Neil Franklin
Director of Buying - Ambient (Dry Goods, Drinks, Non Food Grocery and General Merchandise) @Ocado Retail
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WORK HISTORY
Director of Buying - Ambient (Dry Goods, Drinks, Non Food Grocery and General Merchandise) @Ocado Retail
Hatfield, GB
I sit on the Ocado Retail Commercial Leadership Team and wider business wide Ocado Senior Leadership Team. I work for our Chief Commercial Officer.I lead the trading team for our Ambient business. My role is to lead our team of ~60 buyers and merch planners with my 8 direct reports, managing the usual metrics of any trading team, plus the considerable insight we get from being Pureplay retailer. We are the custodians for over 70% of the customer range on Ocado.com here in the UK, across our Ambient Food, Drinks, BWS, Non Food Grocery and General Merchandise business.The products and suppliers the team work with range for global leaders such as P&G and Coca Cola to the latest entrepreneurs for which Ocado has a rich and proud heritage working with. This is done in conjunction with our joint venture partner M&S and their internationally recognised quality own brand products to give our customers a leading choice of goods, combined with Ocado\'s outstanding customer service.If you are interested in joining Ocado Retail, I do recommend it, after all I have joined Ocado twice;) our job board is herehttps://careers.ocadoretail.com/job-board/If you are interested in supplying Ocado please use this link, we are always looking for the next trend and we were once a start up, and whilst we have grown up a little, we haven\'t stopped innovating.https://supplyocado.comThey are the best routes, but please do feel to reach out to me via a direct message here in LinkedIn.
EDUCATION
Loughborough University
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Retail Management
ABOUT NEIL FRANKLIN
Experienced Director/Senior Leader, with a background in strategic and commercial roles, who has adapted to have a truly unique experience now in Ecommerce, Commercial, Trading, at market leader Tesco, pureplay leader Ocado, start up (qcomm) Getir, consulting at Waitrose & 4C and sales at Hovis. I operate at a very senior level, developing strategies, leading teams, operating models, all to deliver P & Ls. Offering a rich background of experience in E-Commerce Merchandising,Buying, Procurement and FMCG sales across the Multi-channel retail arena, adapting with the changing models of retail over my career.A strong track record of business and customer proposition development, delivering commercial targets. Demonstrating excellent stakeholder management internally and externally working with and for market leading companies to enable strategic goals to be implemented. Professional passions include: Turning a vision into strong strategic plans that deliver sustainable and scale benefits.Reviewing and enhancing existing operating models for benefits in efficiency or experience. Strong leadership to enable personal and team development.Developing great quality products for customers with strategic supplier partners.Customer led category insight to set the pace for that offer.
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