Dr Penno says the appointment follows a decision to combine the previously separate Ingredient and Nutritional sales teams in order to ‘better serve its customers’.
“Over the past year, we have made significant business development progress particularly with our tier one multinational customers,” he said. “We are increasingly selling a range of products to them and we need to provide a single point of contact to better manage these relationships. The change to the senior team structure will also increase accountability and reduce operating complexity for us going forward.”
Mike Lee will oversee the sales function for the company. He has over 15 years’ dairy industry experience in business development and sales roles in New Zealand, Asia and Europe, and takes up the position after being with Synlait Milk for almost three years in the position of general manager ingredient sales.
Synlait Milk is in the final stages of completing construction of a $27m dry blending and consumer packaging facility, and expects to be granted registration to export finished infant formula into China following the approval of its Risk Management Plan by the Ministry for Primary Industries.
Source: Synlait Milk
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