Experience

WIRQUIN ROMANIA

• Wholesale Building Materials
• 1 - 100 Employee

• General Manager

  • Jul 2023 - Present



Amcor

• Switzerland
• Packaging and Containers Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• General Manager

  • Sep 2022 - Jul 2023

  General Management of Amcor Flexible site in Prostějov, Czechia, serving several European markets and multinational companies, including Jacobs, Mars, Nestlé, PepsiCo, Mondelēz, top-bottom line accountability, full P&L responsibility, net sales, added value, finance, gross margin, cash-flow, productivity, operations, integration, transformation, digitalization across all departments aligned with the highest standards in the packaging industry.Implement change leadership culture in order to engage people to drive high performance. Proactive and people-centric to influence, inspire actions, and respond with vision and agility during periods of growth, change culture, uncertainty, and disruption of the macro-economic environment.Customer solutions oriented to ensure delivery, quality, and service to our customers, while developing positive relationships.Design and deploy operational excellence standards for safety, production, maintenance, logistic, planning, supply-chain; implement tools to control and improve efficiency of production lines, waste reduction, capacity utilization, production performance, improve customer service mindset by focusing on service-level, quality and cost; benchmark with other similar sites in Amcor and lift & shift the best practice to improve processes and people capability. Show less

• General Manager

  • Dec 2020 - Aug 2022

  General Management of Amcor in Romania, core products – packaging flexible extrusion and converting, coverage of several European markets and multinational companies: finance, operations, commercial, supply chain, production, procurement, customer service. Accountability for top and bottom line – P&L, net sales, profit, cash-flow, gross margin, added value, growth, new product development, business commercialization, productivity, continuous improvement, innovation.Boost sales agenda over +15% in 2021 vs 2020, lead the strategy (considering one of the biggest global challenges for business due to COVID, price increase in commodities, utilities, raw materials, in a very flexible and competitive market).Drive world class performance and standards implementing Lean foundation; Develop customer centric mindset by re-enforcing the objectives of service level, quality, communications with customers; propose innovative solutions for sustainability and cost improvement of the finished product. Show less



PepsiCo

• United States
• Food and Beverage Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• East Balkans Plant Manager Beverage

  • Oct 2015 - Mar 2020

  Leading both manufacturing PepsiCo sites – food and beverage – Board Member of PepsiCo Romania Leadership. Manufacturing and supply chain of the Romanian beverage site doubled the volume between 2015 – 2019. Fully responsible for financial budget, considering all necessary costs to deliver the volume, improve production cost, off-set inflation by productivity projects, improve quality and service and implementing world-class standards, capex agenda, medium- and long-term business strategy.Develop master plan for 3 – 5 years, with local and regional departments – commercial, finance, marketing, engineering, supply-chain – to ensure the growing volume: production lines installation, buildings extension, utilities upgrade, potable water station, wastewater treatment plant, electrical station, cooling tower, air-compressors, increase production lines net efficiency from 50% to 75%.Due to successful operational & commercial expansion, and production start-up of more than 100 new products, the beverage site was recognized as the “Strongest Plant” in PepsiCo Europe, also being qualified as a “Center of Excellence”. Show less

• Plant Manager Food

  • Mar 2012 - Oct 2015

  Member of Lean Steering Committee PepsiCo Europe in 2013-2015, responsible for road-map, lean development and deployment of foundation and principle (5S, visual management, waste elimination methods, zoning, value stream map, etc.); developed plan to certify Lean specialists in all European facilities (train-the-trainer); integrate Lean in other work streams – Logistic, Engineering, Supply-Chain; develop methods “Problem Solving Groups” to eliminate waste and improve cost, develop and certify Kaizen Leaders, Green Belts, Black-Belts to drive, implement complex productivity projects and standardize processes.Part of the steering committee to develop the process “Integrated Sales & Operations Planning” as main business tool supported by a set of formal linked meetings in order to ensure the progress made in delivering the strategy and business objectives for PepsiCo Romania. The key to this process was a fundamental commitment to one set of numbers – for Manufacturing, Finance, Demand, Supply, Sales, Commercialization, Marketing – that drove the entire business.Snacks Plant awarded as/for:🏆Best of the Best Plant in Europe in competition with more than 100 plants from all categories – beverages, food, juice, diary – due to consistent high performance in plant: line efficiency 1st in Europe with and high level of Lean principle; quality, food-safety, sustainability, people capability and experts.🏆Gold Award in Sustainability Europe in competition with more than 100 plants; consistency over delivered energy and water reduction.🏆Top Best Site for LEAN standards Implementation in all operations areas – 5S, visual management, zoning, waste approach, people certified Lean Specialists, Kaizen Leaders, Green Belts. Show less

• Production Manager

  • Mar 2009 - Mar 2012

• Engineering and Project Manager

  • Jul 2004 - Mar 2009



Strauss Romania

• Romania
• Food Production
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Technical Manager

  • Sep 2000 - Jul 2004