Warren Satchell

About Warren Satchell

With over 15 years of global leadership experience, I excel in driving business transformation, financial turnarounds, and multimillion-dollar growth across fashion/apparel, food and beverage, and homewares industries. I have a proven track record managing 10-figure P & Ls, leveraging collaborative leadership and strategic planning to achieve results. Skilled in building strong relationships and driving consensus among culturally diverse stakeholders, I am adept at cultivating high-performing teams and advising executive leadership. I bring a strong executive presence and effective communication style, influencing outcomes with VPs, C-levels, and Board Members. Thriving in dynamic environments, I lead with a servant-based approach, prioritizing team success and delivering strategic recommendations for brand development and innovation.Happy to chat about a project, opportunity, or just advice in general. Feel free to shoot me a message at s••••••••@gmail.com.

Experience

1. Global Consulting Director

   WGSN

   Jul 2021 — Present · New York, NY, US

   Drive an 9-figure pipeline. Serve in a multi-faceted leadership and consulting role involving strategic planning, tactical implementation, and day-to-day management of product marketing, merchandising, brand activation, and rebranding projects for major enterprise accounts across diverse industries. Direct all business development, account and people management functions of the global consulting practice, including influencing the firm\'s strategic direction, recruiting and managing the consulting team, and driving account expansion strategies. Manage all strategic, financial, and operational aspects of client projects, including budgets, schedules, timelines and deliverables, stakeholder communication, risk assessment and mitigation, project progress tracking and reporting, and conflict resolution. Plan and execute comprehensive market, consumer, and brand analyses to generate insights and recommendations that influence clients’ product marketing, merchandising, and brand positioning strategies. Establish and maintain relationships with executive leadership across the creative, marketing, and product divisions of strategic accounts to collaboratively formulate and implement product/brand strategies, programs, calendars, and partnerships. Methodologies include case studies, competitive analyses, data analyses, focus groups, interviews, observations, open-ended surveys, and textural analyses.Key Projects & Achievements: Delivered 30% YoY growth in client retention by driving the successful delivery of projects. Conducted market analysis and crafted a future-state merchandising strategy for a $1.5B food and beverage company. Crafted big idea reports impacting the spring, summer, fall, and holiday product calendars for a $5B home décor company. Advised an $800M D2C luxury paint brand on adapting to shifts in consumer sentiment, behavior, and brand expectations. Promoted 1 team member out of a 6-member global consulting team.

Education

• D'Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University

  Master's of Science, Innovation

• Virginia Commonwealth University

  B.A., Fashion Merchandising