James M.'s Location
Bradford, England, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
About James M.
A strategic thinker, experienced commercial and marketing professional with an track record of delivering large scale value benefits by leading teams across multi discipline functions with businesses both client, supplier and consultancy side. Always striving to make the complex simple and find solutions to key business challenges through technology, partnerships and always putting the customer at the heart of everything.
James M.'s Current Company Details
James M. Work Experience Details
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Head Of Insights - GroupPz CussonsBradford, Gb
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Head Of InsightsPz Cussons Oct 2024 - PresentManchester, England, United KingdomHelping the business understand its consumers and shoppers through best in class insight creation.
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Ned AdvisorWhite Label Loyalty Jul 2022 - PresentLeedsAdviser to the CEO and helping the Scale Up journey in the loyalty sector -
Chair Of Van Mildert Alumni Association And College Board AdvisorVan Mildert College Jan 2022 - PresentCounty Durham, England, United KingdomChair of the Alumni Association and defacto member of Van Mildert college trust board.Providing support and direction for the 25,000 strong alumni community and current college leadership team. -
New Business And Commercial DirectorHippo Dec 2023 - Sep 2024Leeds, England, United KingdomLeading Hippo's business development pipeline by solving clients challenges through digital and dat transformation solutions. -
Associate Director - CommercialHippo Sep 2023 - Jan 2024Leeds, England, United KingdomGlad to announce that The Data Shed is now part of the Hippo 'Herd'Still delivering leading solutions for clients data challenges through the Hippo Data team as well as now expanding our capabilities into User Centric Design.
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Associate Director - CommercialThe Data Shed Oct 2022 - Sep 2023Working with existing, new and potential clients to help them unlock the value in their data with the world class team at The Data Shed. -
Principal ConsultantThe Data Shed Sep 2021 - Oct 2022Leeds, England, United KingdomPrincipal Consultant at The Data Shed. We help businesses of all shapes and sizes get the best value by providing solutions to demystify the complex world of data and gain competitive advantage in a challenging market.
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Director Of Strategic DeliveryWelcome To Yorkshire Oct 2020 - Jul 2021Leeds, England, United KingdomLeading the delivery of Welcome To Yorkshire's Visit, Live, Work and Study strategy to help drive the recovery and growth of the region in these challenging times. Ensuring that Welcome to Yorkshire delivers the best possible return on investment for it's local authority partners and private membership base. Proud to represent the great businesses and people in the county to the rest of the UK and the world. -
Client Director (Crm, Insight And Category Management)Starcount May 2019 - Oct 2020London And YorkshireLeading the team to utilise client's shopper data to drive actionable insights that deliver real value in the retail space. This places actionable insights at the heart of range, price, promotions and CRM activity for our key clients, stakeholders and customers. I work with our UK retailers such as Holland & Barrett and M&S and have consistently unlocked significant return on investment for them.I'm based in West yorkshire but work from the Starcount office in central London -
Associate Director Client Services (Insight & Category Management)Precima Aug 2016 - Mar 2019Bradford, West Yorkshire, United KingdomDelivering the market leading key shopper insights tool to optimise Pricing, Assortment and Promotions for Morrisons. Delivering Morrison’s with senior level shopper insights to deliver customer focused strategic change across the whole business utilising category management. Working out of Yorkshire, and occasionally London, Holland and Canada. -
Head Of Category And InsightHallmark Cards Jun 2015 - Aug 2016Bradford, West Yorkshire, United KingdomA continuation of my previous role leading the UK business' shopper insight strategy and creation of category based plans based on this insight ensuring truly action orientated plans.This covers all of our UK customers including M&S, Big 4 grocers and specialist retailers, over many different business models, supplier relationships and omnichannel formats through strategic expertise and focus on delivery. I also work internationally apply this expertise within several different countries and territories.
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Head Of Commercial Operations And Category ManagementHallmark Cards Dec 2012 - Jun 2015Heading a team of c60 leading the Category Management Function (incorporating Merchandising and Range Selection and Shopper Insight) along with the commercial operations team ensuring effective delivery of supply chain, order processing and data integrity for retail customers. Covering all Hallmark UK customers and channels across c12,000 retail outlets such as National accounts, independant sector, wholesale, franchises and specialist card retailers.
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Head Of Trading - PartnershipsHallmark Cards Feb 2011 - Dec 2012Heading up a cross functional trading team of retail merchandisers, product managers, operations and creative functions delivering new business models, commercial management and a unique retailer focussed multicategory product ranges.
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Category ControllerHallmark Cards Mar 2010 - Jun 2011Shaping, driving and directing strategic commercialy balance category managment functions with major national customers, whilst delivering technical exellence with the category managment team. -
Senior Category ManagerHallmark Cards Jul 2007 - Mar 2010Managing a team of Category managers and analysts to deliver Category based solutions to a wide a varied selection of retailers from High Street destination stores to emerging Grocery retailers in a key non food category.
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Category ManagerCarphone Warehouse Apr 2006 - Jul 2007
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Senior Buying ManagerTesco May 2003 - Jul 2005 -
BuyerAsda 1998 - 2003 -
Jcr President, Van Mildert CollegeDurham University Jul 1997 - Jul 1998Durham, United Kingdom
James M. Skills
Leadership
Multi Channel Retail
Online Marketing
Brand Development
Strategic Insights
Key Account Management
Customer Marketing
Food
Retail
Marketing Analytics
People Development
Data Analysis
Customer Focused Service
Business Development
Market Research
Communication
Client Services
Negotiation
Team Management
Team Leadership
Digital Marketing
Customer Relationship Management
Strategic Planning
Strategy
Organizational Effectiveness
Management Consulting
Fmcg
Customer Insight
P&l Management
Marketing
New Business Development
Cross Functional Team Leadership
Product Management
Qualitative Research
Market Analysis
Consumer Insights
Strategic Thinking
Shopper Marketing
Business Strategy
Management
Retail Category Management
Project Management
Organizational Design
Analytical Skills
Marketing Strategy
Consumer Behavior
Pricing
Consumer Behaviour
James M. Education Details
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Economics
Frequently Asked Questions about James M.
What company does James M. work for?
James M. works for Pz Cussons
What is James M.'s role at the current company?
James M.'s current role is Head of Insights - Group.
What schools did James M. attend?
James M. attended Durham University, Durham University.
What skills is James M. known for?
James M. has skills like Leadership, Multi Channel Retail, Online Marketing, Brand Development, Strategic Insights, Key Account Management, Customer Marketing, Food, Retail, Marketing Analytics, People Development, Data Analysis.
Who are James M.'s colleagues?
James M.'s colleagues are Simeon Nweke, Phoebe Obeng Andoh, Patrick Emeh, Aan Kusuma, Iskandar Semendawai, Abigail Anang Pratama, Jegede Taiwo.
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