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Strategic Commercial Leadership Across Wholesale, Convenience & Foodservice

Driving profitable, sustainable growth for challenger brands and established FMCG businesses in a complex channel

About Lotus

With over 20 years’ experience across Grocery, Wholesale, Convenience, Discount, Foodservice & Hospitality, I help FMCG brands unlock meaningful growth through insight-led commercial strategy and real-world execution. From household names to emerging challenger brands, I specialise in de-mystifying complex channels, reshaping route-to-market, and building long-term commercial plans rooted in practical understanding, cross-functional leadership and buyer-ready storytelling.

  • 20+ years FMCG expertise
  • Wholesale, Convenience & Foodservice Specialist
  • Insight-led, Commercially Astute
  • Board-level Strategy Execution
  • Fractional, Interim & Advisory Leadership

How Lotus Can Help Your Brand Grow

Commercial Strategy

  • Actionable 1/3/5-year growth planning
  • Category, range, pricing & investment strategies (incl. HFSS/VAT)
  • Go-to-Market launches (NPD/EPD/Repositioning)

Route-to-Market Development

  • Wholesale, Convenience & Foodservice channel specialism
  • Efficient route-to-market models & supply chain solutions
  • Cross-channel development & logistics

Customer & Channel Growth

  • Commercial storytelling & buyer readiness
  • Distribution expansion & network building
  • Account optimisation & promotional strategy

Brands I’ve Worked With

Career Impact & Leadership Highlights

  • Most recently, for a Market Leading Natural Health & Beauty Brand — De-mystified the Out-of-Home landscape and created an end-to-end RTM strategy, enabling a new channel launch in 2026 with a projected £2.8m 2-year forecast
  • The Nation’s Favourite Pie — Turned around a declining Convenience & Wholesale channel across chilled & frozen: rebuilding buyer relationships, protecting all SKUs from delist, securing significant distribution increases, resetting pricing/terms across the channel, and delivering a return to double-digit growth
  • For a well established 8th Generation Family Brewer — Grew the Routes-to-Market channel by 40%, increasing profit by +64%, and delivering category-leading soft drink growth (+48%)
  • Created the UK’s First Paper Honey Sachet — Led a cross-functional project delivering Rowse’s sustainable single-serve innovation, unlocking +7.2m new usage occasions & going on to win the Grocer Gold Award
  • In Pet Food — Transformed underperforming wholesale accounts: increasing distribution by +65%, returning all accounts to growth, and delivering +40% VCP uplift through strategic pricing and PMP activation
  • Boots Meal Deal Listing — Opened a new trading channel in Chilled FTG and secured full national chilled handheld distribution across Boots Meal Deal chillers, including airside at all UK airports

Work With Lotus

Whether you’re entering new channels, repositioning your portfolio, or looking for senior-level commercial leadership, I’d love to support your next phase of growth

📧 louise.monkman@lotus-commercial.co.uk
📱 07968 026185