Interim - Transformation Manager Tony's Open Chain at TONY'S CHOCOLONELY (2025-01 – Present)
Impact-driven cocoa & chocolate manufacturer
- Led transformation of Tony's Open Chain in West Africa, establishing legal entities, organizational structures, governance and ways of working, and aligning people, processes, systems and organizational design across countries.
Interim - Head of Operations Tony's Open Chain at TONY'S CHOCOLONELY (2025-01 – Present)
Impact-driven cocoa & chocolate manufacturer
- Led 5-FTE team across Supply Chain, Project Management and Data/Tech
- Built contracts, processes and operating models from scratch
- Established access to farmer registries and cooperatives representing 40,000+ farmers, enabling full supply-chain traceability
Operation & procurement roles in various start-ups (10-100 FTE) at FREELANCE (2023-01 – 2025-12)
Formo Bio., Healthy Workers, Chefcoco etc.
- Head of Operations in sustainability tech: built recruitment funnels, implemented tools, hired 10 management roles across Sales, Customer Success and Tech; designed and relocated the company to a new office; established reporting governance; and led ISO 27001 implementation.
- Supported Life-cycle mapping, calculations and created strategy for sustainability supplier negotiations
- Led a strategic sourcing initiative for bio engineered proteins in EU and Asia, reducing cost by 80%
- Designed a 12-month roadmap for cost optimization within fresh meal delivery services
Head of Procurement – Virtual Brands & Ghost Kitchens at DELIVERY HERO (2020-01 – 2023-12)
Global food delivery platform (Foodpanda, Foodora, Glovo)
- Recruited and built strategic sourcing department from scratch until up to 7 FTE
- Developed 1–3 year cost reduction strategy through product portfolio management, make vs. buy decisions and sourcing efforts. EBITDA impact € 2.5m enabling company breakeven in 5 markets
Global Operations Manager – Virtual Brands & Ghost Kitchens at DELIVERY HERO (2020-01 – 2023-12)
Global food delivery platform (Foodpanda, Foodora, Glovo)
- Designed global supply chain strategy for >1000 ghost kitchens within EU, LATAM and APAC (Sourcing, Production, Distribution models, Food safety & quality, Organizational setup)
- Led the implementation of > 20 processes to improve cross-category collaboration (Innovation, source-to-contract, procure-to-pay, cost tracking)
- Designed and created simple deployable tools e.g. Inventory management (ERP), Product Information management (PIM) together with tech/BI teams
Chief Operations Officer at KENYA ORIGINALS (2019-01 – 2020-12)
Early-stage startup in alcoholic beverage production
- End-to-end responsibility for the design and engineering of a brand-new production facility, compliant with HACCP, ISO, tax and safety standards, ensuring sufficient capacity for 3–5 years and 10x growth
- P&L owner for all direct and indirect spend with the exception of marketing & sales
- Recruited and managed teams of 20+ employees across production, supply chain (sourcing, inventory management and in & outbound) and finance
- Streamlined financial processes to create accurate management accounts for Series A raise
Project Manager – Procurement & People Operations at DANONE (2018-01 – 2019-12)
Global food & consumer goods multinational
- Program manager for the implementation of a tool that would streamline hiring of temp labor across 5 entities - resulting in $1.5M cost reduction and labor law compliance improvements.
- Implemented new software/recruiting tool, re-contracted >30 external suppliers, designed management control tower, set up SLA's, reported to management steerco's
Project Manager - Supply Chain Strategy, Foodservice at KRAFT HEINZ (2014-01 – 2018-12)
Global food & consumer goods multinational
- Set up the European Foodservice sourcing strategy (>10ktons) through 'make vs. buy' decisions
- Led a project that deployed assets worth >$12M to increase production capacity and capabilities
- Managed multiple higher impact innovation projects end-to-end (multi-country, multi-factory or high P&L impact) + achieved Yellow Belt certification at Six Sigma Institute
Buyer Co-Manufacturing Europe & Asia at KRAFT HEINZ (2014-01 – 2018-12)
Global food & consumer goods multinational
- Managed a procurement portfolio of soups, pasta, nuts and sauces with an annual spend of $60M across Europe and Asia; Negotiated contracts up to $120M
- Awarded 3x as high performer across 300 employees
- Initiated upstream buying, leveraging volume purchases across procurement teams (sugar/cartons/tomato/plastic etc.), realizing cost out of 11%
