I have completed similar assignments in the senior strategic and operational roles I have held in Mars, Boots or Reckitt. There I have learned and refined approaches, as well as actually deployed the recommendations in the businesses.
My experience spans a broad range of categories, consumer goods such as food, pet food, personal care, and household as well as highly regulated categories, e.g. OTC, and also a wide range of geographies, having worked in or closely with many markets in Europe and Asia, Australia, the US and Canada.
I work end to end – from big picture to delivery –, and will recommend solutions that are achievable and can make things happen.
I will start by understanding your business – the numbers, the background, the challenges but the people dynamics and ways of working.
I can build strong relationships with senior stakeholders as well as junior ones. I can challenge thinking positively, bring along teams and inject energy and urgency.
You want to agree on tight and specific pieces of work that are time-limited and will make a difference to your business quickly.
You want to work with somebody that has done this before – in the real world, not just in theory.
You are looking for deeply tailored, integrated support; not looking to work with a consultancy that may give you big-picture solutions that don’t work in practice, will be expensive and cause significant internal disruption and concern.