Simon Bates is a Business Operations Manager at Symbiotics Ltd at Symbiotics. He possess expertise in manufacturing, business strategy, materials, product development, negotiation and 29 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "On joining the company in 2012, I identified Simon as a knowledge and communication hub and key resource within the company. He had accumulated expert knowledge about the technical nature of the materials and products blended with a pragmatic and practical approach. He was well aware of the extensive company ( direct and agency) sales network from USA to the Urals and most importantly their personalities/cultures and how to achieve the best from each of them. He managed to balance the objectives of optimising profitability, ensuring the products were specified correctly by the technical and sales organisations while retaining a competitive edge. Simon is very organised, managed his department well and worked tirelessly interfacing between our Chinese manufacturing companies, sales organisations and customers to achieve high customer retention rate. He has a high aptitude for IT and organised and co ordinated the detailed sales customer budgeting process well. His development of the costing and estimation mechanism enabled a good control over margins. He was a senior and trusted manager to all the senior directors and the "go to " person for status on any customer orders or issues. If I were to describe him I would say: Organised, committed , trusted, reliable , could lead and follow,can work under pressure ,not afraid to voice concerns while retaining an amiable manner, loyal, and a great communicator. In summary ,"he got things done well " I unreservedly recommend him. " and "Simon and I worked together for seven years. He was instrumental in the formation of a excellent business unit located in the UK. As Simon gained experience in the industry, he obtained and implemented new stratedgies to help our company win sales contracts. Resourceful and loyal are two words I can use to describe Simon's attributes."