🍃 David Morris 🍃

Managing Shopify subscription orders & customer queries plus sending out current and back issues across the World

Interim - competence in sourcing and managing suppliers, retailers such as M&S, Next, Sainsbury's, Planet Organic, Waitrose, John Lewis and manufacturing partners Orexis Fresh Foods, including Far East expertise. Ability to innovate using market insight, global trends, and competitor analysis, delivering first to market propositions, with underpinning data.

- Build connections and relationships through listening, learning and understanding how to support UK and International food and drink brands to growth in the UK market. - Strategize through different and unconventional routes and channels where live opportunities exist to create listings and reach consumers.

- Identified innovation aligned to health themes: gut, cognitive, immune, weight, women’s health, mental wellbeing, and healthy ageing - Engaged key stakeholders to explore relevance and fit with Food Matters Live’s event portfolio - Built tailored outreach strategies to introduce event partnership opportunities and elevate brand visibility

• Launched and built sales pipeline for UK sectors including retail, foodservice, and direct to consumer. • Strategized through unconventional routes to create listings and reach consumers. • Liaised directly with Co-Founder and key stakeholders for operations, sales, marketing, and more.

1. Supplier and manufacturing relationships - manage the process for sourcing partners for co-manufacturing of products, overseeing recipe development and production, signing off specific requirements, track regulations and monitor certification, discuss packaging specs, explore and make recommendations. 2. Innovation and product development - development of new products like bars, drinks etc, shortlist potential manufacturers, work with development teams to ensure that the specs and methods of any products being developed work with our ingredients. 3. Commercial / Business Development - working alongside the CEO / Co-Founder and the e-commerce team to develop the commercial side of the business, this might be strategy, branding, developing new target demographics, but also identifying and managing various processes with logistics, wholesalers, retailers, and others. Involvement in representing the brand at trade fairs.

• Developed new business proposals and managed projects independently, liaising with clients to drive project success. • Increased online presence and business interest for FBDC through social media and exploring new avenues for growth. • Collaborated with team to achieve financial targets and goals through project delivery and new business revenue.

• Involved in researching retail pricing, strategy, product offering and ingredients in the Pet Industry on behalf of a new brand entering the UK market. Therefore used gap analysis to spot and identify opportunities for vegan human grade natural ingredient dog treats and snacks. • Also contacted retailer buyers, independents, distributors and online stores to discuss first hand the current market landscape to understand the potential areas for growth.

- Organising and co-ordinating Covid testing for Professional Sportsman & Woman, TV celebrities, film crew and actors plus any other VIPs

STUDIED PRODUCT / INDUSTRIAL DESIGN