Jack Talbot (Maicd) Email & Phone Number

Collaroy Plateau, Nsw, Au

Auckland, New Zealand

Auckland, Nz & Sydney, Au

Management Support consultancy - focusing on small-medium businesses, including: strategy development, planning support, interim leadership, process improvement, business growth, leadership capability & coaching, digital transformation and change project delivery.

Auckland, New Zealand

Interim role as Operations Manager for this globally-affiliated eCommerce digital agency (www.redboxdigital.co.nz), with responsibility for the Auckland-based project delivery team and their outputs – essentially to direct the planning, execution and delivery of the portfolio of client projects. Initial focus is: - working with the PM team to ensure project work is delivered according to scope, timeline and budget - building best practice project delivery and client support capability in line with strategic business objectives - working alongside the technical development team to ensure delivery of their assigned work to agreed standards and time frames

Auckland, New Zealand

Working with the Sales, Planning & Operations teams at the (under-construction) New Zealand International Convention Centre on Operational Readiness Planning in preparation for opening. Visit www.nzicc.co.nz for more information.

Auckland, New Zealand

Interim leadership role, to stabilise trading performance and manage the business through a complex sale & purchase process, which included:• Manage operations and align the functional leadership team, ensure financial forecasts were achieved and re-focus the sales team on new business acquisition & churn reduction in a highly competitive and increasingly commoditised ICT services market.• Provide detailed company input to the Information Memorandum, work with legal team and corporate advisors, and deliver management presentations through an extended bid and due diligence phase.• Subsequently, drive the separation and integration work plans through the course of three separate sale components, utilising existing resources and in-house technical capability.

Auckland, New Zealand

Change-focussed interim leadership role, to support this growing SME as they break through to the next levels of growth, including:• Support and develop the 2 business founders as they establish a formal organisational structure and improve systems & processes to capitalise on recent success and build ongoing leadership capability to achieve future potential.• Lead the strategic planning and annual budgeting processes, to ensure the anticipated growth in top line sales can be delivered profitably and reflected in NPAT returns to investors.• Hands-on management of business operations & planning, including sales, marketing, operations and finance/admin teams as well as a newly established innovation/NPD capability.

West Auckland, New Zealand

Strategic review of family-owned winery business to identify and prioritise critical actions needed to improve business performance – 1) support the change of domestic distribution partner and provide advice on export opportunities; 2) develop a detailed business plan to help guide business transformation; 3) review administrative resource, identify areas for improvement and help define & recruit for a new role in this area; and 4) implement formal monthly management reviews to monitor the progress of strategic initiatives and ensure effective decision making is maintained beyond the initial engagement.

Auckland, Nz

- Contract GM role to stabilise management team across 3 regional/branch offices, organisational capability review, process & systems development and rationalise product range & improve customer profitability.- Implemented an e-Commerce website, linked to back end accounting system, to better service the needs of the existing customer base.- During this time also transitioned the ownership structure from mixed independent shareholding to 100% corporate ownership and developed roadmap of functional integration projects.

Auckland, Nz

- Short term contract to rebuild leadership & team culture following unplanned departure of previous GM - manage inventory & cash flow problems, assist with export growth planning and outline structural options for business shareholding & capital raising.- Reviewed and enhanced the company’s hosted e-Commerce solution in order to provide better multi-currency pricing and stock holding for sale into 4 countries and production planning via direct shipment of stock from the manufacturing base in China.

Auckland, New Zealand

- Management of Lion Nathan’s international network of distribution partners and key markets.- Full P&L responsibility, pricing and profitability across a range of Australian and NZ sourced products- Foreign exchange (FX) management- New business development including several distribution agreements- International trademark management in brand owner role working with LN Marketing teams- Management of shipping/logistics service providers and internal operations/production teams- Drive LNI team’s personal development via best practice HR tools and systems (1:1’s, competency assessments, HRP development plans, etc.).

Auckland, New Zealand

- Strategic business review leading to a restructure of the leadership team and cost/revenue base.- Review of staff numbers, roles and capabilities and implementation of Lion’s proven HR management processes.- Assess ongoing viability of the business and provide recommendations to corporate management.

Sydney, Australia

- Lead role for a strategic review of the corporate IT function and service model, incorporating 3 streams of activity - 1) strategy and business alignment, 2) systems development lifecycle and 3) IT service model and organisational design.- Business case definition and subsequent project scoping, planning, tracking and reporting.- Key stakeholder management, overseeing the management of timeline, risk and communication activities.

Sydney, Australia

- Member of the senior IT management team - prime role in business partnering and communication- Participation in defining key functional strategies and assisted in managing a programme of activities to support business objectives- Coaching and development of project managers, business analysts and IT services staff- Stewardship of IT strategies, architecture and procedures- Aligned IT project management with business unit goals and technology roadmaps- Provided support for the preparation of business cases, prioritization lists and project scoping for business unit initiatives- Improved resource/demand forecasting for IT Projects and Services teams

Sydney, Australia

- Management of the IT systems development group, staff of 6 Project Managers and 10 Business Analysts as well as contract and consulting resources as needed on various projects- HR management, coaching and development of direct staff and contractors- Budgeting and planning for IT projects capital and expense budgets (approx A$14m)- Improved management and tracking of internal systems development projects aligned to business unit goals- Evaluated several Knowledge Management enabling technologies- Developed the enterprise Data Warehouse strategy and implementation of first (Sales) subject area and the evaluation, selection and commercial negotiation of a new enterprise reporting tool- Defined a new IT service model and successfully drove a restructure of the teams to better reflect the demands of the business while keeping costs flat and supporting several new technologies- Raised the profile of IT within the business and improved (internal) customer satisfaction index

Sydney, Australia

- Sales and marketing role, focused on selling software development and consulting services for a group of 50 technical staff.- Client acquisition and retention, % utilization of resources and minimizing the risk of new projects.- Management of several key accounts and prime responsibility for developing a vendor partner program.

Sydney, Australia

- Project Manager and Data Warehouse Architect for the Corporate Decision Support System team, tasked to build a central data repository from several feeder systems and then create weekly extracts which were used to build data structures for end-user access - Designed the logical database structures and overall data flow of this very complex system (due to the number of data feeds and the need to integrate the incoming data into a single multi-dimensional model) for a downstream product profitability analysis application - Translated operational business processes into transactional rules to create allocation drivers of data at varying levels of detail (an early Activity-Based Costing exercise)

Sydney, Australia

Sales Reporting System Project: - Developed a system to store, clean and pre-process data for use in a down-stream application for sales analysis & reporting - Designed a common coding model to match external data coming from research agencies (A.C. Nielsen and AGB/McNair) to the internal sales information and then align the data by time period and aggregate via multiple geographical and product hierarchies - Designed a system to accumulate data into a dedicated database using weekly extracts from the sales ordering system and the periodic data received from external sources - Performed the role of Project Manager as well as documenting the functional requirements and design of the relational database

Sydney, Australia

- Dual reporting to local country manager and functional IT management at head office in Atlanta, GA.- Responsible for IT delivery to all admin & production sites across Australia, NZ, Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia- Also implemented a sales reporting system for consolidated monthly results reporting for all International Divisions into the US corporate head office

Sydney, Australia

Sydney, Australia

Bsc, Computer Science/Mathematics/Physics

Hsc, English, Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Pe

Member, Non Executive Director