Rob Youngson Email and Phone Number

Apart from the two main clients detailed below, work has also been undertaken for the following:WilkosBlakemore retail (SPAR)Blakemore Fresh Food (Food Manufacturing)Purity Food (Food Manufacturing)• Lingmoor provides consultancy and advice – focused on helping to drive performance.• A broad knowledge of UK food retailing and leading teams within it, has been gained from twenty years Grocery retail experience. Involvement has been across multiple categories in commercial trading and supply chain, with the last five years being at Director Level.• A unique end to end perspective of the supply chain at a number of different levels has been acquired, having been involved in vertically integrated manufacturing setups and through working with branded multinationals, large own label manufacturers and local suppliers.• The approach with every client, be it a retailer or manufacturer, is to clearly understand the challenge they are facing in the context of their business/culture and customer base and offer a bespoke solution.• Lingmoor is able to offer a broad range of consultancy services to develop and strengthen business performance, however, it focuses on:o Tailored customer and supplier strategy developmento Optimising existing business and driving growtho End to end cost managemento Commercial agreements and negotiation planningo Project managementPlease feel free to get in contact for an initial discussion either through Linkedin or via email: rob@lingmoorconsulting.co.uk

Working within the Fresh Foods Trading Team at Marks & Spencer. Developing and delivering a number of strategic projects as part of their Category Transformation Programme.

Working on behalf of Burnsall Associates:Supporting the Fresh Foods Trading team at Sam's Club in developing and restructuring their supplier base/supply chain strategy across a number of categories.

• Leading and developing a buying team of nine across the fresh meat & poultry category• Setting strategic direction to deliver all aspects of the customer offer including; ranging, pricing, promotion & events. In addition to the sales and profit plans for each category across store and online.

• Chosen to lead one of three key strategic categories for the business, in World Foods• Built & lead a diverse team of thirty colleagues• Reinvigorated all aspects of the Worlds Foods offer in the minds of customers and stores, which facilitated sales growth 2013-2015 of +30% (£30m).• Delivered ASDA’s regional & local trading offer with teams based in Belfast, Glasgow & Leeds

Leading a team of seven buyers across multiple chilled food categories including; milk, eggs, yogurts and spreads with annual sales exceeding £1.2bn

Leading and motivating a team of buyers across multiple categories worth in excess of £650m and with full P&l responsiblility. Setting strategic direction to deliver; the customer offer, sales and profit plans for each category.Devising a long-term supplier strategy which can deliver the predicted volume growth and savings to the bottom line.