Mark Daws

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About Mark Daws

A skilled and resourceful Commercial Executive with a specialist pedigree in Sales, Operations and Marketing disciplines; focused on the strategic enhancement of businesses, brands and retailer relationships; which has translated into organisational growth and competitiveness, for global businesses such as PepsiCo, Kellogg, Parmalat and SAB/AB-IMBEV. Having held various Key Account development, managerial and operational positions across large businesses in numerous international markets; representing both global and local CPG brands, I have a distinctive mixture of developed and developing market experience and robust commercial acumen. I am well versed in business-to-business CPG industries, executing turnaround & transformation strategies, developing sales and operations strategies across markets, leading route-to-market initiatives, understanding shopper behavior, elevating and influencing customer/retailer business and brand experience, analyzing complex data & identifying strategic insights, P&L management and guiding sustainable business development. I have a passion for people development, leading diverse teams of varying sizes and geographical spread. I believe in leading through people and producing engaged high-performance teams. I have participated in mentoring programs, diversity forums, talent management, business coaching, assisted in the development & implementation of employee value proposition guidelines, social impact programs and on-boarding of outsourced 3rd party operations business partners Functional Skills include but are not limited too: Profit and Loss Management, Sales, Marketing, People Development, Operations, Supply Chain, Merchandising, Project/Program Management, Go To Market strategy, Building and Leading high performance teams, Results Driven, NPD, Execution at Rock Face