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United Kingdom

London Area, United Kingdom

Providing Supply Chain, Logistics and Procurement project support for an exciting environmental and sustainability project for a major Home & Fashion retailer

London, England, United Kingdom

Supported and provided project management for their total outsourcing of logistics and transport in the UK to GXO

Delivered their first 3PL-managed warehouse implementation in The Netherlands, including interfacing to legacy systems, and associated functional process change.

London, England, United Kingdom

The Product Passport from Virifides utilises the benefits of Blockchain for international traders to demonstrate provenance and simplify customs clearance. The Product Pass is unique for every pallet of produce - containing its origin, certification and storage information. Through its transport travel documents are attached - enabling trading partners and.

Providing Logistics, Supply Chain and Procurement project support for the implementation of a new Ecommerce venture in Travel Retail

London, England, United Kingdom

Providing Logistics, Supply Chain, Automation and Procurement project support for the implementation of a new highly automated Ecommerce warehouse/fulfilment centre for a Home & Fashion retailer

Remote

International Ecommerce Strategy development for a major retailer

Watford, England, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Led a radical change in the way Debenhams run their Beauty business through the creation of a dedicated Supply Chain function charged with the responsibility to delivery stock and availability targets. This was part of the public strategy to grow the Beauty business to an annual turnover of £1bn.

London, United Kingdom

Implementation of a major supply chain change programme to give Debenhams a massively more dynamic buying, merchandising and distribution process.

Basingstoke

Bedfont Lakes

Responsible for the Supply Chain from supplier to shelf.Winner - Retail Week Supply Chain Team of the Year 2011

• World Duty Free win the Supply Chain Team of the Year at the 2010 Supply Chain Excellence Awardshttp://www.worlddutyfree.com/images/stories/media/supply_chain_awards.pdfWorld Duty Free operate 90 stores across most.
• Rationalised and integrated two separate supply chains following a business merger delivering efficiencies and cost savings of up to 20%.
• Delivered £15m in net cashflow through reviewing the cash to cash cycle with supplier lead times reducing by 20% and stock cover falling from over 70 days to 40 days.
• Supplier collaboration championed through demand forecasting and lead time reductions
• WSSI reporting and OTB controls introduced specifically for seasonal areas of the business
• Initiated capacity planning across the length of the supply chain

• Promoted into this role to utilise my supply chain skills of 3PL management and purchasing skills of supplier development. Responsible for managing reactive and planned maintenance as well as ensuring the statutory.
• Developed and implemented functional strategy incorporating a 5-year roadmap
• Re-engineered process negotiating a principal contractor solution for the entire maintenance activity delivering higher service levels and savings of £5m over 2 years equivalent to 1% of sales
• Managed change from in-house to outsourced solutions leading to genuine supplier partnership
• Influenced Board to implement a new capital expenditure policy for replacement of plant and equipment leading to long term improvements in brand standards

• New role responsible for the procurement of all retail goods (spend of £60m) and store construction materials (spend of £15m).Achievements:
• Developed new design specifications for core equipment – coffee machines, sandwich cases
• Introduced formal contracts for all suppliers including a service level agreement with specific measurable KPIs
• Negotiated milk contract (largest single annual purchase) saving £2m
• Instigated a development programme with key suppliers improving performance and quality
• Managing the restructuring of the fresh food supply chain

• Total management of the retail goods supply chain for all stores in the EMEA region covering purchasing, QA, production planning and logistics. To deliver excellent service and quality at very low cost across 1000.
• Outsourced consolidated supply chain solution with major international 3PL improving service to stores and reducing long terms costs
• Project managed the systems integration for new supply chain
• Introduced independent QA assessment of all fresh food suppliers (high risk) and packaged food suppliers (low risk)
• Beat budgeted margin by negotiating savings worth over £3m with suppliers
• Re-engineered store distribution reducing costs, increasing delivery frequency, reducing pack sizes

• New role to develop the functional strategy and manage the supply chain comprising 500 stores, 3 warehouses and 1 repair centre with a 10% returns rate and 15% of sales through home delivery.Achievements:
• Created a central warehouse for both new stock and returns, closed remaining sites
• Renegotiated outsourced distribution contract with Tibbett & Britten reducing costs by 20%
• Implemented a new stock ordering system for stores improving in-store availability by 30%

Cima, Accounting And Business/Management, First-Time Passes

Qualification with first time passes as a CIMA management accountant.

Bsc, Economics

Fellow