Richard Bowden

WORK HISTORY

ABOUT RICHARD BOWDEN

I have worked for over 20 years in a variety of Commercial roles across the International Travel Industry. This experience has included fast growing business unit start ups, like Advantage (now Firefly, a Hertz brand) which grew to being a $100M+ business in less than 5 years, to mature business divisions managing large Sales teams of 200+ employees across 18 countries producing more than $1BN in revenue. I\'ve had experience building high performing teams in a variety of positions during my tenure with my current employer Hertz, where I have been promoted to a new role on average every 2 years in the business. These teams have been used to working at a fast pace, and include Digital companies, specialising in Online Travel Distribution. The trading culture allows the team to closely manage the business and to meet revenue targets, volume plans and revenue per days targets. In my most recent role, and a previous role, I\'ve had direct P&L responsibility, and am used to planning, forecasting and setting objectives to achieve set Business Plans. This has included formulating and executing strategies and initiatives to meet these objectives. As an individual I am very comfortable using data and analytics to aid business decisions. In fast paced businesses it is vital to be able to act and adapt quickly with actions to address underperformance to meet trading targets, and also take incremental revenue opportunities to over achieve plan. Whilst I am comfortable setting out a vision and building a strategy, I am also happy to get into the detail, and roll my sleeves up and get involved in the business to drive positive outcomes.