Golden Fields: Optimizing organizational structure and processes to support rapid growth
Client
Golden FieldsThe background:
Golden Fields, a prominent agricultural company renowned for producing high-quality animal feed, has established a strong presence in the Baltics and Finland, with an expanding export footprint in the Middle East. Leveraging its competitive advantage, the company has experienced rapid revenue growth and is now preparing to diversify into plant-based protein production in response to evolving trends in sustainable agriculture.
While this growth presents significant opportunities, it also brings operational complexities. To support its ambitious expansion plans across multiple countries and business lines, Golden Fields recognized the need to strengthen its organizational structure and processes. To ensure sustainable growth and minimize operational bottlenecks, the company partnered with Civitta to redesign its internal framework, enhancing efficiency and agility at every level.
The essence of the project:
Civitta collaborated closely with Golden Fields to design a tailored solution that aligned the company’s operations with its long-term growth strategy. The project followed a structured, three-phase approach.
The initial phase involved a detailed operational assessment, where Civitta conducted a comprehensive review of existing workflows, team structures, and decision-making frameworks. This organizational health check identified key challenges that threatened Golden Fields’ scalability, enabling the team to develop a clear hypothesis for optimization and set the foundation for strategic improvements.
The final phase of the project focused on implementation planning. Civitta developed a comprehensive roadmap outlining the timeline for change management, along with a structured internal communication plan to ensure employees remained informed and engaged throughout the transition.
Building on these insights, Civitta designed a new organizational structure that emphasized agility and scalability. The new framework reallocated decision-making centers to accelerate processes, streamlined roles to improve accountability and career progression, and introduced updated compensation and performance evaluation principles. These enhancements included KPIs that aligned individual and team performance with company-wide growth objectives. To support these changes, Civitta also recommended new systems and tools to boost operational efficiency.
Services provided:
- Organizational health check to diagnose bottlenecks and assess processes, structure, and strategy
- Development of a scalable organizational framework aligned with growth objectives
- Process optimization across sourcing, production, and logistics to improve efficiency
- Clear definition of roles and responsibilities to enhance accountability and career progression
- Introduction of a revised compensation model and performance evaluation system
- Alignment of KPIs with function-specific and company-wide growth targets
- Detailed change management plan with clear steps for implementation
- Financial impact analysis to assess the business benefits of proposed changes
- Ongoing hands-on support throughout the implementation process
Project result:
The collaboration delivered significant results, equipping Golden Fields with the structure and processes needed to sustain its rapid growth. Operational efficiency improved, streamlining production processes and enhancing the overall work environment.
The company successfully secured a €30M investment from a strategic partner, reinforcing its financial position for future expansion. Additionally, Golden Fields launched two new production facilities in the Baltics, significantly increasing manufacturing capacity and supporting the company’s strategic growth objectives.
Through its partnership with Civitta, Golden Fields is now better equipped to scale operations seamlessly, expand into new markets, and continue leading the way in sustainable agriculture.
