Managing Director · Building Products · Manufacturing · Distribution
Managing Director and board-level commercial operator with more than 35 years in building products, manufacturing and construction supply. I combine customer insight, commercial strategy and team leadership to turn opportunity into controlled, repeatable growth.
Based in Northamptonshire · Commercial leadership across building products, manufacturing and construction supply
Career film
A short film about the commercial discipline behind Marcus's work: strengthening the everyday business, creating new capability and leading through change.
Current mandate · Sparrow Construction
Working with Sparrow's owners and leadership team to turn an exceptional commitment to service and quality into controlled, scalable growth—strengthening the commercial pipeline, customer partnerships, management information and operating rhythm without losing what makes the business distinctive.
Visit Sparrow ConstructionLeadership proposition
Markets change. Customers change. Strategies need to change with them. My role is to bring clarity to the challenge, create a commercially credible direction and build the leadership capability needed to deliver it for the long term.
My experience was developed and tested over 24 years with Saint-Gobain and Jewson, progressing from branch leadership to national, Managing Director and board-level responsibility. I now apply that disciplined corporate toolbox with the pace and directness required by owner-led and investor-backed businesses.
Read the executive profileLeadership platforms
Twenty-four years of progression within Saint-Gobain, alongside two propositions created and led to turn customer problems into scalable growth.
Executive evidence
Six examples of how I diagnose a challenge, create direction and build the operating capability to sustain progress.
Current growth mandate
Turning an owner-led reputation for responsive service and quality into a more deliberate commercial system—without losing the character that customers value.
Explore the evidenceVenture and market creation
Building sustainable-construction capability, customer confidence and a national commercial route to growth across Saint-Gobain’s merchant brands.
Explore the evidenceVenture creation and scaling
Connecting design, compliance, quantity surveying, estimating and materials procurement to improve project conversion and customer value through the Jewson network.
Explore the evidenceAnonymised strategy case
A board-level growth blueprint connecting revenue, margin, proprietary-product mix, digital trading, working capital and execution discipline.
Explore the evidenceAnonymised strategy case
A board-level diagnosis and growth architecture for a specialist energy and infrastructure business—turning a compelling idea into a controlled, repeatable commercial system.
Explore the evidenceCommercial transformation
Replacing inward-looking habits with customer focus, sharper accountability and self-sufficient management capability in investor-backed manufacturing SMEs.
Explore the evidenceTransition leadership
Supporting continuity, separation and the human realities of transition as part of the senior leadership team during the £740m sale of Jewson to STARK.
Explore the evidenceWhat I bring
Strategy is only valuable when customers respond, leaders align and teams can execute. I connect the boardroom, the customer journey and the operating rhythm—without losing sight of people, pace or commercial reality.
See experience and evidenceTurning market and customer insight into choices, priorities and accountable plans.
Creating propositions, routes to market, CRM discipline and a forecastable sales engine.
Building clear roles, confident managers, succession and teams that do not depend on one individual.
Removing organisational drag while protecting trust, continuity and long-term value.
The work