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Notre équipe d'experts de plus de 70 consultants mondiaux ne sont pas seulement des leaders, des mentors et des négociateurs incroyables. Ils ont une expérience éprouvée dans l'obtention de résultats commerciaux impressionnants pour des entreprises mondiales de biens de grande consommation très influentes.
Dans le prolongement de votre équipe, nos consultants mettent leur expérience commerciale au service de vos enjeux d’affaires , vous aidant ainsi à transformer vos gens et votre approche de la négociation commerciale. Faites connaissance avec notre équipe ci-dessous.
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Bernhard Wessels
Chief Solutions Officer
Languages: English, German, Afrikaans
Location:
- Negotiation
- Route to Market
- Revenue Management
- Selling
- Category Management
Bernhard Wessels
Chief Solutions Officer
Bernhard has worked in Consumer Goods, as practitioner and consultant, for almost 25 years. He joined Total Negotiation Group recently and his experience includes 15 years with Kantar Consulting, working as Managing Partner for the North Asia division (based in Shanghai China for 5 years) and latterly as Senior Partner heading up the Digital Commerce and Revenue Growth Management practices for Europe, based in London. Before that he worked 9 years for Procter & Gamble in South Africa and the UK.
He has consulted in over 50 countries and has a wealth of international experience including Category, Capability and Organisation, Digital Commerce, Route to Market and RGM expertise across different retail environments. Bernhard has worked across the world but particularly in North America, Europe and North Asia.
Bernhard is an inspiring leader with a can-do attitude. He challenges others with his thinking, often bringing fresh perspective to business problems, but then also very pragmatic in his solutions and supportive of the team. His rich and varied international experience allows him to bring realism (and sometimes a bit of mischief) to the conversation, with engaging examples, and a sense of urgency.
Mark Cranstoun
Chief Executive Officer, Founding Partner
Languages: English
Location:
- Negotiation
Mark Cranstoun
Chief Executive Officer, Founding Partner
Complex and major customer negotiation
Mark is a highly skilled negotiator with extensive, senior commercial experience in the FMCG sector. His experience ranges from managing large commercial teams through to managing projects delivering transformational results.
A qualified coach from Henley Management College, he is also a Licensed Practitioner of both Insights and NLP. Prior to co-founding Total Negotiation in 2009, Mark worked at Nat West, Swiss Bank Corporation, Mars and Diageo.
Known for creating both pace and change that improve business performance. Mark is adept at understanding negotiations from multiple perspectives, which enables him to spot more opportunities to negotiate and helps ensure ongoing organisational alignment.
Mark Grice
Chief Commercial Officer, Founding Partner
Languages: English
Location:
- Negotiation
- Selling
Mark Grice
Chief Commercial Officer, Founding Partner
Complex multi-party negotiations
Global alignment
Creative negotiation strategy
Mark has developed his negotiation experience in a number of senior financial and commercial roles up to Board level, working extensively internationally. He works successfully in both B2C and B2B environments, adding value to complex negotiations through being able to easily move between operational and strategic modes of thinking. Prior to co-founding Total Negotiation he worked in FMCG, licensing, finance and marketing industries, including PWC, Diageo, Disney and Catalina Marketing.
His style is described by clients as authoritative, flexible and passionate. He is challenging and thought provoking to ensure that clients are thorough in their preparation for negotiations. As a qualified Chartered accountant, Mark has a highly commercial outlook on negotiation.
Worked with a FMCG client to create a saving of AUD$400k for FMCG client through a redistribution of investment between customers. Ongoing consultancy support of a client resulted in distribution agreements set to deliver additional market share and incremental margin of AUD$15m. Advised and supported a FMCG client to implement their first price in five years, delivering more than £3m in incremental profit.
Stephanie Green
VP, Sales
Languages: English, French, German
Location:
- Negotiation
- Route to Market
- Revenue Management
- Selling
- Category Management
Stephanie Green
VP, Sales
- Category Management and vision
- Strategic Planning
- Online retail
Steph has 23 years experience in CPG and retail including board level, her past roles include Chief Commercial Officer at Gymshark, Category Director at Aldi UK and Head of Operational Marketing at Muller Dairy UK. She previously held various commercial roles at Pepsico, Reebok and Adidas.
Fluent in French and proficient in German, Steph has a proven track record of helping businesses across the globe identify growth opportunities, develop strategic plans and drive cross functional collaboration to execute those plans.
Steph has great knowledge of branded and own label markets, online and offline retail markets and understanding of both supplier and retailer issues which she has leveraged to help many businesses step change their revenue management capability.
Steph is an expert in Category management, Shopper Understanding and turning Information to Insight.
Steph is an approachable expert and uses her commercial knowledge and experience to challenge current ways of thinking. She will help bring a shopper and retailer perspective to transform commercial proposals into compelling, actionable solutions for clients.
Susan Moore
Chief Operations Officer
Languages: English, French, German
Location:
Susan Moore
Chief Operations Officer
- Client services
- Process transformation
Susan has more than 20 years experience across a wide range of functions and sectors.
Over 15 years in Diageo, the global spirits leader, she held senior roles across front end commercial, finance, supply chain, marketing and innovation.
Then, as a consultant, supported a wide range of businesses - from FMCG to oil and gas, to tech; from FTSE10 to pre revenue start up – in commercial and finance transformation.
With this blend of client, function and transformation experience, Susan has a proven track record of driving process transformation to allow growth at pace, whilst ensuring clients always receive the highest level of service.
Experts
Abdessatar Bahri
Associate
Languages: French, Arabic, English
Location:
- Negotiation
Abdessatar Bahri
Associate
- Complex French retail-based discussions
- French and North African retail and FMCG
Alex Houghton
Associate
Languages: English
Location:
- Revenue Management
Alex Houghton
Associate
- Revenue Management & Pricing
- Digital Transformation
- Commercialisation
With +20 years’ experience in Revenue Management & Pricing, Alex has a proven track record in developing revenue management strategies and teams across B2C and B2B sectors. In addition, he has 10+ years of experience in implementing revenue management systems in large FMCG and service-based companies.
Alex also has strong skills in leadership, commercialisation, digital transformation, project implementation, and market research. Alex holds a Master in Revenue Management from Cornell University, Post Graduate Diploma of Financial Markets from the Securities Institute of Australia, and a Bachelor of Business (Economics and Finance) from the University of Western Sydney.
Key achievements include implementing a multi-platform revenue management system and AI model for one of Australia’s largest FMCG manufactures, launching multiple go-to-market product strategies, and successfully negotiating 3 trading terms with Australian grocery retailers.
Alex would consider himself an approachable team builder & motivator, with exceptional commercial acumen.
Alexander Obst
Associate
Languages: English, German
Location:
- Negotiation
Alexander Obst
Associate
With his profound sales and marketing experience from more than 15 years with global companies like Beiersdorf and Colgate as well successfully bringing a completely new brand like eos into all relevant sales channels in Germany and beyond, Alex has gained deep expertise of the German and European FMCG market and its retailers, especially in Drug Stores, grocery, pharmacy and speciality channels.
Alex’s consulting focus is supporting his clients in Account Planning, Go to Market projects and how to win retailers for new or existing brands, in both traditional brick & mortar channels and e-commerce. If the project requires, he steps in as interim sales manager and provide an effective onboarding process after successfully launching the brand.
Knowing that especially in sales things not always follow Plan A, Alex will always look situations from various perspectives and contribute positive thinking together with different strategic options to finally achieve the goals.
Alex has been a lecturer in Sales Management and Retail Management at Hochschule Worms and HNEE Eberswalde.
André Leonhards
Partner, DACH
Languages: German, English, Dutch
Location:
- Negotiation
- Selling
André Leonhards
Partner, DACH
- Selling and negotiation, key account management
André has worked in Consumer Goods, as practitioner and consultant, for over 25 years. He joined Total Negotiation Group recently as Associate Director of Consulting and his experience includes 12+ years with Kantar Consulting. Prior to joining Kantar André worked in Sales and Marketing roles in the alcoholic beverages industry for ABInbev and William Grant & Sons.
André has been leading consulting projects in DACH and NL across many categories and channels, covering a wide range of commercial topics, including Category and Channel Strategy, Capability, Commercial Organisation and Route to Market. His focus is FMCG. André is native German and fluent in English and Dutch.
André has a positive yet challenging attitude and mindset and is very successful in convincing people to join the transformation journey in the course of consulting projects. He has a strong hands-on mentality and is very good in developing actionable solutions with his clients. His extensive experience in many consulting projects enables André to provide real-life examples and inspiration when working with clients.
Andreas Vertesi
Associate
Languages: English, French, German
Location:
- Negotiation
- Route to Market
Andreas Vertesi
Associate
Andreas acquired valuable managerial and commercial experiences over more than 25 years, in FMCG companies at international level, across functions and cultures, but importantly also in Switzerland. He recently joined the Total Negotiation Group as an Associate Consultant.
Andreas is a passionate Salesman who worked in many leadership roles in Trade and Shopper Marketing, in Key Account and Category Management and as Sales Strategy Director.
He is pragmatic, creative and results oriented and a strong capability builder. He holds an ICF certificate as Coach and a Swiss Diploma as Marketing Specialist.
Andrew Jennings
Associate
Languages: English
Location:
- Revenue Management
Andrew Jennings
Associate
- Revenue Management
- Trade terms design and implementation
- Trade spend management and optimisation
Andrew has deep commercial and operational expertise built on the solid foundations of a varied career path. Three years as a buyer with Somerfield followed by 24 years in numerous commercial leadership roles with Kraft Foods / Mondelez, culminating as Managing Director of the UK business. During his career he has been instrumental in developing European and Global sales strategies based in both the UK and Switzerland.
Andrew is an inspiring business leader highly respected for strategic thinking, pragmatism and has a track record of successful results. He is an industry subject matter expert on Sales Strategy, Commercial Planning and Trade Terms.
A calm, engaging, approachable and composed style that enables the development of positive and co-operative relationships at all levels, across multiple geographies.
He is at his best when adding value to a business challenge as he can often see the wood for the trees where others can’t. His agile, positive character together with an honest and objective approach, quickly builds credibility, integrating into teams with mutual respect.
Andrew Mardon
Associate
Languages: English
Location:
- Negotiation
- Revenue Management
- Route to Market
Andrew Mardon
Associate
- Trade Terms and Annual Contract Negotiations
- Account Management & Customer Planning
- Category Based Selling
Andrew is an experienced Consultant who has worked in the FMCG industry for over 17 years. He has experience in ‘client side’ sales leadership roles and in senior Consulting roles within the Middle East
Andrew started his career with Britvic Soft Drinks in the UK and moved to Dubai in 2009 where he joined NFPC as a Key Account Manager responsible for the business relationship with Customers such as Carrefour and Spinneys
In 2011 Andrew joined Kantar where he eventually became a Director of Consulting working with a number of clients in the FMCG & Luxury Retail sector. His specialism is in Negotiation & Sales Capability. He has developed and delivered sales academies and specific training content for clients that include Arla, Reckitt Benckiser, Coca-Cola, Zespri and Abbott. Andrew is an expert content developer and facilitator of content in core sales commercial topics such as Negotiation, Selling, Category Management, Trade Spend Optimisation, Joint Business Planning, Customer Management & Merchandising Excellence
Recently Andrew has been working as Sales Director for the UAE local distributor of Red Bull where he led the Modern Trade, General Trade and HORECA sales units. He has since been working independently in a consultancy capacity with clients in the Middle East, Europe and Asia.
Andy holds a B. Sc. In Psychology from University of Lancaster, England
Andy Williams
Managing Partner, Middle East
Languages: English
Location:
- Negotiation
- Route to Market
- Revenue Management
Andy Williams
Managing Partner, Middle East
Strategic Partnership Development, Annual Business Planning, Contract Negotiations, Commercial Excellence Programmes
Andy has over 30 years of international commercial business management experience. Andy started his career at Castrol in the UK where he honed his skills in customer management, selling and negotiation with the automotive sector. He moved to Asia with Castrol to lead the market entry plans for China and subsequently worked across the Asia Pacific region in a range commercial leadership roles. Following BPs acquisition of Castrol, Andy led the strategic partnership with Ford Motor Company for Europe and Asia.
Andy moved to Dubai in 2006 to help establish Glendinning Middle East, a specialist consultancy business, which was subsequently acquired by WPP under the Kantar Consulting brand. Andy has worked extensively across the region with a range of B2B, CPG, & Pharma clients to address a range of commercial challenges and to unlock step-change profitable category & top-line growth.
Andy established the Regional Office for Total Negotiation Group in January 2023
Andy holds an BSc from Manchester University. In his spare time Andy plays a range of sports to channel his competitive instincts and try to keep fit
Ayman Nasreldin
Associate
Languages: English, Arabic
Location:
- Negotiation
- Selling
- Route to Market
Ayman Nasreldin
Associate
Complex Multi Party Negotiations
Global Customer Agreements & Negotiation
Setting Vision & Strategy
Trade Architecture
Ayman is a highly skilled negotiator, with a career spanning more than 20 years working for the some of the world’s biggest companies in the FMCG sector. Ayman held various Senior Commercial Roles whilst at Nestle, PepsiCo and Mars Wrigley Confectionery. He brings a wealth of Customer and Category experience having led a wide variety of channels, including Grocery, Impulse, Out of Home and Discounters.
A Qualified Coach from The Oxford School of Mentoring and Coaching, he is also a Certified Executive Coach, who brings his passion and talent for helping people to Total Negotiation to help clients embed their learning.
Ayman loves positively challenging to unlock their potential whilst focussed on performance for themselves and their organisation. Balancing a Strategic Mindset and getting things done, Ayman brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to TNG.
Ben McPhee
Associate
Languages: English
Location:
- Negotiation
- Selling
- Revenue Management
- Route to Market
Ben McPhee
Associate
Sales Strategy
Learning and Development Specialist
Customer Account Management
Leadership and Culture
Ben has worked in the Australian FMCG industry for over 20 years. His experience includes 12 years with Lion Australia, and 8+ years with Diageo Australia.
He has worked in various Commercial Customer Sales roles and has led numerous learning and development teams across both businesses. His expertise including Customer Account Management, Field Sales Leadership, Customer Services Leadership, Sales Strategy Design and Implementation, Learning and Development, Leadership and Culture Coaching.
Ben is a positive leader, who develops strategies, people and teams that deliver results. He proactively seeks opportunities to add sustainable value to organisations through change leadership.
Brett Stover
Associate
Languages: English
Location:
- Negotiation
- Revenue Management
- Route to Market
Brett Stover
Associate
A proven leader whose strength is leveraging insight-based ideas for business growth
Brett has over 35 years of global marketing, sales, strategy, and leadership experience. With 18 years in industry and over 15 years in consulting, Brett is a strategic marketing, negotiation and sales authority working with leading consultancies and agencies such as TNG, Saatchi & Saatchi, Glendinning, and Kantar Retail.
Brett spent 18 years at Procter & Gamble (P&G) covering all categories and geographies across multiple functions including Global Sales, Marketing, Market Research, Product Development, and Marketing Innovation & Entrepreneurship. Brett was an CPG industry pioneer and recognized global expert in Shopper Marketing Strategy connecting brands with shoppers in traditional bricks and mortar stores and e-commerce.
Growth Strategy Consulting: Led 40 Strategic Growth initiatives for top-tier companies and organizations around the world helping clients see, create, and seize the future. Delivered results by understanding where to play, how to win and what to do. Known as a catalyst, connector, and proven leader whose strength is leveraging insight-based ideas for business growth.
Clients include: Unilever, Colgate, Kimberly-Clark, Coca-Cola, Mars Candy, General Mills, Nestle, Clorox, Campbell’s, Mattel/Fisher-Price, Pfizer, Abbott, Pharmavite, Sony, J&J, Grupo Bimbo, Lego, Michelin, and Treasury Wine Estates.
Carlos Esteban
Managing Partner, FIPS
Languages: Spanish, English, Italian
Location:
- Negotiation
- Selling
- Route to Market
Carlos Esteban
Managing Partner, FIPS
Carlos has worked in Consumer Goods for over 20 years covering Sales, Customer Marketing and Senior Leadership roles in Procter and Gamble, SC Johnson and Campofrío at Local and Regional level.
He has worked in Spain, Italy, Russia, Hungary in line Management positions and conducted Consulting and Capability work in over 10 more (Europe, Latam) in areas such as Category Strategy, Shopper Marketing , Channel Strategy, RTM….in Categories such as Beverages, Spirits, Food, Laundry and Cleaning Products, OTC, Health and Beauty Care,…..
Carlos has a wide Multi-country experience that allows him to work across different cultures categories and situations, as well as hand on experience in Sales and Trade Marketing that gives him a wide real experience on how to connect Strategy and Execution.
Carlos is fluent in Spanish, English and Italian.
Lynne Gordon
Associate
Languages: English
Location:
- Selling
Lynne Gordon
Associate
Lynne is a commercial marketer with over 20 years experience leading brands and businesses. She loves a challenge, driven to answer tough sales & marketing questions that unlock sustainable sources of new demand. Her strength lies in finding growth rooted in new solutions for humans – whether consumers, shoppers, partners, stakeholders or employees.
Lynne has diverse experience across FMCG, telco and consulting. She started her career at P&G, leading marketing teams in South Africa and across the CEEMEA region. She then went on to set up commercial marketing teams in 7 African markets for Nokia, helping build Africa’s top brand in Kenya, launch first-email services on the continent, and manage portfolio and go-to-market for 20 markets in MEA. 4 years as Africa CEO for a tech start-up and 7 years at Kantar Consulting leveraged her skills in creating and transforming organisations, driving category growth solutions, and winning with clients.
Lynne is passionate about strategic solutions that really work in action. She thrives on finding transformational potential for business, and then working with your own teams in the trenches to turn that insight into action to drive growth.
Marco Rossi
Global Account Director
Languages: English, French, Italian
Location:
- Revenue Management
- Negotiation
- Route to Market
- Selling
Marco Rossi
Global Account Director
Trade Terms
Grocery and multi channel customers
Negotiation strategy
Marco is an entrepreneurial business leader with a strong expertise in commercial, retail and customer excellence, gained in over 25 years with leading Multinationals, SME’s, Distributors and Retailers, covering General Management and Leadership roles in Mars, Nestle, L’Oréal and Barilla.
A highly skilled negotiator, with a wealth of international experience including global customer negotiation, retailer and CPD business units, category management , business transformation and operational excellence, across a range of sectors and regions.
Marco has a natural ability to quickly understand people and cultures, with a strength of conviction and clear vision, which allows him to always get the best out of individuals and motivate teams. Results driven, insightful, creative and passionate about people, he is able to naturally lead and motivate people to deliver excellence results, whilst keeping an air of calm and confidence in all circumstances.
Margarida Rodrigues
Associate
Languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese
Location:
- Selling
- Negotiation
- Revenue Management
Margarida Rodrigues
Associate
Leading and Coaching Teams
Negotiating in trade environments
Creative negotiation solutions
Margarida has 25 years of experience in FMCG market, both in retail and industry.
With a large experience at multinational environment, she has developed solid expertise in sales and negotiation and strong leadership and coaching competencies.
Margarida started her career at Auchan Group, where she performed different roles, both in operations and as a buyer, being accountable for the business plan, sales strategy development and national & international agreements negotiation with suppliers.
In 2001, she joined PepsiCo, having performed different roles - National Account Manager, Trade Marketing Manager and then Sales Director.
Margarida currently coordinates a post-graduate course in Sales Management at IPAM University where she is also a guest lecturer in Negotiation.
Since March 2016, she operates as a Coach and People Development Consultant.
Mark MacDonald
Associate
Languages: English
Location:
- Route to Market
- Revenue Management
Mark MacDonald
Associate
Commercial capability & learning strategy
Employee behaviour change
Improving efficiency & effectiveness of learning spend
Mark has worked in Consumer Goods for 30 years covering Sales and Marketing at local, regional and global levels for Unilever.
He has worked across the globe in over 40 countries and has a wealth of international experience in developing, selling and negotiating Revenue Management programmes such as trading terms restructures, price changes and promotional frameworks. He also has vast experience in Distributor Management in emerging markets. Marks focus for the last few years of his career with Unilever was strategy development and converting it into repeatable models and capability programmes so that behaviour change and business impact could be achieved by employees.
Mark is an approachable expert who uses his experience to show people the art of the possible. He is encouraging and supportive with the ability to challenge people to strive for that bit extra. He shares many real world examples of the good and the bad he has done, and seen over his career, and uses them to drive key learning points.
Massimo Parravicini
Associate
Languages: English, Italian
Location:
- Negotiation
- Selling
Massimo Parravicini
Associate
Massimo is a business trainer with extensive sales and marketing experience. Starting out as a sales rep while still a student, he then joined Unilever as a marketing trainee. He worked in various sales and marketing roles in Italy, UK and Europe for over twenty years.
Since 2010 Massimo is a sales consultant and trainer with a focus on consumer product goods, pharmaceuticals and retail. He has developed and run training courses for key clients in a variety of disciplines such as sales excellence, negotiation, key account management, customer business planning, sales and operations planning, visual merchandising, category management, shopper marketing, on shelf availability, in store execution, finance for non finance managers, team building, leadership and coaching, presentation and facilitation skills.
Massimo published A Guide to Sales Management with Business Expert Press in 2015.
Pascal Hermant
Associate
Languages: English, Spanish
Location:
- Negotiation
- Selling
Pascal Hermant
Associate
Pascal has worked in Consumer Goods and has done business with more than 40 countries on 4 continents, in a range of local and global sales and marketing leadership roles in Reckitt Benckiser and Danone.
He speaks 4 languages and has lived in several countries like Belgium, France and Spain currently.
Pascal has extensive experience in helping different businesses develop and implement sales acceleration plans, always with the aim of nurturing talent by developing and deploying sales capabilities.
Pascal is an expert in sales force, key account, category, distributor and revenue management.
His philosophy is simple, aligning strategy and execution delivers a disproportionately positive impact on topline growth, and relies on developing a strong performance culture and foster team commitment and responsibility.
Phil Humphreys
Associate
Languages: English
Location:
- Negotiation
- Revenue Management
- Selling
- Route to Market
Phil Humphreys
Associate
Trade terms
Price increases
Executive alignment and challenge
Phil has worked in Consumer Goods for almost 30 years covering Sales and Marketing and latterly General Manager and Senior Leadership roles in Nestle, Diageo and The Coca Cola Company.
He has worked in over 60 countries and has a wealth of international experience including International Retailer negotiation, Business Merger and Acquisition and Route to Market expertise across all different retail channels. Phil has extensive experience in Operations across the world but particularly in North America, Europe and emerging countries across Asia and Sub Sahara Africa.
Phil is a charismatic Leader who personifies Possibility and Positive Thinking. He is demanding of others but hugely supportive at the same time. Results driven, Phil's natural leaning is as 'Coach' and his varied and international experience allows him to give countless real life examples of what worked, and what also didn't in his career!’
Ralph Ballard
Director of Practice, Head of Quality
Languages: English
Location:
- Negotiation
Ralph Ballard
Director of Practice, Head of Quality
Organisational capability building
CPI negotiations
Richard Coker
Head of Advisory, APAC
Languages: English
Location:
- Negotiation
- Revenue Management
- Category Management
- Route to Market
Richard Coker
Head of Advisory, APAC
Strategic Joint Customer Business Planning
Trading Terms
Spend Optimisation
Strategic & Commercial Negotiations
Rich brings over 20+years of Commercial Sales Leadership experience in Consumer Goods. His passion for sales was born at Unilever and L’Oreal in the UK where he worked within Shopper market research, Category Management and Account Management roles across leading UK retailers. His commercial experience with Hasbro Asia Pacific leading National Field sales teams and heading up Grocery /Mass Merchant and distributors, then as Channel Director across the UK and EU helped to develop long lasting commercial relationships whilst managing customer price and terms harmonisation across retailers within Europe.
Rich’s family ties led him back to Sydney as Head of National Sales role at British American Tobacco leading high performing teams across a $6bn business and successfully navigating high stake pricing and terms negotiations across Grocery, Independent and convenience channels.
Rich then established a Sales Consulting business working across FMCG, Hardware, Construction and VR/ AI tech start-ups prior to working with Total Negotiation Group where he supports clients to win the commercial conversation through CPI, Trade terms, Joint Business Planning and RGM levers.
Rich has an engaging and approachable style with a proven success in challenging different thinking and solving client’s problems. He is passionate about helping to drive high performing teams for his clients who often consider them a part of their business!
Rubén Valdes Garcia
Associate
Languages: Spanish, English
Location:
- Negotiation
- Selling
- Revenue Management
Rubén Valdes Garcia
Associate
Revenue Management
Negotiation
Consultant specialised in Revenue Management with comprehensive operating experience in the Commercial area of FMCG.
Relevant Commercial operating background, acquired during 16 years at PEPSICO, includes KAM. , Trade Mktg., Category Mgmt. in the Spanish Snacks Market Unit & Revenue Management in the European Division . Rubén supports clients in their efforts to consistently drive profitable revenue growth by working with them in improving their Price, Promo, Mix and Trade Terms strategies & plans.
He also helps them to develop the necessary organisational capabilities for their commercial teams to become proficient in managing the top line of the P&L with a RM mindset. Taylor made, flexible & practical approach to consultancy, adapted to the client’s business priorities as well as their specific revenue optimisation opportunities & RM capabilities.
Rubén has a BA focused background with a BBA/MBA from ESADE, Spain & a MBA from WHARTON, University of Pennsylvania, USA.
Sarah Lewis
Associate
Languages: English
Location:
- Negotiation
- Selling
- Route to Market
Sarah Lewis
Associate
Commercial Strategy
Customer Marketing; Coaching for Performance
Sarah has over 25 years of experience in general management, sales and business transformation including senior leadership roles with diverse and complex global organisations including Diageo, Akzonobel and Mars.
She has hands-on experience of building and delivering commercial transformation programmes in multiple geographies and across a variety of sectors, markets and regulatory environments. Partnering with teams to define compelling outcomes; creating value generating solutions and ensuring those solutions are can be brilliantly executed are what you can expect from Sarah.
Recognised for her ability to make complex things simple, she combines her commercial and negotiation expertise with her professional coaching skills to create the conditions for everyone to realise breakthroughs in personal and business performance.
Shaun Ardern
Partner, DACH
Languages: English, German
Location:
- Negotiation
- Selling
Shaun Ardern
Partner, DACH
Selling & negotiation, coaching
Shaun has 35 years of experience in the FMCG, Cosmetics, Stationery and Pharmacy markets. He worked for 25 years at Beiersdorf AG in various leadership roles in Sales, Marketing, Trade Marketing and Supply Chain before gaining 10 years of experience in consultancy. He recently joined TNG as an Associate Director.
Shaun has led consulting projects across many categories and channels, covering a wide range of commercial topics, including Company & Sales Strategy, Organisational Development & Capability building and Route to Market. Shaun is British and fluent in German.
Shaun is an empathetic leader with a passion to support customers in their commercial growth with a pragmatic and practical approach, helping transformation within organisations. His comprehensive cross-functional experience allows him to support teams to deliver outstanding and sustainable solutions.
Shaun is a graduate in Business Administration and a qualified business trainer and coach.
Simon Negus
Associate
Languages: English
Location:
- Revenue Management
- Negotiation
- Selling
- Route to Market
Simon Negus
Associate
Customer, Revenue & Distributor Management
Foodservice
Simon has nearly 30 years of commercial experience, mainly within FMCG. He started his career at Mars Confectionery in a variety of sales roles before moving into senior roles at United Biscuits. He has worked both in the UK and Ireland, and has also worked extensively on growing International businesses and across Europe.
He joined the Total Negotiation Group as an Associate Consultant when the business was formed, and mixes his time between running capability workshops and hands on consulting to help clients overcome commercial challenges. He has a lot of experience of helping to deliver Cost Price Increases, Trade Terms and Revenue Management projects.
His approach is very pragmatic, helped by the fact that he is still very much operating in the “real world” through his work outside of TNG.
Stewart Beale
Director of Practice - RGM
Languages: English
Location:
- Revenue Management
- Route to Market
Stewart Beale
Director of Practice - RGM
Stewart has over 25 years commercial experience in the Consumer goods industry. Having worked for prestigious companies such as Coca-Cola, AB Inbev and Carlsberg he has worked on some of the biggest brands on the planet as well as helping to develop innovative, disruptive brands. In addition to extensive RGM experience both in house and as a consultant, he has worked across the spectrum of commercial disciplines including sales, business development, category management, customer marketing, e commerce, business transformation and sales operations. This breadth and depth enables him to work with clients to develop commercial growth strategies to deliver customer and business value in highly competitive sectors.
Stewart is a creative thinker with sound analytical and problem solving skills. He is able to grasp complex business challenges quickly, take an entrepreneurial approach, make things connect and translate into an actionable plan to drive results.
Stone Huang
Associate
Languages: English, Chinese
Location:
- Route to Market
- Negotiation
Stone Huang
Associate
Route-to-Market Management
Sales Capability Enhancement program
Key Account/ Distributor Management
Stone is a proven commercial expert with over 30 years sales and business development experience across Greater China region. He has been a facilitator for TNG for circa 8 years and prior to this he held senior management and commercial roles with leading FMCG players, including: Account Director (CTM) at Diageo GTME Greater China, National Sales Director at Maxxium China and Country Manager at Allied Domecq (PR) Taiwan.
He has vast commercial experience across Greater China markets during a career with Maxxium, Allied Domecq (PR), Diageo and Riche Monde. He specialises in Negotiation, Route-to-Market (RTM) management, strategy, sales capability enhancement and operational execution.
Stone has the passion to work with his clients to build a robust commercial team. He is supportive and encourages others to expand on their opinion. He excels in identifying the issues and then provides the recommendation by best utilising his own wealth of experience across Greater China markets.
Teresa Derubeis
Associate
Languages: English, French
Location:
- Negotiation
- Selling
Teresa Derubeis
Associate
Strategic Account Planning
Strategic Opportunity Analysis and plan development
Demand creation within existing accounts or prospects
Thorsten Siebers
Associate
Languages: English, German
Location:
- Negotiation
- Selling
- Route to Market
Thorsten Siebers
Associate
Thorsten always transports his positive power while sharing his experience of 22 years in operational retail as well as on the FMCG production side. Sales, procurement, supply chain optimisation and company controlling are his operational skills to bring in.
After 10 years as International Buying Director and Head of Purchasing Controlling at a leading discount chain he jumped to the other side of the desk to sculpture sales strategies and arrange negotiation boot-camps for leading brands. A mixture of line management roles and consulting projects makes him a down to earth guide through every situation.
His international experience in Asia, US, Europe and Middle East formed his flexibility to adopt to different cultures and business conditions.
Thorsten will give you a view on things from various perspectives. Far away from standard carbon copy knowledge he is always individualising the results and the possible paths to perfect solutions. And he additionally leaves enough space for your own notions to find the perfect merge of great ideas.
Tijs Dujardin
Associate
Languages: English, Dutch
Location:
- Route to Market
- Revenue Management
Tijs Dujardin
Associate
Tijs has over 12 years of experience working as a consultant across a wide range of sectors, clients and geographies. His main area of expertise is the creation of category growth strategies and turning these strategies into real-life (shopper) activations that actually find their way to the trade.
Tijs is an inspiring business professional who’s highly respected for his strategic, though pragmatic thinking. His motto is that complexity doesn’t sell hence why he always aims to turn complexity into easy-to-understand strategies that will land with both new starters as well as C-level stakeholders.
Before joining Kantar Consulting, Tijs spent 5 years with Proctor and Gamble in various Marketing & Shopper roles. He’s fluent in English and Dutch.
Victoria Parker
Business Development Director
Languages: English
Location:
- Selling
- Negotiation
- Category Management
Victoria Parker
Business Development Director
Category strategy and management
Commercial proposition development
Within Total Negotiation, Victoria is responsible for our Account Management strategy, 4 of our key clients and our marketing communications.
Victoria has worked in consumer goods for the last 20 years including United Biscuits and an extensive career at Diageo. Her experience at Diageo, with roles in UK, Europe and Global, primarily in Customer Marketing has meant that Victoria is a passionate advocate for the shopper, ensuring their needs are met through a balance between retailer and supplier objectives.
Victoria’s style is personable, inclusive and engaging. Her global experience means that she is able to bring alternative perspectives from her work across Africa, Lat. Am. and Europe and is open & innovative as to how we, at Total Negotiation Group, go about this.
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