Career Success Podcast

This episode of the career success podcast we are joined by Ralf Neuser to discuss the on-boarding process for new hires. The onboarding process is a key factor to the success of every new hire and according to the SHRM Foundation which is a nonprofit affiliate of the Society for Human Resource Management, half of all senior-level outside hires fail within the first 18 months. Ralf will give some tips on how to make sure all new hires into your team are successful.

There’s no doubt that supply chain and logistics are going through a major transformation, and the demographics isn’t an exception. In a space that used to be a dominated by males, women have gained territory in the last decades. Globalization has also contributed to diversifying the supply chain community. To speak about this topic, we’ve invited Flavia Sebastiani, currently a VP at DHL Brazil to speak about this topic and understand her personal experience and advice. In this podcast, we discuss: The changing role of women executives in Supply Chain How to lead diverse teams Diversity as a key business driver Advice on managing and leading through diversity

On this episode of the Career Success Podcast we invited Minerva Acevedo to speak with us about the art of negotiation. Minerva has worked in consumer packaged goods in both marketing and sales roles, in the health and wellness industry with Johnson & Johnson and in the food industry with McCormick & Company. Through both experiences, she have been exposed to negotiations with large corporations such as Costco, Wal-Mart and some of the top Canadian retailers and media companies. In this episode we discuss: Negotiation vs. Selling – what are the key differences Why many people feel uncomfortable with negotiation and how to overcome this How to walk away from a negotiation feeling successful

Beauty is one of the most dynamic industries out there today. To learn more about it, we’ve invited Gianni Pieraccioni. He’s a C-Level executive that’s worked with global companies like Revlon, Alitalia, J&J and Pepsico and we’ve invited him to understand more about the beauty consumer, its distribution and how it will evolve in the coming years. In this Podcast, we review: The beauty consumer and the evolution of its behaviors Retailers adaptation to this new environment Technology’s influence on the beauty market How the big beauty companies are reacting to these changes

What Makes Latin America Different? With Jeferson Fernandes May 18, 2018 By Daniel Torres Dwyer Latin America is a market that is still a big mystery for many. While it’s biggest country, Brazil, has been recently on the headlines because of political instability, it is back on the growth track after some years of deep recession… this depicts the region a bit, unstable, unreliable in the short term, but a fantastic opportunity for long term growth. But what are the challenges in LATAM? What’s this market even like? To answer these questions and more, we’ve invited Jef Fernandes, Supply Chain Leader in Brazil and has experience across the region and as well in the United States. In this Podcast you’ll learn: Advice on how to approach the Latin America Market Supply Chain challenges in the region How to transition from Europe or North America to Brazil as an executive Future of the market

On this episode of the career success podcast we are following up with Craig Binkley, CEO of BINKTHINK Strategy Group on his white paper Digital Transformation and Impact on Value Chains and Routes to Market. During this podcast, Craig takes questions from our network on: The healthcare industry: how does Craig see the impact of digital fitting into the industry and what that means exactly. The human project in New York which is embarking on like the largest study ever, and could revolutionize healthcare because of digital technology. How to get your organization ready to embrace and drive towards digitization. How to motivate and enable people to think and act digital.

Motivating a team can be a challenge. As business leaders, we will have to get people of different origins, ages, nationalities, genders, functions and even industries to work together. As this is a topic that comes up in many of our conversations, we have the pleasure to have Peter Hall on this edition to discuss it. Peter is currently the President for consumer brands at Dean & Deluca. Born in Australia, he’s held executive positions at the likes of Diageo and Heineken before his current assignment, having been based in the US, the UK, Mexico and Venezuela.

Challenging yourself to take risks in your career isn’t always easy and there could be a lot to lose. We have invited Arnd Pickhardt former CMO of Lidl Germany to discuss with us his experience with taking risks.

The transition of Fast Moving Packaged Goods into the Online Retailing space has been a rocky one. Swinging from Direct to Consumer to Partnership approaches, the scenario does look clearer now than 4 years ago. But, is this going to settle like this? To look back into what’s happened and what is to come, we invited Sri Rajagopalan, Vice President and leader of eCommerce for J&J’s consumer business.

Our guest on this episode of the career success podcast is Davide Lunghi. Davide has been working within the luxury industry since 2002 for brands like Fendi, TAG Heuer, Hublot and Zenith.

The Gender Pay Gap is the percentual difference of hourly pay between genders across levels and functions. This is a different concept to “Equal pay”, which compares pay between genders for doing the same job. To discuss this particular topic, we’ve invited Helena Perheentupa. Currently Head of Licencing for Mattel DACH, Nordics and Benelux, she’s balanced a successful career with family life, having started at P&G in Finland and working later in Sweden, the Netherlands and now Germany.

Montse Passolas is a highly qualified Global Marketing and Branding board level executive with over 18 years of experience in marketing and communications, digital, new product development, retail, PR and business development strategy within leading brands and companies. Montse is a true international profile with experience working in Spain, France UK, US, and with an emphasis on the beauty and luxury markets with a proven ability to adapt and work efficiently in fast-paced organizations. She is a marketer with strong commercial acumen, online discipline and consumer focus; excellent leadership, charisma and communication abilities.

Roopa Varghese, Sr. Director of Digital Marketplaces and New Brands at Georgia-Pacific, provides her insights on how the US macro-economy has shifted and affected the Retail and Consumer Packaged Goods industry. Roopa has a lengthy business experience in the US, having been based there for over 12 years, having had leadership roles for the likes of The Boston Consulting Group and The Hershey Company before landing her current role.

This week we speak with Mike Sukitch a global Sales Executive with a distinguished Procter & Gamble and Kraft Foods/Mondelēz International career, which includes sixteen years in key emerging markets assignments and sixteen years in the developed markets of US and Europe. He has a consistent and proven track record with extensive operational, P&L and strategic management experience performing as the highest-ranking sales officer or department head in several locations. His experience includes executive leadership on multi-functional country, regional and Commercial Board’s for the past seventeen years. He is currently the Vice President Global Sales Planning & Activation for Mondelez International.

LS International speaks with Walmart eCommerce’s VP of Digital Acceleration, Kate Pearson. We discuss with Kate about how an army background has contributed to her career in business. Being someone who’s managed big teams in traditional Retail but is currently working on projects that are cutting edge, she’s developed a leadership style that’s enabled her to be successful in very diverse set ups, from the Army to Retail, Logistics and Strategy. “Many people think of the military as a command and control leadership style, but the military really encourages leadership development and is very influential on how we think about leadership in Business. I learnt how to motivate and develop future leaders and grow talent”.

On this episode of The Career Success Podcast, LS International speaks with Maureen O’Shea, Global Product Supply Senior Director for Biotech and New Molecules at Merck. We discuss with Maureen how she adopts Nike’s “Just do it” slogan in her approach to decision making and how it has led her to having successful hands-on experience in end to end supply chain across manufacturing, sourcing, logistics, CMO management, planning and contract negotiation. “It’s a very fast-moving world, we have to be brave, we have to be agile, we have to jump, and we have to remember that the only strategy the customer sees is execution.”

LS International speaks with Patricia Corsi, CMO Bayer Consumer Healthcare to find out more about her experience in delivering results and leading successful business transformation in Latin America and Europe. Her fluency in 3 languages, combined with a strong sense of curiosity allows her to be closer to consumer and customer and to use this connectivity to better drive product mixes and use experiences that serve unmet consumer needs.

LS International speaks with Joanna Allen, Global Vice President for Hellmann’s at Unilever on the importance of a diverse workforce for successful employee attraction and retention. Joanna discusses diversity and recruitment, exploring ‘gender and sexuality, but also diversity in terms of mental processing styles, kind of different strengths and different experiences from geographies.’

The Edelman trust barometer says 51% of employees do not trust their CEO’s and we know employee engagement and trust is a big factor in that and a popular topic right now. We were joined by James Mounter, VP of Sales for J&J China to discuss his thoughts on leadership, management and employee engagement.

Attracting and retaining talent is a hot subject in today’s market. Employers are keener than ever to find out how they can adapt and lead today’s millennium. Gianluca di Tondo, Senior Global Brand Director for the Heineken® Brand explores how ‘they need to see you not only as the boss, but a mentor. You need to keep getting excited, you need to fuel their passion, and they need to see the passion in you.’ Gianluca is self-motivated and entrepreneurial with an edge in global marketing, managing partnerships, motivating teams and getting things done. Listen to the full podcast to hear Gianluca speak about his thoughts on leadership, goals, and what it’s like to be a part of one of the most well-known brands globally.