Stuart Rowe Email & Phone Number

Southampton, England, United Kingdom

• Strategic and operational accountability for £15m Colour/Water Measurement business through implementation of strategy in a high value/low volume electronic instrument manufacturer through design, production and.
• Amalgamation of sites resulting in reduced operating costs, simplified production processes and enhanced employee capability and contribution.
• Acquisition, integration, and site consolidation resulting in successful streamlined improvement in centralised purchasing, IT, H&S and Quality functions and reducing overheads.
• Designed and implemented value stream mapping, lean tools and one-piece flow resulting in 11% productivity improvement, eliminating repetitive processes and inefficient people practices and behaviours.
• Instigated implementation of organisation wide KPIs and led transformational culture change to deliver new ways of working and employee engagement.
• Introduced new problem solving and root cause analysis techniques and practices at all levels to improve quality and customer service – eg: one team achieving £40K annualised savings in the first year.

Strategic and operational responsibility for €80m European Electronics business. Managed three sites batch-manufacturing adhesives, die-attach and solder products to a diverse global customer base, notably the electronics and automotive markets. I successfully combined the two UK plants and relocated the merged site to Hungary. I established a progressive.

Strategic responsibility for the three UK sites manufacturing adhesives, metal pre-treatment chemicals (COMAH) and solder products employing over 100 staff and processing cost of €10m.

Directed a team of 260 staff, manufacturing solder products in £40m business, predominantly supplying the European market but providing critical intermediates to blending facilities worldwide.

Managed metal raw materials supply, including formulating a business plan for globally sourcing and recovering secondary metals to reduce raw material cost.

Strategically planned and sourced and technically/commercially assessing, on a global scale, raw material for a “custom” smelter processing low grade metal concentrates and residues. This included the management of multi-million €pa Bolivian concentrate agent.