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Paolo R

Exec, C- Level, CEO, General Manager & Operations Director, Interim Executive Manager

About Me

General Manager & Operations Director with multi-years experience marked by implementing transformative practices, cultural changes and performance/P&L recovery plans in FMCG, Food and Paper Business sectors for Multinational, Private Owned and Private Equity Companies. Extensive Experience of: - Performance and P&L turn-around; - Cost Reduction; - Lean Production Implementation; - Managerial and Organizational Development; - Turnaround Plans; - Restructuring; - Crysis Management.

Jurisdiction

Region: Europe

Experience

Seniority LevelExecutive
Years of Experience20+ years
Current StatusActive
CEO (Executive Interim Manager)SALPA
2025 - 2026

Definition and management of industrial plans Change Management P&L Turn-around Cost saving initiatives Organizational development Purchasing and production improvements

SITE DIRECTOR (EXECUTIVE INTERIM MANAGER )Laminazione Sottile SPA
2023 - 2025

Site Director of the main Italian factory (570 FTEs) of the group, based in Caserta, dedicated to the production of Aluminum Rolling products for internal and external B2B customers • Industrial performance Recovery • Cultural change initiatives • Definition of future Organizational changes and development steps • Set-up of mid and long terms development plans • Productivity improvement • Cost reduction • Reinforcement of Continuous Improvement culture

General ManagerBibmo QSR Italia
2019 - 2022

General Manager of the Italian branch of Grupo Bimbo (Multinational privately owned Company, with group headquarters in Mexico, worldwide leader in the Bakery business), mainly dedicated to production and sales of Burger Buns and Tortillas for Quick Service Restaurants (McDonald’s, Burger King, Autogrill…) and Retail B2B customers (Roberto Industria Alimentare, Morato Pane, Eurospin…). In this role I had the full responsibility of sales results, two production plants, P&L results and all company functions (Safety, quality, sales, hr, finance, production, engineering and maintenance, planning, logistic, procurement, R&D and CI) • Two production plant • Customer management • Customers and products portfolio review • New customers and new products development • Quality improvement • Losses recovery • P&L turnaround • New Forecast-Demand-Planning set-up • Industrial Organizational review and relaunch • Introduction of Operational Excellence Methodology • Organizational improvements and changes • Costs reduction plans • New Industrial Plan definition

Manufacturing and Engineering directorPerfetti Van Melle Italia
2015 - 2019

Industrial Director of the main italian factory of the group dedicated to the production of Gums and Hard candies for Italian and European markets with iconic brands like Brooklyn, Daygum, Virgosol, Big Babol, Golia, and others • Factory relaunch • Cultural change and management turn around program • New organizational set-up • Organizational development • Productivity improvement • Cost reduction • Introduction of Operational Excellence Program. • Waste reduction • Factory re-layout

Education

Masters of Management and Industrial Engineering (Ing. Gestionale)Unversità Degli Studi di Padova
1993 - 2001

Skills

Core skills7
Interests0
Languages2

Skills

turn around
change management
talent development
restructuring
crysis management
lean production
P&L recovery

Languages

English
Italian