Wayne Thompson Email & Phone Number

London, GB

London, England, United Kingdom

Horsham, West Sussex

West Sussex, United Kingdom, United Kingdom

• Setting the customer marketing strategy
• Leading and coaching a team of two direct reports to deliver the collective strategy
• Managing and developing customer relationships across all channels (Grocery, Out of Home, Discount)
• Developing a distribution culture within the building, leading to improved household penetration
• Review and management of our data partners, ensuring that we have the right tools to succeed today and tomorrow

Horsham, West Sussex, United Kingdom

• Full responsibility for the management of strategic growth for retail accounts, Morrisons and Co-op.
• Key areas of the role include P&L management, JBP, commodity price negotiations and agreeing promotion and NPD activity to drive the business forward

• Merchandiser for several buying areas worth c.£660m pa
• Responsibility for the project management of nationwide range reviews
• Delivering analysis to support the customer choice decisions
• Managing relationships with the supply base.
• Continuous investigation into driving trading intensity
• Helping deliver the range and space elements of the category vision.

London, United Kingdom

• Finance Business Partner to the Own Brand Division - (7 Teams, c.150 Colleagues)
• Responsibility for the sales, central costs and operating expense budgets
• Delivering monthly finance presentations at the divisional cascade
• Providing financial analysis which supports the Product Development process (pre and post development).
• Providing finance support to the CR agenda, helping drive forward several commitments on the CR 20 by 2020 plan
• Delivering the monthly Commercial Review to the Trading Director

• Preparing the Corporate budgets / forecasts for the company; covering both total growth and like-for-like sales. (Sales Budget in excess of £20b)
• Prepare accurate reporting of corporate sales (including LFL) for dissemination to the wider business
• Weekly & Periodic Reporting on key company metrics– Sales, space, inflation & barker size.
• Cross functional working to develop and improve reporting tools.

• Production of the Periodic Retail Balanced Scorecard
• Completing the 12 Week Post Implementation Reviews for Invested Stores
• Analysis and tracking of Sales & Like for Like performance, Promotions, Stunts and Trends
• Zonal and Regional Analysis to support the Retail Director in his Quarterly Reviews
• Fill in for Zone Finance Manager’s when away to provide financial analytical support to their Zone Managing Director’s.
• Management of 1

London, United Kingdom

• Production of the ‘SkyTalk’ Detailed P&L for Month End Management Accounts
• Periodic reconciliation of Balance sheets and the GL.
• Bank Reconciliation
• Weekly Cashflow
• Preparation and analysis of Management Accounts on a periodic basis
• Maintain the Fixed Asset Register

London, United Kingdom

• Managing the Internal Operational Position of the ‘Optimus’ Brand through a series of reports
• Liaising with key stakeholders to explain and resolve variances
• Internal Controls Compliance Testing (Sarbanes-Oxley)
• Project Support (SkyTalk Ramp-Up)