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Experienced Commercial Director, Supply Chain Director and COO in physical and digital retailing in PLCs and family owned companies at Chadwicks Group
Location: Ireland, Ireland, Ireland 10 work roles 4 schools
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John Paul O'Reilly is listed as Experienced Commercial Director, Supply Chain Director and COO in physical and digital retailing in PLCs and family owned companies at Chadwicks Group, a company with 147 employees, based in Ireland, Ireland, Ireland. AeroLeads shows a matched LinkedIn profile for John Paul O'Reilly.

John Paul O'Reilly previously worked as Managing Director Specialist Products Division at Chadwicks Group and Commercial Director at Brown Thomas Arnotts. John Paul O'Reilly holds Bcl, Law from University College Dublin.

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I am a high calibre, ambitious individual with a successful career built on progressive experience in a number of functions including COO, Commercial Director and Supply Chain Director across food, convenience and luxury retailing in PLCs and family owned companies in Ireland and the UK. Within Tesco in both Ireland and the UK, my experiences ranged from in-store and online retailing across food and non-food and also telecoms, petrol retailing, pharmacy and opticians. In my role as Commercial Director, I was accountable for all buying areas and also lead the supply chain, trade planning, space and range and technical teams. in this role I was accountable for delivering the food and non food strategy particularly the price and promotions strategy. In Maxol, Ireland's largest Irish owned forecourt retailer, I was accountable for retail, marketing, capital development and new business and lead the transformation strategy from primarily a fuel retailer to a convenience food and food to go retailer with a strong fuel business. In Brown Thomas Arnotts my role had full responsibility for merchandise planning, supply chain and achieving the optimal merchandise and trade driving strategy across all categories to optimise sales and profit. I was heavily involved in the sustainability agenda and also part of the sale process of the business in 2022. I have a strong financial background as a Chartered Accountant and I am a good clear strategic thinker, good at situational analysis, identifying options and arriving at decisions collaboratively. I have built strong teams through values lead leadership and creating a clear vision of where the team needs to go and how we will get there.

Listed skills include Merchandising, Retail, Supply Chain, Negotiation, and 11 others.

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Chadwicks Group
Chadwicks Group
Experienced Commercial Director, Supply Chain Director and COO in physical and digital retailing in PLCs and family owned companies
clondalkin, dublin, ireland
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10 roles · 34 years

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Managing Director Specialist Products Division

Current

County Dublin, Ireland

In this role, I am responsible for the Specialist Product Division in Chadwicks which comprises of 5 companies that have grown organically or have been acquired, that offer a unique range of products that complements the core Chadwicks builders merchants business. The current companies in the division are Heitons Steel, the Panelling Centre, Sitetech.

Jul 2023 - Present

Commercial Director

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

As Commercial Director, I had full responsibility for Merchandise Planning, Supply Chain and worked alongside the Buying Directors of each category and the Retail team to implement the optimal merchandise strategy to optimise sales and profitability. I was accountable for the Open to Buy plans for the Fashion area and worked alongside the Fashion Buying.

Nov 2020 - Sep 2022

Chief Operations Officer

Maxol

Dublin

Maxol which is an all-Ireland company, is on a transformative journey from a clear focus on fuel retailing to a more contemporary forecourt offer focusing on developing it’s retail food, food to go and broader service offer. My role was responsible for leadership of the retail operations, marketing and capital development teams. I was accountable for sales.

Jan 2017 - Nov 2020

Commercial And Multichannel Director

Dublin

I was the Commercial Director for Tesco Ireland reporting directly to the Chief Executive and I sat on the main Tesco Ireland Board with a dotted reporting line to the Group Commercial Director. I was accountable for hitting significant sales and commercial gross profit budgets and controlled the full product life of product from supplier through the.

Mar 2012 - Aug 2015

Category Director Packaged Goods, Bws, General Merchandise And Clothing

Dublin

I was accountable for the sales and profits of all non fresh foods part of the Tesco offer (approx 70% of sales) and for trade planning. At this time I was the Tesco Director in our joint venture with 02 during it's early growth stages as it moved to profitable growth.

Aug 2008 - Mar 2012

Store Director Express And Metro

Ireland

I completed a bridging programme into Retail and became Store Director for Convenience stores ( express and metro stores).

Oct 2007 - Jul 2008

Commercial And Supply Chain Director Tesco Direct

London, United Kingdom

In this role I a lead member of the team that developed the concept of Tesco Direct (Argos style offer in Tesco with an online and physical catalogue) and took through UK Board sign off with substantial capital investment. As Commercial and Supply chain director I developed the customer offer including web experience, processes and overall sales and.

Jan 2004 - Oct 2007

Non Food Category Director Tesco. Com

London, United Kingdom

I was accountable for all Non Food on line business in Tesco.Com including Wine, Flowers, Electrical, Books, Entertainment & Legal and was on the Tesco.com leadership team that oversaw the growth of Tesco Grocery Home Shopping through it’s early years through to full profitability and clear market share ownership

Jan 2002 - Jan 2004

Head Of General Merchandise And Non Food Grocery

I was accountable for the General Merchandise, Clothing, Health & Beauty & Household business in Ireland. I also ran the back office administration team and the financial analysis team. I lead the Centralisation Project in Tesco Ireland which involved bringing all suppliers into Tesco controlled depots and removing direct delivery to our stores

Jan 1997 - Dec 2001

Insolvency

Pwc

Dublin

Qualified as a Chartered Accountant with PWC whilst working in the Insolvency Department. I also was involved in forensic litigation work using my legal degree

1992 - 1996 ~4 yrs
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John Paul O'Reilly works for Chadwicks Group.

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John Paul O'Reilly is listed as Experienced Commercial Director, Supply Chain Director and COO in physical and digital retailing in PLCs and family owned companies at Chadwicks Group.

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John Paul O'Reilly is based in Ireland, Ireland, Ireland while working with Chadwicks Group.

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John Paul O'Reilly has worked for Chadwicks Group, Brown Thomas Arnotts, Maxol, Tesco Ireland, and Tesco Plc.

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John Paul O'Reilly's colleagues at Chadwicks Group include Nigel Cunningham, Aoife Goodman, Colm Breen, Ian Anderson, and John Currid.

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John Paul O'Reilly holds Bcl, Law from University College Dublin.

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John Paul O'Reilly is listed with skills including Merchandising, Retail, Supply Chain, Negotiation, Team Leadership, Forecasting, Management, and Business Strategy.

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