◾Bring a strategic mindset and overview to client engagements, acting as the internal voice of the customer to enhance scope and value for mutual benefit.◾Develop and execute new account strategies and sales plans, including prospecting strategies and pitch materials to onboard new clients◾Train, provide feedback and upskill the client practice teams to deliver projects that exceed client expectations.

◾Selected and transferred to Atlanta to launch and run an online D2C and B2B channel.◾While planning, operated as right-hand man to regional president:◾Supported FP&A activities including annual planning, multi-year financial modeling and monthly raw materials reporting.◾Led S&OP, tracking sales performance against incentive plan, leveraged advanced analytics to understand sales vs market performance, calculating quarterly payouts, getting to the heart of the “why” for senior leadership, coordinating annual sales planning and assessing volumes committed against capacity constraints.◾While Chief of Staff to Global Strategy VP, designed, implemented and embedded a digital transformation for annual planning process saving an estimated 40 hours leadership time per division. This enabled automated tracking of OKRs and visibility of the overall strategy plan.

◾Led the European Inorganics Agenda, built the M&A strategy, identified potential acquisitions and built the business cases to support acquisitions such as Don Papa, Copper Dog, Belsazar, etc., resulting in the acquisition of Belsazar Vermouth, Copper Dog Whisky.◾Built the business strategy and annual plan for a new prestige business unit focused on selling old and rare scotch at RRPs up to $1M per barrel.◾Designed, developed and launched a virtual perfect store demonstrating the ideal layout for beverage alcohol (viewable here https://vimeo.com/403617984/ec4d50ce2e)◾Identified the big cash opportunity for Diageo Europe delivering significantly improved cash flow.◾Delivered efficiency savings across sales through redefining go-to-market strategy with local leadership teams in Spain, Germany and Italy and across distributor partner markets business in Eastern Europe covering over 32 different countries.◾Supported the Nigerian leadership to build their three-year strategy plan while on secondment to Nigeria.

◾Identified key M&A targets for leading snacks multinational.◾Delivered new route to market to drive client market share from 5% to 20% in Thailand for a global soft drinks manufacturer.◾Delivered growth driver recommendations and innovation strategies for a baked goods company turnaround plan.◾Restructured clients trade investments.

◾Program manager for freeze-dried coffee optimization across 3 markets, delivering $5M in annual savings.◾Recruited to apply scientific advances from pharmaceutical freeze drying to coffee.◾Built the “Cold Room of the Future” program.◾Invented new technology for freezing which negated the need for a cold room maintained at -50°C/ -58°F which would reduce energy usage, ammonia utilization and provide a safer more pleasant environment for employees.◾Designed and patented process to manufacture “Flavor Capsules.”◾Managed Technology Strategy Board collaboration with Birmingham University.

◾Formulation development scientist◾Invented tool to measure resistance of freeze dried cake to air flow for process modelling◾Developed formulations for biopharmaceutical products (liquid and lyophilized)◾Developed methods to aid and streamline lyophilization development through novel technology and process modelling◾Troubleshooted potential issues that may occur on scale up to production

Conducted a research investigation into a new method for assaying DNA for analytical purposes.Worked on the optimisation of a new biotransformation reaction.