Edible-Oil Authenticity Supply Recovery Leader

The mandate

Vessel parcels enter shared shore tanks, inter-tank transfers are recorded by volume rather than source fraction, and refinery rework returns to saleable inventory without a stable genealogy. Certificates follow purchase contracts, while laboratory results follow physical samples. The group must establish a traceability system that tracks product genealogy from vessel to customer and supports trade confidence.

The leader must take the seat in Kuala Lumpur within seven days for a seven-month fixed term. The first ten days will secure samples and records, reconcile 260 active lots and impose controlled tank and dispatch status. By day 45, all five terminals and refineries must use one receipt, transfer, blend and release gate. Three vessel-to-customer cycles and one disputed-sample exercise precede a four-week handover to the permanent integrity executive.

Completion requires every active oil population to have commodity and grade, contractual source, vessel and parcel, sampled quantity, tank fractions, transfer, processing and rework history, laboratory status, claim or certification use, customer allocation and authorised disposition. Ten consecutive weeks must show no unsupported authenticity claim or untraceable blend. The successor receives quarantines, supplier disputes, tank heel assumptions, customer remedies, open investigations and the next three receipt programmes.

The interim may quarantine company stock, stop transfer, blend or dispatch, require controlled resampling, allocate verified oil to approved demand, suspend a supplier or terminal from new internal nominations and approve recovery spend up to MYR 30 million. Quality retains product release; laboratories retain analytical conclusions; Procurement owns supplier awards; Legal owns fraud and claim positions; customers retain intake; the board approves recall or structural source exit.

Fraud determination, legal liability, analytical-method validation, nutrition claims, commodity hedging, permanent tank construction and long-term sourcing strategy are outside scope. The leader cannot reconstruct missing identity by applying an average certificate to a commingled tank. Containment must follow physical fractions and uncertainty, while authorised specialists decide safety, authenticity conclusions and external disclosure.

Why this seat is open

The authenticity failure crossed trading, terminal, refinery, Quality and customer boundaries that the suspended director had allowed to operate independently. Commercial pressure now favours rapid release while evidence remains uneven. A temporary executive is needed to command containment and normalisation until the board appoints a permanent commodity-integrity leader.

What you will own

• Reconcile 260 lots across contract, source, vessel parcel, sample, tank, transfer, blend, process, rework and customer allocation.
• Quarantine uncertain fractions using physical genealogy and sampling confidence rather than whole-site assumption or commercial ownership.
• Establish receipt, tank-transfer, blending and rework gates with quantity, heel, sample, authority and evidence requirements.
• Govern laboratory and certificate joins so results remain attached to the physical material actually represented.
• Run three vessel-to-customer cycles and a disputed-sample exercise across terminal, refinery and customer handovers.
• Separate operational containment from fraud, legal liability, product release, analytical validation and recall conclusions.
• Induct the successor through quarantined tanks, supplier positions, customer remedies and the next three receipt programmes.

Candidate qualifications

• Held executive edible-oil, food-commodity or bulk-liquid integrity authority across terminals, refineries and customers.
• Has contained adulteration, substitution or grade failure through commingled tanks and incomplete blend genealogy.
• Understands vessel parcels, tank heels, transfers, refining, rework, representative sampling and authenticity testing operationally.
• Can command quarantine and allocation while preserving Quality, laboratory, Procurement, Legal and recall authority.
• Has challenged certificates whose commercial lot did not match the physical tank fraction or retained sample.
• Completed permanent handover after commodity genealogy survived multiple receipts, blends and a disputed analytical result.