1. Tuure Hartola
Sepänkatu 6 B 53, 20700 Turku, Finland
Mobile phone: +358 50 5703214
E-mail: tuure.hartola@gmail.com
PERSONAL INFORMATION
I am 35 years old with an academic Masters degree of international business. I have 9
years of experience within supply chain environment. I have a Six Sigma Green Belt
certification to lead and coach projects.
I am a team leader, motivator and change manager with experience from different
cultures and eagerness to approach new business environments to solve problems and
lead projects. I am a person, who thrives to engage people in a new way of working to
achieve business results.
I am result focused, hard working, creative and highly motivated employee. My colleagues often call me a person, who
wants to inspire people. I am also found as positive, talkative and enthusiastic activator in the business society.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Bayer Oy
09/2015-present Supply Planner / Local Change Manager
This job is located in Turku, Finland and it is a combined role of Supply Planner and Change Manager. The position is
named as Supply Manager in Bayer organizations in other parts of the world.
Responsibilities:
• Managing the supply of long lasting contraceptives for following product categories: Jaydess, Skyla and Kyleena
• Inventory management and customer contacts to improve KPI development (Forecast Accuracy, Forecast BIAS, DOS)
• Launch management and product deletions in Supply Chain environment
• Reporting the KPI development to Supply Chain and Factory Management
• Local Change Manager: Managing the flow of master data for global product launches and Handling SAP Master Data
for supply planning
• Delivery creation, invoicing and stock allocation
• Supporting the development of LEAN within the Supply Chain team
Key Achievements:
• Creating the platform and introducing new Lean tools to monitor and improve KPI development in Supply Chain
Environment.
• KPI improvement: Improving the Forecast Accuracy of a category with improvement opportunities from 70% to over
95% and improving the Forecast BIAS (three months) from +30% to + approx. 2,5 % resulting in reduction of
scrapping and inventory values
• Inventory reduction: Reducing the inventory value of a category with improvement opportunities with 40%. Result:
0,5 million savings per month in inventory value
• Successful product launches and product supply for all markets of Kyleena brand with high business importance

2. Tuure Hartola
Sepänkatu 6B 53, 20700 Turku, Finland
Mobile phone: +358 50 5703214
E-mail: tuure.hartola@gmail.com
Nestlé Nordics
09/2012-10/2014 Nordic Supply Chain Business Excellence Leader; Lean Strategic Deployment
This job was located in the Nestle Nordic headquarters in Copenhagen. It included the leading of two change waves: Goal
Alignment and Focus Improvement. Both of these waves are part of the Lean journey in Nestle.
Responsibilities:
• Leading a team of 10 persons to deploy change in Nordic Supply Chain.
• Training, coaching and assessing employees in 12 teams in Nordic Supply Chain (Customer service teams, Demand
Planning, Supply planning, Procurement, Physical Logistics team, Distribution Centers and Export Team), 7 locations
and 3 countries.
• Leading the change in the Nordic Supply Chain and reporting to the Zone Europe market change teams.
Key Achievements:
• Successfully finished green belt project in ice cream production line in Finland. Leading the project with a long
distance from Copenhagen. Potential savings 95000 Eur. I received a Lean Green Belt certification for leading this
project.
• Arranging and delivering two change audits within Nordic Supply Chain (3 countries, Denmark, Sweden and Finland,
over 40 meetings with feedback). These audits were both contributing in creating Nordic supply chain as the highest
achiever of commitment and engagement in the Nordic region in the new way of working.
• Arranging and delivering two international trainings by own initiative in Copenhagen Nordic supply chain with
participants from Sweden, Denmark and Finland. These new trainings were setting the trend for the other departments
of how the change team was led to become a solid pillar in creating sustainable foundation for the new way of
working.
• Delivering and leading a strategic planning session for the Nordic Supply Chain Leadership team in cooperation with
Nordic Supply Chain manager to come up with operational master plan. The leadership and facilitation of the session
was well received by the whole leadership team.
Nestlé Nordics
01/2014-present Nordic Supply Chain Physical Logistics Team Member
This was an additional role while being the Business Excellence Leader in the Nordic Supply Chain.
Key Achievements:
• By efficient problem solving finding the root causes for 3 major problem areas in Nordic Physical Logistics team
leading to savings. Finding the biggest contributors for cost savings in the Nordic Baby Food distribution system.
Nestlé Finland Ltd
10/2010-09/2012 Export Specialist
This job was located in Turku baby food factory. From 12/2011 I was working also as the change leader in the Export team
(Nestlé Continuous Excellence Goal Alignment pillar member).

3. Responsibilities:
• Exporting baby food to CIS countries (Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan biggest customers) more precisely customer
contacts, order creation, stock allocation and invoicing.
• Leading the change in the Export team and reporting to Nordic Supply Chain change leader
• Supply planning and direct customer contacting for the above mentioned customers with SAP systems
• Reporting supply chain key performance indicators (KPIs) to the factory management team
Tuure Hartola
Sepänkatu 6 B 53, 20700 Turku, Finland
Mobile phone: +358 50 5703214
E-mail: tuure.hartola@gmail.com
Key achievements:
• Successfully implementing change in Export Team and creating a sustainable platform for change within the team.
Training and coaching the team members according to the change implementation plan.
• Successfully carrying out a product portfolio change in Russia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine markets.
• Efficiently planning the loads to the difficult markets and improving the CIS market case failure rate significantly.
• Creating a strong and improved customer contact with the Russian market by problem solving, including cooperation
with sales, supply planning and demand planning.
6/2007-10/2010 Export assistant
I was working with Nestlé Turku factory for several years as a part time employee during my studies. During the summer
holidays 2007 – 2010 I was working full time.
Key achievements:
• Successfully exporting baby food to Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine + other CIS countries, Sweden, Norway, Denmark
and Ice Cream to Norway, Sweden and Denmark.
Other part time jobs:
06/2004 - 08/2006 Viking Line Oy/AB, Tax-free division sales person/Warehouse worker (during summer holiday’s)
10/2001 - 01/2002 Kodin Ykkönen Oy, Sales person in the Top Ten electronic division
10/2000 - 12/2000 Kodin Ykkönen Oy, Sales person in the toy division
EDUCATION
2002-2010 Turku School of Economics
• Bachelor of Science in Economics and Business Administration
• Master of Science in Economics and Business Administration
• Major subject: International Business
• Minor subjects: Information Systems Science, Economic Geography
• The Bachelor’s Thesis title: The Challenges of Exporting Finnish Metal Music
• The Master’s Thesis title: The Importance of Stakeholder Cooperation in Exporting Finnish Music
1/2005-6/2005 Griffith University Gold Coast, Australia (exchange student)
1998-2000 Kastun lukio, Turku (senior high school)
SKILLS
Computer Skills
• Word, excellent
• Excel, good
• Powerpoint, good
• SAP, good (invoicing, supply planning, purchase orders, travel expenses)
Language Skills

4. • Finnish, native
• English, fluent
• Swedish, good
• German, intermediate
• Spanish, beginner
• Russian, beginner
• Danish, beginner
Tuure Hartola
Sepänkatu 6 B 53, 20700 Turku, Finland
Mobile phone: +358 50 5703214
E-mail: tuure.hartola@gmail.com
EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
• Director of theatre project/ TUKY-speksi theatre performance 2008-2009:
Project management, creative innovation, developing communication skills, organizing
• Directing the Turku School of Economics student choir
• Member of the board of Turku School of Economics student choir - project manager 2010-2012
• Member of the board of Copenhagen Business School International Choir - project manager 2013-2014:
Arranging a project to unite two choirs from Finland and Denmark for a concert together in Copenhagen
APPROVED COURSES
• Lean value stream mapping workshop 2013 (3 parts in Nestle ZOEGAS factory, Helsingborg, Sweden)
Six Sigma Greenbelt training (3 parts: March 2013 York, UK; April 2013 Vevey, Switzerland; June 2013 Vevey
Switzerland)
• Focus Improvement Function Pillar Lead training 25.-29.6.2012 (Prague, Czech Republic)
• Mercuri Sales Work – personal selling course 13.-15.2.2008
• Effective performance course 20.2.-12.6.2005 (Turku, Finland)
• Effective communication skills course12.-13.3.2002 (Turku, Finland)
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
• Hobbies: Swimming, running, yoga, snowboarding, travelling, playing the piano and singing
• Leading a theatre play consisting of 70 people in Turku School of Economics 2009
• Acting in theatre plays: commitment to long term theatre productions Grease 2006, West Side Story 2004, Around
the World in Eighty Days 2004 and musical comedy show Turku-Tukholma 2008 in Turun Nuori Teatteri (Turku
Youth Theatre)
MILITARY SERVICE
• Accomplished in 2001 in Finnish Rapid Deployment Force stationed in Säkylä, brigade of Pori. Part of the education
was given in English.