James Dixon Email & Phone Number

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

London, Greater London, Gb

My role was to: ✤ Identify and agree the digitalization strategy for global procurement✤ Develop and validate the business case for Coupa with the senior leadership team✤ Choose a system implementation partner for Coupa✤ Act as Program Manager for Coupa during Discovery and the implementation of the sourcing modules✤ Data Lead for Coupa during the P2P implementation✤ Developed JM's methodology for calculating it's scope3 footprint using Tableau✤ Successfully lead JM through its first external audit of scope3 data

London, Greater London, Gb

My role was to:✤ Identify and choose Spend Analytics provider✤ Business Lead for the global implementation of Spend Analytics across 18 ERPs✤ Train and support users in the use of Spend Analytics

London, Greater London, Gb

My role was to:✤ Develop proof of concept for Spend Analytics using PowerBi✤ Identify business case for Spend Analytics to support sourcing of third party provider

Smithfield, Virginia, Us

My role was to: ✤ Manage the lifecycle of products; instigating product improvements, and de-listing products. ✤ Prioritise the work of the NPD team based on expected reward, effort required, and current work load.✤ Monitor the progress of projects and mediate between the UK and Polish teams when obstacles arose.✤ Model and forecast the cost of products; showing how changes in commodity prices, or the specification of the product e.g. recipe or packaging can change its cost.✤ Understand the manufacturing capabilities of the factories in Poland, their costing methodology, margin expectations and priorities, and communicate them internally. ✤ Negotiate with the Polish business regarding development priorities and margin expectations. ✤ Improve business processes e.g. product development, product management, pricing, costing, and transportation.

Smithfield, Virginia, Us

My role was to:✤ Coach and develop the Category Manager. ✤ Manage the marketing budget. ✤ Make recommendations for the best use of marketing spend.

Smithfield, Virginia, Us

My role was to:✤ Line manage and develop 4 Category Managers. ✤ Raise the standard of Category Management in the team. ✤ Category Manage Polish.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

My role was to:✤ Direct analysis to answer clients’ business questions, develop insights, and make recommendations.✤ Train FMCG clients in how to use SelfServe software and best practices in analysing the data.✤ Contribute to the development of SelfServe software by developing new analytical approaches.✤ Write internal documentation for new software.

St Albans, Hertfordshire, Gb

My role was to:✤ Lead the development of the Category Strategy and its integration into brand and account plans.✤ Deliver category insights; helping to shaping brand plans, and developing category rationales for NPD.✤ Identify new opportunities.✤ Sell our commercials plans into retailers using category management principles.✤ Lead the JBP agenda from a category & shopper perspective.✤ Coach category management best practice within the category team, and fact based selling within the sales team.✤ Category Manage Tesco.✤ Line manage Sainsbury’s, Waitrose, and Convenience category managers.

St Albans, Hertfordshire, Gb

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Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Economics

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