Mr Franz Rothschild

FRANZ ROTHSCHILD Co. Wicklow |--| linkedin.com/in/franz-rothschild SUMMARY PROFILE Experienced and entrepreneurial commercial manager with a track record in the SME sector, delivering business growth and development through relationship building, innovation, flexibility, logistics and team building. Proven track record of both negotiation and communication skills. Offering strong project delivery and commercial acumen working with multinational and SME companies throughout Ireland, EU and globally. WORK EXPERIENCE PERSONAL BUSINESS PROJECTS. Sept '18- Dec '19 I used this time to work on 2 separate project's to establish a small businesses in my local village. Unfortunately due to circumstances beyond my control neither of these came to fruition. KILLINCARRIG DEVELOPMENTS LTD. May ‘17- July ‘18 Building and development company based in County Wicklow and carrying out work nationwide and in London and Europe. Building new as well as refurbishing houses and offices to high standards for discerning customers. I was hired for a 6 month contract as the Commercial manager to oversee the transformation and modernisation of the office. I was hired to introduce new technology and develop new systems for HR issues, materials purchasing, payroll, and bill of quantity pricing and customer liaising. In addition I was required to discover and appoint a new long term quantity surveyor for the business to replace a retired member of staff. My contract allowed the company principles to devote more of their time to the overseeing of on site works, design and the winning of new contracts and work to allow the business to flourish. FERRUM TRADING CO. LTD, Dublin Jan ’01-Dec ‘16 Ferrum Trading Company has been supplying the Irish manufacturing and metal working industries since 1947, offering a range of mild steel products and cutting service for beams and columns. Director/Company Secretary ● ● Developed and implemented a strategic 3 year business plan which restored the company to profit after several years of losses. The turnaround was achieved with a combination of 10% cost savings across the company and a 30% increase in sales through both sourcing new customer's and increasing turnover with existing customers. Successfully restructured and trained the Sales team and hired a new Sales Executive from within the industry to further consolidate the return to profit. This increased sales by 15-20% annually. General Manager ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● Jan ’05-Dec ‘07 Sourced new product ranges and add-ons to broaden the company's market to end users rather than just engineering manufacturers. Devised new product delivery methods to reduce transport costs through outsourcing of transport and logistics. Successfully increased sales turnover by 12-15% year on year for 3 years through the implementation of the above processes. Warehouse and Logistics Manager ● Jan ’08- Apr ‘13 Expanded product range and availability through a combination of the sourcing of new suppliers in conjunction with negotiating an increase in funding from our bank, allowing the business to expand its range range and amount of stock. Planned and spearheaded a successful company wide cost cutting initiative to reduce running costs by 30% over a 24 month period. This involved the renegotiation of service contracts, early retirement packages for long term staff, placing all telecommunications online and the modernisation of both IT and material handling equipment to reduce operational cost. Selected, procured and integrated a new purchasing, sales, payroll and accounting IT system from the ​Access​ group. Purchasing/Sales/Logistics Manager ● May ’13-Dec ’16 Jan ’01-Dec ‘04 Managed and supervised the logistics of relocating the company warehouse facilities to new premises. Developed new stock layout and transport logistics for new premises. Managed the replacement and modernisation of material handling equipment. Oversaw the downsizing of warehouse staff numbers by 50%. Previous to this from when I finished school I was a successful semi-professional yachtsman and was both a team leader and team member of several successful sailing teams and competed internationally as well as representing Ireland. EDUCATION St Michaels College Dublin Leaving Certificate 1989 INTERESTS ● ● ● ● ● ● Raising and guiding my young family Grand prix and offshore yacht racing Rugby Technology Baking and cooking The Great outdoors KEY SKILLS Adaptability | Strategic thinking |Collaboration |Analysis |Management |Team building