James Pickering

General Manager Asia Pacific @ Mayborn Group Limited

About

A consumer, customer and shopper focused General Manager with strong foundations of International Sales, Marketing & financial management with extensive experience of integrated business planning, multi channel & category management & organisation development.Proven track record of building brands & categories with retailers across all trade channels and developing strong, sustainable B2B partnerships & commercial teams.

Country

City

Australia

Industry

Consumer Goods

Skill

Sales Management, FMCG, Organizational Development, Negotiation, B2B, Business Planning, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Leadership, Retail, Sales Operations, Selling, Competitive Analysis, Analysis, Market Planning, Marketing Strategy, Sales, Strategic Planning, Trade Marketing, Strategy, Shopper Marketing

Experience

General Manager Asia Pacific

Mayborn Group Limited

2017-10 - 2024-10 · 7 yrs 1 mo

Greater Melbourne Area

Proud to have built & led a high performing commercial & operational team developing the tommee tippee brand throughout ANZ & Asian markets. Full P&L & organisational responsibility in the region. Built market leadership through a comprehensive and well executed multi category and multi channel strategy (off & online)

General Manager Australia and New Zealand

Mayborn Group Limited

2013-8 - 2017-10 · 4 yrs 3 mos

Melbourne Area, Australia

Commercial Director UK&I

Mayborn Group Limited

2013-2 - 2013-8 · 7 mos

Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Global Shopper Marketing Director - Healthcare Powerbrands

Reckitt

2010-11 - 2013-1 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Slough, United Kingdom

Vice President Contract Manufacturing Services

Bioplus Life Sciences

2009-6 - 2010-9 · 1 yr 4 mos

European Director Channel Development

GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare, L.P.

2009-1 - 2009-6 · 6 mos

Senior project director within the European sales strategy team developing and implementing numerous business building initiatives across europe. Pharmacy Channel : Closed loop marketing strategy, category activation strategy in pharmacy of therapeutic oral care (sensodyne, parodontax, corsodyl) Mass Market channel : category mgt and analysis tool development and roll out.

Sales Director Central & Eastern Europe

GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare, L.P.

2006-6 - 2009-1 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Responsible for the sales & shopper marketing function across 30 markets in Central & Eastern Europe for GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare. Main priority to develop selling structures & sales people in emerging markets incl Russia, CIS, Romania, Ukraine, Poland, Hungary, Czech and to establish winning selling processes in all channels across CEE.

Trading Controller & Wal-Mart Regional Account Co-ordinator

GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare, L.P.

2002-11 - 2006-6 · 3 yrs 8 mos

4 years as the primary contact for WalMart International for Europe as well as responsible for a team of National Account managers working on Asda, Morrisons, Co-Op & discounters.