Stuart Ball
Stuart is the founder of Absolute Management & Marketing having spent 25 years working in the field of Product and Strategic Marketing with leadership of the Marketing function or Business in recent years.
If a business doesn't grow it will eventually die; so before consulting Stuart spent 25 years growing businesses and creating and implementing Marketing functions in large multi-nationals and smaller niche companies. In addition to Marketing; Stuart has spent 20 years leading Commercial Sales & Marketing organisations, and 15 years leading Strategy Deployment and the implementing Strategic plans through Organisational Design / Strategy.
Every role has been B2B or B2C focused with experiences gained from the following companies:
- Global Marketing Director at Klockner Pentaplast
2 Global roles in Pharmaceutical, Food Packaging. Delivering protection of life saving drugs and food / consumer products during transportation.
- Marketing Leader at Honeywell
3 EMEA focused roles in the area of B2B industrial products like Fire & Gas Detection, and Military PPE. Realising world changing technology into high value products.
- Marketing at De La Rue
One global and one EMEA focused role considering on Banknote paper & print security features or the processing of notes and coins. Securing the worlds largest currencies.
- Marketing at Emerson Electric
Numerous EMEA focused roles in the area of B2B industrial power and network protection. Air conditionaing systems, and uninterruptibe power suppliers with network connectivity to protect the largest datacentres.
Specific Personal Experiences
• Track record and practical experience across the full range of marketing disciplines
Product Management, New Product Development & Market Launch, Pricing, VoC,
Human Factors, SaaS, Adjacent Space Growth, M&A
• Brand development with ownership of market leading B2B industrial brands with upto £5m+ budgets
• Multinational strategic, commercial and business planning experience with P&L ownership
• Business building skills driving profitable growth from new product innovation and new geographies
• Organisational development with global, virtual and physical teams of upto 50 direct.
Strong leadership and team development skills, in particular leading cross functional and cross
cultural global teams.
• High level negotiation, presentation and communication skills with proven capability of engaging
stakeholders to build the future vision, develop strategic partnerships and focus on objectives delivery
• Joint Ventures and agent sales models to drove profitable growth whilst limiting financial exposure
• Private Equity ownership and funding, M&A valuation & deal closure with integration of acquisitions
• Organisational restructuring for growth or cost out
Stuart Ball