Nestlé hires its first VP of business excellence
Nestlé has also got a little creative this fall with the launch of a new executive board function: Nestlé Business Excellence, which will integrate its corporate support functions GLOBE and Nestlé Business Services as well as its corporate initiative Nestlé Continuous Excellence.
The new business excellence division will be led by Chris Johnson, currently executive vice president in charge of Zone Americas (who will be succeeded by Laurent Freixe).
And the rationale? “By bringing these different functions together under one responsibility at executive board level, the company aims to better leverage its scale and skills, and serve its markets and businesses more effectively and cost efficiently,” says the firm.
Separately, Nestlé also announced plans to integrate the Maghreb, the Middle East, the North East Africa region, Turkey and Israel into Zone Europe, which will be renamed Zone EMENA (Europe, Middle East and North Africa) and led by Luis Cantarell.
The new structure will be fully operational in January.
