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Leeds, Al, Us

Leeds, Al, Us

Bradford, West Yorks, Gb

Executive Director with end to end accountability for three distinct business units. All business units in significantly growth. Responsibility for over 10,000 colleagues.Convenience is over 1000 stores trading as Morrisons Daily following the acquisition of McColls stores in 2022. The business has been transformed into a fast growing, profitable business through a significant change programme and improvement in all aspects of the business from commercial through to the shop floor.Online covers Morrisons.com where we partner with Ocado, our amazon relationship which is now in over 100 stores and our relationship with quick commerce operators such as Deliveroo, Just Eat and Uber.Wholesale combines the franchising of the Morrisons daily convenience concept with a fast growing export business.

Bradford, West Yorks, Gb

Full accountability for the customer, operational and commercial performance of the Meat, Seafood & Eggs business units with Morrisons. End to end ownership from farm to shop floor. Morrisons is highly vertically integrated in these marquee categories with seven fully owned manufacturing sites, butchers & fishmongers in almost 500 stores and fantastic links directly with farmers as British farming’s second biggest customer. Internal capability is supplemented by strategic relationships with a highly diverse supply base.

Bradford, West Yorks, Gb

Accountable for the end to end commercial and operational performance across a significant number of fresh categories including Seafood, Eggs, Deli, Cheese, Counters and Food to go. This is a highly diverse area within Morrisons in which we both manufacture a large proportion of the products via our vertical integration and have partnerships with some of the largest branded suppliers.

Bradford, West Yorks, Gb

Accountable for the full online business at Morrisons with accountability to executive board level. Full P&L and operational ownership for the Morrisons.com website, trading proposition, operations and customer service including direct control of the Morrisons and Ocado long term partnership.Whilst in role the business was transformed; more than trebling in size, became profitable and was the fastest growing of all grocery retailers during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Leeds, West Yorkshire, Gb

Accountable for the growth, strategy development and the operational and commercial performance of ASDA's online grocery business including P&L accountability. The online grocery business has annual sales of over £1.4bn and with double digital sales growth is the fastest growing channel in ASDA.Responsibilities include system development (platform, in store and fulfilment centres), operational process improvement, fleet scheduling of 2,000 vehicles, catchment optimisation for 293 operations, capacity planning, physical growth via a seven figure capital budget, automated fulfilment centre development, customer experience including contact centres and click & collect operations. Leading a team of 38 senior managers, managers and SMEs providing the procedures and central support for over 9,000 field colleagues.In the past 18 months significant change has been delivered which has revolutionised the customer experience leading to Kantar recognising ASDA as being the fastest growing of all online grocery retailers and Retail Week ranking ASDA as the 2nd in the top 50 online performing retailers. This change programme has also made the business profitable via a multimillion pound savings across all key cost lines of the P&L.

Leeds, West Yorkshire, Gb

Accountable for the capacity strategy and concept development within the ASDA online grocery team.Responsibilities included devising the capacity strategy based upon regional market share and growth statistics, new space identification and implementation of physical schemes and the operational openings. The development of the Click & Collect format (including both food and non-food collections) in all of ASDA's 600+ stores. Leading a team of seven with a multi-million-pound capital budget.In this role I delivered the physical space ahead of time and under budget to support a period of 24% sales growth. I also expanded the click and collect concept from a business with 30 operations to 620 operations. As a result of this exceptional performance I was promoted to the director of this department.

Leeds, West Yorkshire, Gb

Accountable for delivering major change projects that improved product availability and reduced operational costs. Responsibilities included delivering supply chain, in store and system development projects from concept, through trial and full implementation leading a team of six project managers. Key delivery included a change to the in store operating model which improved availability by 0.6% across the chain and reduced operating costs by £16m annually, a supply chain transformation project that reengineered the fresh supply chain to enhance date codes and improve morning availability. and integrating the Netto acquisition into the company from a store process perspective.

Leeds, West Yorkshire, Gb

Selected to be Andy Clarke’s (later ASDA CEO) Project manager as a result of being identified as high performance and potential. Supporting Andy Clarke from day to day organisation to business analysis and recommendations. My experience included organising large scale meetings and chain wide listening forums, completing analysis of opportunity areas and creating recommendations e.g. Bakery, Selling, Culture, Frozen and operational standards. A member of the team that acquired the Netto chain.

Leeds, West Yorkshire, Gb

Accountable for reducing the company shrinkage across ambient and fresh food. Delivered the lowest shrinkage result since the Wal-Mart takeover crediting £6m back to the retail P&L. Created and implemented a programme of pre-emptive opportunity store visits which led to a reduction of £1m in the predicted shrinkage.

Ba(Hons), Business Economics

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Executive Programme