Chief Digital and Technology Officer
- Digital Business & team builder with 21 years experience - Visionary result orientated leader - Three large complex successful digital & omnichannel transformations (Rewe Group €57Bn, Tesco plc and Kingfisher plc) across food, non-food retail - P/L responsibility as CEO of rewe-digital and as rewe-group CDO of € 900M - Just under €10Bn of turnover across all platforms built and launched - M&A experience from small to large deals: Zooroyal.de € xxM (strategy, integration, turnaround, growth to over €xxxM in 3 years), Commercetools € xxM (strategy, deal, coaching and growth to a market value of over €xxxM in 3 years), Kuoni travel (due diligence, deal (€xxxM) and integration via a newly back-office automated platform), Argos £900M m (strategy, due diligence, bid, transaction and PMI), Bestfood $10Bn Deep skills in: - Leadership and talent growth - Strategy - from store/product centric to customer centric retailing (unique Customer ID) , from linear retail operating model to ecosystem based retail operating model - Digital Marketing (creatives, usability - mobile first, performance, big data, monetisation, real-time analytics, content and media buying), - Operations and Logistics (9 warehouses, logistics - 1000’s people & 1000’s trucks, network optimisation, category management and pricing, single item picking goods to man automation and robotics), - Technology (mobile first, product development, built proprietary omnichannel multi-tenanted platform based on microservices, cloud based serverless software, agile ways of working, also implemented commercial ecommerce platforms, commercial contracts, outsourcing, ERP, big data, automation and robotics), - Omnichannel (mobile first, real time global stock view and unique customer ID, new ecosystem where stores are treated as perfectly positioned mini-warehouses), - Finance (capital investment, P/L, management accounting, performance reviews in real time), - Marketplaces successfully built and launched
Current Role
- Company Name: Kingfisher plc
- Job Title: Chief Digital and Technology Officer
- Start Date: May 2022
- Company Industry: Retail
- Location: Shirley, England, United Kingdom
Previous Company:
- Company Name: Kingfisher plc
- Job Title: Chief Digital Officer (CDO)
- Start Date:
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