What I offer
A highly experienced financial professional with broader management skills honed over 30 years in the marketing communications sector
- Working with management teams on strategy and planning for development
- Part of the team and a mentor, as well as a dispassionate external adviser
- Recently majority of time spent with digital agencies
- Strong M&A experience throughout my career
- Particular areas advised on - strategic financial advice, client remuneration and getting the right balance of resourcing for creative businesses
- Not concerned with titles or positions - focussed on finding a role that enables me to use my experience and expertise in business development with management teams
- A career spent working with management teams, predominantly owner-manager ones, on corporate strategy, business development and problem solving
Scope
- Corporate strategy—knowledge of, and insight into, viable options
- Informed contribution to determining optimal development route
- Experience of practical implementation
- Positive input to management team decision-making
- Knowledge of sector -commitment to staying at the forefront of sector development
- Opinionated input, based on accumulated knowledge
- Appreciation of commercial benchmarks (KPIs)
- Experience of expressing viewpoint (Bulletin)
- Corporate value—continuous monitoring of development
- Identification of key value triggers
- Dealing with discount factors
- M&A experience - understanding of vendor/buyer attitudes
- Understanding of source of values
- Understanding and experience of commercial due diligence
- Experience of MBOs