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Sheffield, England, United Kingdom

Leeds, United Kingdom

• Coordinating Order Entry, Tendering and Bill of Materials activities for Sulzer Pumps (UK) Ltd's aftermarket department.• Member of Senior Management team for Aftermarket, responsible for local strategy, headcount, budgets and ISO audits.• Oversight of customer and country pricing strategies, focusing on margin improvement and bridging data quality gaps to improve customer service. • Key position on global projects. Supporting and developing initiatives for short/mid/long term strategic projects.• Management of sales process with both internal and external customers – efficiency improvements with Intercompany and alignment of ERP data and commercial terms for 3rd party customers.• Monitoring of sales performance against predicted OI GPs, reporting against regular drivers on both project and daily business to corporate management.• Report directly to Regional Management Structure, able to self-determine priorities across both local factory responsibilities and regional and global strategic goals and project work.

Leeds, United Kingdom

Appointed to this role with a view to developing team to grow retrofit capabilities and to support transition to SAP ERP system (designated key user). Learning from Manager with a view to succession planning. Period of recruitment to meet the demands of increased BOM and data quality drivers. Responsible for training and transition of front-end colleagues. Achieved without any impact to OTD or TCT KPIs.

Leeds, United Kingdom

Working within the UK, North Sea and Middle East sectors, I prepare technical proposals for centrifugal pump retrofit & upgrade projects, both for our own and for "Brand X”, or “third party” equipment.Liaise with clients to establish their technical requirements, whether they are process changes, efficiency improvements, existing mechanical issues, or simply to restore the equipment to its original function.

Leeds, United Kingdom

Responsibilities:-To learn the workings of the CSS (Customer Support & Service) organisation and develop the skills required to fit in to a working role in the company.

East Kilbride, United Kingdom

Summer PlacementResponsibilities:-Re-organising the manufacturing stores system to allow for more efficient identification and management of parts.; Researched and proposed barcode system for the stores.Acheivements:-Began implementation of system; incomplete due to timescale and scope of project.

Cathcart, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Summer PlacementResponsibilities:-Pump calculations for critical components; Carrying out fault analysis of shaft breakages; general pump calculations; minor drawing amendments.Acheivements:-Aided in the induction of new employees to the company, who had no prior pump knowledge.

Cathcart, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Responsibilities Carrying out pump calculations for Pumps in the Nuclear Power market.Acheivements:-Became an established member of the team in a short while.Developed good working relationships with fellow employees.

Cathcart, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Responsibilities:-Compiling and issuing Tenders for the water market in the Americas, Africa and China.Achievements:-Tendered for and won order for around £1.5M of pump equipment.Successfully secured an order in China which offered the company an opening to a potentially large market.

Engaged with the various departments in the company to absorb as much information as possible, with a view to developing skills taht would benefit the company in the long term. Tendering, Mechanical design, dealing with warranty issues and customer concerns.

B.Eng (Hons), Engineering & Enterprise Management

Mehanical Engineering with Business Management

Svq Level 3, Mechanical Engineering

Hnc (With Merit) And Nc (With Merit), Mechanical Engineering

Mechanical Engineering (HNC)

Svq Level 2, Mechanical Engineering