Andy Barton Email & Phone Number

Greater Glasgow Area

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Group IT Manager for Countrystyle Recycling Ltd various positions held since May 2006My responsibilities include:Implement systems changes and updates with the least distruption to the day to day running of the company which involves out of hours and weekend hours.Working with the departmental directors and managers to implement changes, updates and training. Negotiate and manage IT, software licences, phone, mobile, and printer/copier contracts.Ensure systems and paperwork conform with Government, Environment Agency, Defra and local authority procedures.Liase with customers. Customer services and sales staff to ensure all their needs are met.Managing department staff Budget Managing & Contract negotiations.Creating Management & Customer Reports.Overseeing the IT systems for all sites, assisting with the writing of the company’s IT polic.Programming the CRM & Gatehouse systems to departments needsManaging various IT suppliers/administrators and suppliers.Meeting with customer to resolve issues and creating tools to help themTrouble shooting to ensure wastes and charges are correctly entered into the database.Liaising with all sites to ensure that their diverse and expanding needs are catered for within our systems.Training and advising all staff on waste and systems.Providing information to relevant managers regarding profit, loss, and waste analysis and Environment Agency reports.Developing current systems to ensure maximum efficiency. Researching and installing new systems to improve our business processes. Implementation of a new sophisticated web reporting system directly accessible by our customersDealing with all communications within the company phone, mobiles and internet.Monitoring and resolving all it issues

Receiving orders and entering on to system.Ensuring adequate stock levels.Booking deliveries.Routing deliveries.Credit Control.Liaising with production/planning to ensure stock production.

Day to day management of a team of eleven staff.Assisting the Customer Service Manager and Regional Manager in producing monthly reports. Customer/Depot/Sales liason, meetings, communications.Key/Major Account administration.Price negotiation.Service issues.Dealing with resolution of Invoice queries.Customer Gains and Losses reporting.Training new staff.Creating and monitoring an Access database for monitoring and tracking customer complaints/termination/contracts and call logging.

Supervising the day to day running of a fleet of 25 waste disposal vehicle and 50 operatives.Ensuring collection from over 2,500 customers daily and over 45,000 domestic properties weekly.COSHH, Risk Assessments and Duty of Care Monitoring.Quality Assurance monitoring, Safety reporting and monitoring, Insurance reporting and monitoring.Payroll input.Monthly management reports.PPE issue and stocks.Disciplinary action.Data inputting / retrieval, ordering/purchasing.Interviewing potential employees.

Supervising a night shift of 4-5 staff.Inputting data into the H.M. Customs & Excise computer system.Creating paperwork for imported & exported goods for presentation to H.M. Customs & Excise for relevant taxation.Booking vehicle onto ferries.

Liaison with Italian & Spanish agents.Arranging warehousing of imported groupage loads.Liaison with customers regarding deliveries of goods.Arrange transportation throughout UK.Arrange custom clearance and transportation of deep-sea shipments.Filing and records management.