Gerry Mellor

UK Sales Director at Select Drams.

East Kilbride, Scotland, United Kingdom

About

Driven, focused, well organised and planned individual with good all round experience within FMCG Sales, delivering business growth through a strategic approach whilst developing people, skills and promoting success within the business. Strong B2B experience IOSH Managing safely trained. WSET Wine & Spirits advanced

Experience

  • Sales Director at Select Drams Ltd.
    Mar 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • UK Sales Manager at RVM Systems UK
    Aug 2023 - Mar 2024 · 8 mos

    Heading up the UK business supplying Reverse vending machines to the UK Retail and Hospitality sectors, as part of the forthcoming Deposit Return Scheme for the UK.

  • UK Sales Manager at Gordon & MacPhail
    Jan 2020 - Jun 2023 · 3 yrs 6 mos

    Heading up the UK sales team, responsible for some national accounts, Tesco, Coop, Lidl, to drive the business strategy and grow our UK business across all channels.

  • Business Owner at St Killian UK
    Sep 2016 - Dec 2019 · 3 yrs 4 mos

    UK Distributor for the Saint Killians Candle CO UK Ltd. Prime focus is growing and developing growth of business, formulating the business strategy and ensuring growth and sales are inline with business expectations. Managing profit, budgets, and driving the Marketing.strategy of the brand to deliver against commercial aims. We supply the finest cleanest, safest Candle burning systems to the Catholic Church across the entire UK. Customer relationship visits,

  • Head Of Sales at DS Smith
    May 2015 - Sep 2016 · 1 yr 5 mos

    Heading up the Sales division of the DS Smith business in Scotland,Ireland & North of England. This involves managing the both the Internal & External sales teams, technical & planning departments. A Challenging and dynamic enviroment dealing with some of the country's largest companies such as Diageo, Pernod Ricard, Mondelez, Amazon, Nestle, P&G, Unilever & UB. The role is part of the senior management team and focuses on creating and integrating the business strategy for the business and ensuring we move the business forward in the right direction to achieve the business goals of profitable growth, together with supporting a safe place to work for our employees.