• Work closely with nine Plant Production Managers to ensure efficient production for their factory, whilst balancing the fluctuating customer demand.• Liaise with Import/Export countries to ensure that stock is available from the European factories in our group.• Hold monthly (S&OP meetings) meetings between Sales and Production Directors and senior management.• Plan Stock Contingency for Plant Shutdowns• Maintain Supply Chain Management fields in SAP Material Master (Security Stock, ABC Classification etc...)• Work closely with the factories and the Product Management team to ensure that new products are brought to market. Ensure relevant production trials are carried out and that launch stock is available on time. • Develop and Maintain Material Requirement Planning in SAP• Attend Group Supply Chain Management Meetings. • Work closely with Customer Services for Stock Availability and Production issues

• Heading up the Commercial Finance team which supports the business with timely Management Information. Working closely with the Sales and Commercial Directors to analyse trends and identify customers/areas of the business which require focus.• Working with the Finance Director to generate the monthly sales forecasts as well submission of the annual budget. • As the key BI user, responsible for designing and maintaining the suite of automated reports, as • Design and create a model which enabled our logistics team to plan the shipment of circa 180m bricks. This model enabled our customer service department to accurately promise customers when their materials would be available.• Worked with the European IT team to test and implement the new Dynamic Forecasting tool.• During the national brick shortage in 2014 developed a customer allocation model which enabled us to guarantee our customers their fair share of the available product. • Completed the business' "Dale Carnegie Fit For the Future Leadership Transformation" training scheme.

• As part of a newly created Operations Support team, worked directly with the Operations Director to provide reporting and management support for the business, suggesting and supporting new initiatives to help increase sales and reduce costs.• Design and develop a suite of KPI and Management Information reports tailored to the ongoing needs of the business.• After the purchase of our largest competitor, became a member of the integration team tasked with bringing the two businesses together. • Undertook the role of Subject Matter Expert with regards to operational reporting involving presenting reports in board meetings.• Working closely with our eight Operational General managers to investigate all areas of their business, helping them to identify and support action on opportunities to improve the quality and increase the income of their depot whilst controlling costs and losses.• Helped create tools and a methodology to identify areas of cash and stock theft, led to several members of staff leaving the business.• Increased efficiency by the accurate routing and visit scheduling of our operators, leading to increased productivity and head-count reductions.• Providing accurate billing data for our large National Accounts customers, enabling consolidation and reconciliation to customer’s cashless systems.• Responsible for controlling our range of products, optimising our sales by detailed analysis. Managing new supplier relationships and the introduction of new products through controlled trials.• Liaising with our suppliers over all stock and product issues. Providing usage forecasts, ensuring our purchase targets are achieved and appropriate rebates are secured. Ensuring product buy-ins take place prior to price increases to help minimise costs.• Managing a team of two other support analysts; training and developing them to absorb the production of the regular reports.

• Supporting the Credit department in terms of all the reporting and management information requirements, ensuring all reporting queries are resolved in a timely manner. Tasked with continuously improving and expanding the reporting suite.• Creating bespoke Business Objects reports to generate relevant management information.• Investigation of all areas of the Financial Service Centre to enable production of process maps to facilitate the identification of process inefficiencies. • Produce all weekly/monthly KPI and PIM statistics, ensuring accurate, timely completion.• As part of the department’s development team; assisting in producing monthly newsletters, event organisation, recruitment assessment centres, inductions and training.

• Responsible for the invoicing of £20 million of annual sales to our largest customers, including HBOS, RBS, NatWest, Lloyds TSB and MBNA.• In conjunction with our IT department and sales directors I was responsible for setting up electronic billing facilities for our customers.• Heavily involved in the accounts month end processes including sales and cost accruals and reporting results to our head office.• Responsible for the production of the weekly trading account and the monthly profit and loss account for each of our three sites. I helped design and implement a new system whereby the weekly production figures were automatically uploaded into the trading account, saving hours of manual keying, improving accuracy and enabling more accurate forecasting.• Providing key management information reports to the company directors.• Performing bank duties, managing the company cashbook reconciliation and petty cash. • I regularly provided cover for the Human Resources Manager by processing the company’s weekly payroll for approximately three hundred staff.

• Responsible for the daily purchasing requirements of our three sites.• Dealing with our suppliers, ensuring stocks of critical materials were managed correctly.

• Providing written and verbal quotations. Providing costing to our sales team, reporting to board level.• Processing the work instruction documents for the factory, requiring high accuracy levels to avoid re-prints, time critical.