Philip Craig

Key skill areas: strategic management, operations management, leadership, business growth, negotiation, sales, financial control, purchasing, stock management, staff performance, commercial refurbishment project management, customer satisfaction, P&L analysis, compliance, HR, training, retail marketing, FMCG operations. I am a top-performing and norm-challenging senior management professional, equipped with evidenced expertise built from the ground up in FMCG retail. Currently CEO and managing director, I have risen through a career founded on deep collaboration and empowerment of first-class teams. My leadership approach is to run towards business challenges, find solutions to problems, and I have a track record of spearheading high-volume operations and steering performance across a range of departments in the retail sector. Progression and constant learning have been at the heart of my career. Building through duty management into store management, operations management and now MD, my experiences with different FMCG retailers have given me the chance to hone a particular expertise in business process transformation, where I have a passion for finding and quickly enhancing underperformance, as well as thinking creatively, championing efficiency, and supporting teams to reach their potential. My vision as a seasoned business leader is to position a business for success, as well as my own professional growth. I thrive in challenging markets, bringing sharp analytical capacity to retail leadership, where I am skilled at the fine detail of managing finance and performance metrics, as well as top-level business planning and control. As an experienced leader, I possess a wealth of clear outcomes during my career and I am highly self-propelled and rigorous in delivering high impact to ensure company success. Retail industry professionals, colleagues and parties interested in networking are welcome to make contact.