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MENTOR. Business Success Partner

Hamilton, N/A, NZ • 5 - 9 Employees
Management Consulting

MENTOR. Your Business Success PartnerPartnering with you long term to improve your businesses profit, growth, and value.MENTOR.'s team has proven industry experience across several industries, with highlights of success and areas of competency shown below;Examples of competencies: Identify and implementing core competencies, key goals, priorities, and measurable stretch targets.  Developing and executing strategic business plans.  Developing and leading business turnaround recovery and business rationalisation.  Master planning.  Technology implementation. HR – developing teams and restructuring of businesses. Finance – budgeting, balance sheet and profit & loss management.  Health and safety in high volume, dangerous environments. Sales and digital marketing.  Legal – Litigation and Contract negotiation.  Professional services – Mergers & Acquisitions, Supplier Negotiations, Succession Planning, Capital Raising, Joint Ventures, and Business Sales. Examples of achievements: Saving $2M per annum and reducing overheads by 33% by negotiating lease termination, relocation of operations, a sub-lease, consolidation, reducing fleet vehicles, ending financing agreements, and restructuring several companies. Redesigning products to save 25% cost.  Achieving an EBITDA of 21.3% compared to 2.4% the previous year and improving gross margin profit from 49.8% to 63.3%. Saving 12% per annum and generating 2–3% of revenue per annum by partnering with suppliers and replacing in-house promotion causing significant financial losses. Achieving a commercially appropriate return on investment instead of a financial loss by re-negotiating over 100 contracts, increasing user charges by 25%, and aligning with local regulatory suppliers. Successful negotiations, generating multi-million dollar sales contracts. Achieving an 18% EBITDA, 33% COG's, 26% wage cost, and a 15% YoY revenue growth for a Profit and Loss