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What is so special about our new offer: there is a learning time quota for everyone at NKG! Every employee has one hour per month, which can be used for the courses during working time. In consultation with your supervisor, you can integrate these 12 hours a year flexibly into your schedule whenever it fits best regarding your workload. The courses are as flexibly adaptable as the timing: you can pause them at any time and get back to the course whenever possible. In addition, you can not only decide in which depth you would like to jump into a topic, but also how you would like to learn. Do you prefer videos over texts? Or do you like working on topics yourself? You choose what suits you best! To make the courses accessible for as many of employees as possible, they are available in English, German, Spanish and some of them in Portuguese. And no worries – GoodHabitz is already working on the courses not yet available in Portuguese.
In the beginning of the new year, the program will start with some selected courses. Other topics will follow soon, so stay tuned. And best of all: you can decide, which courses are going to be offered in January! Choose your favorite course topic you would like to tackle right in the beginning of the year.
We are very much looking forward to your feedback!
Seven months ago, Melissa Chavana joined Group Compliance in Hamburg. It is her first job related to coffee, however, she has some experience with agricultural products due to family businesses in orange and aloe production. Here at NKG, Melissa is proud to be allowed to work in benefit of the environment to limit climate change. She loves working in a multicultural team and learning about the coffee business. Now we are happy to get to know Melissa better!
Sok Keng Tang started her career at NKG as a finance assistant more than 24 years ago. Right now, she is Chief Financial Officer for Bero Coffee Singapore and the Integrated Operation in Asia, consisting of Bero Coffee Singapore, NG Vietnam and Berindo Jaya. Sok Keng also takes care of the management accounting for New Guinea Highlands Coffee Exports and Bero Coffee Japan. She loves the opportunity to travel to places she would never imagine to go to. At NKG, she met people of diverse cultures and nationalities, some of whom even became friends.
In the summer of 2021, management at InterAmerican Coffee UK in London (IAC) underwent a change: Gerrit Krüger, previously working for IAC in Hamburg, and Tom Gammer, who was already with IAC UK, were appointed as Co-Managing Directors. Neil Barwick, the previous Managing Director, also accepted a new challenge as COO at IAC in New York. Tom Gammer started his career with NKG in October 2005 as Back Office Administrator and joined InterAmerican Coffee in May 2011 as Trader/Quality Controller. Gerrit Krüger became part of NKG in 2009. Following an internship at InterAmerican Coffee in Hamburg, he took over responsibility as Specialty Trader and was promoted to Senior Trader in January 2018. We are very excited that they are giving us a chance to get to know them better in this Connected issue.
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The experiences and information is wide, but at same time not complex to understand, so anyone can get it, with a bit of effort and dedication. It worth the time spended on it! Congratulations to the team!