scott williams

Working for a leading Life Science blue chip brand I am responsible for the traditional independent Garden Centre side of our UK Consumer businesses; actively driving forward new business opportunities along with growing and building strong business partnerships with our UK distributors and third party retailers. A team of 16 field personnel across the UK network assist me in delivering sales excellence to over 1000 third party retailers, taking a strategic customer segmentation approach in delivering profitable results to our stakeholders. My ‘can do’ attitude allows me to collaborate with other integral departments such as Legal & Compliance, Marketing, Business Planning, Category & Insight and Credit Control. I am an exceptionally committed team player, focused on long term and sustainable results. Delivering solutions rather than problems. I am not afraid of challenging the Status Quo to get valid points across with a commercial and professional viewpoint.

Working as a territory manager in the field was a great start to my career journey with Bayer. It gave me the foundation and knowledge to both its product portfolio and systems and processes. I was responsible for the indirect sales of circa 70 third party retailers delivering and exceeding company expectations and personal KPI’s year on year. This role perfectly set me in good stead for the next stepping stone on my personal development journey.

Following the divestment of the Bayer Garden business to SBM Life Science Ltd in Q4 of 2016, my role & responsibilities remain unchanged; I am responsible for the traditional independent Garden Centre side of our UK Consumer businesses; actively driving forward new business opportunities along with growing and building strong business partnerships with our UK distributors and third party retailers. A team of 16 field personnel across the UK network assist me in delivering sales excellence to over 1000 third party retailers, taking a strategic customer segmentation approach in delivering profitable results to our stakeholders. My ‘can do’ attitude allows me to collaborate with other integral departments such as Legal & Compliance, Marketing, Business Planning, Category & Insight and Credit Control. I am an exceptionally committed team player, focused on long term and sustainable results. Delivering solutions rather than problems. I am not afraid of challenging the Status Quo to get valid points across with a commercial and professional viewpoint.

Working for an independent family run group of garden centres for over 10 years I began my career as a weekend ‘barrow boy’ working my way up to Group General Manager for the 3 years leading up to my departure. I was an integral part of the business which in 99 launched its online e-commerce platform, which today, puts the business in an exceptionally strong ranked position within search engine analytics. In the lead up to my appointment of GM I held responsibility for the buying of garden sundries and outdoor furniture. This has been an asset to me when moving up through the ranks and beyond.