Mafalda Lopes has been appointed as H&N Internationals new director of planning and logistics leading our logistics team.

Mafalda will be overseeing all tasks related to planning shipments, forecast and surveillance of deliveries and shipments to our worldwide customer base.

Mafalda not only brings numerous years of experience to the team. In previous roles and responsibilities, she also acquired in depth knowledge of each single project-step across the entire value creation process!

With a background in veterinary medicine and poultry farming, in October 2014 Mafalda became the Quality Manager for the commercial distributor H&N Peninsular in Portugal. In this position she oversaw the hatchery process and management of Day-old Layers (DOL). In 2016 she implemented a Quality Management System based on ISO 9001:2008 into the hatchery and managed the entire certification procedure across each operational task and activity.

“Excellence of execution in any process and quality are not just nice words. Behind quality is a precisely organized, well-orchestrated business purpose that becomes provable customer value”, she says. And “well defined processes, a structured mutual exchange of information and an ongoing constructive dialogue” is what she names as core ingredients of her recipe for success to set up world-class logistics operations and bring people and poultry together.

And her way work: In April 2017 she was appointed as veterinarian support and Production Manager for a Grand Parent Stock (GP) farm in Portugal. Here again she was responsible for quality control for the Parent Stocks hatching and logistics operations. And soon her scope of work grew larger across more countries like Germany, Denmark UK – and next also across the borders of Europe.

Global planning and logistic require a lot of experience in terms of regulations, routes, and best-practice as well as the ability to deal wisely and efficiently with game changers, force majeure that can occur in any logistics at any time and across many miles and numerous borders – no easy task! Mafalda follows Silvia Mourino who accepted a new position within the EW-group.

Beyond her vast experiences in logistics, Mafalda also brings her insights as a veterinarian and production manager for a GPS farm to the job, together with her skills in quality management and quality control acquired during her hatchery work. With such a broad gamut Mafalda is an expert to understand and manage the “big picture” of how chicks arrive at our customers best and how value travels and grows along the trajectories connecting layer businesses.

We at H&N International are extremely happy to welcome Mafalda in our team!