Talent Consulting provides consultancy and training services to both private and public sector clients.
I formed the business at the end of 2001 to share the experience gained in senior management and executive roles within a number of international companies. Successful assignments have so far included:

Process review and operational performance improvement projects.
Executive mentoring projects in both private and public sector organisations.
Team development and management and leadership programmes.
Quality management systems and business excellence programmes.
Capacity building and governance projects within the public sector.

I also teach advanced manufacturing and innovation as part of the Manufacturing Institute’s Diploma course and have alos delivered training as part of the South East England Development Agency's Rural Business Project.

Achievements:

Carried out a major restructuring of the business and its two overseas subsidiaries and turned around a significantly loss making business within 12 months.
Personally negotiated and won major contracts against international competition and re-established the business as a European market leader.
Applied world-class practices including lean manufacture, continuous quality improvement, six-sigma and a team based culture.
Established a strategy for future profitable business growth.
Prepared the business and facilitated its sale to a major US competitor.

I took over the Bühler group of companies at a time when the business was making a significant loss. Operating internationally, BMGL had subsidiaries in Germany and France and more than 20 distributors worldwide. The company manufactured water sampling and flow measurement equipment.

Restructuring the business involved implementing a major change in business strategy, developing the management team, closing or outsourcing loss making activities, implementing world-class business practices and taking personal responsibility for UK and overseas distributor sales channels.

In 1999 I played a pivotal role in the sale of the business to a major competitor in the USA. I was then instrumental in integrating BMGL into the new owner’s $300m global environmental business and establishing it as a prime manufacturing site and European centre of excellence.

Achievements:

Increased profitability within the Manufacturing Division by 20% in two years and developed a 5-year business strategy for the manufacturing operation
Reduced inventory levels to 45 days within a high technology make to order instrumentation business and achieved record on time delivery performance and productivity levels.
Managed an effective Kaizen continuous improvement programme.
Managed a successful simultaneous engineering team.

In this position I ran an autonomous manufacturing business. This included P&L and operational accountability for a division producing instrumentation for the process, environmental and medical sectors. The division was engaged in product testing, electrical assembly, PCB assembly, precision micro-component assembly and CNC machining. It employed 130 people.

The Manufacturing Division was world class in its sector and under my leadership generated growth in profit, reduced working capital and significantly exceeded its world-class performance targets.

Achievements:

Relocated a multi site operation to new purpose-built high volume facility.
Increased production efficiency (+75%) and reduced direct costs and achieved significant reductions in WIP and stock inventories.
Successfully managed a major customer account.
Introduced SPC, planned maintenance, performance metrics and established procedures to help the company achieve ISO 9001 accreditation.
Implemented a new corporate business system.