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Tamworth, England, United Kingdom

Greater Bristol Area, United Kingdom

e-commerce fulfilment running 6 sites

European

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

24/7 operation, same day and next day crucial engineer parts for blue chip customers, inc. BT, Suzuki and Jungheinrich. Responsible for C.200 staff members, with 5 direct reports. Due to recent departure of company directors, I have been covering various roles within the company.Dealing directly with customers, retaining contracts & building relationships, setup of new contracts, audits & reviews. Project managed new office setup and design to house customers and their requirements on site generating a new revenue stream. Successfully broke down barriers between departments.

Coventry, England, United Kingdom

Turnover £140million – Parcel Distribution. 32 Branches across UK. 24 Hour operation, 23,000 packages a day. 30 full trailer collections.Responsible for 152 staff members, with 5 direct reports. Full accountability of P&L for one of 4 cross deck centres. Management of 3rd party on trunking and courier contracts. Close involvement with Tier 1 customers.Turned sites net profit from 21% to 34%. Highest cross deck site by 14%.Awarded ROSPA and FORS awards. First time for site.1 x internal award for most improved site and 1 x external award Best GM awarded by Institute of Couriers. Site went from bottom of all league tables to consistently in top 5. Operation is known as best in class and new starters to the business are trained on site.Rolled out my cross decks operating processes across other sites.Troubleshooting for the businesses under performing sites, supporting them with process implementation and people development. This often extended to staying on and leading from the front to get the job done and ensure future sustainability of the changes made.Developed management and staff structure which is now used as standard practice across business.

Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom

Promoted to General Manager for existing site and 2nd DC. Responsible for 315 staff members, with a team of 9 direct reports. 530,000sqft total warehouse space, including production and rework areas. Full accountability P&L of £30million. Management of all 3PL contracts including Bibbys Distribution (contract value £3.6million pa), Fedex & Rhys Davies. Meeting new, developing and challenging customers at Director level.Full logistics responsibility for both DC’s. Regular Board level communication and presentations. Successfully project managed & implemented new WMS (Manhattan) at both DC’s.Full project management of new DC racking design which delivered 30% saving on MHE travel distance & improved the flow of the warehouse. Project delivered on time and within budget of 260k.Developed a strong health & safety culture across the sites with 0 LTI’s for over a year (previous was 6). Strengthened management structure by employing experienced talent and developing current team members. Implemented change management with staff service averaging 12 years in a heavily unionised environment.Successful full audits of OHSAS 18001 / ISO 9001.

Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom

Turnover £520million – Paper & Packaging Distribution – 16 branches across UK & Ireland.24hour operation, 1200 pallets per day goods in, 14,500 SKUs, Servicing customers such as Tesco, Amazon, Disney, Costco etc.Responsible for 103 staff members, with 5 direct reports. Managing 305,000sqft warehouse space, including production and rework areas.Full accountability for P&L of £12million. Implemented one of the 3PL operations in house and delivered a cost saving of £1.3million pa.Designed & implemented parcel packing line which reduced the volume of low value orders, resulting in a reduction of 13 vehicles from the national fleet.Building relationships with Sales and other internal departments.High level of presence required to implement changes leading to improved and natural communication between all departments.

Melton Mowbray, England, United Kingdom

Key achievements in this role included:• New warehouse design enabled consolidation of over flow warehouse to provide a further 68k per annum saving. New design also reduced staffing levels by 33%. • Base cost reduction in Logistics of 40%. This provided inline costs to sales.• Key reduction in stem mileage. Worked alongside 3rd Party specialist carrier to work as partners after several negotiations with tender. This gave B2H a stronger presence in areas of weakness. Start-up 1st Feb 2016.

Melton Mowbray, England, United Kingdom

Control of all aspects for the storage, re-manufacture and distribution of Vending Asset Solutions, managing over 8,500 SKUs from a multi warehouse site of 140,000sqt (later consolidated into 100,000sqft to provide 100k annual saving). Own fleet and third-party contract management, major customers included Britvic and Costa Coffee (KPI reporting and continuous cycle count implementation led to 100% stocktake accuracy & service deliverables being exceeded for these accounts while I was in this role).Exporting goods to Europe and container loads to Middle East.Full financial and budgetary control - managed P&L for all operations, warehousing and logistics parts of the business. Training and development of staff to provide flexibility of teams within business and create a promote from within, increasing retention of talent. 30% improvement on OTIF including timed deliveries in the last 10 months of this position. Last recorded at 98.9% (industry leading).

Nuneaton, England, United Kingdom

National Operations & Logistics Manager for International Decorative Surfaces.