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Newark-on-Trent, GB

Newark-On-Trent, England, United Kingdom

• Managed trades to deliver a house extension, ensuring quality and adherence to build requirements.
• Ordered materials and organised trades to meet project deadlines.
• Collaborated with trades to ensure the finished build met quality standards and stayed on schedule.

Coventry, England, United Kingdom

• Multi-award-winning chemical manufacturer of cleaning liquids, powders & tablets for professional, retail & healthcare.Reporting to the owners with full site accountability. Responsible for 250 employees through 7.
• Transformed Plan Attainment by +55.2% from 43.2% to 98.4% in 6 months.
• Boosted On-Time-In-Full (OTIF) supply chain delivery by +41.1% from 58.7% to 99.6%.
• Added +£994K to the P&L transforming a -£654K deficit to a £340K profit.
• Added new sales of £1.1million, cutting sales deficits from -£1.2million to only £0.1million.
• Expanded capacity from 45.7% to 98.6%. Delivering a 52% increase within 4 months.

Nelson, England, United Kingdom

• Working to ensure we have a drink on everyone’s table.Using the engagement with teams and targeted interventions we began the journey of transformation to deliver a collaborative way to work, sharing best practices.
• Operations Leadership: Full site responsibility and accountability.
• Culture Change: I led, introduced and embedded a new culture of working together. Introduced the sharing of best practices to rebuild the teams on site and promote open and collaborative ways of working.
• Workforce Engagement & Needs Assessment: Engaged with the Shop Floor Teams, Engineering, and all departments to lead a journey of discovery to understand issues, size of the task, recovery plan, cost to deliver and.
• Training Needs Assessment: Worked with teams to understand blockers and identify training needs.
• Production Capability Improvement:

Newark, England, United Kingdom

• A British producer of soft drinks including 39 of the UK’s best-loved brands. A constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
• Project Leadership & Customer Relationship Management: Onboarded suppliers and implemented a new nationwide procurement system: SAP Ariba while maintaining trading relationships with the Britvic Category Team.
• Commercial Prioritisation: Prioritised forthcoming events in which suppliers participate without impacting or disrupting the flow of business already established.
• Monitoring & Reporting: Reporting concise weekly KPI updates on the success of the onboarding of suppliers. Also interrogating the Master Data and providing additional support when it was incorrect or questionable.

United Kingdom

• Led the team at VBites Group to achieve a grade "A" BRC at the Corby site, increasing sales opportunities.
• Implemented strategies to reduce cooking times and complexity, boosting capacity from 55% to 85%.
• Secured PE investment to re-open and expand the business, introducing more efficient manufacturing practices and equipment.

Burton On Trent

Full factory control reporting to the Board Supply Chain Director.Food Manufacturing site producing all Holland & Barrett own-label products for retail store worldwide. we also produced Solgar Vitamins for our sister company based in Tring UK, this is a premium brand of vitamins which is well known and distributed worldwide.In my time with the company, I.

Burton On Trent

Full factory control reporting to Group MD

Durham, United Kingdom

Full site control reporting to Group Factory Manager. The site ran a 3 shift system employing 450+ people.In the time I was with the team in Consett we managed to increase productivity, implement a new steam cooking plant to address issues seen with the proteins becoming broken down due to overcooking in the retort cookers we used to maintain our shelf.

Lancashire

I built this company from the ground up, we started with nothing except a concept and idea that I could supply locally sourced produce to the major multiples.I tendered for supply to Aldi, Booths predominantly and managed to win contracts to supply. Going from nothing I slowly built confidence in my ability to supply and meet orders placed against my.

Burscough, Lancashire

Full Site control reporting to Board of Directors

Technical EngineeringPersonnelNPD350 employees on a 3 shift system

Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom

During my time with the reserve forces of the British Army, I was given every opportunity to learn and develop as a person, a leader and a mentor. I joined as a private just for the comradeship and support, during my time I took every course offered to me so I could experience as many different types of training and become a better person. I put a lot of.

Management Studies, Pass With Merit

Activities and Societies: Distance Learning

Btec National Diploma, Computer Studies, Pass With Merit

Finance For Non-Finnace Managers, Pass

Nvq L7, Business Studies, Pass

Lean Six Sigma, Black Belt

Distance learning to qualify as a black belt in Six Sigma