Colin Macleod

Experience

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  The Channel Islands Co-operative Society

  Nov 1990 - Dec 2020

  Channel Islands Co-operative is the leading retailer in the islands, serving its members through 34 stores across Jersey and Guernsey - www.channelislands.coop • Grew sales from £158m to £210m despite substantial increase in competition and drawn out impacts of economic downturn• Winner - Guernsey Community Foundation Awards 2017• Winner - CIPD Best Health & Wellbeing Strategy 2017• IoD Director of the Year 2015 - Large Business, UK Finals 2015• IoD Jersey Director of the Year 2015 - Large Business Category• Launched Co-operative Medical Care 2014 - bringing affordable high quality healthcare to Jersey• Took Society from minority to majority shareholder in Pharmacy Locale• Winner - Large Business of the Year 2013 – Jersey Enterprise Awards• Winner - Employer of the Year 2012 – Guernsey Awards for Achievement• Drove strategic review of the scope and governance of the Co-operative Retail Trading GroupSPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS• ‘What is it to Belong?’ European Co-operative Summit - Sofia, Bulgaria June 2018• EU Retail Day - Leadership Panel, Brussels, November 2017• Leadership Jersey - Keynote '5 Short Stories on Leadership', June 2017• International Co-operative Collaboration, UK Co-operative Conference March 2017• Differentiating our Product, Consumer Co-operatives Worldwide (CCW), Brussels, April 2016• Community Engagement, Coop Foorum, Tartu, Estonia, February 2016• Pollinating the Future: Growing Jersey's Economy from the inside-out - with Michael Shuman• Retail Consumer Conference, Co-operatives UK, Stratford Upon Anon, February 2015• Association of Co-operative Officials Annual Conference, East Midlands, June 2014 Show less • Increased Society sales from £126m to £158m• Researched and developed strategic plan and attendant budgets over a three year rolling timeframe• Created and executed a multi-layered strategic response to Waitrose entering market• Successfully protected market share through leveraging differentiators• Designed and delivered diversification strategy leading to the acquisition of a Funeral business andthe attainment of a majority share in a local Pharmacy Chain• Accelerated acquisition programme through the design and execution of a detailed locational strategy• Created new Travelmaker strategy taking the business from a sustained loss making position to aprofit within a year. Net surplus has remained constant at 2.5% since• Achieved ‘Environmental Business of the Year’ 2009 in The Jersey Enterprise Awards Show less

  • Chief Executive Officer & Director

    Jun 2010 - Dec 2020

  • Chief Retail Officer

    Jan 2007 - Jun 2010

  • Head of Operations & Human Resources

    Jan 2003 - Jan 2007

  • Head of Human Resources

    Oct 2001 - Jan 2003

  • Training and Personnel Development Manager

    Sept 1998 - Oct 2001

  • Variety of Store Based Management Roles

    Nov 1990 - Sept 1998
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  Federal Retail & Trading Services Ltd, The Co-operative Group

  Jan 2008 - Dec 2020

  A subsidiary company of the Co-operative Group Ltd, FRTS Ltd oversees over £10 billion in procurement across the Co-operative movement in the UK. Responsible for overseeing strategy and execution of the movements buying arm, Co-operative Retail Trading Group Tactical oversight and influence. Co-operative Retail Trading Group.

  • Director

    Sept 2014 - Dec 2020

  • Member, CRTG Strategy Group

    Jan 2010 - Sept 2014

  • Member, Monitoring Group CRTG

    Jan 2008 - May 2010
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  Euro Coop - aisbl

  Mar 2016 - Jun 2020

  Director & Vice President

  Representing the British Co-operative movement.Euro Coop is the voice of the co-operative retailers in Europe. Our association brings together the national associations of consumer co-operatives in 19 European countries, which represent 4,500 local/regional co-operatives, employing 500,000 citizens across Europe, operating 36,000 stores, which serve 32 million consumer-members daily. Euro Coop’s members together are Europe’s strongest retail force – accounting for €76 billion in annual turnover.Euro Coop represents and upholds the structure and ethics of consumer co-operative enterprises at European level. This activity is achieved in particular, by it's participation in different fora such as the Stakeholders Platform of the European Food Safety Authority "EFSA", various Advisory Groups within the European Commissions DGs, the EU "Platform for Action on Diet, Physical Activity and Health', the European Retail Forum for Sustainability, the European Consumer Consultative Group "ECCG", amongst others. Show less

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  Fast Hold Publishing

  Aug 2016 - now

  Publisher & Author

  Fast Hold Publishing is a vehicle I established to navigate the route to publication of my first Children's Book, 'Meet HammerHead & Captain StinkyPants. I am also happy to offer guidance to anyone else looking to create their stories.