Simon Harris

Background

About Simon Harris

I help people and organisations to meet and exceed their business goals through comprehensive business operations leadership. I developed substantial experience directing overall aspects of business operations and driving sustainable profit growth within facility management, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, and other industries. I have a significant record of success formulating and executing profit generating strategies, leading high performing teams, developing energy, and manufacturing repair operations products, providing expert-level industry insight, reducing operating cost, maximising business revenue, conducting business reviews, optimising business development efforts, minimising marketplace volatility, and streamlining business activities and routes to market. I am deft at leading large-scale bids across multiple countries and introducing robust risk management processes for key deliverables. I am instrumental in implementing wide reaching change management programmes to recover business into profitability, delivering new international strategy, and managing, sourcing and closing bids for cGMP regulated facilities across EMEA region. I am a renowned strategic thinker with a history of business unit success and strategic business development. I am an articulate and refined communicator/negotiator with an innate ability to build robust relationships with clients and team members, resulting in achieving challenging business goals. Some of my key milestones including: Reduced operating overhead by 45% and enhanced efficiency through the sourcing and implementation of an ERP system. Saved operating costs by 12%, increased profitability by 42%, and developed new products for market through the successful implementation of a change programme. Transformed a business into profitability for first time from significant losses to an 11% profit by implementing a three year plan.