Having just looked at the website it is over a year since I last wrote a blog, writing more blogs just made it onto my list of 'development areas', we're very keen on them here in Cadbury as they sound much better than weaknesses!
Since my last blog I have become the very proud father of two boys who turn one tomorrow. Cadbury have been fantastically supportive of me this last year, and the fact that I have been working in Bournville for that whole time, which is about 200 yards from where I live, has been a huge bonus. Upon my return from Ireland I successfully applied for a job in Demand Management which involved running a team of people who looked after all of our standard products (anything that isn't for Christmas or Easter basically). This was a great challenge and a huge learning curve, especially with things like the first Wispa launch and Crème Egg Twisted falling into my remit. Over the last year we have taken big strides as a business in how we communicate and operate our major launches and it has been great to be a part of that.
Earlier this year Customer Logistics (the area of Supply Chain in which I work) was restructured. This is very much a part of working for a major global business that has to constantly change to stay ahead and its important to see these changes as opportunities. My job changed and for the last three months I have been heading up our new Event Management team, which has responsibility for all our seasonal products (Easter eggs, advent calendars etc), all our new products (the Wispa relaunch and plenty more in 2009) and changes to our existing products (noticed that the packaging on all Dairy Milk bars changed a few months ago? That was us). I now have a team of six people and we are currently very busy with Halloween and Christmas just around the corner, not to mention Easter and all the new products we have lined up for 2009. I chose to take this job as maternity cover so will be moving on in late summer next year. Watch this space to find out where I end up next, it could be Uxbridge or Australia!!
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