Mafalda Lopes

H&N International welcomes our new Director of Planning & Logistics

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, forecasting 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 every single step in projects throughout 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 introduced 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 there 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” are what she sees as core ingredients of her recipe for success to set up world-class logistics operations and bring people and poultry together.
And her way works: In April 2017 she was appointed 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 Stock’s hatching and logistics operations. And soon her scope of work grew larger across more countries like Germany, Denmark, the UK—and then also beyond the borders of Europe.

Global planning and logistics require a lot of experience in terms of regulations, routes and best-practices 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 experience 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 in understanding and managing the “big picture” of how chicks arrive best at our customers’ farms and how value travels and grows along the paths connecting layer businesses.

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