David Sullivan

Associate

Personal Bio

David is an accomplished strategic and change-oriented senior executive with extensive experience in sales and marketing leadership, business development, customer relationship management, and delivering through very challenging economic downturns. As Managing Director at Volvo Truck and Bus, he lead an organisation with £100m turnover, operating across 12 businesses with 300 employees.

Interview with David

An accomplished strategic and change-oriented senior executive with extensive experience in sales and marketing leadership, business development, customer relationship management, and delivering through very challenging economic downturns.

• Success is in always ensuring an organisation/business is in much better place with its vision, direction, people, organisation, skill, brand, image than when I took the organisation/business on. This has been achieved in all roles I have held.

• There was an ownership need for the business managers to take responsibility for the building of their annual budget. Training was developed and carried out. With coaching support the team developed skills in this and now produce clear annual action plans, with much more accurate budgets and also, crucially, complete buy in to the achievement of the budget.