Head of South East Asia
Location: In region – Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia preferred. Regular region wide and international travel will be required.
We’re AB Agri, a community of leading animal nutrition products and services businesses with ambitious plans for future international growth. As we expand our portfolio of products and services across South East Asia we’re looking for a talented leader with significant commercial acumen to drive future growth, profit and customer delivery in the region.
In the newly created role of Head of South East Asia, you will collaborate across AB Agri to ensure that we deliver solutions to support regional, species and customer strategies that create strong overall performance across the group. Key to this will be to deliver business performance and sustainable growth whist assuring a high regard to our organisational responsibilities, especially health and safety, feed safety and continuous improvement of our extensive supply chain and manufacturing capabilities.
A role model for organisational leadership you will deliver synergistic value and opportunities, mutualise resources and increase the overall profit for AB Agri within the region. You will ensure optimal organisation design and performance for current and future growth, this will include the creation and establishment of a new premix plant in Vietnam.
We’re looking for someone who has:
- Significant commercial leadership (Director/VP level) experience, with end to end P&L ownership, in a high performing multi-species agri-feed or animal nutrition business.
- Proven success in establishing and developing highly effective and high-performing customer facing teams with expertise negotiating at senior levels.
- Demonstrable success in leading the management and development of supply chain capability and excellence in operational manufacturing processes.
- A deep knowledge of the animal nutrition / agri-feed market in South East Asia. Able to gather and interpret insight and use this to influence organisational thinking and to build strategic plans.
Good for people, Good for business
We are a growing, innovative business and we value diversity and different ways of thinking to keep moving us forward. AB Agri is an equal opportunity employer, assuring equal treatment to all. We know that an inclusive environment makes us more accessible and ensures we attract, engage, promote and retain exceptional people.
We are united by our family values that represent who we are, how we work together and how we help our customers.
- Pioneering – Curious, spirited and bold. We lead, the right way.
- Excellence – We seek excellence in all that we do.
- Growth – We create ways for our people and customers to thrive.
We are part of Associated British Foods (ABF), a diversified international food, ingredients and retail group.
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