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Huddersfield, United Kingdom

Providing Business advice, guidance and strategy, plus undertaking Leadership, Sales, Marketing and Purchasing business projects for Drinks companies and associated sectors. This includes Setting & Delivering winning Company, Sales and Marketing strategies; Business Restructuring and Development; Direction and Management of People and Processes, plus margin enhancing Procurement and Sales solutions. Flack Manor Brewery, Romsey, Hampshire From October 2022Board Advisor - performing 360 degree business health check then providing advice, guidance and strategy for growth and change management. Past Projects : Sept 2021 to June 2023 : Sipmeister - Commercial DirectorMarch 2018 to Jan 2021 : SEB Brewing and Packaging - Business Development ConsultantApril 2019 to June 2020 : Round Corner Brewing - Commercial AdvisorJune 2017 to March 2020 : The Just Peel group - Business Development DirectorMay 2018 to Feb 2020 : Salopian Brewery - Head of SalesFeb to June 2019 : Love Lane Brewery - On Trade Consultant Nov 2018 to March 2019 : SIBA BeerX - Managing the content of the Workshop and Training Course Programme & running the Retailing for Brewers SessionJune to November 2018: London Cocktail Company - Business Consultant November 2017 to December 2018 : Eclipse Labels, Swindon - Consultant November 2017 to June 2018 : Box Steam Brewery - National Account Manager

United Kingdom

Creating and gaining Board approval for the first ever Commercial strategy in 2015 with areas of focus by customer type, pricing policy, and specific sector growth and profit targets.Turning a team of 5 Northern Free Trade Sales reps into a 10 strong multi skilled team (3 Sales Manager and 7 Account Managers) delivering sales of 50,000 draught barrels and over £1.75 million in EBITDA through full on trade account management, sales support and quality advice across pubcos, brewers, wholesalers and individual pubs. Management, development and target setting of the annual £75,000 Sales Incentive programme. National Account Management for over 30,000 barrels with responsibility for pricing, sales and brand support, plus all major customer relationships for Pubcos (including Enterprise Inns, Punch and M&B), Brewers (Heineken, Carlsberg, Molson Coors and Greene King) and National Wholesalers (Matthew Clark).Sourcing, appointing, agreeing ways of working and managing new agents for Off Trade (Hall and Woodhouse) and Export (Sovereign). Bottle sales have quadrupled across 2011-15 from under 100,000 cases to over 450,000 cases and now deliver earnings of c£500.000.Creation of a Point of Sale Team (2 people) and responsibility for the design, sourcing and stock management of a £350,000 per annum premium POS range.Design and build of an Online Webshop with sales of over £50,000 in Year 1 to allow consumers to buy Timothy Taylor’s gifts, clothing and bottled beers for the first time.Responsible for all Corporate, Brand and Customer Marketing, and then the recruitment of the first ever Timothy Taylor's Marketing person in 2014.Procurement and supplier management for the 3rd party drinks range across the 19 strong Timothy Taylor's pub estate delivering over £100,000 of profit annually.

Solihull, West Midlands

05/2010 to 01/2011 Head of Drinks Marketing As per Head of Drinks Category, plus the permanent team management and responsibility for the 7 strong Marketing Team 08/2007 to 05/2010 Head of Drinks Category Setting the commercial strategy, budgetary control (£8 million) and day to day management of the Procurement & Drinks Marketing Team (2 Buyers) delivering £600 million of earnings.From mid 2008 the interim management of the Trade Marketing team (7 Marketers ) with a budget of £2 million and responsibility for all Communication (PR, Trade and to Pubs), Marketing Information and Insight, plus non-drinks services (Food, Gas etc.)05/2005 to 08/2007 Supplier Manager - Beer and CiderStrategy, Marketing and Procurement responsibility for all Beer and Cider Suppliers across one of the UK's largest pub businesses (Over 2 million barrels and £550 million of earnings)04/2003 to 05/2005 Category Development Manager Day to Day Management, Marketing and Procurement responsibility for over 300,000 barrels of Cask Ale across all Cask Ale Suppliers and Guest Ales Schemes (including SIBA Direct Delivery Scheme). Developing and measuring operational objectives for the drinks range and brands, plus managing all Marketing information and insight. 10/2000 to 04/2003 Marketing Manager Setting up and then running a Trade Marketing department with a budget of over £6 million and recruiting, training and coaching 3 employees focusing on PR, Promotions, Price Lists and Communications for the rapidly growing tenanted pub estate.

Leeds, United Kingdom

08/1999 to 10/2000 Customer Marketing Manager - Pub Groups and Brewers (North)Designing and agreeing joint Marketing plans, running contractual support budgets (Over £2m) and implementing Carlsberg’s brand activity across Northern Pub Companies and Brewers (Enterprise Inns, Inn Partnership, Marston’s and Burtonwood amongst others)10/1997 to 08/1999 Customer Marketing Manager (North East and Yorkshire) Developing regional Customer Marketing strategies, managing sales promotions and bringing on beer supply sponsorships, including Leeds Rhinos, Bradford City, Sheffield United, Redcar Racecourse and Sheffield Arena. Responsible for over £1m budget across the Tyne Tees and Yorkshire TV Regions.04/1994 to 10/1997 Free Trade Sales Roles Barnsley and Leeds Selling Carlsberg Tetley’s drinks brands and account management firstly to over 60 pubs, clubs and nightclubs in Barnsley; then 75 major accounts in Leeds; and finally, to Leeds City Centre managing Multiple Retail Groups focusing on night venues and clubs (Quadrini group) and Sportsgrounds (Elland Road and Headingley).

Postgraduate Diploma, Retail Marketing

Undertaken as part of Carlsberg's Future Leaders Management Development Programme

Ba Honours, Economics And Modern History