Experience
24 years experience in farming, food production and associated supply chains.
Business Consultant & Coach
- Empowering individuals
- Supporting business owners, Directors and Managers identify and deliver step change
- Analysing business structures, models, performance, opportunities and risk
- Delivering business improvement
Key achievements include:
- Identified key levers of performance
- Improved levels of informed decision making within the management team
- Empowered and supported leadership team to participate in strategic planning and the development of a suite of key activities to aid delivery
- Refined existing, and developed new business models
- Reduced operational cost and overhead
- Improved weekly operational performance
- Re-shaped labour profile and cost
- Improved buying practices, stock and cost control
- Enhanced inter-departmental collaboration
General Management
- Developing strategy
- Improving process
- Building high performing, cross functional teams
- Empowering and growing people
- Executing multi-million CAPEX Projects
- Direct reports across HR, Finance, Engineering, Operations, Procurement and Commercial
Key achievements include:
- Drove cost control and profit improvement
- Successful delivery of on time, on budget £7m investment in state-of-the-art technology to step change quality, labour costs and capacity
- Restored critical volume by delivering 2 new retail customers and achieving +75% sales growth in 3 years
- Developed new and long term supplier relationships
Commercial Leadership
- Partnering with retailers
- Utilising consumer insight and market data to deliver category plans and growth
- Negotiating prices and contracts
- Delivering share gain
- Developing strategic Joint Business Plans
- Step changing supply chains in the UK and Central Europe
Key achievements include:
- Step changed relationship with Tesco in Central Europe
- Delivered 26% growth across a >£90m portfolio
- Directly influenced Tesco’s UK marketing strategy through innovative approach to consumer insights presented to Dave Lewis
- Co-created innovative supply chain model delivering 100% of product directly from farms in Spain to Tesco's depots in the UK. Delivering game changing logistics savings and +2 days extra freshness for stores and consumers
Food Production
- Growing
- Field and factory production
- Procurement
- New Product Development
- Supply to UK multiples
- Based in the UK and Spain
Key achievements include:
- Launched UK’s unwashed baby leaf category, now worth an estimated £18 million
- Increased sold yields by >15%
- Designed, built and ran cold store and despatch facility