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Harwich, GB

Bristol

Drive service and cost improvements for a major national food production and distribution business.

Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom

Delighted to be invited to join the board of this fantastic business in a NED role. Fantastic people, amazing product and superb customer partnerships.

Newbury, England, United Kingdom

Providing interim management resource to organisations seeking transformational change.

Newbury, Berkshire, United Kingdom

Property management business, with a small portfolio of Buy-to-Let residential properties.

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Engaged by the Board to fully review the commercial operating arm of a major sports governing body, encompassing Mens and Womens national teams and two professional regional teams. My brief was to review all processes and structures to create a 12-24 month turnround plan to move the business from significant lossmaking position to profitability, an eight.

Scotland, United Kingdom

Supporting a brilliant food production business servicing the major grocers. Creating a transformation programme to reduce costs, improve revenue and step change profitability.

Marlow, England, United Kingdom

Providing leadership to Brandpath Group, a specialist ecommerce fulfilment business owned by Peter Jones CBE. With a 20 year history of providing super-flexible fulfilment solutions to blue-chip global brands, Brandpath operates from a network of facilities in the US, UK, France and Hong Kong, servicing our clients' customers around the globe.

Ruislip

Engaged on an interim basis to transform the supply chain, operations and technical activity of the UK's largest automated retail provider, to address long term poor performance compounded by the impact of Covid19. Responsible for field based merchandising and engineering teams, real estate, customer service call centres, supply chain and procurement and.

Retaining membership of the Gist Board, and my responsibility as Commercial Director for the organisation as a whole, I additionally assumed the role of Managing Director for Gist's International operations and Food Service business. Working with more than 1000 team members across the USA, Ireland, UK, Netherlands, France and the Czech Republic in large.

Board member of Gist and Commercial leadership for the organisation. Tasked with restructuring the commercial activity across multiple business units, we successfully reimagined the five year growth strategy to deliver increased revenues and to enter new market segments. Responsible for a team of 10 hunters and farmers.

Board member of Gist and Global Lead for a transformation project in the Deliver function of a multi-billion Euro sales Industrial client. Through a team of Regional Heads of Deliver in eight RBUs across the globe, responsible for delivering c20% reduction in a >€1Bn annual spend whilst improving customer service levels and transport safety performance..

Appointed to the main board at Gist in January 2011. Responsible for several business units.

Responsible for commercial and operational performance of a range of key clients, through a team of Account Directors and General Managers across multiple UK locations. Also responsible for our Managed Solutions business providing end to end global supply chain solutions. Also responsible for growth delivery in these sectors through organic and new.

Responsible for external business development and operations for a startup 3PL within the Caudwell Group of companies. Clients across the industrial and telecommunications sectors including MFI, Sky, NamesCo and Henkel.

Responsible for Warehouse, Transport,Mail and Parcels, Returns, Customer Services and Telesales, Facilities and Engineering for the UK's largest distributor of books. Handling product for the parent group plus c50 other third party publishing clients from 3 outbound distribution centres and a reverse logistics centre. Helped transform the business from a.

Responsible for a Business Unit providing supply chain services to a range of clients including Anheuser-Busch (Budweiser), Jenks Sales Brokers and Philips Lighting bv from a range of locations across the UK.

Working in the Marks and Spencer supply chain for BOC Distribution (now Gist) in a variety of operational, commercial and project roles. Started as a Warehouse Operative and progressing to General Manager, including a spell as a TGWU Shop Steward and studying for a degree along the way.

Mastering New Challenges (Senior Executive Education Programme)

B.Sc., Transport And Distribution

First Class Honours, winner of prize for top student performance in all 3 years of the course, final year thesis on "The Growth of Home.