Nick Coward

I am overall responsible for the sales division which comprises of Commercial and Residential matting with a combined sales budget of nearly 40 million, covering EMENA, UK and Russia. My role also includes the overall responsibility for the Client Services Team which includes Customer Service and Graphic Design Team. I am responsible for driving both net operating profit and business growth through the development and implementation of sales strategies and implementation of OKR's to the team.

I successfully built and ran a bespoke mat company that offers entrance matting & promotional matting solutions to businesses across the UK and Europe. Ginger Mats supplies mats to the Commercial/Industrial and Promotional Matting Sectors, as well as these sectors Ginger Mats also offers a mat rental service to businesses, this consists of a fortnightly or monthly lift and lay of the dirty mats for clean ones, depending on the clients requirements.

Interim contract with the UK's largest independent mat rental company to build a new matting division. The new division is to the supply and installation of entrance well matting and carpet for high footfall areas such as shopping centers, large commercial buildings and large public buildings.

Decided to take a short career break to travel around the world, the opportunity presented itself to fulfil this lifetime goal.

Interim contract to manage the installation of an industrial laundry to clean dust mats and a integrated laundry specific CRM system.

General Management, with sole responsibility for the operation of a company specialising in the supply and installation of garage doors to the domestic and trade market places; A small business which wanted to become a bigger player in the market place, originally only covering a relatively small local area. Tasked with expansion of this market area to become a regional player but with a limited marketing, PR and staffing budget. Also tasked to develop a new Website with online sales capabilities.

An interim contract to deliver a new integrated one-stop-shop service to a Direct Marketing House, whilst supporting the Directors with re-structuring of a number of departments and recruitment of new department heads and staff.

An interim contract to deliver a new integrated one-stop-shop service to a Direct Marketing House, whilst supporting the Directors with re-structuring of a number of departments and recruitment of new heads of department and staff.

Working for William Reed Knowledge Store which was a Data Marketing Company specialising in the independent retail sector. During this time I handled the re-branding of this company to The Knowledge Store and also achieved industry recognition and awareness for the unique work that TKS was providing to the independent retail sector.

Managing pubs where the full time managers had left due to various reasons which had resulted in the pubs being poorly run. The role was to get the pub back up to a standard to then hand over to a new management couple.

Retail Trainee Manager position was basically on the job training/learning of how to run a retail branch. This training covered all aspects of retail including stock rotation, sales promotion, staff management and till accountancy.

A Group Pensions Administrator the role was a junior position administering the day to day admin of Company Group Pensions, during this time AXA Group purchased Equity & Law.