Experienced Business Manager bringing many years of experience in client, team and systems management.
Skilled in mentoring team members to deliver exceptional service and building team morale through effective communication and positive performance feedback.
Accustomed to managing client expectations, defusing customer dissatisfaction and managing competing priorities with superior results.
In this role, I was responsible for maintaining market share and developing Food Ingredient sales and markets across Thailand and South East Asia. The role included technical product development, budgeting, project management and international travel.
In this role, I was responsible for project and team management, product and process development, budgeting, meeting marketing and food legislative requirements. I was responsible for consultation and 'roll-out' of manufacturing in multiple factories across South East Asia.
In my years with Streets Ice Cream, I had several roles:
New Product Development Manager
This role included Project Management, Product and process development, product and process costing to meet revenue expectations; Marketing and consumer testing; quality guidelines.
Highlights of this role were developing a children's ice cream ( Mud Bucket) which was the highest revenue children's product to date.
Leading the team that developed Almond Magnum for the Australian market.
Afternoon Shift Production Manager
I was the first female Production Manager at Streets Ice Cream. The role included; staff and shift management of machinery workers, packers and maintenance staff. Managing quality control, machine breakdown/downtime and wastage. Managing and meeting shift output and production.
Quality Systems Manager
This was a project role, to develop, implement and train a Hazard Analysis ( HACCP) system across the entire Ice Cream Factory. The role required a through understanding of all processes within the factory and training all employees in the implementation of the system to meet Unilever ( International) Head Office Audit requirements.
I was then promoted to Regional Development Manager based in Bangkok, Thailand.
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