Based in Yorkshire, BRC Wealth Management provides a wide range of services as a Partner Practice of St. James’s Place Wealth Management. We have financial experience spanning over 30 years and provide personal face-to-face advice designed to suit your requirements to ensure that we build, grow and protect your wealth.At BRC Wealth Management, we have faced both simple and complex issues around retirement planning, investment and protection, and understand that your situation requires a tailored solution. Our tried and tested strategies provide innovative approaches with a focus on tax efficiency. We work to ensure that you keep and control more of your wealth for now and the future.For further details visit www.brcwm.co.uk

Improvement means change and managing change can be a big challenge. Change involves solving issues with people, processes and technology.People are one of the most valuable assets in your organisation. They are the key to driving and sustaining improvement in all aspects of your organisation. The challenge is to release the energy and creativity of each employee.Processes define where people should focus their efforts and they make it easy for people to be productive. The challenge is getting people to work together and to deliver consistent value to customers.Technology assists people by increasing productivity and efficiency in operations and processes. The challenge is getting value out of your existing investment and identifying new technologies that quickly and easily deliver value to customers.I use real and hands-on experience and practical tools and techniques to deliver effective business change successfully.Whether it is deploying some new technology or getting more out of technology that you have already implemented, I work with customers to improve their business by getting the most out of their technology and solving the issues that occur when people, processes and technology converge.

Key Achievements:★ Generating over £1.2 million of cash within 8 months, through the rigorous and effective management of working capital.★ Delivering a 45% increase in new orders by providing strong leadership and direction to a sales force, including overseeing recruitment, providing training opportunities to enable staff to operate at their full potential and building a team from scratch.★ Achieving a substantial 22% reduction in raw material and component costs by spearheading a product development programme.★ Developing an incentive scheme for sales staff, in order to motivate them to improve their performance and win further sales.★ Implementing a new CRM system to manage and measure prospects and sales activity, which has increased business success by transforming customer care.

Key Achievements:★ Delivering between 50% and 500% improvement in project bottom-line profit by reviewing and negotiating client contracts and making key changes to terms and conditions and transforming project performance management and financial reporting.★ Pro-actively managing diverse construction projects worth up to £15 million each, and successfully handling changes to the scope to deliver on time and on budget.★ Recovering more than £1 million in cash from over 100 projects in dispute in 3 months.★ Rationalising key business processes and setting up outsourcing agreements, resulting in a reduction in headcount from 30 to 18, and a reduction in overheads from £11 million to £6 million.

Key achievements:★ Providing clear direction and leadership to a team of 6 staff responsible for integrating two separate IT infrastructures across 11 locations, resulting in reduced operating costs.★ Developing and implementing a web portal to enable secure access to a wide range of corporate information.★ Successfully undertaking a wide range of IT assignments in South Africa, focusing on Enterprise Resource Planning systems.

Key achievement:★ Managing a £1.1 million project to integrate an Oracle ERP application which automated manual systems, removed stand-alone systems and delivered more efficient procurement processes.

Key achievement:★ Delivering a 300% improvement in warehouse deliveries by re-engineering the flow of goods in the warehouse.

Permanently seconded to SAPREF (Shell & BP Oil Refinery) in Durban to providing on-site high level Intel Server Support and Development.

Completing 5 years of articles gaining specialist skills in Corporate Audit, Small Business Management, Computer Audit, Liquidations, Taxation, Corporate Services and Networking and Hardware.