Joel Ray Email & Phone Number

Gorey, Ie

A strategy, business growth and market intelligence specialist with 30 years' experience developing profitable and sustainable strategies and identifying and analysing organic and inorganic growth opportunities within the global logistics, postal and express sectors. During my career, I have undertaken hundreds of projects, across many geographies, creating significant value for logistics operators, retailers, manufacturers and other client companies’ businesses, by facilitating growth and optimising processes and costs. These projects have involved extensive travel to target countries to meet with companies to fully understand the market conditions, different operational requirements, competitive landscapes and distinct customer buying behaviour. This work includes:- Strategy Development - Strategy formulation, strategic repositioning, gap analysis, risk analysis.- Identifying and Developing Growth Opportunities - Identifying attractive and profitable prospects, including geographic growth, new industry sector opportunities, vertical sector expansion and desiging market entry strategies.- Enhancing Operational Capabilities – Supply chain optimisation / redesign, technology analysis, freight rate analysis, forecasting, benchmarking, feasibility studies.- Mergers and Acquisitions – Acquisition target searches, partnership searches, sales- and buy-side mandates, due diligence exercises, IPO prospectus.- Competitor & Market Intelligence – Competitor analysis, SWOT analysis, market size / forecast model development, market share analysis, market monitoring.- Network Development Projects - E-fulfilment strategies, inventory strategies, last mile delivery network development, line-haul operations design.

Bath, England, United Kingdom

Ti's bespoke consulting and research division specialises in undertaking tailored solutions for the transport, express and logistics industries. We provide bespoke analysis for many of the world's leading express and logistics providers, manufacturers, consultancies and banks including in-depth market, competitor or attitudinal intelligence, based on primary and secondary data collection. The types of projects we have covered include: - Mergers and acquisitions - Market entry analysis - Competitor intelligence - Client targeting - Strategy formulation - Market sizing - Strategic gap analysis - Customer perception surveys - Supply chain consultancyMany of the projects which we have undertaken involve face-to-face, telephone or electronic surveys – or indeed a combination of all three – depending on the client's needs. Sometimes the only way to achieve the necessary levels of market or competitor intelligence is to conduct interviews in-country and, in addition to regularly undertaking projects throughout Europe we have travelled to markets as wide ranging as the US, Mexico, China, the Philippines, Australia, India, Vietnam, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Sri Lanka, Qatar, Oman, Egypt, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Algeria and Jordan to undertake such projects. Our extensive industry knowledge allows us to build relationships with interviewees, probe deeply and gain high levels of value from each interview.

Set-up and launched an online warehousing portal in Europe allowing companies to advertise spare storage capacity to potential customers.

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Assisted An Post's board in formulating and executing the company's strategy, including a number of organic and inorganic growth projects.

Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire

Ba Hons, Business Administration, 2:1 Hons Degree (Accelerated Degree)

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