The Alsco Management Development Programme (MDP) is a professional growth opportunity carried out in Australia and New Zealand. The programme runs over two years and equips participants with leadership and management skills to enhance their careers.
Zach Smith is one of the recent graduates from the MDP programme, which is actually the third step in developing Alsco’s future leaders. Zach has previously completed the National Certificate in Business, Level 3, and the National Certificate in First Line Management, Level 4 management courses.
"I started my journey with Alsco in 2009 as a Service Delivery Person. Over the next 3-5 years, I was promoted to Service Delivery Supervisor, subsequently becoming the Service Delivery Manager not too long after that.
After 12-18 months of doing this role, the opportunity came up to relocate my family to Napier as the depots Business Manager.
During this time, I was honoured to be selected for the Management Development Programme, which meant I was able to join & make lasting relationships with 19 other leaders across New Zealand & Australia.
This group was then broken into 4 smaller groups of 5 leaders, which each had a project to implement real change within the company along, with completing course modules to help us upskill further. Along with other training courses Alsco has provided me over the years, this has enabled me to bring all this learning back to my branch to assist the team.
After completing the 2-year MDP programme, I have now been given the chance to lead a team of 60 as the Plant Processing Manager back in Palmerston North.”
Zach Smith PALMERSTON NORTH PLANT PROCESSING MANAGER