Barry is the Retail Practice Area leader. Barry is a retail operations specialist having worked at senior levels for some of UK largest retailers and telecommunications businesses. Barry’s experience covers every retail format as well as almost every retail category from food to clothing, electrical to stationery, DIY to services, Telecoms to sports and leisure.
Practice Areas
- Retail
- Customer Management
- Business Turnaround
- General Management
- Marketing and Sales
- Coaching and Development
Primary Capabilities
Creative, pragmatic and hands-on leader, who operates as an Interim Director, Senior Manager or consultant in retail and customer facing businesses. Addicted to improving sales and operational performance through changing practices, changing mind sets and improving customer centricity. A track record of achieving results in different challenging environment. Experience executive specialist head-hunter. Operates on a portfolio and full time contract basis.
Preferred Activities
Supporting Retail / Customer facing businesses on either a consultancy or interim management basis. Executive and specialist headhunting.
Core Offer
- Retail operations expertise across all functions
- Customer facing expertise
- Executive and specialist headhunting
Other disciplines offered:
- Customer alignment/management
- Market research
- Branding
- Business turnaround
- Mentoring
- Coaching and development
- General commercial management
Primary Sector Experience
- Consultancy
- Retail
- Charity Retail
- Telecommunications
Areas of Distinctive Performance and Value-Addition
- P&L Management
- Team development including mentoring
- Creative problem solving
- Change Management – instigation to management
- Cost reduction programmes
- Process analysis and improvement
- Customer Insight, alignment and management
- Planning/managing projects within budget and timetable
- Presenting concepts and progress
- Building relationships
- Alignment of business Vision, Mission statement, Objectives, Strategies and Tactics
- Experienced executive and specialist head hunter
Qualifications and professional memberships
- MBA (Henley Management College)
Employment Summary
| Consultant, Barrington Retail Solutions | 2003 - present |
| Operations Director, Stationery Box | 2001 - 2003 |
| MD Retail, Chameleon Group | 2000 - 2001 |
| DSG, Various executive positions | 1995 - 2000 |
| Safeway, Various executive positions | 1988 - 1995 |
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