What has been achieved so far:

We provide you with an overview of the current status of the workstreams after Steering Committee II in calendar week 44. This includes a review of progress on the key deliverables and an overview of the finalized/approved elements in all workstreams.

By the third and presumably last Steering Committee on November 29, all elements of the key deliverables that are in progress or have not yet been started yet (marked Yellow/Red) need to be prepared for approval.

Key Deliverables Status
Organizational Set-Up In Progress
Roles & Responsibilities In Progress
RACI In Progress
Interfaces In Progress
KPIs In Progress

Finalized/Approved Elements

  • Shared functions between Division and SARIA Group in Compliance, Consolidation & Accounting as well as in Treasury
  • Dedicated CAPEX and Commercial Controller will be part of Divisional Controlling Team

Key Deliverables Status
Organizational Set-Up Finalized/Approved
Roles & Responsibilities In Progress
RACI In Progress
Interfaces In Progress
KPIs In Progress

Finalized/Approved Elements

  • Alignment on key topics with business has taken place.
  • Top level structure (N-1 & N-2) has been defined and aligned with countries and Business Units (BUs) workstreams.
  • Top level ways of working and link between technical and sustainability team and local/BUs has been aligned.
  • Product innovation has been incorporated into this team for the time being.

Key Deliverables Status
Organizational Set-Up Finalized/Approved
Roles & Responsibilities Finalized/Approved
RACI In Progress
Interfaces In Progress
KPIs In Progress

Finalized/Approved Elements

  • 5 focus topics for the central HR team have been identified and approved by the Steering Committee
    • International Coordination
    • Talent Management & Development
    • Organizational Development
    • Data Analytics
    • Talent Acquisition
  • Central team organizes itself according to these roles.
    • International coordination role from central team acts as first single point of contact (SPOC) for cross country-related topics or special target-groups (f.e. upper management) and will focus in 2025 on supporting the regions and Business Units in implementing their new organizations.

Key Deliverables Status
Organizational Set-Up Finalized/Approved
Roles & Responsibilities Finalized/Approved
RACI Not Started Yet
Interfaces In Progress
KPIs In Progress

Finalized/Approved Elements

  • Raw Material Sourcing Committee to coordinate and share information across the countries and regions
  • Deployment of the Key Account Management policy for global customers
  • Definition of standard approaches to lead the sales developments and performances.

Key Deliverables Status
Organizational Set-Up Finalized/Approved
Roles & Responsibilities In Progress
RACI In Progress
Interfaces In Progress
KPIs Not Started Yet

Finalized/Approved Elements

  • The topics of the workstream will initially be dealt with as part of the Technology & Sustainability workstream
  • Recruitment of Business Development Director is paused and will be continued in 2025.

Key Deliverables Status
Organizational Set-Up In Progress
Roles & Responsibilities Not Started Yet
RACI Not Started Yet
Interfaces Not Started Yet
KPIs Not Started Yet

Finalized/Approved Elements

  • IT organization will be shaped in close alignment with the business.
  • Implementation of IT organization is carried out in several steps.

Key Deliverables Status
Organizational Set-Up Finalized/Approved
Roles & Responsibilities Finalized/Approved
RACI In Progress
Interfaces In Progress
KPIs In Progress

Finalized/Approved Elements

  • Potentially three additional categories are selected to be globally managed: Trucks, Sea Transport and Bins & Big Boxes.
  • Savings potential of new global categories is currently being evaluated.

Key Deliverables Status
Organizational Set-Up Finalized/Approved
Roles & Responsibilities Finalized/Approved
RACI In Progress
Interfaces In Progress
KPIs In Progress

Finalized/Approved Elements

  • Every country will have 1 dedicated person for Communications & Marketing (C&M) topics
    • Not necessarily 1 Full Time Equivalent, but one responsible person that can be approached.
  • Central C&M function has been sized and organized:
    • Will have a coordination role for serving the Business Units (BUs) in their needs.
    • Will continue to fully cover SARIA Group, Germany, and SARIA Ingredients & Energy activities and support BUs and regions.
    • Exact “service catalogue” is currently under discussion with the regions and BUs.

Key Deliverables Status
Organizational Set-Up Finalized/Approved
Roles & Responsibilities Finalized/Approved
RACI Finalized/Approved
Interfaces In Progress
KPIs Finalized/Approved

Finalized/Approved Elements

  • Public & Governmental Affairs (PGA) will operate via a committee approach having:
    • different business committees covering SARIAs Ingredients & Energy business activities; regions and Business Units (Bus) will nominate persons to chair these committees.
    • one central committee to align on overarching PGA topics.
  • Key processes have been defined to differentiate between national P&G activities and European wide activities.
    • Process descriptions include which topics will be part of the business committee and when things will be discussed in the central committee.
  • Governance and meeting structure is kept as lean and effective as possible.

Regions

Key Deliverables Status
Organizational Set-Up Finalized/Approved
Roles & Responsibilities In Progress
RACI Not Started Yet
Interfaces In Progress
KPIs In Progress

Finalized/Approved Elements

  • Organizational set-up for Germany (incl. GERLICHER, ReFood, SARVAL Fischermanns, SecAnim) and Austria aligned and signed-off.

Key Deliverables Status
Organizational Set-Up In Progress
Roles & Responsibilities In Progress
RACI Not Started Yet
Interfaces In Progress
KPIs In Progress

Finalized/Approved Elements

  • Organizational set-ups for Romania and Italy signed-off.
  • France started a project to transform ReFood and Poland started a project to review the rendering footprint.
  • Spain will progress with project Elevate after a Country Managing Director has been appointed.

Key Deliverables Status
Organizational Set-Up In Progress
Roles & Responsibilities In Progress
RACI Not Started Yet
Interfaces In Progress
KPIs In Progress

Finalized/Approved Elements

  • Alignment regarding the organization of ecoMotion in Denmark with the workstream Business Unit Biofuels started and is ongoing.

Business Units

Key Deliverables Status
Organizational Set-Up Finalized/Approved
Roles & Responsibilities In Progress
RACI In Progress
Interfaces In Progress
KPIs In Progress

Finalized/Approved Elements

  • Organizational set-up for ecoMotion aligned and signed off.
  • TESSAF organization will be further detailed in 2025.

Key Deliverables Status
Organizational Set-Up Finalized/Approved
Roles & Responsibilities In Progress
RACI In Progress
Interfaces In Progress
KPIs In Progress

Finalized/Approved Elements

  • Leadership structure is finalized and will be presented to Ingredients & Energy leadership team in next weeks.
  • Regular meetings will take place to align within Business Unit (BU) Sinova Wet leadership team.
  • Close collaboration between independent BUs Sinova Wet and Sinova Fish/Bioceval and country-driven Sinova Dry/SARVAL business will take place.
  • Final decisions on branding will be made during Q1 2025.

Key Deliverables Status
Organizational Set-Up Finalized/Approved
Roles & Responsibilities In Progress
RACI In Progress
Interfaces In Progress
KPIs In Progress

Finalized/Approved Elements

  • Finalized the organizational set-up of the Business Unit for Level N-1 to N-3.
  • Designation of the responsible persons at level N-2.
  • Define leadership and extended leadership team for Bioceval.