Mark Ryder Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Huntingdon

Barway, Ely

• Responsible for Celery and Radish, as well as supporting the Product Director in progression of the individual Crop Strategies.
• Working for the best interest of both Growers and customers, with liaison between Growers and Marketing Agents.
• Co-ordination of sales and availability – giving best return possible to Growers, working with all Marketing Agents in the Group
• NPD and EPD – working with G’s Grower’s Trials Team, the Marketing Agents and the G’s Growers for continued improvement to current practices as well as future developments
• Guardian of crop quality – working with Growers, Harvesting Teams and Marketing Agents to ensure best possible quality of products, ensuring appropriate communication to relevant parties
• Assisting in the management of traded suppliers (in conjunction with the G’s Fresh Procurement Team)

Normanton, Leeds

• Understanding and defining the detail behind retailing prepared fruit through Asda Chain and Supermarkets.o Merchandising producto Space planningo Store formatso Product rangeo Trial formats within stores
• Collect analyse and make recommendations on category management data.
• Engaging with Asda teams looking into the detail behind Dot.Com, analysing sales reports compared to in store and ensuring correct product description and search parameters allowing for optimum ease of shopping for.
• Running of benchmarking operations of competitors specifically analysing range, price, merchandising and NPD.
• Engaging with Asda teams organising fixture mock up’s and assisting in the presentation of future plans, at Asda MCE.
• Understanding and analysing sales and profit reports and formulating forecasting reports for range changes and NPD lines.

Ancaster, Grantham

• Management of a potato grading team and their performance.
• Managing and recording of all orders and ensuring efficiency in the production as well as meeting dispatch times.
• To manage the storage of potatoes’ across several varieties and harvest dates.
• To manage the potato harvest on a daily basis.

Ross On Wye, Herefordshire

• Management of all packhouse employees including producing daily job lists.
• To manage the working hours and days off so the distribution of hours is fair, whilst keeping overtime to a minimum.
• To spend time supervising, working alongside the employees and liaise with supervisors to ensure all workers are working correctly and efficiently.
• To appraise employees and ensure that no matter who they are they receive fair and equal treatment.
• To input and monitor KPIs for all packing lines and ensure all products are packed in the most efficient manner possible.
• Managing and recording the despatch of supermarket and wholesale orders.

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Agriculture

High School, Biology, Chemistry And Physical Education

Activities and Societies: Pates Grammer School 1st XV Pates Grammer School 1st XI