Chris Millington

People and Culture

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• Passion and legacy for developing people, leading, organizational culture, and performance improvement programs.

• Designed organization structures, promoted young talent, and hired the first female leaders in global and regionally significant roles.

• Lived and worked in Europe (UK/Switzerland), Singapore (covering AP, Africa, India) and the US, gaining tremendous cultural insights.

• Managed diverse global teams establishing new entities, partnerships, and business platforms in new markets and channels.

 

Transformation

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• Redesigned the division to bring greater customer focus plus agility in decision making.

• Driving transformation and delivering results in parallel with strong employee engagement.

• Fully accountable for Global / Zonal Business Unit and Divisional P&L ownership.

• Developing new routes to market, opened up new markets/channel strategies to attack white spaces. 

• Created an advisory board to help drive through external stimulus change at an accelerated pace

• Gained board level approval for M&A, significant supply chain projects and Lean, plus a 5 strategic change roadmap.

• Working with 3rd party consultants (Bain, Helbling, Mars & Co, PWC, R&G, Roland Berger).

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Accountability

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• Oversaw M&A and integration (Europe, Africa, and the US).

• Managed significant investment Capex envelopes within supply chain and commercial.

• Focused on Customer and Consumer, including experience in both  B2B and B2C channels.

• Represented on industry boards, executive committees, and advisory boards.

• Participated at international events and programs, which included advocacy discussions.

• Redefining business definition, creating approved strategies, and focusing on excellence in execution.