Dan Carroll Email and Phone Number

I am an experienced senior leader who has spent 20 years buying, leading buying teams and developing commercial strategies to deliver shareholder value and customer delight.I am passionate about leveraging my experience and expertise to motivate teams to achieve their commercial and personal goals, getting a real buzz when the collective effort delivers above the planned result.Through my experience working for a global business, I have been able to foster relationships across the world, in turn allowing me to build a full understanding of the end-to-end product sourcing process, unlocking value from the supply chain to lower costs for my business.I am known for a strong ability to build long-lasting relationships with vendor partners, looking for the long-term mutual commercial benefit over quick transactional wins. I have had the benefit of working with some of the world’s best known brands and businesses across numerous industries – stationery, consumer electronics, publishing, print media, greetings card and FMCG.More recently, I have worked in commercial strategy acting as a key thinker in how corporate strategy translates into the commercial world. Through this I have demonstrated strong communication and engagement skills with senior stakeholders through to board level.Some of my career achievements I am most proud of have been: Being the first UK retailer to engage and successfully source cut-size paper direct from source Development of numerous private label and licensed global brands - Onn, Polaroid Being fundamental in bringing the Black Friday concept to UK retail in 2014 taking on learnings from colleagues in the US Achieving the biggest ever cost saving for Asda’s general merchandise business through strategic engagement and planning of vendor relationships Helping develop and grow talent so that numerous direct reports have been successfully promoted to more senior positionsBuying| Sourcing|Negotiation|Private Label Development|Data Analysis|P&L delivery|Budgets|Strategic Planning|Research|Team Management|Management|Category Strategy|Assortment Planning|Merchandising|