Tyrone Foley Email & Phone Number

New Zealand

Auckland, Parnell, NZ

• CEO of a commercial catering company with 450 staff nationwide. Libelle proudly serves hungry learners for the Ministry of Education's Ka Ora Ka Ako Healthy School Lunch programme, residential boarding schools, RSE.
• Worked with the Board & Leadership Team to develop & execute a group level strategic plan.
• Led a refinancing initiative to centralise operations & support strategic plan.
• Opened a purpose-built food manufacturing facility in Hamilton/Kirikiriroa.
• Implemented a Senior Leadership Team charter, vision, values, & agreed behaviours.
• Implemented new stakeholder communication channels. Improved alignment and trust from the boardroom to the frontline.

Auckland, Auckland, NZ

Auckland, Auckland, NZ

• A leadership position and Board member with accountability for the managing of all corporate functions, business units and brands globally. BurgerFuel Group has three premium restaurant brands, BurgerFuel, Winner.
• Developed and executed new group level strategic plan, turnaround plan, policy and budgets
• Designed & led the restructure to support the new strategies and the transformation from a single brand multi-national to a group of brands
• Since FY12 100% increase in the number of restaurant locations with a 42% decrease in Head Office staff thanks to a highly engaged Leadership Team, the adoption of technology and a more targeted and efficient growth.
• Acquired, integrated and grew a new brand called Winner Winner
• Created Winner Winner SOPs, processes, tools & franchising documents

Auckland, Auckland, NZ

A senior leadership position with Woop, a fast growing premium food kit/box provider.

London, England, GB

• Retail leadership role at BP Oil Ltd. BP has locations nationwide for retailing fuel, FMCG, café, LPG and carwash, often on a 24/7 basis. After successfully implementing SAP & Lean Retail, the BPNZ retail network was.
• Achieved Operational Excellence as we kept growing the fuel, FMCH & café businesses whilst reducing labour expenses by 25%. Sales up, costs down
• Integrated more IT systems and managed to reduce administrative duplication and save the equivalent of 65 administrators nationwide
• Digitised 90% of the training materials and transformed the training team from 6 field based trainers to 2 office based Learning & Development professionals. Improved training compliance through instant online.
• Solved an industry wide problem by working with the formative technology to read number plates. Instantly reduced fuel theft by $200k p.a. and won a global BP Helios award for the innovation
• In 2010 & 2011, we won independent industry awards for high levels or merchandising and promotional compliance. This improved the negotiating position of our Category managers and Buyers

London, England, GB

• I joined BP as part of a large Lean-Retail transformation project that was designed by Accenture and based on the principles of Lean Retail. My McDonald’s experience was put to good use designing, implementing and.
• Created & continually updated all the tools to enable a process driven operation based on the principles of Lean Retail
• Established a new nation-wide Training Team to train in the new SOPs & processes
• Established a new auditing team that would check that the new Lean Retail procedures were well embedded. Audits covered Health & Safety (H&S), Operational standards & procedures, and business controls. Compliance rates.
• Created new inventory management processes and successfully improved item availability, shrinkage, merchandising standards and management efficiency
• During a heavy period of change, I managed 1500 non-routine change events in order to harmonise processes with SAP and deliver SAP training. The business ran extremely well both prior and after the launch of SAP

Auckland, NZ

• BurgerFuel was carving out the new category of Gourmet Burgers in what was a new channel now known as Fast Casual dining. As General Manager I had 10 office staff to manage all the usual business functions including.
• Convinced the owner to open locations beyond Auckland. Commenced negotiations on 2 Wellington sites
• Implemented new marketing tactics and grew the sales by 25%
• Achieved Franchise Association certification
• Transformed the location strategy from High Street impulse to suburban convenience. This tripled the number of potential sites and the suburban sites eventually outperformed the high street sites

Chicago, Illinois, US

• The McDonald’s Field Service Manager recruits and trains new Franchisees, manages supports and advises existing Franchisees, assists with the opening of new locations and makes recommendations to Senior Management.
• Convinced 60 franchised sites to remodel their diningrooms within an 18 month timeframe
• Convinced 10 Franchisees to purchase a McCafe within a 12 month timeframe
• Managed the first 2 franchise expiries in McDonald’s New Zealand
• Raised sales by $5.5m in one year with a Drive Thru improvement project that gave the customers a faster experience
• Key presenter on Drive Thru success at annual International Convention