I am a successful business leader able to apply strategic thinking and deliver strong financial results in the process. I have well developed leadership, business development, communication and general management skills and I am comfortable with the level of responsibility required to successfully manage a significant P&L / budget within a large business.As an experienced General Manager with over 25 years of building businesses and teams within the Market Research landscape, I currently hold a range of responsibilities within the Ipsos organisation: • Global Head of Observer – where we provide our clients with access to more than 100 markets around the World using a variety of different approaches• Service Line Leader for the Observer UK business – where we provide our many clients with direct access to Ipsos’ vast operational infrastructure, and ensure we always provide the optimal approach for their needs and price value thresholds• UK Board Sponsor for the Compliance and Quality functions – responsible for ensuring we maintain the high standards and integrity that clients have come to expect from Ipsos UK• Business Lead for our Global Translations Solution – where we have leveraged the huge amounts of material routinely translated by Ipsos and combined that with Translation Memory technology in order to bring greater efficiency to any multi-country work we conduct for clients Key Strengths• A natural people manager and a committed team player• A strong, commercially driven general manager with a broad skill set• Building solid client relationships and developing significant revenue streams• Firm grounding in all research methods and with a strong understanding of the pitfalls associated with international research• As a client facing, generalist researcher I am comfortable dealing with a wide variety of research issues, subject matters and clients and I am used to dealing with multiple research stakeholders.• A versatile and adaptable operator able to apply sound judgement to an eclectic mix of responsibilities within a large Global organisation