About

Leadership Team

Laverton

CDC MANAGER - Jon Longbottom
	Jon joined Polar Fresh in February 2008 as Laverton DC Manager and has lead the site successfully through steady state operations. Jon has extensive logistics experience in the UK with three major food and clothing retailers throughout multiple site operational and project roles leading cultural and transformation change. During his time in Australia Jon was formerly with Coles on the DC design team responsible for design and commissioning of two major distribution centres in Victoria.

OPERATIONS MANAGER - Jack Goodman


COMMERCIAL MANAGER - Tony Enache
	Tony commenced with Polar Fresh in August 2006. As part of the senior leadership team Tony's role involves contract management, financial management as well as providing KPI visibility and reporting for the operational team. Prior to joining Polar Fresh, Tony worked in a commercial management role with Coles and held finance management roles within the fashion, plastic mouldings and furniture manufacturing industries for the last 15 years

PEOPLE & CULTURE MANAGER - Tani Cirak
	Tani joined the Polar Fresh team in July 2009 as the People & Culture Officer. In July 2010, Tani was placed into the role of People & Culture Manager and is responsible for Human Resources across our Laverton site. Tani brings to Polar Fresh a background in recruitment and generalist HR in the agency recruitment, business consulting and food manufacturing industries in Melbourne, Geelong and South West Victoria.

FACILITIES AND CONTRACTS MANAGER - Glenn Andrews
	Glenn joined Polar Fresh in January 2007 after more than two decades working within various facilities related industries. Glenn spent over 13 years working at Melbourne City Council for the Mechanical and Test Engineering/Urban Design and Architectural Departments working on all major projects throughout the City of Melbourne. Since then Glenn has held various senior roles as Property Manager for Tafes and private schools, Infrastructure Services Manager for Western Health, Engineering Manager for the National Gallery Victoria, Facility Manager head office NAB Bank, Capital Works Manager Defence AWMA region

Parkinson

DISTRIBUTION CENTRE MANAGER - Craig Ball
	Craig joined Polar fresh in 2008 and has lead the commissioning, ramp up and steady state operations of the Parkinson site. Craig has extensive experience in the UK managing multi site operations for major retailers and leading transformations in both culture and operational excellence. During his time in Australia he has worked for Coles on the DC design team designing and commissioning sites in QLD and NSW

COMMERCIAL MANAGER - Stephen Szych
	Stephen also joined the Polar Fresh Team in 2008 and is responsible for commercials, budgets and KPI reporting. Stephen comes to Polar Fresh with a background in accounting and has held finance related roles for such companies as Coca Cola Amatil, Packard Bell and BOC. Stephen holds a bachelor of Business (Accounting) from University of technology, Sydney as well as a CPA.

PEOPLE & CULTURE MANAGER - Kerrie Parkin
	Kerrie joined Polar Fresh in 2008 as the People and Culture Manager responsible for Human Resources and Safety at the Parkinson DC. Kerrie has developed her experience over her 15 years in Human Resources and Industrial Relations with organisations such as Woolworths, Telstra, Queensland Rail, Livingstones Australia and the union movement

OPERATIONS MANAGER - Michael Hill
	Michael joined the Polar Fresh team in 2007 after 11 years with Costa Logistics. Michael's logistics career with Costa's spans from NSW to Tasmania and Western Australia where he has been responsible for start up's, planning, commissioning, designing and managing the Costa operations. A key stakeholder in the formation of Polar Fresh Michael brings with him hands on 3^rd Party Logistics (3PL) experience

SYSTEMS MANAGER - Rob Kift
	Rob joined Polar Fresh, initially at the Laverton site, in 2006 and then transferred to Parkinson in 2009. Rob came to Polar Fresh from the Costa Group after being recruited from the UK where he worked for Exel based at Sainsbury's. He has over 13 Years IT development experience and is responsible for the entire IT infrastructure at both of our state of the art warehouses. Rob's IT career has seen him gain experience in working in leading edge warehouse technology ranging from fully automated through to Voice Picking and Radio Frequency managed warehouses

CONTRACTS & FACILITIES MANAGER - John Rigby
	John joined the Polar Fresh team in August 2008 after a stint with Stradbroke Ferries as their Engineering and Maintenance Manager. Originally from the UK, spent 12 years in the Merchant Navy as an engineering officer before coming ashore to work in the pharmaceutical industry's manager. Was in that role for ten years before John's engineering career spans the UK, Papua New Guinea and Brisbane and he is currently responsible for all on site facilities including refrigeration, mechanical handling equipment, air conditioning and ventilation, lighting, emergency power generation, fire fighting services, canteen facilities, contract cleaners and security guards.