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Mr Geoffrey PearsonB-dul Decebal 85, 200621 Craiova, Dolj, Romania
Date of Birth: 27.02.1971 Nationality: British (currently based in Romania)
Telephone Number: 0040 351 448484 Mobile Number: 0040 730 554322
Email Address: [email protected]
Please see my profile on LinkedIn
Work ExperienceOct 2005 – Date Neal Brothers International Exporting Packing
May 2010 – Date – C.E.O. (Administrator, Romania, based)Feb 2007 – May 2010 – Key account Manager (UK and Romania, based)Oct 2005 - Feb 2007 – Team Manager – packing and freight
Feb 2003 – Oct 2005 Irwin College Head of Non-Academic Services
Jan 2001 – Feb 2003 Campus Accommodation Ltd Accommodation Manager
Oct 1998 – Jan 2001 Irwin CollegeAccommodation Manager
Aug 1996 – Oct 1998Leicester YMCAServices Manager
Jun 1994 – Aug 1996 Aylestone Care HomeDay Care Services Manager
Nov 1990 – Jun 1994 City Business SystemsWarehouse Manager
Feb 1989 – Nov 1990 Bromley CouncilSenior Clerk (Valuation & Estates)
Jun 1986 – Feb 1989 Bromley Council Legal Clerk (Legal Department)
Education and Qualifications1995 Leicester College City and Guilds Diploma in Management
1982 - 1986 Kentwood School for BoysGCE / O’Level English – Grade BGCE / O’Level Mathematics – Grade CGCE / O’Level European Studies – Grade AGCE / O’Level Geography – Grade BGCE / O’Level Applied Science – Grade B
GCE / O’Level Drama and Arts – Grade B
SkillsI can demonstrate and give examples of when I have been required to utilise the following key skills or experiences during my business career. Project planning, team management, negotiation, Business strategy, producing presentations and giving them, public speaking, purchasing, key account management, logistics, supply chain, leadership, team building and management, contract negotiation, marketing strategy, national and international trade relations, business and business group relationship building and others.
Over the past few years I have also headed up a team that has achieved.
ISO 9001: 2008 – Quality management systemsISO 14001: 2004 – Environment management systemsOHSAS 18001: 2007 – Occupational Health and Safety management systems.CIPS Best Purchasing Initiative for an SME in 2011.
Personal StatementA reliable, experienced and driven senior business manager, with 28 year’s work experience, in both public and private sectors, at management or senior management level. The last nine years of which, have been spent building, developing and extending my current employers business in Romania. I have been a full time resident of Romania since 2010.I have an extensive base of contacts throughout Romania and the UK, in business, social groups and privately and am a strong advocate for building and widening relationships between the two countries.Demonstrating this I often volunteer, or am called to give, presentations at many business and social events, in both Romania and the UK, outlining the success that can be achieved by British companies, in Romania, as well as Romanian company opportunities in the UK.Leading a small team initially, I have headed up a business that has expanded its footprint from one Romanian city (Craiova) with five staff and a turnover of just over two hundred and fifty thousand Euro’s in 2007, to one which is now based in a three cities, adding Ploiesti in 2013 and Cluj-Napoca in 2015, utilising the skills of our current thirty staff and increasing turnover to almost one million five hundred thousand this year.The success of Neal Brothers in Romania is well known and stands as an example of what can be achieved, I also believe it demonstrates my individual leadership capabilities, heading up and directing an expanding team, in what can be a very challenging business environment.In terms of my personal practices, I have a strong sense of responsibility, being tactful, courteous and diplomatic, preferring to carefully consider and negotiate.My strengths are taking on a project and seeing it through to its conclusion successfully. I believe in keeping my word and whilst obviously as a business manager I am often called upon to take tough and sometimes unpopular decisions, I retain a sense of fairness, doing the right thing and utilising a team ethic.I work well with people at all levels attending production, health and safety and board level meetings in-house, with customer liaison, I am involved in many initial contacts, presentational and contractual negotiation meetings and public speaking and presentations, as well as representing my employer at groups, social and business events.I have initiated managed and accepted change providing there is a strong case for it; I am averse to taking unnecessary risk preferring evolutionary development.I have a methodical, self-disciplined and high standards approach and also expect such standards from those that work with me. I work well faced with deadlines and under pressure, working systematically and with planning, but also able to react as required if things change.
I can demonstrate a wealth of experience and skills to any future employer proving I would be a valued and integral part of their business or organisation. I work with a range of business organisations including the British Romanian Chamber of Commerce, Cluj-Napoca Chamber of Commerce, Ploiesti Chamber of Commerce the Transylvanian Business Group, also organisations like Bridge to Romania and the British Embassy in Romania, attending a number of business and social events; I also took part and appeared in an Embassy promotional film encouraging British companies to invest in Romania http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TbX8X6AoCg I am a registered Consular contact with the British Embassy in Romania assisting as required UK citizens and or the Embassy as required.Other promotional activities following Neal Brother’s expansion within Romania, can be found on these links, recently I also headed up our teams update of the companies Romanian website.
http://www.vptv.ro/neal-brothers-romania-in-prahova/
http://www.digi24.ro/Stiri/Regional/Digi24+Craiova/Stiri/Craiova+exemplu+la+BBC
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-28596926
http://www.digi24.ro/Stiri/Regional/Digi24+Cluj-apoca/Stiri/Investitie+britanica+la+Cluj
Additional InformationI enjoy travelling particularly capital cities and architectural sites of interest; I am a keen reader of factual historical biographies. I like to research history and am currently involved in tracing my family tree
RefereesMr Shajjad Rizvia Mr Calin HumaCo-founder C.E.O.British Business Group Transylvania Bridge to Romania and Indes GroupCell – 0040 744 873340 Cell – 0040 745 037532 Email – [email protected] Email - [email protected]
Mr Mike Larkin Mr Erik OordHead of Europe Operations Former DirectorNeal Brothers (Leicester) UK. Bufad RomaniaCell – 0044 776 4179331 Cell – 0040 721 110683Email – [email protected] Email - [email protected]