Jonathan Kerley

Background

About Jonathan Kerley

As an agile senior leader, I am committed to two core values: Customer First and Trust You To Do Your Job. These principles guide me in leading high performing teams to deliver sustainable growth for our business and partners. Growing my team’s capability is essential to maintaining a Customer First focus. I passionately believe that everyone’s legacy should be to leave the company in a stronger position than when they started. We achieve this through a commitment to coaching across all functions, ensuring the foundations for growth are in place, and never shying away from difficult decisions. These are the cornerstones of our Customer First focus. Over the past 25 years, I have led high-performing teams to deliver outstanding results across a broad range of markets, including Fast Moving Consumer Goods, Agriculture, Chemicals, and Telecommunications. My experience includes managing partnerships with Australia’s leading retailers for the brand portfolios of Coca-Cola, Telstra, Kraft/Heinz, SPC, Grinders Coffee, Urban Alley Brewery, Urban Armour Sanitiser, and True East Beverages across over 50 categories. As a leader who engages easily at all levels, my teams have been responsible for strategic growth relationships with all major Australian grocery, mass merchandise, convenience, liquor, and agriculture retailers. Building trusting relationships remains my prime focus when working with large, complex customers. As a natural communicator, my strengths lie in setting our strategy, simplifying complex challenges, and leading people to focus and execute our agreed plan. I derive great satisfaction from working with customers and tackling their new challenges, as these provide opportunities to draw upon diverse capabilities within the organisation. It is always through the collective effort of people thinking and challenging each other that we find our way forward. Referees will highlight my proven resilience in challenging situations, which is especially relevant in today’s and the coming years’ context.