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Amsterdam, NH, NL

London, GB

Responsible for taking Frasers “Elevation” strategy to the next level across all sport brands in their portfolio, with Sports Direct being called out as a leading retailer when it came to profitability. Have developed a 3 year strategy and clear priorities that are successfully delivering progress and growth in all areas of the business; clearly.

Head hunted to conduct an in-depth, wide ranging project for Fraser Group in the sporting goods sector. The work centred on identifying and recommending best practice business planning/processes through a key transformation period. Also within the scope of the project is an analysis of the UK market to position their business to optimise opportunities in.

Beaverton, OR, US

Driven by the marketplace, the merchandising function in Nike is responsible for ensuring that the correct product assortment is available (at both retailers and digitally) to respond to the dynamic and varying needs of our consumer throughout EMEA. In a promotion, I moved from sales to reinvigorate the merchandising function both internally, and to our.

Beaverton, OR, US

Footlocker is the largest Sporting Goods retailer globally including widespread presence across Europe. They are amongst Nike’s most important retail partners. This role encompassed full P&L responsibility, cross-functional management, and sales target achievement by maintaining and exploiting new opportunities to grow the business. This was based on.

Beaverton, OR, US

The step to NSW was an exciting promotion opportunity to manage sales for the largest single Nike category. Covering both men’s and women’s, the business has consistently accounted for in excess of 50% of total annual revenues.

Beaverton, OR, US

The success delivered by the Young Athlete team over the past couple of years were officially recognised. Excellent commercial results were complimented by an elevation to how it is regarded both internally and externally with our customers.Leading Sales for the category that I've been passionate about from the start and is a journey making great strides.

Beaverton, OR, US

An initial 2-year position in EMEA was extended in order to take charge of the YOUNG ATHLETES Category worth hundreds of millions of Dollars in revenue annually. The primary elements of the role were to drive sales across the Western Europe GEO and during this process to elevate the profile Young Athletes both internally and externally versus more.

Beaverton, OR, US

I was offered the opportunity to move from Ireland to Nike’s European HQ to manage sales for the apparel business of the company’s largest European account (global account, Footlocker). This element of the business had been under performing versus the highly successful footwear part of the business for some time.Developing close-knit relations internally.

Beaverton, OR, US

Directly charged with the development of Nike business in Ireland from a unit, revenue and profitability perspective. Apart from defined quarterly and annual objectives my main focus was to develop a 3-year sustainable growth plan for the brand in a market slowly emerging from recession.Core to this plan was to explore all category revenue opportunities.

Beaverton, OR, US

Initially this role solely encompassed the full range of sales activities for the 3 largest customers in the Irish market or which one was the 4th largest in the total UK / Ireland business. Breaking it down my responsibilities included sales / target execution (net revenues & unit shipping) with account management excellence through on-going product.

San Francisco, California, US

My first sales job was to cover the southern part of Ireland inheriting an account profile that had been significantly underperforming over a long period. This was an issue also being experienced elsewhere and Levi’s developed a “Premiumisation” strategy to rectify the situation and future proof the brand.I successfully implemented this plan by cleaning up.

Hong Kong, Hong Kong, HK

Recruited to deliver merchandising and product training within store environments in greater Dublin (and surrounding counties) for both Levi’s and Dockers. Additionally I worked in tandem with Sales during sell-in periods and throughout the year to optimise range plans.