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Newark-On-Trent, England, United Kingdom

Nottingham, United Kingdom

Interpretation of data, market insights and trends to inform sales and marketing strategies which were focused on building or maintaining sustainable sales and profit lines. Creating personalised growth plans to influence sustainable strategic/operational changes to drive sales and cut costs.

Remo

Leading the business operations: project management, people resource/planning, building team and client relationships and development of the core business procedures.

Sutton Bonington, United Kingdom

Commercialising a first to the market product: developing and applying a global brand, marketing and communications strategy, budgeting and forecasting for the business plan/investor presentation.

South America

Wildlife conservation volunteering and intrepid travel across 7 countries of South America, in 6 months

Nottingham, United Kingdom

Financial accountability and leadership of the food-to-go department:• P&L budget management of £200m.• Cross-functional leadership and delivery of +£30m project.• Team leadership across 24 personnel.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

Financial accountability and leadership of the chilled food-to-go department worth £80m at retail. Creation of customer and market insight-led strategies achieving:• Relationship management and joint business planning across £50m cost of goods. • Award for “Best Marketing Launch 2015” by the British Sandwich Association. • Increased food-to-go sales +4% driven by the execution of a new customer offer.• Profit growth +6% delivered through cost reductions, efficiencies & streamlining the customer offer.• Strategic supplier partnerships and contract management/negotiation of £50m at cost.• Multi-million pound food waste savings. • Successful relationships with a small group of stores in order to test new concepts to enable the investment and delivery of a refurb across 1200 stores (fixtures, merchandising, look & feel).• Activation of a £10m media campaign through the negotiation of a partnership with a leading telecoms provider

Nottingham, United Kingdom

Financial accountability and leadership of the Seasonal (non-Christmas) accessories team. Implementation of customer and market insight-led strategies which delivered:• Relationship management and joint business planning across £30m cost of goods.• Sales growth of +2% on Sunglasses and 6% on Swimwear through new product development. • Launch of new fixtures across 1200 stores, on time and significantly under budget.• Driving reduced costs of £1.3m over 4 years through efficiencies and negotiation of cost prices.Leadership of a total retail project initiative to identify/review additional promotional store space opportunities & implementation of the new process.

Coventry, United Kingdom

Financial accountability for Health & Beauty and OTC (over-the-counter):• Relationship management and joint business planning across 80 FMCG's• Activation of new routes to market including early recognition of the market trend towards value led/price-point promotions• OTC category range and merchandising management for Asda, Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Co-op• Increased sales and profitability through improved FMCG joint business plans