Andy Hicks Email & Phone Number

Coventry, United Kingdom

Management ConsultantConsultancy Delivered DifferentlyAs a Managing Consultant at Develop Consulting, my time is split between providing hands on support for clients and managing the wider project to deliver productivity, efficiency and profitability improvements. Develop Consulting operates in two main sectors, Healthcare and Manufacturing & Construction, with the majority of my time spent in the Manufacturing & Construction sector, where I’m particularly focused on delivering sustainable benefits in Safety, Quality, Cost, Delivery and Capability of People. With this approach I have successfully delivered projects in major manufacturing clients, with results such as a 40% improvement in productivity.The last couple of years has been spent supporting various traditional and modular construction organisations through the various process, technical, cultural, & leadership challenges that are affecting the whole sector.

Chester, United Kingdom

ARCA BLANCA is a management consultancy founded by award winning business transformation experts and data scientists. We help ambitious organisations achieve and maintain industry-leading positions. This means delivering tangible benefits that move your financial and operational results quickly and sustainably. We do this by combining a senior team with proprietary data-driven decision support tools. Our successful and experienced consultants work collaboratively across whole organisations to win the hearts and minds of your people, and drive rapid results. We use our leading data science capabilities to embed bespoke decision-support tools that sustain operational changes and improve efficiency.

Doha, Qatar

Delivery of a significant multi million dollar Inventory and Supply Chain project for the major oil producer in Qatar. Includes all required stakeholder & process management of a complex upstream and downstream world wide based supply chain.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Programme Leadership & Management of a multi million pound programme to deliver a regional distribution branch solution for the No1 supplier of materials to the UK's building trade. Construction of a dynamic 12 workstream based programme to implement the solution into 2 key North West based locations, delivering the regional distribution branches with a key reference to best in class warehouse and sales processes, a highly engaged workforce, and exceptional customer and staff experience.

Crewe, United Kingdom

Full Operational, P&L, and client management responsibility for the Unipart Logistics 3PL IL & Lineside contract with the Premier British luxury automaker. Responsibility to deliver all required contract KPI's, through a team of 150 people across two main 18/5 operational footprints.

United Kingdom

Programme leadership & support with a major pharmaceutical organisation in their warehouse transformation programme, both in UK and in various worldwide locations. Provision of both Lean and technical operational knowledge and coaching to both central and local Lean programme resources. Also supported the development of a lean approach for a major UK based builders merchant and home improvement retailer at new 600,000 sq ft RDC in the north of the UK. Also supported the implementation of a lean system with a major Health based commissioning support unit, including the development of local based lean champions. Continued connection to one of the UK's largest educational business school through leading elements of their MBA programme.

Novara Area, Italy

Leadership of a process wide transformation with a major world wide Blue chip FMCG organisation in their manufacturing and distribution site in Italy. Implementation of both detailed process improvements across a 24/7 warehousing operation, the development of local senior leaders in the implementation of a continuous improvement culture and the development of local and Europe wide CI champions to ensure the sustainment and further development of that newly implemented CI culture.

Yeovil

Detailed end to end process diagnostic with a major UK retail group on their affordable warmth proposition covering all products and services provided including sales, marketing, service centre, customer interaction, assessment, installation, warranty and after sales service processes

Uk

Leadership of a complete end to end Global procurement process re-design with a major UK Utilities organisation, including application of Lean methodology to deliver significant Quality, Cost and delivery benefits. Coaching and developing Senior Leader's and Lean practitioners through the project, to ensure sustainable benefits and commencement of a continuous improvement culture across the division.

Perth, Australia

Business transformation programme with a major Australian retail group, starting with the process transformation of a composite distribution centre and including the development of a sustainable continuous improvement culture and significant local management and leadership development leading to delivery of significant Cost and Quality benefits

Uk

Senior Change consultant within Unipart Expert Practice - Leading the transformation activity within client - based sites - currently in Health sector applying and developing the transformation process in health. Continuing the organisational wide transfromation programme with a top 40 Acute NHS FT hospital and then from March 2012 with a major Ambulance Trust in England. Delivered significant business benefits, commencement of a long term cultural and leadership change programme and the development of their own internal transformation capability specifically in the non urgent Patient Transport Service division.

Lead lean practitioner within Unipart Expert Practices - leading & developing lean activity within client organisations - part of team setting up and leading the detailed transformation programme within the Health Sector with a top 40 Acute NHS FT hospital - focus on process transformation across emergency, surgical and medical pathways, significant people engagement and organisational development. Key activity in developing through and with the Trust Executive board, a long term business transformation programme, fully branded at an organisational level

Management responsibility for the operations of a 24/7 warehousing and line side delivery service for a major Welsh manufacturer - including day to day responsibility for the application and development of the Unipart Way on the contract

Full day to day management responsibility for a 24/5 operations supplying to the UK rolling stock rail network, including development and application of the Unipart Way within the warehouse and transactional area's

Coventry, United Kingdom

Starting as production engineer at Unipart's exhaust and catalytic convert or manufacturing plant, managing a production aspects of various welding and robot assembly processes. Then into the first Unipart Way Continuous Improvement team - developing the initial and detailed Unipart Way - to support the group wide implementation of the Unipart Way (manufacturing, distribution and transactional business processes) and then gaining initial consulting contracts with FMCG and manufacturing companies. Working extensively with Toyota and Honda to develop and enhance the Unipart Way and CI culture, and developing leaders across the group in the implementation of the Unipart Way

Beng, Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Stags football club, Christian Union, Martin Luther King Centre

Ordinary National Diploma, Engineering