My mission is to provide nutritious and affordable products

Herda in the lab with collaegue

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Have you seen it yet? FrieslandCampina's new video that gives a glimpse into working within our company. Fifteen different colleagues share their special and personal story about what drives them in life and in their work.

This is the story of our Resillient colleague Herda,  Manager Development Specialized Nutrition at FrieslandCampina.

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Herda's story

"Currently I am part of the Specialized Nutrition team, located in Wageningen in the Netherlands. But my first experience with FrieslandCampina already started during my childhood. I am originally from Maluku, a beautiful island located in the eastern part of Indonesia. My mum used to buy the ‘Susu Bandera’ drink every week for me and my brother. Only in my adulthood I did realize that FrieslandCampina is the company that provides that product."

From there on, I made it my mission to provide nutritious and affordable products to our consumers around the world 

"And so it started: upon finishing my study in Indonesia, I applied for an opportunity to study in Netherlands and was granted a scholarship. While the Dutch culture was new to me, it only took me few weeks to adapt and started to be comfortable with it.  But I do have to admit, eating boterham (sandwich in Dutch) for lunch will always be a no-no."

 

Resilient by Nature

"I personally value accountability, adaptability, resilience, and end goal in mind very much and take this with me in my professional life. Where my personal key drivers come from? As a child, I was acquainted with moving from one place to the other in the eastern part of the country due to my father`s occupation as a weather forecaster. The move was frequent, pretty much every year until I turned 15 years old. This meant a different school, different language and dialect, new friends, new environment. No chance to process all that changes really; I went along with it. But what kept me going was that I got the chance to experience the new. Growing up, I realize it shapes and equip me to deal with changes: always keep the end goal in mind and adapt swiftly."

Herda - Resilient by Nature

Upbringing experience helps me tremendously to adjust to changes. I believe I am resilient by nature because of that

Working at FrieslandCampina

"It has been amazing to work with talented and dedicated people bringing the best infant nutrition to our little consumers. These are the team who find it imperative that we create a safe and high-quality product, realizing that what we make can be possibly the only source of nutrition our consumers take on in their early life. It is also in this role as project manager that I came to realize the privilege of growing team and own self, which drives me to find opportunity in leadership role."

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