Alistair Macgregor-Gray Email & Phone Number

Managing the Global Food / Confectionery Brands products and promotions in UK, Sweden, Spain, Finland and Germany travel retail locations. £200m+ annual sales across the regions:• Management and creation of all related product administration in conjunction with Global food team and Global Food Brands• Management of product data migration between three legacy product and pricing systems to new SAP system• Manage collation and creation of monthly category sales and stock performance reports• Participation in Global Brands Quarterly review meetings, influence in the selection and discontinuation of products, through structured lifecycle management• Working with Country and Airport locations Trading and Operational teams, to ensure smooth implementation of new ranges, promotions and product data• Liaising with Macro and Micro space planning teams to ensure maximum sales is achieved versus dedicated space in all locations for the Global Food category• Planning initial macro layouts and brand personalisation requirements around store developments, in conjunction with Food brands

Bedfont - Middlesex

Project managed the efficient and timely preparation and delivery of commercial tenders and other business development opportunity projects to a “winning” quality standard, whilst delivering excellent customer service and internal stakeholder management.Managed the preparation and delivery of commercial tenders and other business development opportunity projects, for various airport locations in the UK, Europe and North America• Liaised with project owner and steering group to ensure project scope, objectives, deliverables and approach are clearly understood and documented• Created project kick-off presentation / document• Created project plan• Recorded progress against plan• Ensured project deliverables meet the documented objectives and are completed to the required quality within timescales and budget • Managed internal project team members and external support agencies• Engaged with stakeholders, and reported project status to steering group

Royston, England, United Kingdom & Moscow And St Petersburg, Russia.

Project managed retail product and digital ticketing software application and data implementations for retailers using the Episys “Retail Enterprise Suite” software.• Project manager for key retail implementations, with Tesco, The Entertainer, and Morrisons and Sainsburys in the UK, and MVideo in Russia for the implementation of the Episys “Retail Enterprise Suite".• Worked with Client Project teams, to introduce best practice processes to link into new ticketing software system.• Planned facilitated and documented Project scope and key milestones for sign off by key stake holders and steering groups. • Managed with client all data migration and cleansing from host systems, to be suitable to work with the Episys software.• Managed Software development, testing, and release timescales, to Retail clients.• Worked on site with Client Test and Project teams for pilot and roll out of the new system.

Senior member of internal project team, responsible for implementing centralised Buying and Supply Chain process improvements and economies, linked to the introduction of a new SAP system.• Facilitated project scope and process building workshops with business stake holders. • Created process mapping through both text and visual aids.• Managed allocated projects, through generating the scope and solutions, reporting to steering groups, managing issues and maintaining documentation.• Managed data entry rules and data integrity for product and price master data. • Part of Project on site implementation teams in Head Office, Stores and Distribution centre.