Russell Mitchell Email & Phone Number

Folkestone, England, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Strategic leadership role as member of the Executive Board defining our strategic vision and forward business goals. Day to day responsibility for running all business operations functions.• Communication and execution of our strategic vision and forward goals throughout all business levels• Leading and future proofing our business operations functions through a sustained period of significant double digit CAGR growth and investment• P&L responsibility over production, supply, demand planning, purchasing, HR and core overhead areas

London, United Kingdom

Senior management role updating our structure to account for the exponential growth of the business from its early roots. Product development and operational business functions report to me to ensure unified and efficient execution across our growing portfolio of brands and private label clients.• Lead the product development and operational teams through consecutive year on year growth• Generating and managing the execution of branded portfolio product development strategy to deliver best in class product propositions• Sourcing new strategic co-manufacturing partners for brand and prospective private label clients• Ensure our operational 3PL infrastructure is Fit for Purpose and for Fit for Growth and delivers against P&L Budget Requirements

London, United Kingdom

The business focussed my efforts on running the product development team for our new premium start-up brand Monty Bojangles and prestigious confectionery licenses for Robinsons, Fruit Shoot and J2O. I remain involved in private label development for Top 4 Grocer and now Marks & Spencer!• Building multi-channel seasonal and all year round product ranges across a variety of confec and snacking formats• Sourcing and analysing consumer insight data to deliver Ready To Win product developments• Keeping abreast of latest market, food, customer and packaging trends• Creating business infrastructure to deliver best in class product developments

London, United Kingdom

A fantastic opportunity came along to leave the challenging but grey-green world of corporate share registration and join an exciting new start-up in an area of life long passion - food! Honeycomb acts as an enabler and accelerator to premium confectionery & snack manufacturers who want to trade in UK Private Label but either lack the necessary business infrastructure or market access in-house. It's a unique and highly successful formula that delivers for both retailer and manufacturer.• Developing private label & tertiary branded products across a range of formats for Top 4 Grocer and High Street accounts• Managing the end to end concept to launch process directly interfacing with client & supplier factories• Playing lead development role in sales presentations and customer briefings to the grocery multiples• Using all Retailer Data Platforms to access EPOS, New Line, Ranging, Promos etc• Drafting Technical Specifications using Retailer Specification Systems - Micros and Trace One/Agentrix Platforms• Managing our 3PL network to ensure On Time In Full deliveries• Forecasting demand across total market for production planning and stock control

London, United Kingdom

Such an interesting role as it involved me in a range of different business functions where I honed an emerging skill in breaking processes down logically and thematically, rebuilding them to be more efficient whilst winning hearts and minds so that everyone comes up smiling. I also got to play with massively expensive new IT Systems which was fun!• Floating role created to evaluate existing business processes to establish and resolve inefficiencies and to support and implement a range of business change projects• Managing projects from inception to completion, liaising with relevant stakeholders internal and external to ensure positive acceptance of project objectives

London, United Kingdom

Great experience in fast flow cyclical project management and the importance of keeping your team focussed and motivated to hit a whole roster of deadlines. I also took the time to question in the right way existing mantras on how things were done and completely transformed a number of operations in the process earning myself an Innovation Award.• Leading a team of administrators on a newly established team formed to ensure the swift and efficient delivery of all client facing plan communications such share statements, dividends, AGMs and EGMs

London, United Kingdom

There is no better proving ground for powering up your Excel Skill - learning to manipulate and clean massive datasets littered with errors whilst also spending dazzling amounts of participants' hard earned money buying shares and responding to the ever evolving needs of the customer. Embedded in the very core of my being a rapid fire self-auditing attention to detail, multi-tasking and customer service mentality that's an essential part of my skillset.• Administer the Share Incentive Plans for a portfolio of FTSE100 clients such as Coca Cola, Sara Lee, Proctor & Gamble and many others• Responsible for client and plan participant interaction, share purchases and sales, managing the impact of legislative changes, rights issues and other plan events

London, United Kingdom

Genesis was a wild ride - we literally worked 24/7 and this was field sales before the internet and GPS! I was Top Performer a few times, won some prizes but knew early on it was only a brief albeit intense stepping stone. No doubt it taught me valuable customer facing and sales skills I still use today.• Liaising with a portfolio of Blue Chip & SME Businesses to understand and solve their telecommunications needs• Generating new business from self-researched business lists, managing my own diary and tracking the performance and viability of my own business• Meeting sales targets to strict deadlines within a highly competitive and pressurised business