Ahmet Gülbahar

- Own full site accountability, leading end-to-end manufacturing operations, business performance, and organizational effectiveness in a complex FMCG environment.          - Define and execute site strategy by aligning safety, quality, cost, delivery, and growth priorities with broader business objectives. - Lead digital transformation and smart factory evolution - Lead strategic cost optimisation and capacity/growth programs, ensuring strong financial discipline and measurable business impact. - Build a high-performing leadership organisation by strengthening talent pipeline, coaching leaders, and institutionalising capability development frameworks.

Leading end-to-end beverage production across 4 glass and 1 PET lines at Danone Bursa Plant. - Managing a team of ~100 employees, fostering a strong safety culture and performance mindset. - Driving digital transformation projects under the DMA program, accelerating smart factory initiatives. - Leading IWS deployment across the site, ensuring sustainable system integration and capability building. - Coaching and developing the team to align people growth with operational excellence.

Led the production team including engineers, shift and team leaders within the frame of occupational health and safety, environmental awareness, quality, efficiency, and costs. - Improving safety culture by implementing proactive indicators on safety and setting targets to all team members by using these indicators - Leading and motivating the team to build strong capability and achieve high standards of performance. - Initiating the management operating system - Leading CI activities to increase productivity by using CI tools(VSM, SMED, etc.) - Implementing lean management approach in the shop floor - Building collaborative relationships with cross functional team to enhance all plant goals - Setting up skill training plan for the team - Leading growth and productivity projects

Managed a team consisting 150 people in the production department including shift leaders, team leaders and operators and utilized coaching, mentoring and team building activities to ensure continuous improvement of safety, productivity, inventory accuracy, on time delivery and perfect order. - Improving safety culture by implementing proactive indicators on safety and setting targets to all team members by using these indicators - Managing all manufacturing operations including 3 different brands production and 9 units, setting volume and KPI targets based on productivity activities - Leading the Kaizen activities to minimize performance bottlenecks by using CI tools(RCA, 5S, A3 format, fishbones etc.) for achieving high productivity with minimum consumption of material and machine - Building collaborative relationships with cross functional team to enhance all plant goals - Implementing multi tasking application to increase the competencies of the whole team and to create rotation ability in case needed - Planning and following skill training plan of production team - Managing the industrial costs of production - Leading productivity and growth projects

Management of vegetable oil crushing(preparation, extraction) and semi refinery(water degumming) teams consisting 30 people within the frame of occupational health and safety, environmental awareness, quality, efficiency, costs and Bunge working rules. Deputy plant manager - Following up plant KPI results in daily base by leading daily meetings, - Making statistical analyses of plant performance and setting new KPIs by reducing loss and leading producitvity or growth projects, - Driving and following up the site CI capabilities(RCA, 5S, Kaizen workshops, Process mapping, Lean six sigma) through coaching and training to enhance the CI culture in the plant together with CI team, - Performing Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and Job Hazard Analysis for production area, - Skill training planning to production team, - Preparing NPV and payback calculations for productivity and growth projects.

Production Engineer for Soybean Oil Production - Production follow-up and managing shifts, - Preparing and application of SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures), - Planning Kaizen activities with "Continuous Improvement" team, - Performing Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and Job Hazard Analysis for production area, - Production planning.

YEP at BUNGE - Participant of International Young Engineer Program Production Engineer for Vegetable Oil Production - Production follow-up and managing shifts, - Preparing and application of SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures), - Planning Kaizen activities with "Continuous Improvement" team, - Performing Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and Job Hazard Analysis for production area - Production planning

YEP at BUNGE - Participant of International Young Engineer Program Project Engineer for Commissioning of new sunflower/soybean crushing plant - Member of commissioning team of Bunge Rio project - Project Management - Using Best Practices of Bunge for new project - Cold start up of each individual equipment - Pre-start up tests - Clear actions for contingency - Transition start up process into operation process - Keeping stabilization of process and fine tunning