Key SkillsPrivate Equity▪Construction▪Retail▪Activity Based Costing▪Mergers & Acquisitions▪Supply Chain▪KPI's▪Process Improvement▪Key AchievementsStrategic• Recapitalise subsidiary entities and dispose of SBU’s, including dealing with lawyers, accountants and auditors.• Develop the 5 Year strategic plan for the Global trading company in Europe with growth plans for Eastern Europe but especially Hungary and Romania.• Identify add-on/complementary products source, price and package for the UK construction market.Commercial• Undertake activity based customer and product profitability models and garner savings of £5.2m across multiple companies.• Reduced sealants SKU’s by 10%, whilst increasing prices by 20% and reducing terms to 30 days.• Commercial modelling and contractual review for the largest contract landed in UK including additional price increase opportunities.• Work with Global Sales Manager on mapping sales process to ensure enhanced delivery of budgets and strategic plan targets & supporting New Product Development projects.Operational• Identified $170 saving from managing down plugged cavities to free up capacity and thereby bringing parts of production back in-house in China and Germany.• Designed and implemented shared services model for the integration of transactional activities into the UK, saving $596k per annum.• Identify temp reduction of 5 heads by smoothing headcount against production volumes, saving $165k.• Identify $100k of supply chain savings in China through in depth process analysis.• Reduced rent costs by £150k by adjusting factory foot print.Finance• Work with Tax teams to deliver $875k of tax benefits and model an additional $2.3m by re-organising the sales structure.• Reduce close calendar from 13 days to 2.5 days and deliver improved reliability and accuracy to the numbers.• Identify and deliver various operating cost saving projects in excess of £10m. • Multiple ERP upgrades and deployments across Europe.