About ME
Experience You Can Count On
STUART CLARK- PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT AND DIRECTOR
M.B.A - Operations Management
B.App Sci - Food Technology
- Lived and worked across Australia, Singapore and New Zealand.
- Food Service and Retail launch expertise.
- Delivered more than $350m growth through 500 plus launches in more than 20 factories.
- Optimised innovation processes in agile local businesses, (idea to launch cycle is two weeks, more than 100 products per year), and in the largest global food and beverage business, (18 month strategic cycles).
- Run cost and business process optimisation workshops to identify best practices, cost savings and transformational opportunities. Led the delivery of more than $20m in savings to the bottom line.
- Worked on the shop floor and at the executive levels.
- Excellent communicator and collaborator, with strong commercial acumen.
- Areas of expertise: Innovation Process Improvement, Food and Beverage New Product Development, Agile Innovation, Business Process Optimisation, Project Management, FMCG, Food Service, Retail, Change Management.
I can bring all these experiences to help improve your innovation results, through improved speed to market, reduced risk around new product commercialisation, better team engagement and alignment.
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Getting the right balance of speed, risk, process and freedom is crucial to take the brakes off your growth plans. I can help you build the right balance to enable your business
Experience and SERVICES
Innovation Process Design and Improvement
- Finding the right balance of risk and speed for your business if critical to building a bespoke process that in enabling, not disabling to your business.
- I have built and optimised innovation and commercialisation processes at Arnott's, Campbell Soups, Nestlé, Birch and Waite and Allied Pinnacle.
- Each process was different and needed to be tailored to the business culture and targets.
- Each one was in need of frequent adjustment and overhaul to keep up with the current business model.
- I work with executive teams to clarify the business needs and challenges, then work closely with cross functional teams to find what is working (and what's not) to create a process that balances risk and agility. Someone else's solution won't work for your business.
Business Process Optimisation
- The way we work together across teams, functions and locations is through processes. These are either enabling your teams to be their best, or holding them back and generating frustration and waste.
- When they were first designed (or they evolved as your business grew), they were right for the times. Now your business has grown, are they going to get you to the next level of business success?
- Who has time to work on trying to improve these processes, with all the mounting deadlines of todays' busy world?
- If you ask your teams what frustrates them the most, what is the greatest source of waste, it will likely be that the systems and processes are cumbersome and out-dated.
- I can work with your teams to deliver improved processes that will improve engagement, results and reduce waste.
New Product Development
- Having developed more than 500 products across sauces, meals, soups, beverages, confectionery and bakery categories for own brand or bespoke developments for customers in retail and food service markets.
- I have developed products under these great brands and customers... Maggi, Nescafe, MILO, Mars, Starburst, Dove, Tim Tam's, Shapes... and these customers McDonalds, Krispy Kreme, KFC, Hello Fresh, Subway.
- I can help your business build its next great product or range for launch in your production facility or at a co-manufacturer.
Cost and Waste Reduction
- I have helped identify global best practices, then help factories implement these and make significant improvements in performance, reducing waste and improve engagement of teams.
- I can help you find waste and implement changes to improve your bottom line using structured problem identification and solving tools. Eliminate the frustrations that are holding your teams back and impacting profitability..
Project Management
- If your team is busy delivering on the current plans, it can be difficult to get the time and headspace to focus on the next big project.
- I can join your team as an additional resource to kick start your project and get it moving. I can complete the who project, or just scope it out for your team to work on once the concept has been refined.