Andy Dowd Email & Phone Number

Wetherby

Birstall, West Yorkshire And Milton Keynes

Purfleet

Hartlepool

Bid Management of Public Sector Pre-Qualification Questionnaires and Tender Submissions for Niramax Group ensuring submissions are completed and submitted within required deadlines. Achieving 85% PQQ pass rate. • Strategic Consulting, including business plan & sales strategy development.• Providing technical content for PQQ & Tender Submissions in Municipal Waste sectors• Preparing quality PQQ and Tenders for Public Sector procurement process including Residual Waste, Kerbside Collection and HWRC tenders.• Identifying suitable PQQ & Tender opportunities.

Lincolnshire

PD Logistics t/o £35m part of PD Ports plc www.pdports.co.uk the UK's 4th largest port by volume employing 1200 people and probably the only company to have genuinely rolled out end to end supply chain solutions involving a port centric solution; Achievements: Devised and implemented solutions for major retailers to minimise rectification costs for distressed containers.Won business with large beverage company implementing one of the first truly port centric distribution contractsDesigned a unique solution for a substantial gypsum businessDeveloped food grade packaging capability at Billingham winning business from a number of packaging and extrusion companies supplying the food industry then took role as KAM.Successful in winning and retaining kerb side collection and recycling contracts for twol local authorities worth £30m over 10 yearsDevised radical plastic card recycling solution involving specification of equipment , identification and negotiation with potential procurement partnersReceived Haulier of the Year from Asda and won UKWA training award

Lincolnshire

Fully owned subsidiary of Associated British Foods with 1000 employees over 20 sites in the UK and 900 in China; ManagementResponsible for Customer Service team across 4 production millsReporting to the Operations Director controlling 35 owned commercial vehicle and 25 car fleet, plus associated 3rd party contractorsControlled raw material provision and finished feed distribution across the North of EnglandManaged and developed a team of 10 direct reportsAchievements: Heavily involved in the design of a radical scheduling process controlling fleet of 120 specialist vehicles and reducing cost by £2MSeconded to Paragon to act as expert consultant in the design of an integrated sales order processing and scheduling software packageHarmonised the scheduling and distribution protocols over six major production sites. Dramatically reduced costs of circa £1.2M by introducing flexible working patterns, rationalising spend on sub contract hauliers and renegotiating terms and conditions

Barnsley

Devised 5 year strategic plan including marketing collateral, project evaluation and feasibility tools and detailed specific annual targetsDeveloped and project managed then state of the art steel warehousing facility for Corus later Tata steel delivered to budget, £2.5M and on timeDeveloped profitable bulk transport business and fleet from 0 to 97 vehiclesNegotiated out sourced contract for Appleby Cement, Rugby Cement and Rank Hovis with an annual turnover of circa £5M.

Scunthorpe

Managing a team of 12 operating across 8 sitesProduced revenue improvements in excess of 15% year on year.

Outside work: Active within the local community Membership of the Institute of Logistics and Transport CPC holder IT: Familiar with all Microsoft packages also scheduling tools Paragon etc. together with ERP and MRP systemsTraining: Various training courses both in company and open Cranfield Business School - General Management - 6 weeks PD Team Leadership Programmes