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Stockport District, GB

Cheadle

Cheadle, Stockport

• 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.

Cheadle, Stockport

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Manchester

• 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.
• 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.
• Helped create tools and a methodology to identify areas of cash and stock theft, led to several members of staff leaving the business.

Cheadle

• 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.
• 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.

Trafford Park, Manchester

• 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.
• Providing key management information reports to the company directors.
• Performing bank duties, managing the company cashbook reconciliation and petty cash.

Trafford Park, Manchester

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

Trafford Park, Manchester

• 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.

Education record

A-levels in French, Information Technology, Mathematics (Pure and Statistics) and General Studies

Education record

GCSEs in Geography, Science (Double Award), Mathematics, German, French, Graphic Media and Technology, English Language and Literature