Creating Global Team Synergies: Asda Groceries

Enable your brand to deliver increased value, at pace.

Developing synergies and collaboration, to drive effective outcomes

With over 20 years experience working with Asda and Walmart, Marcus has learned the need to continually evolve and adapt, and at the heart of this is ensuring he builds effective relationships across multiple functional areas and global teams.

Marcus sees the key to success in maintaining synergies across teams and locations, as defining the one most valuable and effective way of working, whilst ensuring teams are empowered to own decisions in their time zone, and feel the confidence to fail and act fast as a result, without fear. Crafting psychological safety is at the heart of Marcus’ leadership and influence.

A key aspect of the success in developing an effective working relationship between Product and Project teams, is to recognise the value they both create, targeting common goals, yet ensuring Product remain focused upon the ‘Why’ and ‘What’, and Delivery upon the ‘When’.

By continually advocating and maintaining this approach, the pace and quality of delivery moved forward on a continually upward curve, primarily as teams operated lean and effective, and didn’t get in each others way.