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Bath, Gb

Bath, England, United Kingdom

Consulting and advisory services for businesses in the Agriculture and FMCG markets.

Vice Chair of the Food & Drink Federation's Organic Committee, responsible for redrafting the Group's policy objectives and priorities to ensure the key issues impacting the UK's organic sector were appropriately represented in the FDF's lobbying and advisory roles within Government and Industry.

London, England, United Kingdom

Member of the Department for International Trade's Trade Advisory Group, advising Ministers and Officials on commercial and trade issues of relevance to the Agrifoods sector.

Worle

Responsible for maintaining our leadership position as the supplier of choice to the UK and export markets (£100m t/o business). Delivered consistent market-leading returns to our farmer-owners.➤ Established a cheese production joint venture with the UK’s leading farmhouse cheesemaker, securing a 70% share of the UK market, and building the UK’s only organic whey processing operation.➤ Delivered a joint membership and mutual shareholding agreement with a key US organic farming… Show more Responsible for maintaining our leadership position as the supplier of choice to the UK and export markets (£100m t/o business). Delivered consistent market-leading returns to our farmer-owners.➤ Established a cheese production joint venture with the UK’s leading farmhouse cheesemaker, securing a 70% share of the UK market, and building the UK’s only organic whey processing operation.➤ Delivered a joint membership and mutual shareholding agreement with a key US organic farming co-operative to distribute OMSCO products in the US, delivering over $30m over a 5 year period.➤ Mitigated significant challenges resulting from Brexit, including an extensive lobbying campaign to preserve organic standards equivalence with EU and US, protecting revenue and profit.➤ Assembled an exceptional international network encompassing the broader organic industry, the broader dairy and agricultural sectors, government, regulatory, and trade representatives. Show less

Worle

Promoted to COO, with full remit for strategic business operations and development, as well as co-op membership, day-to-day operations, quality, finance, logistics, and milk transport arrangements.➤ Developed an innovative strategy, transforming the business from milk brokerage into a diversified product model, securing an increase brand exposure, as well as minimising seasonal risks.➤ Successfully extended seasonal processing agreements with third parties into all-year-round… Show more Promoted to COO, with full remit for strategic business operations and development, as well as co-op membership, day-to-day operations, quality, finance, logistics, and milk transport arrangements.➤ Developed an innovative strategy, transforming the business from milk brokerage into a diversified product model, securing an increase brand exposure, as well as minimising seasonal risks.➤ Successfully extended seasonal processing agreements with third parties into all-year-round processing partnerships with food manufacturers, driving sales revenue and profit margin increase.➤ Secured joint membership and signed a shareholding agreement with Organic Valley, the USA’s largest organic co-operating, enabling distribution of Omsco’s cheese and butter brands. ➤ Initiated exports of unique ‘low chlorate’ milk concentrates to EU-based food sector manufacturers, and secured an export deal for milk powders to a leading Australian organic infant formula producer.➤ Launched Omsco Direct D2C platform, driving-up organic cheese and butter sales in UK and US. Show less

Responsibilities extended to include product supply chain, 3rd party manufacturing & logistics, strategic partnerships, contract negotiation and renewals, with an annual operational budget of £10m.

Responsibilities extended to include the development of a consumer and a trade marketing function at Omsco, tasked with ensuring the effective communication of organic benefits to consumers, and a strategy to maintain Omsco’s market share in a period of rapid UK demand growth.

Responsible for sales strategy development and implementation, sales operations and forecasting, new business development, commercial negotiations, and customer account management.

The Organic Trade Board is the voice of the organic industry in the UK, promoting organic food and farming.

1 year contract within service and delivery arm of BoxClever Group

Responsible for all aspect of strategic accounts management and business development in Ireland including project to determine longer term trading structure and strategy in the territory.

Responsible intially for the Department Store sales channel

Bsc, International Business And Languages

Executive Development Programme, Senior Leadership Course

Business Administration And Management, General