Nathan T.-Services: Strategy & Operations · Chief Of Staff · COO Advisory
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Experience
Manager for Inventory Optimization
Amer Sports
Manager for Expansion Strategy & Growth
Just Eat Takeaway
Launched the business's logistics first delivery-fee pricing programme across 12 markets, driving double-digit-million revenue growth, later institutionalised into a dedicated Pricing Department. Achieved buy-in from logistics by proving distance-based pricing improved their cost-per-order economics, keeping customer drop-off minimal while opening revenue the business had been too cautious to pursue.
Led the cross-functional Road to Profitability programme across Sales, Marketing, Logistics, Product, Finance, and Account Management, building a diagnostic playbook that identified and assigned ownership of three core profit leaks: partner quality, pricing gaps, and excess courier capacity. Materially improved logistics profitability across 12 markets.
Built the business's first standardised geographic expansion framework across 12 European markets, extending reach to tens of millions of additional customers and growing order volume in the mid-single-digit range. Combined a two-year forecasting engine with a governance model that empowered market-level SPOCs to execute and reserved senior leadership only for go or no-go decisions.
Acted as the internal SME for logistics strategy, advising the COO and MT across operational efficiency, partner retention, and strategic growth. Built the data narrative and commercial case that retained McDonald's delivery volumes against competitive pressure, quantified restaurant wait-time cost recovery across markets, and sequenced extended trading hours by city and partner to build competitive moat without diluting density.
Senior FP&A Analyst for Germany, HQ & Logistics Programme Manager
Just Eat Takeaway
Led financial and operational integration across three acquired businesses following dual mergers with Delivery Hero Germany and Just Eat, each running separate ERP systems, data structures, and KPI definitions. Established common definitions across all affected stakeholders to produce a single consolidated operating view by period close.
Owned the business case and MT approval process for all extraordinary budget requests across the German market, including union-driven courier labour obligations, compensation adjustments, and strategic HQ initiatives. Ensured every non-standard investment was modelled, stress-tested, and approved before entering the budget or forecast.
Led programme governance for the first-ever rollout of an employed courier model across 7 markets, replacing the existing freelance model. Designed the full governance architecture from scratch: Steering Committee composition, functional workstream leads, and local execution teams, keeping a high-stakes, first-of-its-kind expansion accountable and on schedule.
Owned the financial narrative for monthly and quarterly business reviews with country MDs, VP of Logistics, and the COO. Built the cost-per-order analysis and commentary that surfaced where performance was improving, where it was not, and where leadership needed to make a hard call rather than wait.
Senior Financial Controller
Meridian Holdings
- Major wine and craft liquor retail, marketing and distribution business across 13 countries
- Recovered ~€400 k in outstanding debt within 8 weeks by redesigning collections and cross-functional processes end to end
Financial Business Analyst & Controller
Distell Group; Carido Transport
- Mastered cost modelling, P&L planning, and financial performance management across multiple businesses, building the commercial toolkit that was later applied in European tech and e-commerce
- Covered logistics, FMCG, and retail finance across Southern Africa before transitioning into European tech and e-commerce
Industry experience
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Experienced in Food and Beverage, Transportation, Information Technology, Retail, and Sport.
Business area experience
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Experienced in Finance, Accounting, Operations, Supply Chain Management, Strategy, and Project Management.
Summary
Your teams are busy.
You think everyone understands the priorities.
Your most important opportunity is still a work in progress months later.
It's not a people or a strategy problem. It's a connection problem.
Departments are optimised but act within a silo. No real sense of urgency with no shared rhythm and no clarity on who decides what and when. So the decisions that need three departments to move together just sit there. Waiting.
That is where execution speed and the opportunity dies.
13 + YEARS OPERATING
15 + MARKETS COVERED
7 + YEARS IN TECH
13 years inside high growth operations, strategic finance and FP&A. 12 European markets, 3 African markets. Most recently leading operational growth and optimisation strategy at one of Europe's largest food delivery businesses.
When something critical needed to move, I figured out how to make it happen. Fostering collaboration with right functions in the room and having the right people with the right authority. At the right moment.
I get energy from helping scaling organisations erase collaboration challenges and achieve their growth ambitions. Through commercial, financial and operational experience, you get someone who understands why it matters, gets the right people behind it, and stays until the job is done.
- Pricing function from zero: Designed and established the pricing structure and decision framework, then implemented it. +7% revenue per order.
- Road to profitability: Created and directed the cross functional initiative plan the business could act on. 4% removed from Opex.
- European expansion: Owned the programme that held every function to a single timeline. 22M more people reached · +5pp incremental orders.
- Financial recovery: Created the financial framework and process, and held the cross functional team accountable to it. €400k recovered in eight weeks.
- Across all initiatives: steered Data & BI teams to design and implement performance management dashboards & reporting for leadership.
Skills
- Functions Led: Fp&A
- Functions Led: Strategy
- Functions Led: Logistics Operations
- Functions Led: Commercial
- Functions Led: Analytics
- Data: Sql
- Data: Python
- Data: Tableau
- Data: Looker
- Finance / Erp: Anaplan
- Finance / Erp: Sap
- Finance / Erp: Workday
- Finance / Erp: Onestream
- Programme: Asana
- Programme: Jira
- Programme: Notion
Languages
Education
University of the Witwatersrand
Post-Graduate (Hons) B.Com · Business Finance · Johannesburg, South Africa
University of the Witwatersrand
Bachelor of Commerce · Business Finance
Statistics
Experience
Global experience
Expertise
Profile
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Nathan is based in Munich, Germany and can operate in on-site, hybrid, and remote work models.
Nathan speaks the following languages: English (Native), German (Intermediate).
Nathan has at least 14 years of experience. During this time, Nathan has worked in at least 5 different roles and for 4 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 3 years and 8 months. Note that Nathan may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.
Based on recent experience, Nathan would be well-suited for roles such as: Manager for Inventory Optimization, Manager for Expansion Strategy & Growth, Senior FP&A Analyst for Germany, HQ & Logistics Programme Manager.
Nathan's most recent position is Manager for Inventory Optimization at Amer Sports.
In recent years, Nathan has worked for Amer Sports and Just Eat Takeaway.
Nathan is most experienced in industries like Food and Beverage, Transportation, and Information Technology. Nathan also has some experience in Retail and Sport.
Nathan is most experienced in business areas like Finance, Accounting, and Operations. Nathan also has some experience in Supply Chain Management, Strategy, and Project Management.
Nathan has recently worked in industries like Food and Beverage, Transportation, and Sport.
Nathan has recently worked in business areas like Supply Chain Management, Operations, and Strategy.
Nathan attended University of the Witwatersrand for Business Finance.
Nathan is immediately available part-time for suitable projects.
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