Katie Thorne worked as a consultant within the global team at William Grant & Sons over 2018/19. In the role as Global e-Commerce Manger, Katie’s objectives were to support priority markets to accelerate their business online. In Katie’s time within the business she took leadership on some of our highest priority projects including development of our AMAZON EU strategy, launching 3P test in UK & France, introduction of our commercial framework & strategy, supporting evolution of the basics & net revenue management of the e-Commerce range. This is the second time (previously @ BIC EU) I have used Katie for consultancy & I would not hesitate to recruit her again. Throughout the time we have worked together Katie has demonstrated the skills and expertise needed to develop business online & through AMAZON in particular. Katie works efficiently through multiple tasks & has an excellent drive for results. One of Katie's greatest skills is the ability to balance strategic & operational elements, Katie is more than comfortable facilitating a long term vision & at the same time is hands on enough to support on day to day tasks. Katie is extremely hardworking & reliable, in our time working together she never gave less than 100% to ensure all objectives were completed. Katie is an extremely fast learner, this coupled with her expertise on e-Commerce / AMAZON, will help to support any business who has short/long term objectives for building business Online. I would highly recommend Katie (& e-Necessity) to any company that are serious about developing their e-Commerce capabilities.

'I was introduced to eNecessity when Merck Consumer Health Asia was looking for an opportunity to move from a place of infancy to establishment in the ecommerce channel. I commissioned eNecessity for 6 months to develop workshop content that was tailored to the Asian online trading environment and to deliver a 3 day workshop using different types of learning methodology. We needed a very practical approach to build our ecommerce knowledge and channel expansion roadmap for our markets in China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. I was impressed with eNecessity’s rich experience in managing pure online retailers, including Amazon, and their due diligence helped ensure the success of Project ACE deliverables with alignment to our business objective. Katie from eNecessity has great interpersonal skills and maintains good networks that enable her to understand exactly what needs to be done and then, if necessary, identifies and engages the right external partners, for the best outcome. I would have no hesitation in recommending eNecessity for this kind of work to any future potential client.'

'Steph and I worked on a project launch together, I enjoyed her enthusiasm, her can-do approach and her tenacity. Steph will deliver!'

‘eNecessity are process driven but maintain a level of flexibility to support business development. eNecessity’s approach is always open minded and positive, they have a feet in the mud head in the clouds style, meaning they are always close to the detail whilst sustaining the ability to add value from a strategic perspective. eNecessity constantly challenge the norm & colleagues’ thought processes, it is extremely refreshing. Recruiting eNecessity is probably the best decision I have made in 2016.’

‘Katie is an online expert and has the ability to trouble shoot in a very short space of time the capabilities from both a supplier and retailer perspective. Her role within Omega allowed Katie to define our strategy with Amazon and she has transformed the way we work with the customer and the results we have achieved. Katie has been able to grow our business with Amazon whilst cutting investment and increasing our ROI on activities we have worked with Amazon on. I would recommend Katie to any company who is looking for an individual who can define an online strategy or trouble shoot an existing strategy in order to turn it around in to achieve success.’