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Waikanae, Wellington, New Zealand

Wellington, New Zealand

Leading an amazing team of sector and partnership specialists who hold $250m revenue responsibility across our key channels for Noel Leeming Commercial - Education, Building & Trade, Government, Insurance, Rewards, Hospitality, Wholesale & Export activity.

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

Wellington Region, New Zealand

Wellington Region, New Zealand

Leading our team of Government and NGO specialists as part of The Warehouse Group Business (TWGB) which is the commercial ecosystem sitting within our retail brands. Our team is dedicated to supplying and enabling our government partners, via All-of-Government supply contracts and panels, to ensure agencies can access the products and services they need in the most sustainable, convenient and customer-centric way. Our commercial product offering extends across sporting goods via Torpedo 7, technology through Noel Leeming, office supplies through Warehouse Stationery through to homewares via The Warehouse. Utilising our extensive sourcing network we can access over 120,000 products and provide associated services to meet the needs of our commercial clients.

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

Responsible for $220m in (Pre-COVID) revenue and the Government Sales Team under the AoG Air Travel Supply Agreement. Our small team works across all facets of government agencies, enabling passenger travel for a variety of customers from core services (Police, Defence and Justice) through to Universities and Crown Research Institutes.

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

Managing a high value portfolio of major government clients, ranging from universities and core ministries to the New Zealand Defence Force. My role is to add value to the relationship my customer has with Air New Zealand through tailored commercial agreements and fostering collaboration between our organisations. I am particularly passionate about the work we do in the sustainability space, sharing knowledge in keys areas such as gender diversity, regional development as well as waste and managing carbon impact.

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

London, United Kingdom

Managing the commercial strategy for Team Sky licensed cycling clothing both within Rapha retail channels and 3rd party wholesale partners globally. Sitting alongside the merchandising team and taking responsibility for planning stock commitments and monitoring the trading performance of all Rapha and Team Sky Partner products. Working closely with product development, design and supply chain teams to deliver commercially successful Team Sky products to market. In addition to Team Sky, I drafted the partnership agreements and planned the commercial offer for two later partnerships - Team WIGGINS and the CANYON SRAM UCI Women’s World Tour team. In addition to handling the commercial aspects of all 3 teams, I also took on responsibility for delivering the riders kit and managing VIK budgets associated with each sponsorship in a sports marketing capacity. This involved working closely with our product development team and external suppliers to provide riders with high performance clothing for use in competition.

London, United Kingdom

Contracting under my own company Kapiti Consulting Ltd to work within a start up clothing business. Managing all day to day aspects of the business which specialises in manufacturing premium cycle clothing for amateur events, clubs and teams. Tasks included retailing merchandise at partner cycling events, working with designers to create custom kit for clubs and corporates and coordinating with our manufacturer in Italy.

Covent Garden, London

Key Account Manager for London 2012 Event Branded merchandise. Member of the key account team tasked with generating a commercial return against the business’s €100m+ investment as a Tier 1 sponsor of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Managing the departments stores channel in London - John Lewis, Debenhams and Harrods. Securing future sales, coordinating marketing support and managing relationships with customers.

Managing a portfolio of field customers ranging from Intersport stores to running specialists.