David Harman

*Responsibility for leading the Group Merchandising Team spanning Valenciennes, Brussels, Amsterdam, Gdansk & Hong Kong. *Responsibility for the Group Category, Commercial, Buying, Sourcing, Own brand, Commercial Income, Sustainability, Pricing & Operations Team, whilst also driving key business simplification roadmaps. *Leadership of a high performing International team / 70+

*Responsibility for the Group Category Management, Product Range, Commercial Conditions, Supplier - Strategy, Performance, Income ; Business planning & Buying / Purchasing governance across all 25 International markets. *Leadership of a high performing International Commercial team, based between Marly in France, and Amsterdam.

*Proud to sit on the 'UK & Ireland Senior Management Team' for Europe's no1, and the worlds 3rd largest, workplace solution provider. *Full accountability for the Buying, Procurement, Category Management, Digital and CSR function across both the UK and Ireland. *Leadership of a high performing team of 50+

*Responsible for leading our Grocery Non Food category across the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary (Health & Beauty, Household, Baby, Pet, Tobacco and Petrol). *Leadership of a high performing international team of 50+. *Delivery of core business performance measures linked to market share growth, LFL sales, rate & quantum margin, working capital, stock, availability, price, & softer measures linked to supplier, customer, and colleague engagement.

*Management of our Impulse(Sweets, Buscuits & Snacks) Soft Drinks, Hot Beverages, Beer & Spirits category in the Czech Republic *Delivering our Customer, Category & Commercial objectives by leading a team of 25+ buyers *Responsible for leading our Cold drinks category across Central Europe

*Responsible for the E2E management of our Drinks business across Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary. *Leading an international team of 25+ Buyers across the Region, in delivering our customer, category and commercial objectives.

*Responsible for leading & landing the largest 'business transformation' program in Europe. *Developing the Price, Product, Promotional, Space & Buying strategies that will see Tesco 'win' for shoppers, implementing them across our Product function, via our Category reset program. *Leadership of an International team spanning 30 plus.

*Responsible for developing, influencing & implementing the customer strategies that drive the outperformance of our core 20 supplier partners, across every KPI, within our European region. *Management of International cross functional Commercial, Operational & Format teams. *Responsible for leading an International team of Partner Managers in managing c1.5bn, or 25 per cent of the total European region.

*Responsible for household, health and beauty, baby and paper category. *Responsible for leading the customer marketing function for both food and non food grocery. *Management of team spanning 25plus.

*Leadership of 6 Buyers, responsible for Grocery category, worth £1.4bn. *Successfully influenced, and implemented commercial wide 'better buying' initiative *Coached team to the point of each receiving a promotion within the business

*Leadership of 5 Buyers & 4 Product Development Managers, responsible for Ready Meals & Italiano Category worth c£1bn. *Successfully completed '20% more for no extra cost' step change program, improving every own label product for customers. *Presented 'in store' environment step change proposal to UK Board receiving sign off to significant Extra and Superstore investment pledge for customers. *Successfully completed 'Directorship' program.

*Leadership of a team of 3 Buyers, responsible for Cheese Category worth c£650m *Management of Customer Marketing Function (strategy + activation), leading 3 colleagues *Transfered £250m of Dairy production back to UK farming, via collaborative strategy with PTF.

*Responsbility for leading a team towards delivering strategy, sales and margin targets within the Chilled Dairy division *Sole P&L responsibility for TESCO, JS, Waitrose and the Co-op - an account base that constituted 53% of the total UK business.

*SNAM for Morrisons and ASDA - leading a team in delivering sales, promotional, distribution and format targets. *Worked with team in landing strategic 2 year partnership agreement with Morrisons, shaping a market outperforming Christmas and 'all year round' trade plan.

Joined GSK following completion of my Masters degree - held a variety of roles initally as a Business Development Manager via GSK's graduate programme within the high street channel - then moving into the Wholesale category supporting the SNAM in managing the Booker account.