Vincent Kwandou

Head of Business Development and Supply Chain at AgriAku
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(386) 825-5501
Location
Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia, ID
Languages
  • English Native or bilingual proficiency
  • Indonesian Native or bilingual proficiency
  • Chinese Professional working proficiency

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Experience

    • Indonesia
    • Farming
    • 300 - 400 Employee
    • Head of Business Development and Supply Chain
      • Jan 2021 - Present

      AgriAku adalah perusahaan agrobisnis lokal terkemuka berbasis teknologi yang telah bekerja sama dengan lebih dari 4,000 mitra di seluruh Indonesia. Kami hadir untuk menyediakan layanan kebutuhan saprotan (sarana produksi pertanian) yang dapat dipesan melalui aplikasi kapan pun dan di mana pun dengan mudah AgriAku adalah perusahaan agrobisnis lokal terkemuka berbasis teknologi yang telah bekerja sama dengan lebih dari 4,000 mitra di seluruh Indonesia. Kami hadir untuk menyediakan layanan kebutuhan saprotan (sarana produksi pertanian) yang dapat dipesan melalui aplikasi kapan pun dan di mana pun dengan mudah

    • Head Of Retail Business
      • Jan 2019 - Dec 2020

      Vasham Mart is an agriculture company dedicated in helping farmers to minimize production cost in input area by streamlining value chains. Achievements: 1. Setup business from ground zero2. Finding the right business model to scale up the business3. Business growth during pilot at IDR 32M with GM 2.2%4. Farmers reach 1,800 in two locations: Lampung and Gorontalo Vasham Mart is an agriculture company dedicated in helping farmers to minimize production cost in input area by streamlining value chains. Achievements: 1. Setup business from ground zero2. Finding the right business model to scale up the business3. Business growth during pilot at IDR 32M with GM 2.2%4. Farmers reach 1,800 in two locations: Lampung and Gorontalo

    • Business Owner
      • May 2016 - Dec 2018

      SH is a startup focusing in spare parts for automotive industry with more than 2,000 SKU’s and customers across 12 provinces. My role was to provide leadership and bringing company towards operational excellence. Achievements: increase sales by 1.5x and GM by 2.7x through makloon products (There are 13 brands) and at the same time enabled 2 DC's outside Jakarta to increase customer satisfaction SH is a startup focusing in spare parts for automotive industry with more than 2,000 SKU’s and customers across 12 provinces. My role was to provide leadership and bringing company towards operational excellence. Achievements: increase sales by 1.5x and GM by 2.7x through makloon products (There are 13 brands) and at the same time enabled 2 DC's outside Jakarta to increase customer satisfaction

    • United States
    • Farming
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Diversity Lead
      • Nov 2013 - Apr 2016

      1. Create a culture that reflects the cultural diversity that enables company to advance the attraction, engagement, development and retention of a diverse workforce. 2. Facilitates and manages the implementation of diversity and inclusion strategies and goals within the workforce, oversight and support as is necessary for successful implementation of all diversity and inclusion initiatives. 3. Works closely with the HR leadership team to ensure that all practices fully integrate diversity and inclusion. 4. Develops and prepares Affirmative Action Plans, availability and utilization analysis, and all workforce demographic reports.

    • Corporate Account Lead
      • Aug 2013 - Apr 2016

      1. Customer Relationships - Develop and maintain relationships via face-to-face sales/operation calls on all assigned accounts. Builds relationships with potential accounts. Acts as the subject matter expert in all critical services. Penetrate accounts at multiple levels within their organization. 2. Sales Plans & Strategy - Develop and implement sales plans for primary accounts to achieve specified revenue and margin goals, as well as direct secondary coverage to execute strategies. 3. Sales Research – Conducts market research and analysis in uncovering new potential business. 4. Collaboration - Work directly with other Monsanto Operating Companies and Inside Sales to accommodate customer needs and corporate goals.5. Sales Systems - Maintain Customer Relationship Management system(s) to accurately reflect territory activity, contact information and opportunities.

    • Marketing Analyst Lead
      • Mar 2013 - Apr 2016

      1. Enable visibility to see how the resources should be distributed at the right district. Created a concept to calculate the number of required Market Development Officers by looking at market data, land size, number of villages, pricing, and product mix. 2. Validate market data and enable alignment between country and regional leadership team. 3. Drive marketing game plan to ensure potential area at village level get the right resources through demand creation activities. Created a platform to track budget, activity, farmer reach andtracking with latest market data. 4. Develop customer operation team in building foundation structure for future forecasting system. 5. Assist sales team in developing a platform to ensure target figures are being allocated and achievable at the right district. 6. Created a platform for marketing team to understand how pricing being positioned at every channel distribution (Dealer, R1, R2 and End User Price). The platform also enables us to understand competitor pricing position

    • Chief Strategy Officer
      • Jan 2014 - Dec 2015

      1. Foster a good working relationship with leaderships and teams to facilitate flawless execution of strategic discussions 2. Supervise the strategic initiatives on day-to-day activities making sure that business growth is of utmost importance 3. Integrate strategic planning philosophy into communication plan development 4. Assistant Strategist in all aspects of the strategy and investment process, as well as the customer(s) business and industry 5. Manage the flow of creating solutions and resolve problems including timetables establishment for developing and executing strategic plans.

    • Regional Marketing Analyst - Asia Pacific Region
      • Sep 2008 - Feb 2013

      1. Manage forecast across 17 countries, revenue USD125M, gross margin USD80K, 2700 products.2. Analyze and reduce number of products to ensure our business focusing on key products. 651 products were removed, liquidating inventory of 355 products, today 1046 products have beenclassified as key strategic products. ‘soft landing’ approach was used to ensure there is no impact to regional Budget and LRP.3. Responsible and accountable for forecast accuracy measurement and calculation in which will be used for sales incentive calculation.4. Work with the team in finalizing yearly budget (USD125M) and 5 years Long Range Plan (USD210M)5. Provide training to the marketing people around forecasting, reporting system and marketing processes to ensure operational excellence.6. Facilitated marketing workshop such that our marketing people have the knowledge to efficiently conduct their duties according to the global standards.7. Analyze price changes and ensure regional price changes policy being followed through. Identify data integrity issue after transition to SAP, built a process to mitigate situation and ensurethere is minimum impact to the business.8. Organize yearly market data collection which involves marketing people around the region, the area covers 23 crops and with potential total market USD2,1 billions across Asia Pacific.9. Directly involve in separating Asia Pacific business to 3 regions: North Asia-China (5 countries - budget USD$88M), South Asia-India (5 countries-budget USD$30M), PANSEA (9 countries-budgetUSD$40,5M).

    • Regional SAP Security Lead - Asia Pacific Region
      • Sep 2007 - Aug 2008

      Responsible of SAP security during the cut over from AS400 to SAP toensure all assignments in line with SARBANEX-OXLEY policy in Asia Pacific region

    • IT Lead for Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia
      • Sep 2005 - Aug 2007

      Led Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore IT organization. Managed budget $US500K/year. Worked with business people to understand country strategy and help them to achieve business goals with the help of IT technology. Participated on the people review and people development. In this role, I report to the country business lead and as well as maintaining matrix report to the Asia Pacific IT lead

    • Regional Network Engineer - Asia Pacific Region
      • Sep 2001 - Aug 2005

      1. Managed relationship between Monsanto and global vendors (software, hardware and telecommunication) at regional level. Identified countries challenges in dealing with vendors anddeveloped strategy to mitigate issues 2. Facilitated Asia Pacific IT Workshop such that our regional IT people have the knowledge to efficiently conduct their duties according to the global standards 3. Implemented a new contract with telecommunication provider. Ensure Asia Pacific can take advantage of cost savings and MPLS technology. Implemented the new circuits and the migration to a new data center. Deployed the new global Remote Access solution for Asia Pacific WAN 4. Analyzed cost versus benefit for business people in implementing Blackberry, VOIP, virtualization servers, wireless and backup solution 5. Operational Efficiency: Ensured Disaster Recovery plans are in place, tested periodically and keep the document updated for critical business servers in the Asia Pacific region. Developed and maintained processes, procedures and standards. Ensured corporate IT policies are enforced and adhered to in all sites across Asia Pacific 6. Worked in SARBANEXOXLEY environment and involved in IT auditing 7. Asia Pacific key representative in implementing several IT initiatives such as: Hardware/Software Inventory and Software deployment Project, global Anti virus solution

    • System and Network Engineer
      • Apr 2000 - Jun 2001

      WizOffice is a public company listed on the Singapore Exchange that provides solutions to help businesses increase efficiency in their operations and reduce back-office costs through the use of Internet technologies. I worked closely with IT lead and business people to setup the new IT infrastructure and IT processes since the start up. Accomplishments:1. Set up Wizoffice IT infrastructure during start up: Router, LAN, Firewall, Database, File server, Print server, Mail server, DNS and E-commerce application which was built by Wizoffice. Majority of servers running on Linux based Operating System. 2. Responsible for Standard Chartered Bank intranet server within purchasing division, including the performance of the server and disaster recovery. Server provides purchasing workflow from enduser until selection of vendors and manager approvals.3. Network consultant for Grand Melia Hotel Jakarta to deploy hotel reservation application.4. Designed, configured, and implemented VPN site to site, Virtual server with Apache and SSL forWizoffice branches and customers5. Proposed and relocated servers at co-location center to main office in order to achieve cost reduction6. Managed around 1000 mailboxes for staff and customers.7. Monitored network activity of all servers, including compilation of usage statistics, installed the OS patches for optimal performance and disaster recovery plans.

    • System and Network Specialist
      • Feb 2000 - Mar 2000

      MCSB is an end-to-end Internet Builder in Asia, moving customers from traditional business to e-commerce. MCSB have many international clients, my responsibility was to configure and implement the local area network with internet access for people in Norwegian Trade Council and KLM Airlines cargo warehouse. I joined this company as part time. MCSB is an end-to-end Internet Builder in Asia, moving customers from traditional business to e-commerce. MCSB have many international clients, my responsibility was to configure and implement the local area network with internet access for people in Norwegian Trade Council and KLM Airlines cargo warehouse. I joined this company as part time.

    • Indonesia
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Network Engineer Lead
      • Feb 1999 - Feb 2000

      While still working as academy instructor, I was promoted to lead Network Engineer team. In this role, there were 3 people reporting to me and during the period I helped Bina Nusantara expanded their business to 3 offices with approximately 1500 user account1. Hardware and Software budgeting 2. Implemented office Internet access 3. Network monitoring activity4. Responsible for 14 productions servers 5. Operating system migration (Novell Netware to Windows platform)

    • Academy Instructor
      • Dec 1997 - Feb 2000

      1. Designed, developed and provided training material specialized in network design, concept and implementation by using Novell Netware, Linux, Microsoft Technology and Cisco System2. Partnering with Cisco System to provide E-learning model that delivers web-based educational content, online testing, student performance tracking, instructor training and support, as well as hands on labs

Education

  • Ngee Ann Polytechnic
    Information Systems, Telecommunications Networks and Services
    2002 - 2003
  • BINUS University
    Computer science
    1995 - 1999

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