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Tough transition from poultry to pigs
HAVING enjoyed a chat last Friday night to Peter Spackman at the 2018 Perth Royal Show Branded Meat Awards and knowing he had a notable career in the chicken meat industry before crossing the mo- nogastric floor to pig/ pork ranks in October last year as GM Meat and Livestock for Craig Mostyn Group, I checked out his LinkedIn profile and was impressed.
Armed with a Master’s Degree from the Univer- sity of South Australia, a Bachelor’s Degree in Applied Science from Charles Sturt University, an Associate’s Degree in Environmental Health and Building Surveying from Sydney Technical College and a Meat In- spection Certificate from Oten TAFE, he appears well qualified to make his mark in the pork industry as I suspect he did in the chicken industry.
Spackman spent nine years with Ingham’s, his first stint being as South Australian Primary Pro- cessing manager, then Re- gional Operations Direc- tor, then finally Director of Operations, National, Primary Processing.
Quite a pedigree.
His most recent Ing- ham’s stint (basically cal- endar year 2017) involved national responsibility for all primary processing across Australia, encom- passing five large primary processing facilities em- ploying 3200 workers and processing 3.6 million chickens a week.
Spackman had an an- nual budgetary responsi- bility for $516 million and producing 320,000 tonnes of finished product an- nually.
He oversaw and imple- mented extensive national efficiency initiatives, en- compassing labour cost reduction, continuous im- provement, lean yield im-
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provement and reliability, which he claimed resulted in reduced downtime, over- time and absenteeism.
He also described him- self as a key stakeholder with an executive role in the Sales and Operational Planning leadership team, which Ingham’s used to continually achieve focus, alignment and synchroni- sation among all functions of the organisation.
Spackman’s LinkedIn profile continued in the first person: “I am key to the strategic integration of national facilities and functions, transforming the business into a cohe- sive and efficient network of operations. I integrated the operations division of the business with all other functional areas of the organisation, including farming, logistics, sales and marketing, planning, financial services and further processing. Imple- mentation of ongoing cap- ital expenditure programs which continue to realise significant payback and cost efficiency benefits, in the millions.”
With Western Aus- tralia’s (and Australia’s) pork industry in a peril-
ous state at the moment, due largely to overproduc- tion/oversupply, Spack- man will need to draw on all his outlined skills and achievements with Ingham’s to help restore the industry, especially when it comes to the re- lationship Craig Mostyn Group/Linley Valley Pork has with its pork producer suppliers.
On Friday, WA’s peak pork producer body, WAPPA, in its regu- lar newsletter, revealed that president Dawson Bradford, vice president Graeme Dent and EO Jan Cooper had met earlier in the week with CMG CEO Patrick Walsh and Spack- man to discuss the state of WA’s pork industry.
The newsletter went on to say “It was a very frank meeting, with both Craig Mostyn and WAPPA ex- pressing concern about conflicting information circulating in the indus- try. To help communica- tion, Peter Spackman has invited producers to ring him directly to clarify information they may be unsure of. It was also
made very clear that Craig Mostyn Group is in the industry for the long haul, notwithstanding the chal- lenging market conditions that presently exist. It was agreed by everyone that it is important to work to- gether to ride this difficult period out.”
Looks like Spackman could be in for a rough ride during what is a rough time for ‘porkies’.
Meanwhile, Ingham’s Group Limited chairman Peter Bush has announced that after four years lead- ing Ingham’s, CEO Mick McMahon will step down from the role after the company’s annual results in August.
McMahon will be avail- able to the end of the cal- endar year to assist with an orderly leadership tran- sition while a domestic and international execu- tive search process takes place.
Quinton Hildebrand, currently Ingham’s chief commercial officer, will be appointed acting CEO effective August 2018 and remain in the role during the search process.
Ingham’s CEO transition
INGHAM’S Group Limited chairman Peter Bush recently announced that after four years of leading Ingham’s, CEO Mick McMahon would be leaving the company, stepping down from the role after the com- pany’s annual results in August 2018.
Mr McMahon will be available to the end of the calendar year to assist with an orderly leadership transition.
A domestic and in- ternational executive search process has commenced and it is expected there will be internal candidates for the role.
Quinton Hildebrand, currently Ingham’s chief commercial of- ficer, will be appointed acting CEO effective August 2018 and will remain in the role dur- ing the search process.
Among other roles, Quinton was previous- ly the CEO of Mackay Sugar.
Mr Bush said, “We thank Mick for his years of meaningful leadership and service to Ingham’s, in particu- lar taking the iconic Australian company on the complex jour- ney through private ownership, through
a successful IPO and implementing Project Accelerate, a strategy to make the company more efficient and competitive.”
“His remarkable re- sults speak for them- selves.
“Quinton is well re- spected in the business and, having led key parts of the company, is well prepared to step up when Mick leaves the business.”
Mr McMahon said, “As we started work on preparing the next three to five-year strat- egy, it was the moment for me to make a deci- sion about whether I wanted to commit for the years ahead.”
“After four years of in- tense focus and commit- ment to the company, its employees and share- holders, it was clear to me that now was the time to begin the search for the new CEO.
“Advising the Board of my decision now facilitates an orderly leadership transition and allows business as usual operations during the executive search.
“I will leave Ingham’s at the end of the year with my best wishes for its continued suc- cess.”
Outgoing Ingham’s CEO Mick McMahon.
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