Supporting the coastal team

Volunteer with Blue Marine Foundation's Solent Oyster Project. Formerly volunteered with Foodcycle and Southsea Greenhouse.

Member of the Food Retail senior management team of The Southern Co-operative, a regional independent co-operative society with nett food sales in excess of £320m.Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer - Food Retail and leading a team with overall responsibility for:Trading marginProduct micro space, merchandising, ranging and administrationServices propositionPricing strategyPromotions and Seasonal range and communicationsLocal SourcingSupply Chain… Show more Member of the Food Retail senior management team of The Southern Co-operative, a regional independent co-operative society with nett food sales in excess of £320m.Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer - Food Retail and leading a team with overall responsibility for:Trading marginProduct micro space, merchandising, ranging and administrationServices propositionPricing strategyPromotions and Seasonal range and communicationsLocal SourcingSupply Chain, Forecasting and LogisticsThe Southern Co-operative's member for; FRTS (CRTG) Monitoring Group (Interim)FRTS (CRTG) Working Group Show less

Member of the project team implementing an end to end retail system for both central functions and the retail estate.Reporting to the Programme Manager and Project Board and leading a team with responsibility for:Planning and executing the deployment of the elements of the central system owned by our in house SMEs and those of our principle suppliers - Retalix (A Division of NCR) and JDA, liaising with the Account and Project Managers and gaining buy in for decisions from the… Show more Member of the project team implementing an end to end retail system for both central functions and the retail estate.Reporting to the Programme Manager and Project Board and leading a team with responsibility for:Planning and executing the deployment of the elements of the central system owned by our in house SMEs and those of our principle suppliers - Retalix (A Division of NCR) and JDA, liaising with the Account and Project Managers and gaining buy in for decisions from the Project Board.The central system comprised a combination of Macro and Micro space planning elements provided by JDA (Intactix Knowledge Base, Space Planning and Floorplanning), a data feed from the CRTG Corporate Trading System and product detail, pricing and ordering software from NCR/ Retalix (HQ, Demand Driven Replenishment and Inventory Manager). These provide ranging, pricing and central ordering for a 190+ store estate. Show less

Reporting to the Head of Category and Trading and responsible for the ranging of all off shelf and seasonal areas across the retail estate liaising with Category Managers for specific product areas and stakeholders across the business.Producing detailed plans and communications for each promotional period and seasonal event and running a cross functional workstream to improve execution, availability, communication and ultimately the sales for these events.The Southern… Show more Reporting to the Head of Category and Trading and responsible for the ranging of all off shelf and seasonal areas across the retail estate liaising with Category Managers for specific product areas and stakeholders across the business.Producing detailed plans and communications for each promotional period and seasonal event and running a cross functional workstream to improve execution, availability, communication and ultimately the sales for these events.The Southern Co-operative's member for; FRTS (CRTG) Working Group (from 2011) Show less