Mark Gregory Email & Phone Number

United Kingdon

Bishops Cleeve, England, United Kingdom

Gloucestershire

Freelance project manager with wide experience in multinational implementation projects.

Worthing

Non-executive director of catering business.

A manufacturer of office furniture supplying dealers, wholesalers, and major contracts in the public and private sectors. Main board director, reporting to the Chief Executive. Responsible for operations: customer service team; procurement and supply chain; outbound logistics; and installation project management.

t/a Paula Rosa).A kitchen manufacturer supplying the UK house building industry. Responsible for supply chain and inbound logistics, information technology, and retail sales. As a member of the senior management team responsible for strategy setting and execution, and financial results. Successfully project managed the post live implementation of ERP system and rapidly established stability. Critical and high priority project issues were reduced to zero after 6 months. Re-planning of the development schedule allowed removal of high cost contractors within 3 months. A cultural change programme with employees encouraged the adoption and "ownership" of the new system.December 2005 - Assumed responsibility for purchasing and stores teams after changes on the Senior Management Team. Achieved objectives of improvement in material availability to 95%, reduction in material costs, and improvement team processes.September 2006 - Assumed responsibility for the Retail Sales Team and the showroom.

A Swedish owned international company supplying business management software and consultancy to manufacturing and distribution companies.Individually responsible for success of projects and authorised to make any decisions directly related to the project. Responsible for completion of projects to the satisfaction of the client, and with a commercially successful result for Intentia. Gained wide experience across the full project life cycle. Client projects included large scale system implementations and upgrades, integration of sales and marketing databases and data warehouses, and "after-live" business improvement projects.On several occasions drafted into failing projects to manage project recovery. Skills required were sensitivity and diplomacy in rebuilding the relationship between the client and the project team, as well as project management skills to implement a working structure. These projects were subsequently commercially successful and enjoyed high levels of client satisfaction.

A British manufacturing and distribution company, supplying window furnishing products to independent and multiple retailers. Lead the selection and implementation of replacement for the legacy IT systems, and lead the board of directors through the selection and implementation process. Introduced PC networking, e-mail and collaborative systems (Lotus Notes). Re-structured the IT department from a low level reactive function, into a focussed service delivery team.

Management of IT Team and all IT hardware and infrastructure.

Diploma, Financial Management (Dipfm)

Bachelor’S Degree, Textiles, Economics And Management, 2.1

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