
Jonathan Rose
Partner and Co-Founder Guruservices.Biz
Commercial Director – Connecticore
An all-round business professional at senior Director level with extensive experience in commercial and customer operations, strategy, marketing and finance, including P&L, budgets and Operating expenses.
Experience in both large multinationals as well as small/medium sized startups. A holistic and constructive thinker, with a passion for people and a sharp sense of humor.
Extensive experience in driving accelerated revenue growth at a country level through a structured, analytical approach with on-going tracking, that consistently delivered 1-2ppts/year of incremental revenue growth.
Results orientated and a creative, win-win solution finder, setting clear and always achieving or exceeding KPIs (for self and team). A strong team player and leader who has created and optimized organizational design as well as mentored key talent and challenged teams to perform at their full potential. With a proven track record of success, having defined, refined and optimized business portfolios, as well as streamlining Roles/Responsibility overlaps. Turned around or improved his team’s morale and performance wherever he has worked.
Product experience primarily FMCG, including Non-Alcoholic Beverages, Magazines, Personal care products, Paper products as well as Internet Service Provision and eCommerce. Multi/Omni Channel experience across Modern FMCG trade (Hypermarkets, Supermarkets, Discounters and Fragmented trade), Ho.Re.Ca, Wholesale and eCommerce. Culturally and geographically diverse, having lived and worked in developed, developing and emerging countries across Europe. Blue Chip company experience at The Coca-Cola Company, Coca-Cola Hellenic, Diageo, Shell and Procter & Gamble. Educated at Oxford University and Manchester Business School.