Simon Chivers Email and Phone Number
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
Linde Material Handling
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Senior Director Of Sales Development And MarketingLinde Material Handling Jul 2018 - PresentAschaffenburg, Bayern, De -
Director Of Trade Shopper Marketing And Category ManagementPhilips Oct 2015 - Jun 2018Amsterdam, 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. -
Head Of Sales - Specialist Retail ChannelPhilips Dec 2014 - Nov 2015Amsterdam, 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 -
Head Of Sales - Personal Care CategoryPhilips Aug 2011 - Dec 2014Amsterdam, 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. -
Senior National Account Manager - Amazon And TescoPhilips Jul 2010 - Aug 2011Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, NlResponsible for the totral Amazon and Tesco Business.Managed two direct reports (key account manager and an account executive -
Senior Account Manager - AmazonPhilips Jan 2008 - Aug 2011Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, NlResponsible for Amazon and developing/deploying the ‘UK Philips CL online sales strategy’Managing one direct report (Key account manager) -
National Account Manager - Argos, AmazonPhilips Nov 2006 - Jan 2008Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, NlResponsible for the total Amazon business as well as Argos Kitchen and Garment Care -
National Account Manager - Mail OrderPhilips May 2005 - Nov 2006Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, NlResponsible for Shop Direct, Littlewoods, Grattan, Empire, NEXT -
National Account ExecutivePhilips Aug 2003 - May 2005Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, NlWorked and learning along side a NAM providing reporting and support while dircetly responsible for House of Frazer, Harrods, Allders, Selfridges, Grattan and Next. -
Senior Planning ManagerPhilips Feb 2002 - Aug 2003Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, NlManaged internal product plans in line with the sales requirements. Managed logistic operations for all new grocery accounts. Responsible for inventory levels and customer availability. -
Supply Chain PlannerPhilips - Professional Display Solutions Uk Sep 1999 - Feb 2002Responsible for supply chain from Philips european factories to key customers (Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic).
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What company does Simon Chivers work for?
Simon Chivers works for Linde Material Handling
What is Simon Chivers's role at the current company?
Simon Chivers's current role is Senior Director of Sales Development and Marketing at Linde Material Handling.
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Simon Chivers has skills like Management, Strategy, Cross Functional Team Leadership, Sales, Business Strategy.
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