Employee Spotlight

1. What factors motivated your decision to join Campbell Arnott’s?

I grew up with a strong desire to pursue a career where I could add-value and actually produce something, following my childhood exposure to the textile operations that my father ran. Textiles faced an uncertain future in Australia, but one thing everyone will always need and will be passionate about is food. So, I contacted Arnott’s, to see if I there was a role for me at their Homebush Bakery. I started as a manufacturing graduate, and that was 13 years ago.

2. How do you feel valued at Campbell Arnott’s?

Through my career at Campbell Arnott’s, I’ve been supported in making a number of cross-functional moves. I have worked in Manufacturing, Logistics, Sales, Planning & Procurement, and have built a good cross-functional view of the business. This has been supported by and encouraged by the business, and I appreciate the opportunity that this has presented and the challenging experiences for me that these diverse roles have created.

3. How have you made a difference to our organisation in the past twelve months?

Keeping our bakeries running by maintaining the supply of flour, following weather that devastated the Australian soft wheat crop, has presented a very significant challenge. The most pleasing aspect of this challenge and the solution to address it was the cross-functional teamwork that was required, the commitment of my peers to the task, and our ultimate success in developing a successful contingent supply.

One of the most rewarding changes, however, of the last 12-months has been the employment of new talent to our Procurement team. We have restructured our team and brought into the organisation some great employees. It has been very rewarding; recruiting and helping with their development, and then to see them starting to make a difference within our organisation.

4. Which of Campbell Arnott’s icon brands would you like a lifetime supply of?

Tiny Teddy’s.

My son, Nicholas, is always telling his friends and the people he meets that his Dad works at Arnott’s and he makes Tiny Teddy’s. He’s 3-years old, and believes that everyone at work makes Tiny Teddy’s.

I will need a lifetime supply to keep the dream alive and keep everyone he has told happy