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Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Manchester, United Kingdom

Blackburn, United Kingdom

Responsibility for all the Sales and Marketing team activities in three key business areas.General Weighing Equipment - Bench scales to Large Twin Platform Scales Checkweighers and Metal Detection - In line checkweighing and MD systemsStevens Software - Providing full Traceability Management Systems specifically for Goods In, Recipe and Portion Control , Average Weight monitoring, Checkweighing, Goods Out and Despatch and can include integration into ERP systems. .Specifically developing growth plans that enhance our strong position in the Bakery sector and generate further growth in the wider food industry strategically in Dairy, Meat and Fish, Confectionary and Processed Foods. Building growth plans that support our already strong position in the Cash Handling sector.Exploring opportunities in the wider Industrial markets, including Chemicals, and Plastics production.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Actively supporting new business projects, recent projects include - Feasibility Study for a new Polymer, and Commercial Strategy and Relationship management, and Business Intelligence in a Chemical Application.Also providing general business mentoring and support in leadership development, commercial strategy and growth plan development.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Key Responsibilities & Achievements:Commercial leadership of Cargill Starches and Sweeteners in UK & Ireland, managing 6 product lines, with a total sales responsibility in excess £ 120 million and a leading market share , achieved with a dedicated team of 9 commercial and technical members. • Delivered sustainable annual EBITDA growth, through innovation & new business development projects with key business partners. Responsible for strategy formulation, opportunity space mapping, portfolio strategy, new product development and market penetration. • Accelerated growth plan in place for commercial area through optimized innovation project pipeline with key growth partners, while implementing customer segmentation and improving our operational performance and cost to serve. • Strived for customer satisfaction and loyalty of all customer partners since 2008. Achieved through joint development plans, customer value statements, business reviews with senior sponsors, and delivery of key product development & process optimization initiatives. Achievement resulted in higher business share, market share penetration and margin optimization with key strategic partners during last two years. • Lead Customer Segmentation process to deliver optimal value and service to key strategic partners. • Management of commercial strategy process and ensured support to business unit management for all key commercial business development initiatives.Member of Local Management Team with responsibilities for leadership in managing all aspects of the operations including Safety, Local Strategy, and EAT.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Management of Commercial, Technical and Engineering teams.Overall responsibility for sales of appx. £25 million, in a wide variety of technical applications in the Industrial Sector , primarily Paper and Board Industry, Corrugated Packaging, industrial Binders, Chemicals and Construction Industry. Personal European Key Account responsibility, for two Pan EU. Accounts (T/O appx. £15 million) in Paper and Board sector.Sales and Project Management of Engineering Installations for product processing.

Responsible for change management in the commercial area for a number of EU locations, switching to the JDE one Platform system. Identifying gaps / soluitions and working with Process architects and project teams to ensure current and future business needs were met.Project Director for Manchester roll out

Technical Sales and Development for industrial applications