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Experienced and innovative general manager with sophisticated sales, customer service and business administration skills.
 * High personal integrity, and able to relate to and create trust in all.
 * Highly articulate, confident and persuasive team-builder, able to motivate and communicate to achieve exceptional business performance.
 * Dependable and reliable in supporting and enabling team effort to produce genuine long-term sustainable development.
 * Persistent and flexible approach to the mutually beneficial achievement of business plans and personal goals of staff, suppliers and customers.
 * Honours degree in Mechanical Engineering.

Experience


 * Over 20 years proven expertise in industrial purchasing, manufacturing, logistics, business development, marketing, sales and service.
 * Background in a wide range of industries, including construction, plant hire, pharmaceutical, hygiene services and industrial process control.
 * Executive accountability for P&L, strategic planning, staffing, and sales development etc., for a $60m international technology business, in a $3bn UK plc.
 * International General Manager since 1991.
 * Management of change within the demanding and pressurised business environment.
 * Implementation of modern management practices, concerning personnel, IT, reporting systems, and partnership customer-supplier relations, etc.

Achievements


 * As production control executive with XYZ Corporation introduced pc-based systems to reduce lead-times from 7 months to 3 days, and inventory by 80% from $4.7m to $750k.
 * As materials manager with ABC Inc. introduced systems to reduce lead-times from 3 months to 7 days, and inventory from $6m to $2.5m, and 12% reduction in $12m procurement costs.
 * As operations manager with Newco Inc. a 10% reduction in £7m procurement costs.
 * As general manager for Bigco Int. business achieved growth from $800k to £5m, increased new cus