Adrian Mitchell Email & Phone Number

Somerset, England, United Kingdom

> Leading all Operations & Supply Chain activities with a team totalling up to 200 people.> Member of Business Leadership Team. Accountability for Budget, KPI's, & site development. > Highly professional, committed, self-reliant, enduring.> Re-structured operation, cultural change, employee engagement, team-spirit, competence.> Manufacturing, Purchasing, Planning, Warehousing, Importation, Engineering, Capex.> Managed partners for Distribution, Warehousing, Product Co-packing, contracted key suppliers.> High level customer exposure to all main UK multiple retailers as well as Export & other channels.> Unannounced BRC V8 AA*, USDA & all major retailers.

Launceston, England, United Kingdom

> Full Site Responsibility. Leadership & development of entire team. > Designed, built, equipped, recruited, accredited, trained, & launched totally from scratch.> Manufacturing, Purchasing, Planning, NPD, Technical, QA, HR, Capex, & cost control.> Organic, hi-care, highest quality hand-crafted, artisan. > BRC Grade A, Soil Association, Waitrose customer-label approval. Royal opening.

> Fully responsible for Purchasing, Stock Replenishment and Warehousing for 2 UK factories.> Lead in group purchasing partnership with German parent company. International sourcing.> Rigorously reviewed all materials & supply with Operations, Technical & NPD. Slashed complexity> Fundamentally changed the operation from “make” to “buy” freeing capacity & improving quality> Cross-functional involving Technical, NPD, Operations, Marketing & Finance> SAP implimentation, key manager. SAP Super-User