A strategic and commercially focused manager with over 30 years experience across industry leading foodservice and retail businesses. I have managed performance driven teams of people in the UK’s leading budget hotel chain; fast casual and quick service restaurant concepts; and managed operational, commercial and project teams for the UK’s No 1 supermarket chain. I have a proven track record of delivering sustainable cost savings while developing long term supplier partnerships, and developing new business concepts both in the UK and internationally. This allows me to bring a broad knowledge base of procurement, logistics, forecasting, operations, training, product development and technical roles to manage any business challenges and opportunities.