David Connor Email & Phone Number

Dublin, County Dublin, IE

• Reporting to Senior VP Supply Chain & Operations, key role responsibilities include; creating and implementing strategic and operational plans across Logistics & Supply, Operations, QA, Innovation, Finance and EHS for.
• Optimising resource allocation through effective budgetary management (€130m 2024) for Supply Chain function supporting retail sales of $1.6bn.
• Delivering 300m pa units/finished goods across 7 internal sites in EU and Australia
• Key role in driving improved efficiencies across 3 sites in France, UK & Belgium unlocking double digit capacity increases for each.
• Created innovative Performance Analysis & Governance protocols focussed on delivery of new work practices, improving visibility of operational performance and driving increased accountability across all international.
• Created new site capacity Tracking Tool and processes projecting future supply risk and optimising resource allocation across all internal manufacturing sites.

Dublin, County Dublin, IE

• Reported to VP Procurement and managed a team of 84 (Supply Planning 3PL Management, Indirect Procurement, Master Data, Artwork)
• Key responsibility was to design and deliver a 3 Year Supply Chain Strategy, including new Organisation Structure
• Managed 3PL Operational performance for 14,000 SKUs across 220 contract manufacturers through weekly balanced scorecard review and risk mitigation
• Created new Performance Analysis Dashboard to track effectiveness of supply team activities
• Transitioned EU Supply Chain Planning team from Belgium to Dublin, defined new End2End processes and responsibilities and recruited 14 new supply planners
• Other achievements include; Supply planning lead for Logility ERP Integration, Supply operations ownership for all M&A integrations

Battle Creek, Michigan, US

• Reported to VP Supply Chain & Operations and managed a team of 14. Key role responsibility was delivering service >98.5% CFR Service across all EU market's and ensuring the NPD pipeline was supported and deployed on.
• Lead multi-disciplinary teams that included senior planning managers, planning analysts, inventory managers, supply planners & innovation managers
• Developed and deployed supply strategy and SOPs surpassing required service levels >98.5% CFR, across Europe & Middle East markets
• Managed Central planning, Senior Point of Contact for SAP S4/HANA roll out

Boston, Massachusetts, US

• Key Responsibilities:
• Co-ordination and optimisation of the inventories for drug substance (DS), drug product (DP) and finished product (FP) in the relevant suppliers, countries and distribution centres
• Planning of New Product Introduction
• Ownership and delivery of the Global Sales & Operational Planning process
• Control and ownership of the global production schedules for Drug Substance, Drug Product, Finished Products for all manufacturing sites to ensure no stock outs in any markets
• Drive improved on time delivery to patients while optimizing working capital through balancing demand, supply and inventory requirements

Battle Creek, Michigan, US

• Reported to Supply Planning Director and managed a team of 4. Role was primarily responsible for delivering >98.5% CFR Service to all DACH and Middle Eastern markets
• Established cross-functional Planning and S&OP project Team consistently delivering KPI’s within agreed project timeframes.

Battle Creek, Michigan, US

• Reported to Supply Planning Director and managed team of 9 Demand Planners, the Role was responsible for European market's short and long term (0 - 18mth) Forecast Accuracy & Bias WMAPE
• Achieved forecast accuracy of 82% 2016 (+2% ahead of target)

Battle Creek, Michigan, US

• Reporting to EU Production Planning Manager, role was primarily responsible for ensuring the balanced production output across all EU sites through weekly capacity and inventory reviews.
• Created new systems reporting tool reducing required timing for reports by 1 day/75%

Blackfriars, London, GB

• Reporting to the Business Operations Manager, the role was primarily responsible for Inventory Management across multiple product categories including: Savoury, Dressings and Personal Care
• Lead weekly meetings with the UK Planning team to report and resolve all category demand and customer supply issues.
• Designed and deployed a new Volume to Value reporting tool enabling robust cash up of projected sales volume.

Ballsbridge, Dublin, IE

Ballsbridge, Dublin, IE

Reading, Berkshire, GB

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