Leading the category function at Farmlands Co-operative Society Ltd. Responsible for bringing together all merchandise aspects of the customer offer.

Supporting KPMG MC retail team.

Director / Owner of a premium Food retailer started from scratch on the North Shore Auckland.Independent retail consultant to a number of organisations.Volunteer with SME NZ businesses looking for retail support.

Full responsibility for the buying function at Mitre10. Team of 50 and turnover of $1.5bn NZDAchievements:- Upskilled analytics capability supporting all aspects of the merchandise function- Achieved budget financials three consecutive years- Established structured range review process- Pricing index capability established- Creation of 3 year merchandise strategy segmenting ranges both demographically and geographically- Empowered operational support teams to factually support the stores- Established cross departmental rhythms to improve joint collaboration across departments

Summary:- Full merchandise responsibility for $6.1bn (NZD) of sales- Team of 180- 11 direct reports- Management of meat plant- Top 60 role within wider Woolworths groupKey achievements:- Improvements in Sales / Profit / Stock / NPS / COGs.- Established business wide segmentation structure leading to defined reranging calendar for the full store estate, with clear improvement in segmented stores vs control.- Opened first discount and premium format stores with clear measured performance improvement.- Supplier scorecarding & tiering structure, leading to improved sales performance and improvement in supplier engagement survey (Advantage mirror report).- New world class category review process, bringing all departments of the business together within a clear four stage approach.- Significant investment in update of meat CRM plant.- Improvement is merch/ operations & logistics alignment to deliver the core offer.- Industry leading enterprise wide delivery of visual analytics, to ensure decisions are fact based and efficient, with demonstrable impact. Statement evidenced through 11 years of working in the visual analytics field.- Support in delivery of key strategic merch initiatives in (Produce / Meat / General Merchandise / GM refocus / Seasonal focus).- Setting of direction within merch to focus on the core offer, reflecting on the principles of "Disciplined pursuit of less".- ELT support for structural change within replenishment, repatriating ownership from Aus to NZ and leading to material improvement in stock service levels.- Sponsorship of new commercial services structure creating dedicated insight, master data, and training teams. Measured success in NPD management and claims outstanding.- Engagement with industry and political bodies.Team development:- HBDI- LSI from Human Synergistics- 121 professional development for direct reports where required- 60 people though Googles search inside yourself leadership institute programme

Responsible for:Category review teamCorporate analytics teamSpace teamShrink teamBusiness Intelligence team

Developing business intelligence in the Retail sector, providing interactive measurement of all key factors involved in range management, store planning, budgetting etc. To date clients include Nestle, Mars, Colgate, BBC, Kimberly Clark, Sainsburys, Morrisons.Our USP lies in a combination of retail buying experience in the worlds major retailers and leading edge software.

Merchandising responsibility for five buying departments. Development of joint business planning and global sourcing.

responsible for establishing business planning at ASDA in line with Wal Mart central team. Managed non food global sourcing.

Buying responsibility for 400 own label lines, all aspects of selections, sourcing, contract negotiation and life cycle management.

Responsible for all chemical buying for Europe (Surfactants, Propellants, Fragrances). Implemented from scratch direct purchasing systems based in access. Established Good Not For resale purchasing systems.Dealt with European BSE impounding issue, engaging with SGS and establishing full traceability for monthly auditing.