I lead the sales, sales support and procurement teams in Reach-Delpac, driving profitable sales growth. As a leading distributor of a wide range of packaging , our offer includes food to go, grocery and fashion retail packaging of all types as well as hygiene/PPE.

Head of sales and procurement, I am responsible for delivering profitable growth and day to day management of this broad division of the Reach Group. The division includes supplying packaging into food and non food retail as well as PPE and hygiene into eduction and general industry. Our Seasons Floraville business supplies home, garden and seasonal goods into all retail and garden centres.

The cleaning, hygiene & catering category is vitally important to Office Depot as sales of general office supplies become more challenging. I am responsible for sales growth in the CH&C category, through opportunities within our existing customer base, and new business. I manage the CH&C specialist Business Development Managers, as well as our office based help desk.I am actively involved in all aspects of the category in addition to sales, namely, range selection, vendor relationships as… Show more The cleaning, hygiene & catering category is vitally important to Office Depot as sales of general office supplies become more challenging. I am responsible for sales growth in the CH&C category, through opportunities within our existing customer base, and new business. I manage the CH&C specialist Business Development Managers, as well as our office based help desk.I am actively involved in all aspects of the category in addition to sales, namely, range selection, vendor relationships as well as marketing. Show less

I manage a team of Business Development Managers responsible for targeting and winning major accounts in the Irish market. These include public and private companies across all business sectors.I also lead the Business Services Division of specialist Business Development Managers who specialize in developing our business in the areas of Furniture, Facilities Supplies, Managed Communications and Managed Print Services.

Responsible for all aspects of the sales function of the business including managing the sales team of field based and office based staff. Attend monthly board meetings, presenting updates on the sales team and customer/new business activities.

*Responsible for the entire sales function of the business, internal and field based. (23)*A member of the senior management team.*Restructured sales team to give greater focus on key business sectors of Healthcare, Contract Cleaning, Re Distribution and Industry*Improved tender submission strategy and process to deliver a more successful win rate in public and private tenders.

* Managed a number of large International Accounts at head office level.*Responsible for the business in one of our largest global accounts in South East Asia and South America.*Responsible for business development activity in international businesses in Europe

*Responsible for the Indirect business in Ireland.*Integrated trading terms post acquisition.

*Responsible for distributor and cash & carry business in the UK*Retained responsibility for the Ireland business.*Managed UK sales team (14) and Ireland (1)*Managed team up to the integration of the business following the acquisition of Diversey Lever

*Responsible for the development of the distributor business in Ireland, working with distributor sales teams.*Generated end user business in Healthcare, Contract Cleaning, Lodging and Foodservice.*Negotiated with Cash and Carry groups at head office level.