Ransome-kuti Olufemi

I started my career 23 years ago with extensive exposure into general business management supply chain and project management, achieving my first senior leadership position 15 years ago.

In the course of my career, i have been part of and led business wide change journeys.

Being a leader of leaders through my various senior leadership roles, i have developed a robust people management skills enabled by forward looking business vision sharing, creating a forthright sense of urgency and setting the scene for continous improvement using the doctrine of goal alignment.

I display the values of honesty, fairness and equity and leading by example.

I am extensively result oriented, a strong team player and fully understands the importance of collaboration as the fulcrum of consustent value creation.

My career achievements has been predominantly centered on team and process improvement with transformation leadership essentially exhibited via extensive change management and process overhauling projects.….

1. Implementation of the Nestle Global Business Excellence in Central and West Africa Region for all supply chain operations (customer service, demand and supply planning, procurement and distribution operations), which cuts across 7 operating Central and West Africa Countries (Nigeria, Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire, Senegal, Guinea, Gabon and Cameroun) and comprising of 6 factories and 8 Distribution Centers.

a. Coordinated the transition from the use of NE-family applications to SAP for 45 super users and 200 end user across the 8 countries

2. Smooth kick off of goal alignment implementation in Nestle Senegal- Increased visibility on business priorities, visual communication of individual objectives, daily, weekly and monthly operational review in place to foster a value add S and OP with integrating teams.

3. People restructuring in Nestle Nigeria- 12 people movement within a team of 68 at the central distribution center which yielded more process effectiveness and employee satisfaction.

4. Implementation of the ‘Transport Maximization project’ in Lafarge Nigeria Plc- Using e-auction to buy logistics service. This improved delivery efficiency from between 70-75% to 85-90% and also yielded NGN104 Million savings in year 2009/2010.

5. Implementation of a forward looking trucking strategy in Lafarge cement Plc, a project that ensured all year round truck availability year on year from 2013 till my exit (deployed 300 dedicated trucks on operations without any CAPEX implication despite being a cashless transaction).

6. People and process realignment within the entire supply chain and procurement team in Lafarge, repositioning 15 roles that impacted positively on 34 employees as part of the right sizing exercise of the organization at that time.

7. Outstanding improvement on road safety focus across the entire business unit in Lafarge Niageria, recording zero road accident in year 2014 as compared to an average of 2 fatalities per year between 2010 to 2013.

8. Coordination of the downsizing exercise of APM terminals in Nigeria as part of the global business response to global economic melt down. I ensured minimal disruptions on operations at APM Terminals during a period of over 450 employee downsizing and outsourcing of terminal operations workers, a business environment with very strong unionism and union interference in day to day terminal activities .

9. Improved safety ownership in APM Terminals by implementing the ‘if you see something say something’ initiative. An initiative that took safety accountability beyond the operations team to include administrative teams.

10. Implemented the customer truck empowerment scheme in Dangote cement moving self collect related deliveries from less than 10% as at when I assumed leadership of the function to 41% as at the time I was leaving the business.

11. Recently just set up a personal start-up business that is now returning double digit in ROI with 14 months of commencement and now on auto-pilot in terms of day to day management with highly motivated team of 14 employees. (doubled assets within 8 months of commencement)