Providing strategic thinking and practical solutions to drive change in your business
Shaping strategic thinking. Identifying goals and creating plans for your business, brands and categories
Extracting value from your data and research. Identifying compelling insight through engaging storytelling
Keeping apace of change, helping you to connect with the right trends for your business
Inspiring new thinking through agile workshop facilitation, generating and evaluating new concepts
Creating impact, igniting action and optimising sales, we identify and embed tactics to achieve category/brand goals
Evaluating approach, driving efficiency, implementing best practice, mentoring teams, unlocking value & ROI
INSPIRING NEW THINKING.
CREATING IMPACT.
IGNITING ACTION.
“Ambitious and driven insight, innovation and category marketing leader, highly respected and influential at board level. An innovative thinker and strong communicator skilled in establishing compelling insight and visions to influence strategic direction and deliver tangible business wins.”
Hello
I provide strategic thinking and practical solutions to deliver marketing excellence.
I am a strategic insight, innovation and category marketing consultant with 25 years' FMCG food & drink experience. I've worked for Bakkavor, Premier Foods and Orchard House as part of Hain Daniels in Head of Marketing/Insight/Category roles working across retailer own label and branded product portfolios.
I deliver transformational results through strength of relationship and expertise. I inspire new thinking, create impact and ignite action, drawing upon my breadth of skills and experience to drive change in your business.
Some of my career highlights include:
- Being an enthusiastic, inspiring leader, managing a function through restructure
- Managing high value budgets and supplier relationships, step changing data diagnostics and research processes - acting as a voice of the consumer across the business
- Establishing strategic growth platforms to underpin business and category direction - infleuncing decision making at board/director level, amongst teams and customers
- Using my innovative mindset to facilitate workshops to inspire new thinking, unlocking commercially viable ideas and processes
- Creating transformational category and brand marketing plans, implementing tactical solutions to change consumer behaviour
I am a highly motivated, fanatical foodie who enjoys a challenge. An agent for change, continuously looking for new ways to deliver marketing excellence, enhancing performance and achieving personal, team and business goals.
Allow me to use my breadth of skills and experience to develop strategic thinking and implement practical solutions to achieve your business goals.
Mary
Mary brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to any given situation to support a business to think differently, identifying opportunities and supporting strategic development through a creative and innovative approach whilst being grounded in robust insight.
I have always been impressed with the wealth of experience and expertise Mary draws on to ensure a unique approach is given to each situation.
Ross - Bakkavor Director
Working with Mary is thought-provoking and joyful, especially in innovation and strategy development. She thinks differently, often challenging established protocols in a way which unlocks new opportunities and re-invigorates category and brand perspectives to drive growth.
Her skills in team leadership, project management and action planning are unrivalled and it is always rewarding to work with Mary.
Jules - Good Sense Research Specialist