RMS is happy to announce the appointment of James Davies as Chief Working Officer.
James has intensive expertise of gross sales management, undertaking administration and enterprise improvement within the retail business, making him effectively positioned to imagine management of our day by day operations right here at RMS.
Having labored for RMS for over 13 years, James has gathered useful expertise working with the earlier chiefs within the enterprise and the entire totally different enterprise capabilities inside RMS. James has efficiently led gross sales efforts for a lot of main accounts and has been instrumental in shaping the imaginative and prescient to develop RMS to turn into a market chief inside set up and undertaking administration for among the UK and Eire’s greatest retailers.
In his earlier function at RMS as Head of Enterprise Growth, his gross sales management helped the enterprise in strengthening our flagship retail partnerships together with B&Q, Boots, Waitrose and John Lewis.
James Davies, Chief Working Officer mentioned:
“It is a chance of a lifetime to handle the operations of an organization that I maintain so near my coronary heart. I’ve lived and breathed RMS since strolling via the door and sitting throughout from the founder Peter O’Toole some 13 years in the past. Since that day I’ve been growing my expertise within the retail world, sharpening my information in numerous totally different roles and constructing the experience and expertise required to handle such a singular firm.
I’m actually excited to be trusted to navigate the corporate via the ever transferring panorama of retail and finally to develop the enterprise and its companies in an effort to adapt and overcome the challenges all of us presently face with inflation, automation and normal uncertainty throughout the retail market.
I’m surrounded by a improbable crew and while now we have been delivering massive and intensive retail initiatives for numerous years now, it is time to take the following step and develop once more!”
Chris Avery, Chief Monetary Officer mentioned:
“James has been appointed as COO as a part of our dedication to strengthen and develop our management crew in an effort to ship the corporate’s 5-year plan now we have developed during the last 12 months.”
“We’re anticipating an enormous yr for change in retail – which is at all times excellent news for a enterprise like ours. This, together with our ambitions for rising our end-to-end answer for our long run retail companions and rising every enterprise unit creates an enormous alternative for us over the following 12-36 months.
We predict to be a £20m turnover enterprise throughout the subsequent yr and James can be important to our growth plans.”
In his new function, James can be chargeable for the general enterprise operations of RMS and can work intently with the CFO, Chris Avery, and CEO, Daniel O’Toole, to implement the strategic imaginative and prescient and values the corporate might want to embrace in an effort to navigate the present tumultuous retail market. He may even be chargeable for overseeing the RMS Gross sales groups throughout all our places of work and gross sales technique throughout all of our enterprise models.
Daniel O’Toole, Chief Government Officer mentioned:
“Following a change in our construction to mirror our up to date strategic plan and with an actual concentrate on funding in our folks and development pathways via the enterprise in recent times, with such energy within the crew, I’m thrilled to be ready to have the ability to appoint internally to this important function.
I’m assured that James’ expertise, drive and tenacity to assist me in realising dad’s imaginative and prescient of rising the enterprise will end in a brand new, thrilling development chapter in RMS’s journey.”
