Ethical
“Culture eats strategy for breakfast”. Developing a culture of fairness and equality is a real strength in business. Treating your people fairly and transparently will get the very best out of them. This equally applies to your suppliers, and clients.
Sustainable
Making change that matters is an exciting challenge for any business. To be truly succesful the gains need to be sustained in the long term. We have the experience to support you in achieving this ultimate goal. We can work with you to help establish Corporate social responsibility as a driver of business results.
Transformation
Supporting business to transform performance. From developing overarching vision and goals to embedding culture and behaviours that improve performance. Transforming your whole Supply Chain and developing Procurement as a creator of value for the whole organisation is also critical. We have over 30 years of specialist experience in doing precisely that.
Delivering Ethical Sustainable transformation requires alignment
The catalyst can come from within or externally but sustainable change only happens when all three elements are aligned
How we help
ZirconScan
Assessing current business, ethical and sustainability performance.
ZirconScope
Identify the priorities for improvement and develop the Business Case for change
ZirconAccelerate
Coaching and guidance to help you achieve your goals
Examples of work led by Oliver
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Communisis Business TurnaroundDoubled EBITDA performance of Communisis Brand Deployment in first 6 months in role. Successfully led organisation through initial Covid19 challenges. Delivered additional doubling of EBITDA performance in first full year in role despite impact of Covid and grew revenue by 3%. Gained first new client wins for 2 years and created newly empowered structure across Europe and ME.
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Communisis Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)Led the development of Communisis’ first broad CSR strategy, taking the business from a narrow focus on reducing carbon emissions, cyber security, and privacy to a broad industry leading strategy. This encompasses Diversity and Inclusion, Plastics and Packaging, Ethical and transparent supply chains as well as the cores of Carbon neutrality, enhanced Cyber Security and Employee Wellbeing.
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Compass Commercial to Foodbuy transformationLed the transformation of Compass Commercial Function from underperforming division to an award winning one. Developed and launched the UK’s leading Foodservice Procurement Organisation, Foodbuy. The Company has a spend of £1bn+ and delivered 40% profit growth in first three years. Won the single largest Foodservice Procurement contract in UK in 2018 and Foodbuy were the only profit centre in Compass UK & Ireland to achieve its profit targets for all 8 years he ran the business.
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Diageo Global InnovationAs part of the Diageo North America Innovation drive, Oliver recognised the need for a different approach to meeting demand. The core multi-million-dollar supply chain was built on high volumes, long production runs and standard packaging. The innovation was for differentiated packaging, small production runs and quick flexible lead times. He established a standalone Procurement innovation team to find suppliers and copackers outside of the core to meet the demand. As volumes scaled up, they could be migrated into the core. The success of the model led to the request for him to replicate it globally with specific teams then established in Europe and Asia Pacific.
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Compass Group - Supply Chain integrity as a profit driverIn 2011 Oliver set about transforming the supply chain for Compass Group in the UK to bring greater transparency, tightened standards and improve commerciality. In late 2012 and throughout the first half of 2013, the Horsemeat and Halal meat scandal caused havoc in the UK and Irish Food and Hospitality sector. Due to the transformation programme that he had begun, Compass came through this period of high-profile media coverage ahead of its competition. By focusing on visibility of the entire supply chain Compass was able to give assurance on the integrity of its products and supply chain and increase compliance. We highlighted a gap in standards for Halal meat and worked with the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) to tackle the issue. Oliver personally addressed an MCB public conference at the height of the crisis to establish what was needed to restore confidence. Compass was the first Foodservice supplier to introduce a halal meat production process standard to eliminate any possibility of cross-contamination. The whole management of both the horse and halal meat crises enabled Compass to grow its reputation and volumes.
