Secondment as Managing Director, via Grant Thornton.

Strategy and Innovation Consultant to Oatier, via Grant Thornton.

Seconded to Oatier Ltd as Managing Director.

I sat across the agri-food/FMCG and strategy teams, where I acted as the innovation lead. Specialist in the food, beverage and agricultural sectors, strategy development and innovation.I worked with clients right across the spectrum, from pre-trading start-ups, to SMEs, large corporates and state agencies.

I worked closely with the firm's agri-food clients to build lasting relationships, deliver strong growth, streamline processes and solve pressing business challenges. This was done through a range of services including strategic advisory, business transformation and operational excellence.

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Based in Kerry’s Global Technology and Innovation Centre in Naas, my role centred around driving performance improvements in the Regulatory department, through reporting on KPI's and implementing cross-departmental training to support these targets. My focus was on serving our key customers with a best-in-class service, in order to drive sales in a fiercely competitive marketplace. I’m delighted to say that my efforts were recognised, where my team won best performing team in Europe and Russia. As performance management is a very sensitive issue, I delivered weekly and monthly presentations to our specialists and senior management on our department’s performance. This allowed me to build relationships with key stakeholders across the business. The nature of my work was cross-functional, where I dealt with all of our technologies and end-use markets, and collaborate with colleagues in Sales, Customer Care, RD&A, and Quality. I was a Salesforce super-user and CRM lead, and delivered training across departments, and was involved with the creation of Kerry Way of Working documents. This training was instrumental in implementing a unified way of working across EMEA, and has led to the fostering of closer working relations between departments. I also lead a project on customer scorecards, monitoring the turnaround time and workload completed for 20 of our key customers, and their satisfaction with the Regulatory department's performance, which has led to a significant improvement in relations with Kerry's most sensitive customers. Another project I worked on, one of Kerry's other “Noise Reduction” initiatives, the Self-Service portal. I rolled out training and support to the Customer Care and Sales teams across Europe, Russia and APMEA. The roll out of this initiative saw the significant reduction in the volume of requests dealt with by Kerry's technologists, and improve turnaround times for Kerry's customers.

The Raise Approach -Winning through innovation.Over the course of 4 years we worked hard on our R&D. With a single-minded goal of excellence, we developed 100’s of recipes to perfect our product. Through this constant innovation process we bridged the gap between taste and nutrition. Our chocolate bars delivered not only some of the sensory properties of the best bars on the market, but also delivered the functional benefits of high protein, fibre and nutritional content.Our products continuously got 5* reviews, and developed two world firsts – a high protein gold chocolate, and a high protein ruby chocolate. We used our knowledge and skills from the craft chocolate industry and combined it with the latest in scientific research to create a truly unique product.

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