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Liverpool, England, United Kingdom

Liverpool, England, United Kingdom

Ellesmere Port, England, United Kingdom

Site lead for the main UK distribution and fulfilment center. Servicing multi channels (wholesale, retail, concessions and e-comm) from a 630,000 sq. ft. semi automated site. Responsible for circa 500 colleagues at peak. Multiple unionised environment.

Stoke-on-Trent, England, United Kingdom

Site lead for the Screwfix omni-channel operation, 1m sq. ft site, employing over 1,000 colleagues. Main focus and responsibilities include supporting the client’s future growth strategy by identifying and implementing large scale development and CI initiatives, predominantly automation solutions supporting and optimising current systems. Mobilising a.

Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom

Liverpool, United Kingdom

• Leading the ‘Functional Design’ of the largest automation project in the UK going live in 2020.Creating a purpose-built fulfilment facility to support the future growth of the business. From early conceptual research.
• WMS functional design specification (FDS) to support the automation and building design – from initial design to witness test and implementation. (Lead)
• Design team steering group (Contributor – Project Team)
• Building and plot layout team (Contributor – Project Team)
• Host Interface Spec (FDS Team Lead)
• RFP and RFQ for Automation and Manual Handling Equipment (Lead and Support)

Responsible for a number of diverse departments across the distribution sector of the business with the main objective to support operational development and drive efficiencies, whilst controlling cost centres and maximising revenue opportunities. Departmental responsibilities include, Inventory Management across two main DC’s, Multi-channel, and 3PL’s.

Responsible for Inventory and Process management across the Pets at Home distribution network including units of distribution and goods not for resale. Created and project managed Continuous Improvement plans and implemented best practice across the distribution sector. Responsible for third party warehouse operational partners; extracting, re-scheduling.

Overall managerial responsibility for stock control and asset management at the Stoke NDC and Northampton SDC.Key focus is to support and drive improvement of product availability to stores.

Maintaining product availability service levels to store(s) by monitoring stock levels and accuracy within the DC's. implementation of store centric initiatives such as store layout mirrored pick paths and loss prevention.

Managing the day to day operations of a 270,000sq. ft. multi- user, predominately closed book site. Driving change management within a heavily unionised environment. Improving cost management of historically problematic contracts to drive and sustain weekly RH+D margin improvements. Project management of challenging new client implementations to increase.

Managed the Warehouse and Transport operations within a 120,000sq. ft. multi-user environment. Responsible for 50 staff managed through FLM’s across a 24hr shift pattern. Ensured all current and up to date legislation was maintained including Health and Safety and Recruitment and Selection initiatives. Managed workflow and staffing levels on a daily basis.