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Freshcorp business is divided into 5 main divisions with each division headed by a professional and customer focused team member.
- Buying and Stock Control
- Night Packing (for early morning domestic dispatch)
- Sales and Customer service
- Country and Export
- Accounts and Administration
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Managing Director
John Travers
Freshcorp is headed by Managing Director John Travers who has been involved in the hospitality industry for over 30 years. John has employed a highly professional team of Managers with many years experience in the fruit and vegetable industry. |
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General Manager
Duc Hua
Duc has worked along side John for the past 18 years and together they have developed a team of well trained and passionate people. In 2004 Duc won the coveted award of "Employee of the Year" as voted by the Australia Post, City of Stirling Small Business Council. |
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Accountant, Administration Manager and IT
Salil Koonja
Salil is our Company Accountant, his duties include:
Preparation of financial reports, Budgeting, Management reporting, Payroll and Ensuring compliance with statutory obligations
Salil is also the Manager of our Administration team, The Administration team take orders from our customers and raise pick slips and invoices and our IT Manager providing in-house support to everyone at Freshcorp.
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Night Team Manager
Clayton Trevor
Clayton is the Night Team Manager at Freshcorp. His duties include; organizing the picking & packing teams each night to fulfil customer orders with excellent quality produce in a timely manner, packing orders in the required areas for AM dispatch, arranging the packing area set up with pallets and packaging, allocation of picking slips to each team member for packing, he attempts to minimise morning re-runs by substitution of products or cutting back on all customers supply of these products, ensuring his team highlight all items not available on picking slips. His final duty of the night is to ensure end of shift procedures are followed and organise the clean up in the coolrooms. He regularly checks and records coolroom temperatures as well as managing the 14 day advance roster. |
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Warehouse Manager
Brendan Guthrey
Brendan is the Warehouse Manager who handles all aspects of Warehouse safety and logistics (including OHS and HACCP). He leads a dedicated team of 6 members in the day who pick and pack the large ticket local and country orders.
Brendan oversees all our in-house and sub-contractor couriers ensuring deliveries are made in a timely manner. Essentially he is the go to man for all outgoing deliveries! |
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Customer Service Manager
TK Prabha
TK's duties involve all matters related to Customer issues. TK keeps in contact with our Customers on a regular basis and updates the 'Customers Notes' section in Business Suite with relevant information. Matters discussed could be related to any one of these and more; produce not available, re-runs, delivery times, missing items, menu planning, arranging warehouse tours for Chefs, testimonials from Chefs, Customer Issue resolution and Credit etc. The primary objective of all of this being to provide depth in our relationship and understanding of our Customers.
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Sales Representative
Simon
Simon is responsible for new Business for Freshcorp. As part of his role he will stand in for customer service and will also help in other areas of promoting the company.
Simon tries many ways to get new business, he follows up on leads that come in through Yellow Pages and the website, he cold calls when he can. He picks a territory and targets restaurants, hotels, cafes etc. Simon is always on the look out for new business' starting up & new areas being developed.
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Market buyer
Damien Guthrey
Damien is responsible for purchasing 67% of our daily stock needs directly from canning vale market as well as sourcing stock from overseas and re-sale to the market.
He provides daily stock's cost prices to Robyn so she can enter into the accounting software. He also updates on daily basis the non-available stock and new stock available in market. Damien maintains good relationships between Market agents and Freshcorp.
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Stock Controller
Symone Hayes
Symone is responsible for maintaining the Gross Profit at Freshcorp. This is done by accurately entering current cost prices into the accounting software daily, and setting all sell prices (includes normal weekly pricing, monthly and yearly set pricing quotes, one-off quotes, and matrix pricing for certain products for particular customers). She promotes sales and manages the flow of stock availability information between buyers, stores, admin and customers by way of the weekly bulletin, and daily updates to the Freshcorp team. She arranges stock-take counts to be entered and checked, and forwarded on to the accounts team. Supplier invoices are checked, entered into the accounting software for payment and credits are requested, as required. |
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Grower Buyer, Stores Manager
Dass
Dass is responsible for purchasing 50% of our daily stock needs directly from the growers as well as placing most of the interstate orders as well. Dass organises the deliveries from the growers and the pick up of interstate stock from the domestic airport. Once Dass has confirmation that the stock is in the air he will book Quarantine and have them on stand by so we get the stock to the customer as soon as possible.
Dass also manages the Stores Team which consists of our Storemen and Processing department and maintain the stores which consists of more than 500 lines.
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HR Manager
Angela Crawley
Angela is responsible for all HR functions at Freshcorp. She recruits and inducts new staff, manages the rewards and recognition scheme, deals with any staff issues, orders and maintains uniform stock, carries out performance reviews on all staff, ensure all staff receive appropriate training and deals with any employment law issues including our collective agreement. Angela also deals with charitable organizations, enters Freshcorp into awards, organises the monthly team meeting, Manager's Quarterly meeting and any staff activities such as the Christmas Party and Birthday cakes.
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