Flavio G.

A customer, quality and operations focused business executive who provides the strategic vision and leadership that drives productivity, efficiency and bottom line improvements. A goals-oriented leader who clearly communicates objectives, provides support and tools to ensure goal attainment. Expert in combining business & operations planning, with tactical execution in an entrepreneurial environment. Utilizing lean principles and statistical analysis to identify continuous improvement projects, reducing costs resulting in increased revenues and profitability. A highly experienced and successful professional in the development of teams, processes, enabling rapid expansion, while maintaining product quality and positive customer experience. HIGHLIGHTS - Super-Pufft • Managed over $60M in capital expenditures over a 10-year span enabling 400% growth. • Transformed the existing Canadian facility into a state-of-the-art snack food manufacturing operation, creating a cost, supply chain structure and quality program that enables aggressive revenue growth that led to the acquisition of Super-Pufft USA and Super-Pufft Foods with operations in Eastern and Western Canada and the USA. • Consolidated three manufacturing sites to two, closing one distribution center, streamlined operations and realizing annual savings of $2.7M. • Identified and negotiated savings of ~$10 million in raw material and capital expenditures, plant supplies and services. • Manage three tier-one Co-Manufacturer accounts with over $31M in sales. • Spearhead efforts to identify and acquire complementary business operations to expand product profiles, capitalizing on supply chain synergies to increase North American and International sales. • Lead food safety, product quality and implemented quality improvement plan utilizing root cause analysis techniques resulting in 85% reduction on consumer complaints to less than 2 per million. • Led and managed the successful implementation and renewal of SQF Level 3 Food Safety Certification.