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Emmanuel is a highly accomplished results-driven retail leader with 30+ years’ experience at both CEO and board level background in multi-national companies, including blue-chip brands such as Levi’s, The Body Shop and Samsonite.
He has held autonomous P&L ownership of multi-site, multi-channel businesses, securing boardroom-level ‘buy-in’ for expansion and growth strategies, including M&A projects. This has involved managing €/£ multi-million budgets and targets, delivering sustainable sales and profit performance, and taking businesses to increased shareholder value.
Emmanuel is particularly strong in both setting the strategic vision and also the delivery of detailed operational planning across every aspect of store operations, retail branding and marketing, logistics and supplier relations. He enjoys a stellar reputation for building empowered modern working environments, setting clear KPIs and achieving results by developing high-performance teams.
Emmanuel is a multi-lingual, cosmopolitan world-citizen, quick to adapt to new cultures and organisational challenges, and highly relatable at any level of seniority, from shopfloor to boardroom. He has a probing, inquisitive management style, with a natural curiosity, thirst for knowledge, and a particular passion for sustainability projects.
He has unusually wide ranging experience in International multi-site and multi-channel retail and wholesale management through various categories, business models and channels - including sourcing, negotiating, contracting new clients/suppliers, and partner management - and a proven record of success in brand development, new market, product and marketing development.
If you want to ensure that your retail business or franchise is fit for the future or needs operational review / re-engineering, then Emmanuel is the ideal resource to ensure maximum productivity with minimum disturbance to your current business operations.
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