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Auckland, New Zealand

Auckland, New Zealand

Auckland, New Zealand

Strategic marketing and business development of Consulting Services:Increased Sales for Consulting business and development of new consulting projects.Project management and implementation of a new website and learning event management system.Consulting and training for Global, National, and SME businesses within the food industry. Technical Consulting in.

New Zealand And UK

AxfordConsulting provides expertise in Retail, Franchise business systems development and consulting in food product development / design.Contracts have included: − Service contract writing for Auckland University Business School.− Retail competitive assessment for a foodservice operation including recommendation of price, product and execution.

Auckland

Management of two teams supporting Starmart franchise retail network of 160 outlets.Supervision of the both Retail Programmes and Merchandising teams responsible for support of the Caltex Retail Network, Franchise and Merchandising systems (8 Reports.) Sales targets of NZ$160M. Expense Budget of circa NZ$1.2M.Achievements: Developed reporting processes for.

Auckland

Management of team providing franchise support to Starmart retail network of 25 Companied owned and 140 franchised outlets.Expense Budget of circa NZ$600K.Achievements: Successfully inducted and orientated new team in to new roles. Transferred Franchise system responsibilities from previous owners to new team. Integrated new SAP system processes into teams.

Auckland

Development of the national retail food to go product offer to compete with BP Wildbean offer. Management of Food Service, Deli foods, Produce categories, Food Safety Programme and Subway Franchise agreement.Achievements: Completion of Chevron Management Essentials, including project management of community project. Selected to take part in the Chevron.

Auckland

Operational, Strategic and Financial Management of training division of a non profit Government organisation. Operating over 100 training course per year with in New Zealand and Overseas, in the areas of Management Systems, Food Safety, Health & Safety. Achievement Revenue increase from NZ$520K in first year to NZ$700K in year two, Managed training.

Catering DepartmentResponsibilities: Responsible for £4 million of food and non-food purchasing for a multi site retail catering operation throughout the UK, with sales exceeding £9 million. Other key duties included: menu development, logistic and the formation of catering policy along with its operational implementation as the deputy to the Retail.

Responsibilities: Sales of foodservice products to major national catering companies. This included negotiation of contracts and liaison with product development, production, marketing and sales planning departments.Achievements: Listed two new products on to the menu of a national retail caterer.Market researched and reported on the UK cooked meat.

Catering DepartmentResponsibilities: As a member of a small team responsible for the development and implementation of the catering policy within Woolworths in-store catering operation, with specific responsibility for product development, supplier management and the distribution chain. In addition, close liaison with quality assurance division to assure.

Responsibilities: Responsible for the co-ordination of product development, purchasing, distribution and quality assurance for Whitbread Berni Inns. In addition, co-ordination of product development for Brewers Fayre menu.Achievements: Developed successful integration of Berni Inns in to the Whitbread supply and distribution systems, with the realisation.

Responsibilities: Responsibilities included the evaluation of kitchen equipment for use in all Whitbread concepts, and the design of ergonomic kitchens specific for varied operations. (This position was latterly carried out along side the role of Commercial Account Manager). Achievements: Design of specific format for the Beefeater kitchen.

Responsibilities: Primarily involved in the development of health drinks from bench to pilot scale production.Achievements: Development of a pear flavoured Shloer juice drink launched in to all major retailers.Development of Lucozade orange and lemon barley drinks in to PET bottles.* B/TEC = Business & Technology Education Council

Unit Standard 4098 & 7093, Design Of Learning Sessions And Assessing To Standards

B/Tec National Certificate, Business Studies

Higher Nationa B/Tec Higher National Diploma, Food Technology

B/Tec National Diploma In Catering, Catering & Hospitality