Grant Millar Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

First Rate Exchange Services (FRES) is the UK's leading supplier of foreign currency to businesses in FS, Travel and Tourism and the Retail sector. FRES has a range of award-winning products and services that compliment new or existing propositions across a number of business sectors. A deep knowledge of the E2E supply of FX currency allows FRES to deliver.

Paddington, London

• Responsibilities
• Development of integrated mobile payment solutions, enabling Vodafone customers to use their mobile for contactless payment solutions in store or online.
• Identify and deliver partners for managed service solutions for mCommerce (including managing RFI/ RFP for Payment Network and Issuer/ Processor)
• Manage suppliers in line with contractual obligations, milestones and quality standards
• Manage and co-ordinate projects, their interdependencies and associated risks
• Working in a large cross-functional team with dependencies across multiple countries

London, United Kingdom

• Management Consulting, specialising in Financial Services. Accourt combine Consultancy knowledge and a deep creative passion for Marketing to create and deliver real world solutions. Accourt construct and project.
• Revitalised and broadened Accourt proposition to add new clients (PayPal, Harrods)
• Commercialisation strategy for mobile payment applications for international scheme
• Completed global assessment of Prepaid market for international Payment services provider

London, United Kingdom

• Responsibilities: Managing a team of 40 at its peak, my team was responsible for driving new value propositions for the Consumer Cards division of RBS, Nat West and the MINT brand. We also collaborated with Tesco cards.
• Created revenue enhancement team to deliver pricing solutions for £20mn in profit, including launch of risk-based pricing
• Restructured insurance cross sales to deliver £14mn in incremental profit, strengthening the proposition and winning a 5 star defaqto award

London, United Kingdom

• Responsibilities:Managing the Group operations relationship up to ‘C’ level with the UK retail Bank divisions (Current Accounts, Cards, Loans and Private banking). Lloyds operates a transfer pricing model billing over.
• Delivered annual new business target by month 5, ended year at 160% of target.
• Achieved 6% cost savings yoy.
• Restructured MI to target cost efficiencies, and improve business processes

London, United Kingdom

• Responsibilities:Hired to create a direct sales operation and reduce the reliance on Branch sales – (96% of all cards were acquired via the branches in 2001) and grow the portfolio to £5 billion in.
• Delivered 1.2 million new card relationships and the £5 Billion receivables milestone was achieved in late 2003.
• Direct Channel acquisition increased share from 4% to 40%, driven by a new prospecting database, developed and delivered in less than eight months.
• My team won two LTSB quality recognition awards, and our Platinum card DRTV advertisement won an international ECHO DMA award in the USA in October 2003.

London, United Kingdom (EMEA role)

• Responsibilities: Direct channels Card acquisition - responsible for consumer and small business card recruitment across Europe, with a budget of $21 million deployed in Direct and Broadcast media channels. This.
• Drove credit card growth to exceed Charge cards in the UK for the first time, the largest market in Europe for Amex.
• Launched the new Amex Blue product in the UK, Germany, France, Austria and Sweden

London, United Kingdom

• Responsibilities: Commercial and Marketing launch of the Goldfish Credit Card reporting to the MD of the joint venture company which partnered with HFC bank (now part of HSBC). Achievements:
• Developed and created new Goldfish Card Brand which acquired over 1 million cardholders and over £2.5 billion in receivablesGoldfish was the fastest growing credit card in the UK in 1997.
• Developed prospecting database, and internet site allowing points redemption online
• Won over 20 marketing awards, and I was voted Direct Marketer of the year by the DMA.

Ba Hons English Literature, Modern Literature

Activities and Societies: Rugby Club, Sports Association

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