电影《查理和巧克力工厂》为观众编织了一个天马行空的糖果梦：在威利旺卡的巧克力工厂里，河里流淌着香浓丝滑的巧克力，松鼠灵巧地剥着坚果，树上结满了五彩缤纷的涂饰糖果。那么在现实生活中，和糖果打交道，会是怎样一个引人遐想的职业？

2019诺丁汉年度校友奖获得者王琳子现任职于全球最大的糖果公司玛氏箭牌，能力出众的她，仅五年时间就跻身经理级。由于曾几乎天天跟白糖打交道，她也被大家亲切地称为玛氏的“Miss Sugar(糖果小姐)”。

· 有硬核项目，是公司大使

六点起床，挤出通勤时间与同事开会，到工厂跑一整天，凌晨一点才入睡，这是王琳子集中出差时的日常。

被称为玛氏的“糖果小姐”，是因为从选择和管理分布于国内各地的白糖供应商，到与供应商协同合作保证产品的质量，甚至推动一些行业的变革……她曾有三年时间，几乎天天跟白糖打交道。

2016年，王琳子和团队成员一起进行白糖供应链优化项目。简单地说，原先白糖的运输过程中需要大量的人力拆搬倒装包装袋。王琳子和团队通过将多个包装袋整合成一个大容量的箱体进行运输, 利用特殊设计的管道卸入至生产系统，从而释放出大量的人力资源，成功为企业节省高额成本。

王琳子（左二）

除了硬核的项目经历，“糖果小姐”被大家熟知，还有一个原因是她在2018年从全球数千名候选人中脱颖而出，入选玛氏大使计划。她与来自9个不同国家的10名同事一起，被派驻到南美洲厄瓜多尔。

在走访了可可价值链的各个环节后，她发现，可可这些年的产量逐年下降。由于干旱、虫害和价格上涨，越来越多农民正在放弃种植可可，转向更有利可图的作物。“我很难想象我们的下一代或者之后的几代吃不到丝滑的巧克力了”。

“在项目中，我有很多机会与当地的农民沟通交流，虽然他们没有受过多少教育，但他们非常聪明。很多农民世世代代种植可可作物，他们非常希望了解中国的农作物和农场管理的技术和经验，比如大棚种植技术和机械化操作”，王琳子兴奋地说，“而我凭借在糖料作物上的经验，可以将农场大规模标准化管理的经验和技术分享给他们，同时也可以学习他们在可可种植上积累了几代人的丰富经验。”

虽然已经回到工作岗位一年多了，她依然和可可农场的工作人员保持联系，每次去田间地头审核农作物原材料，都会留心农场管理的新技术和设备，并多拍一些照片发给远在南美的小伙伴们。

王琳子（中）

· 仅五年时间，跻身经理级

王琳子毕业于宁波诺丁汉大学国际商务与经济专业。毕业后她以管培生的身份入职玛氏箭牌，仅五年时间跻身经理级。虽然是商科背景，但她涉猎了从前台到后台的整个产业链。做过生产、干过销售、管理过大客户，一直到现在的供应商质量管理，她觉得轮岗让她对各部门各项业务烂熟于心，更让她有了全局性问题的分析能力。

“很多时候对待工作可能不仅仅局限于手中的工作，要更多地抬头看看大的图景”，为此，她会去参加公司的企业创业家项目，把她平时观察到的对公司和行业的想法梳理并形成书面汇报。值得一提的是，她提出的两个建议都被公司采纳了。

“我相信企业需要年轻人用创新的思维去想、去做出改变、去引领变化，而这不正是我们的优势吗？”

愿意思考，王琳子也足够努力。大学学的是商科，实际工作中不免有大量未知的知识扑面而来。为此，她也花了很多时间自学相关学科的知识。

她说， 在宁诺她受益最多的是博雅教育，以至于她脱口而出杨福家校长曾提到的一句话——扩展思维、加深理解，打造全人(Enlarge the mind，improve the understanding, polish the whole man)。

她特别感谢宁诺教会了她怎么样去自主学习。“我觉得一个人只要有学习能力，并且足够努力，专业并不会成为个人职业发展的短板”，她说，“我在宁诺才有了第一本护照，然后慢慢将它填满了。感谢宁诺让我认识了一个更广阔的世界；也感谢学校教会我怎么去学习、去创新，教会我什么是企业家精神。”

Miss Sugars' inspiring endeavour to Mars

The winner of the 2019 Alumni Laureate Award, Linzi Wang, took only five years to be a manager in Mars Wrigley Confectionary. Beyond her responsibility of ensuring food quality and safety, she proactively drives the development of material industries in terms of efficiency, innovation and sustainability.

Linzi has over three years of experience in dealing with sugar; responsible for selecting suppliers and measuring product quality. In 2016, she and her team members managed to optimise the supply chain management of white sugar, which helped to significantly reduce human resource input and cut costs for the company.

Linzi distinguished herself among the thousands of candidates in 2018, to become one of the 10 Mars Ambassadors who were posted to Ecuador in South America. Her visits to cocoa farms and the making of careful investigations of the local market, allowed her to identify a gradual shift of farmers' choices to more profitable crops in the face of drought, pests and rising costs of cocoa; "I can't imagine that generations after us cannot enjoy silky chocolates", she stressed.

"I spent a lot of time communicating with local farmers. They are smart and eager to learn about Chinese techniques and experience in crop growing and farm management. I shared my experience in large-scale standardised management of farms and learned much from them as well". Through tight communication and experience sharing, Linzi helped them to improve farm management and increase profits of cocoa planting.

By familiarising herself with the various roles of the business, Linzi gained a "holistic perspective in problem solving". Her active participation in the entrepreneurial project of the company, inputting her observations and thoughts into a written report allowed two of the suggestions to be adopted. "I have always been thinking - what else should businessmen consider? Besides profits by sole commercial values, I think factors like environment, biodiversity, and what enterprises and individuals obtain from and wish to give back to society also matter."

"I think as long as one has the ability to learn and is willing to pay efforts, professional backgrounds will not be the obstacle in one's personal career development," Linzi said. "I had my first passport while in college, and gradually had it filled up. Thanks, UNNC for opening a broader world for me, as well as teaching me innovation and entrepreneurship. "

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文字来源：Lily Su，李虹燕

English：刘心予，Petrit

图片来源：王琳子

图文排版：黄维茜

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