Simon is a highly motivated and experienced retail executive, with an extensive knowledge of brands, products, and their markets. He is commercially driven, with experience across a variety of business models and consumer demographics, that include department stores, premium brands, high street, and discount warehouse retailing. He’s gained significant retail management experience across home appliances, consumer electronics, general merchandise, home, and apparel. Simon has a proven track in retail expansion and store format transformation, with high levels of skill and expertise in marketing, store design and visual merchandising. His depth of knowledge lies in understanding how customers connect with a product and brand. Identifying what are the key drivers of consumer behaviours and anticipating the changes that new products and technologies bring. He believes in educating consumers through a seamless experience that drives sales and builds brand salience.Simon has helped shape and deliver the customer value proposition for multiple retailers. Consistently striving for excellence, creating opportunities of engagement and experience, whilst adhering to lean and scalable business practices. A futurist, he has a vision for the tomorrow, whilst being focussed on the today. He achieves his KPI’s by leading, planning, and collaboratively implementing strategies. Often, operating in a highly pressured fast-paced environment across multiple business partners. Simon is calm, engaging, a natural diplomat, who believes in strong cross functional stakeholder engagement. He takes a humanistic approach to others, leading and motivating through an approachable ‘open door’ style, with a focus on building strong teams and developing talent.
Listed skills include Visual Merchandising, Merchandising, Retail, Fashion, and 26 others.