Performance Improvement Consultant ➤Board Level Experience In The Retail, Gaming And Leisure Sectors
Bill Walker Consulting Ltd
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Bill Walker Consulting Ltd
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Performance Improvement Consultant ➤Board level experience in the Retail, Gaming and Leisure sectors
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Royal Leamington Spa, England, United Kingdom
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Bill Walker is listed as Performance Improvement Consultant ➤Board level experience in the Retail, Gaming and Leisure sectors at Bill Walker Consulting Ltd, based in Royal Leamington Spa, England, United Kingdom. AeroLeads shows a work email signal at talarius.com and a matched LinkedIn profile for Bill Walker.
Bill Walker previously worked as Performance Improvement Consultant ➤Board level experience in the Retail, Gaming & Leisure sectors at Bill Walker Consulting Ltd and Retail Machines Director at Gala Bingo / Buzz Group / Caledonia Investments. Bill Walker holds Mba from Oxford Brookes University.
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THERE IS NOTHING MORE IMPORTANT TO A BUSINESS THAN ITS FUTUREI help business leaders solve problems and unlock opportunities for themselves by enabling teams to confront the future while at the same time having an appreciation of the past. I am a catalyst and enabler of change and performance improvement working with business leaders to question prevailing assumptions and reimagine different scenarios and their potential impact. I can apply decades of experience to help unlock commercial opportunities and grow market share through participative operational planning. CASE STUDIES➊ £14M SALES GROWTH THROUGH A SINGLE INITIATIVE - STAPLES Generated an additional £14m income by focusing colleagues on customer conversion rates.Research found that 75% of customers leaving stores empty handed, couldn’t find what they were looking for – and the store had it in stock! The objective for colleagues was simple, “notice and minimise the number of customers leaving the store without a carrier bag” – we adopted an intervention, “what can I help you find today?”. A ‘manager on duty’ was responsible for engaging customers near the end of the customer journey to ensure we had exhausted every opportunity to identify and meet the customer’s needs. Both sales and customer satisfaction metrics improved significantly. This simple idea and approach captured hearts and minds in stores and produced stunning results – remarkably, ‘it was there all the time’. ➋ SUSTAINED DOUBLE DIGIT SALES GROWTH – TALARIUS / TATTS This business was sold on a 11x EBITDA multiple.Talarius provided an opportunity to apply the leadership and turnaround skills I had developed over many years. Early diagnostics uncovered a raft of untapped opportunity in this under-invested Slot machine business with 150 venues on UK High Streets. Working with the board, we switched strategic emphasis from cost cutting to an organic growth strategy which struck a balance between aggressive business development and prudent cost control. Starting with the customer, we created an operating plan designed to differentiate us from the competition. Pinpointing opportunities whilst mitigating risk. Venue and customer segmentation and local marketing paved the way to grow market share venue by venue. Coupled with improved business intelligence and a relentless focus on growth. This included tracking customer satisfaction by introducing mystery shopper and improving Net Promoter Score as a key focus for managers.The result – 3 years of double digit sales growth and a lucrative exit for our owners.
Listed skills include Strategy, Leadership, Management, Retail, and 49 others.
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Bill Walker Consulting Ltd
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Performance Improvement Consultant ➤Board Level Experience In The Retail, Gaming & Leisure Sectors
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Bill Walker Consulting Ltd
🅘 🅒🅐🅝... ➡️ Provide solutions tailored to clients' unique requirements➡️ Help initiate and support change and transformation programmes.➡️ Support restructuring and performance improvement assignments.➡️ Apply broad and deep expertise in multi-site Retail, Leisure & Gaming sectors. ➡️ Share and apply board level experience in PLC, SME & Private Equity.
Feb 2020 - Present
Retail Machines Director
Gala Bingo / Buzz Group / Caledonia Investments
The largest UK Bingo operator with 4k employees. Full P & L responsibility for Buzz group’s £110m retail machines business and delivered LFL Income and GP growth, significant cost reductions and efficiencies in the contracting UK Bingo market. Led retail machines business development, product development and engineering teams nationally in the UK.➡️.
Jan 2017 - Jan 2020
Operations And Marketing Director
Talarius / Tatts Group
The largest Adult Gaming Centre business in the UK at the time, a division of Tatts group, the listed Australian lottery and gaming group. Turnover £61m, EBITDA £10.5m, employing 800 employees and operating across 150 locations in the UK. ➡️ Initiated transformational strategic review - Business sold on a 11x EBITDA multiple in Oct 2016. ➡️ A loss making.
Jan 2012 - Dec 2016
Operations Director
Staples Uk
The largest office products company in the world. Responsible for 68 retail stores and over 700 employees. Turnover £187.5m, operating profit £21.8m. ➡️ Implemented ‘2 of the same’ ink strategy, growing market share by over 4% and generating incremental sales of over £12m in year 1.➡️ Secured investment for installation of People Counters in stores.
Jun 2008 - Jan 2012
Consultant & Interim Director
Valuedriver
Worked on a variety of assignments with a number of businesses and organisations: Countrywide Farmers, People 1st, Novus Leisure, Whitbread (Brewers Fayre), Business Link West Midlands, a variety of executive Coaching assignments.
Apr 2007 - May 2008
Operations Director
Executive Board member from private equity ownership through IPO to FTSE 100 company.Full P & L responsibility for 2,477 leased and tenanted pubs, through 5 Regional Directors, 75 Area Managers and Property Executives. Delivered £150m Operating Profit in last financial year. ➡️ Played a key role in operational integration of major acquisitions: Pubmaster.
Mar 2002 - Apr 2007
Operations Director
Thresher / Whitbread / First Quench / Principal Finance Group
Following a merger between Victoria wine and Thresher group, led retail operations, with bottom line P&L accountability for 1744 managed and 100 franchised off licenses and responsibility for 10,000 colleagues across the UK.
1998 - 2002
~4 yrs
Managing Director
Led the business operations of Adams Children’s wear in Spain through a cross functional team of Directors and Senior Managers.Completed sale of Olympus sportswear division in an MBO.
Nov 1996 - Jun 1998
Regional Business Manager
British Shoe Corporation
Over a 14 year period - promoted from store management to various area management roles covering Scotland, England, N.Ireland and Republic of Ireland. (Saxone & Hush Puppies)
1982 - 1996
~14 yrs
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Bill Walker education
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Garnock Academy, Kilbirnie, Scotland
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Bill Walker is listed as Performance Improvement Consultant ➤Board level experience in the Retail, Gaming and Leisure sectors at Bill Walker Consulting Ltd.
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AeroLeads has found 1 work email signal at @talarius.com for Bill Walker at Bill Walker Consulting Ltd.
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Bill Walker is based in Royal Leamington Spa, England, United Kingdom while working with Bill Walker Consulting Ltd.
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Bill Walker has worked for Bill Walker Consulting Ltd, Gala Bingo / Buzz Group / Caledonia Investments, Talarius / Tatts Group, Staples Uk, and Valuedriver.
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Bill Walker holds Mba from Oxford Brookes University.
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Bill Walker is listed with skills including Strategy, Leadership, Management, Retail, Operations Management, Performance Management, Profit, and Business Planning.
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