Simon Chivers

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Senior Director of Sales Development and Marketing at Linde Material Handling @ Linde Material Handling
Simon Chivers's Location
Dorking, England, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
About Simon Chivers

A commercially strong executive with a proven track record in sales, marketing and category management within both the offline and online market place. Noted and commended for creating and implementing both successful sales and go to market strategies, growing top line revenues and bottom line profit within the; personal health, domestic appliance, health & wellness categories. An inspirational, highly driven and adaptive leader who can successfully navigate cross functional matrix organisations, with a proven track record within UK retail including Boots, Amazon, Tesco, Argos and John Lewis.Transferable skills• Strong strategic and commercial acumen• Winning new and growing existing clients• Client retention and rescuing failing partnerships• Digital and omni channel integration: Channel management: Talent Development • Product introduction and lifecycle management • P&L management

Simon Chivers's Current Company Details
Linde Material Handling

Linde Material Handling

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Senior Director of Sales Development and Marketing at Linde Material Handling
Simon Chivers Work Experience Details
  • Linde Material Handling
    Senior Director Of Sales Development And Marketing
    Linde Material Handling Jul 2018 - Present
    Aschaffenburg, Bayern, De
  • Philips
    Director Of Trade Shopper Marketing And Category Management
    Philips Oct 2015 - Jun 2018
    Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nl
    -Successfully created and set up the Trade Marketing function within the UK including Category Management, Trade Shopper Marketing, Creative Services and Instore Merchandising built, trained and managed a team of 20 people.-Transformed the business from ‘purely transactional’ to a true Category Management approach; i) introduced a vision and category strategy for all product areas ii) established operational processes and developed tools to support them, iii) coached the business in ‘category selling’ practices, iv) established leading KPI’s including distribution levels by account, share of shelf and space v) took full ownership of the range review process.-Introduced a Channel Management distribution strategy that grew the Philips total distribution by 9%-Introduced a true Omni channel approach; i) established integrated activation plans for our top accounts including ATL/BTL, instore and online. ii) Upskilled and trained the team ensuring they are bi-lingual (instore and online) iii) introduced e-commerce analytics and online shopper behaviour into Category Management and Shopper Marketing.-Established an ROI culture, ensuring every Account Manager optimised spend on £80m trade budget.-Built partnerships with retailer’s instore marketing teams leading to improved instore compliance (from 55% to 80%) while improving our return on investment.
  • Philips
    Head Of Sales - Specialist Retail Channel
    Philips Dec 2014 - Nov 2015
    Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nl
    -Managed the ‘Specialist Sales Channel’ equating to over 50% of the total business both in sales and profit. Managed a sales team of 10 people from Account Executives to Senior Account Managers.-Implemented a customer led ‘invest for growth’ growing sales by 10% (5% ahead of the market)-Turned around relationships with Mothercare and Superdurg, while maintaining strategic partnerships with both Boots and Argos.- Held regular Top 2 Top's and JBP review meetings
  • Philips
    Head Of Sales - Personal Care Category
    Philips Aug 2011 - Dec 2014
    Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nl
    -Managed the ‘Personal Care’ business equating to over 50% of the total business both in sales and profit. Managed a sales team of 9 people from Account Executives to Senior Account Managers.-Implemented a customer led ‘invest for growth’ strategy delivering 3 consecutive record years (both sales £43m to £56m) and margin +10%).-Achieved record share in the shaving category (63% +8%), took Lumea from number 3 in the market to number one with over 70% share, while growing the overall market by circa 40%.-Turned around relationships with Boots and Argos to true strategic partnerships delivering profitable, sustainable growth for all parties, through aligned strategies, JBP’s and KPI’s.
  • Philips
    Senior National Account Manager - Amazon And Tesco
    Philips Jul 2010 - Aug 2011
    Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nl
    Responsible for the totral Amazon and Tesco Business.Managed two direct reports (key account manager and an account executive
  • Philips
    Senior Account Manager - Amazon
    Philips Jan 2008 - Aug 2011
    Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nl
    Responsible for Amazon and developing/deploying the ‘UK Philips CL online sales strategy’Managing one direct report (Key account manager)
  • Philips
    National Account Manager - Argos, Amazon
    Philips Nov 2006 - Jan 2008
    Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nl
    Responsible for the total Amazon business as well as Argos Kitchen and Garment Care
  • Philips
    National Account Manager - Mail Order
    Philips May 2005 - Nov 2006
    Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nl
    Responsible for Shop Direct, Littlewoods, Grattan, Empire, NEXT
  • Philips
    National Account Executive
    Philips Aug 2003 - May 2005
    Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nl
    Worked and learning along side a NAM providing reporting and support while dircetly responsible for House of Frazer, Harrods, Allders, Selfridges, Grattan and Next.
  • Philips
    Senior Planning Manager
    Philips Feb 2002 - Aug 2003
    Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nl
    Managed internal product plans in line with the sales requirements. Managed logistic operations for all new grocery accounts. Responsible for inventory levels and customer availability.
  • Philips - Professional Display Solutions Uk
    Supply Chain Planner
    Philips - Professional Display Solutions Uk Sep 1999 - Feb 2002
    Responsible for supply chain from Philips european factories to key customers (Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic).

Simon Chivers Skills

Management Strategy Cross Functional Team Leadership Sales Business Strategy

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