Guy Blaikie

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ABOUT GUY BLAIKIE

As a highly motivated, commercially astute and trusted executive leader with extensive networks across the NZ FMCG industry, I have spent over 20 years at Lion NZ (formerly Lion Nathan) across 10 roles in various facets of the business. Through being a goal and results-driven leader who promotes team achievement through clear strategic alignment and focus, I have risen to an executive position within the organisation. Over my time at Lion, I have become known as a passionate leader who drives results through enhancing people and stakeholder engagement, performance management, organisational structural design, crisis and change management. Within my role as National Sales Director, I have been the sponsor of a successful SAP implementation and led a shift of the Lion NZ head office, sat on the executive team dealing with COVID-19 and helped to mitigate a cyber-attack which brought Lion’s business to a standstill. Core Competencies:• Highly respected throughout the FMCG community due to customer-first approach and integrity • Builds strong, mutually beneficial relationships and rapport with customers and other stakeholders• Creates and implements strategy, tracking using values and purpose as key alignment mechanisms • Demonstrates end-to-end management with ownership of business strategy and P&L accountability • Leads, coaches and mentors high performing, diverse, cohesive and autonomous management teams• A proven track record of people and stakeholder engagement through significant change or crisis• Organisational design and change management, leading through uncertainty and ambiguity• Displays empathy during hard discussions with impacted people whilst linking to business strategy• Creates value through organisational reviews, lower overheads, higher efficiency and more success• Skilled in effective commercial and contract negotiation, with sound decision-making under pressure