Job Title: people and culture lead
Company: Crop Nutrition Laboratory Services (Cropnuts)
Milly Mbithi is people and culture lead at Crop Nutrition Laboratory Services (Cropnuts), where she leads the people, culture and administration agenda.
Milly joined Cropnuts after more than three years at Red Dot Distribution, where she progressed from human resources assistant to people and talent associate.
Before Red Dot Distribution, Milly worked as a human resources assistant at NCBA Group, where she coordinated training programmes, managed learning records and supported the use of the Percipio e-learning platform.
Her earlier experience includes HR consulting at Grapnel HR Consulting, supporting recruitment, policy development, salary benchmarking and compliance, as well as a human resources associate contract at the Automobile Association of Kenya.
Milly began building her HR experience through a traineeship at Platinum Credit and an internship at the Judiciary of Kenya. These roles gave her practical exposure to recruitment, onboarding, payroll support, employee records, training coordination and employee relations.
Her academic background combines human resource management with learning design and technology. She holds a bachelor's degree in human resource management from JKUAT and a qualification in human resource management from the College of Human Resource Management. She has also completed a certificate in data analytics at Moringa School and is pursuing a master's degree in learning design and technology at the Open University of Kenya.
Work Experience
September 2026–Present: People and culture lead, Crop Nutrition Laboratory Services (Cropnuts)
January 2026–September 2026: People and talent associate, Red Dot Distribution
March 2023–September 2026: HR assistant, Red Dot Distribution
May 2022–November 2022: HR assistant, NCBA Group
April 2022–May 2022: HR assistant, Grapnel HR Consulting
December 2021–April 2022: HR associate, Automobile Association of Kenya
June 2021–September 2021: HR trainee, Platinum Credit
January 2020–March 2020: HR intern, The Judiciary of Kenya
Education
January 2026–Present: Master's degree in learning design and technology, The Open University of Kenya
August 2025–December 2025: Certificate in data analytics, Moringa School
September 2019–November 2021: Human resources management/personnel administration, College of Human Resource Management
2017–2021: BSci in human resource management, JKUAT
About the Company
Crop Nutrition Laboratory Services (Cropnuts) is a Kenyan agricultural laboratory and advisory services company. It provides soil, plant, water and fertiliser testing, alongside agronomy advice to support farmers and agricultural businesses with crop nutrition and soil management.
