all processes under my responsibility.

Head count in factories under responsibility ranked from 250 to 3000 Key Achievements

Douala Cameroun Factory

Implementation of TPM and LEAN Management across the manufacturing and warehousing processes

Achieved Operational Excellence Cost savings activities worth 1,5 million USD (3% of total cost of production) through Process improvement projects, with zero monetary investments Sagamu and Lagos Nigeria Factories

Initiated and implemented several productivity improvement projects agenda in manufacturing: Savings 3 million USD Cost Savings.

Implemented and drove the Safety Health and Environmental Culture in the new plant, to post 1000 days without accident with a recordable rate of 0.78 for 700 FTEs,

Led initiatives for certifications in: ISO 9001, 14001, OHSAS 18001, FSCC 22000 and PAS 220 and Maintain site compliance to standards and requirements.

Lead the Logistic Optimization project to improve the distribution costs by 12%, (1millions USD cost savings/avoidance) Dakar Senegal Factories

Implemented and drove the safety Health and environmental culture for the factory, achieving a recordable rate of 0.6 for 340 FTEs and posted 1010 days without lost time incident during the factory construction,

Led initiatives and implemented ISO 9001, 14001, OHSAS 18001 certifications in the factory

Managed Co-Manufacturing sites and improved the overall capacity utilization by 26%, Green Field Factory Construction Project & Start-Up Manager, Sagamu Lagos, Nigeria July 2010 – June 2012

Led a “Green Field Factory Construction Project” in Lagos (Nigeria) for “dry culinary seasoning «achieved with a high standard hygienic engineering design, $150Millions CAPEX.

Developed and Launched new recipes, products and SKU EDUCATION

The College of Saint Rose

School of Business Albany New York USA Class 2017

MBA Management, Finance, Operations, & Organizational Development GPA 3,89 The Villanova University Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA Class 2017 Master Black Belt TPM & Lean Six Sigma Certificate The Villanova University Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA Class 2017 Project Management Project Management Professional Certificate National Advanced School

of Food Sciences Technology Ngaoundéré CAMEROON Class 1986 Bachelor of Sciences Food Sciences Engineering GPA 3,97 PROFESSIONNAL DEVELOPMENT Lead Auditor ISO 9001 – 2015 ISO 14000 & 18001 FSCC22000 SGS Nigeria Certificate AOP245

COMPUTER LITTERACY

SAP – ERP –

Microsoft Excel – Word – PowerPoint – Visio-

AutoCAD - Microsoft Projects

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