Simon Spicer

Experience

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  Marks and Spencer

  Jan 1998 - Jan 2000

  Home Furnishings and Mobile Phones Buyer

  Graduate training scheme buyer within home furnishings and mobile phones. Managed supplier negotiations, led shopper marketing projects, merchandising and financial analysis.

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  Prism Executive Recruitment

  Jan 2000 - Jan 2002

  Recruitment Consultant

  Led new business pitches, negotiated terms and managed brand and CRM consultancy clients.

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  Virgin Retail

  Jan 2002 - Jan 2004

  Senior Merchandiser

  Managed merchandising and availability for computer games, mobile phones and DVD products.

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  United Biscuits

  Jan 2004 - Jan 2007

  Category Development + Channel Marketing Manager

  Led team of 4 on category and 5 on channel marketing, responsible for annual planning, category partnerships and creating trade selling stories across impulse channel.

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  Energizer

  Jan 2007 - Jan 2012

  Category Development Controller

  For 3 years led team of 4 to deliver category reviews, projects and support brand selling stories for Tesco, Boots, Sainsbury’s, Asda, Superdrug and Morrisons. Also worked for 2 years as National Account Manager on Morrisons, Co-op, Waitrose and Ocado.

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  Treasury Wine Estates

  Jan 2013 - Jan 2015

  Senior Activation and Planning Manager

  New role to improve the strategy, planning and communication between commercial departments. Worked with agencies to develop shopper campaigns integrated with consumer marketing for key brands including Wolf Blass and Lindeman's. Also previously worked as category development manager.

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  Self-employed

  Jan 2015 - Jan 2019

  Shopper, Marketing, Category and Commercial Consultant

  Worked for a number of FMCG clients in a combination of contract roles and on specific client projects including category development, commercial planning, marketing and account management. Clients including: Hanes Brands, Allied Bakeries, Atlantic Multi-Power, Life Health Foods and Freixenet Copestick.

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  VentureField

  Jan 2018 - now

  Associate Consultant

  I work with Phil Banfield at Venturefield on a range of consulting projects and providing interim support to a number of consumer goods businesses across commercial, category insight and shopper marketing.

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  IRI International

  Sept 2019 - Jun 2022

  Head of Strategic Retail Partnerships

  I led a team of 15 great insight experts who help some of the UK's top retail clients better understand their shoppers and market performance through long-term collaborative partnerships. We created bespoke data visualisation platforms and I supported the development of our team to have the curiosity and insight skills to explore the big questions and uncover growth opportunities.