Anca Lazar linkedin.com/in/ancalazar
Rachael Legg linkedin.com/in/rachaellegg
■ Career history: Marketing Manager - Ready-To-Drink EMEA, Starbucks Plc, UK Senior Brand Manager, Saputo Plc, UK Brand Manager - South-East Europe, Danone Plc, Romania Brand Manager, William Grant & Sons Pvt, Romania ■ Education highlights: Executive MBA, Warwick Business School, UK MSc, Marketing and Business Communication, Academy of Economic Studies, Romania BSc, Marketing, Academy of Economic Studies, Romania
■ Career history: Global Board Trustee and Audit Committee Member, Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (CIPS), UK Chief Procurement Officer, Lightsource bp, UK Chief Procurement and Property Officer, Johnson Matthey, UK Company Director, First4Procurement Ltd, UK ■ Education highlights: Executive MBA, Warwick Business School, UK CHAMPS2 Practitioner, APMG International, UK Post-Merger Integration Certificate, The Merger Training Institute, UK MEng (Hons), Engineering, Manufacturing and Management, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), UK
■ Nationality: Romanian British
■ Nationality: British
■ Languages:
Romanian (native) English (fluent) French (basic)
■ Languages:
English (native) German (basic)
■ Career achievements: Led effective marketing strategies and campaigns for global and local brands like Activia, Actimel, Cathedral City and Starbucks. Launched in up to 57 countries, delivering financial objectives, and increasing market share and brand awareness via relationship management. Crafted a category defining innovation; Clover with no artificial ingredients. Won ‘Product of The Year’, delivering more than 2% points in penetration and more than 1.5% points in volume market share, setting the brand to become the UK’s number one spread. Energised about building, growing and inspiring high performing teams that passionately focus on consumers and growth. Strengthened Starbucks’ partnership with its licensee by improving the team’s culture, overall relationships and brand stewardship.
■ Career achievements: Developed a strategy and delivered global procurement transformation to realise £60 million in the first three years to reinvest in company strategy. Realised £150 million, with a further £104 million in the following two years, and 43% women diversity in global procurement. Engaged by executives to identify and resolve real estate major works service pinch-points, causing 45% annual revenue recognition backlog. Transformed the procurement capability and established effective supply chain, resolving the backlog and reducing time to revenue by over 50%. Led development and implementation of a four-business post-merger integration of procurement with HR, finance, and R&D. Developed a procurement operating model with 140 employees, managing US$1.6 billion, enabling US$120 million synergy delivery with US$50 million in year one.
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