Interim general & change management & consultancy service provider.
 Great Yarmouth Port Authority. Market research project: Summer 2007.
 Powrie Appleby LLP. Tax mitigation accountancy firm. Conducted comprehensive review of all aspects of the business, making recommendations as appropriate: Autumn 2007. Then helped drive change throughout the business by: establishing a Working Party for each fee earning department; engaging marketing agency to develop communications strategy; implementing sales initiatives; delivering cost reductions: Winter 2007/8. Dougal Powrie, senior partner writes: "Charlie got his head around our business, and identified where and how we needed to change, extraordinarily quickly. His abilities to blend with our culture and take people with him, coupled with his maturity and organisational skills, meant that he was the obvious person to help us carry out the changes required"

Full P&L responsibility to PLC Board for this c.£9m turnover commercial port. Responsible personally for sales, PR, strategic planning, business development & 5 departmental managers directly reporting. Highlights:
• Facilitated long term business growth by: recovering 28 acres of land from tenancy and securing both detailed planning permissions & £75k free grant from County Council towards infrastructure costs.
• Turned round Distribution department from high cost poor performer to profitable efficient service provider, resulting in business becoming sole East Coast port-of-entry for raw steel to BMW and Honda.
• Close relations with customers in Western Europe, Scandinavia and UK resulted in winning trade from other ports & the development of new channels of trade.
• Negotiated and agreed evergreen lease and operating agreement with new sector customer in exchange for building bespoke facility at the port yielding ROC >15%.
• Reviewed and updated laboratory equipment and associated handling/storage procedures, ensuring port was fit for 21st century food and feed chain purpose.
• Introduced 5-year rolling capital replacement programme to smooth cash flow.
• Negotiated introduction of new regulations with relevant Authorities and lodged, if justified, legally based formal objections.

Trouble-shooting and problem-solving consultancy roles. Assignments included:
• SR Communications plc. Re-engineered warehousing and pick/pack activities of storage and fulfilment division.
• British Red Cross. Organised a major fund-raising event underpinned by sponsorship and netting in excess of £250k. Arranged other smaller events.
• British Red Cross. Interim manager for all British Red Cross Centres across Greater London working with full-time staff and volunteers to ensure that their service delivery was fit for purpose.
• Guards Polo Club, Windsor Great Park. As interim CE, responsible to Chairman and Committee for: The Cartier International Day, other high profile tournaments, membership management, catering contracts, sponsorship, stables. Achieved key tasks of sorting out accounts and accounting and admin procedures.
• Coopers Metals. Rationalised the company’s scrap reclamation depots within the London area without loss of business.

From general management trainee, via junior & middle management jobs in production, distribution and sales, to Head of National Primary Distribution across the UK.
Highlights included:
• Lobbying MPs for the introduction of higher Gross Vehicle Weights (GVWs).
• Introducing 38 tonnes GVWs across all fleets without increasing pay and without disruption, whilst standardising vehicle specifications.
• Re-engineering the Group's internal supply chains, enabling high cost small brewing and packaging plants to be closed.
• Managing the transfer of sales to the major multiple grocers from high street drops to Regional Distribution Centre (RDC) deliveries.
• Conception, development and introduction of the Distribution Bus Service a unique system of timed deliveries.