David Elder Email & Phone Number

London, England, GB

• Logistics support for TBS Procurement freight tenders: APAC sea freight, EU inbound road, UK domestic freight, US customs and UK>US sea freight tenders
• Logistics lead for onboarding new markets – China, Kenya and Iraq (documentation/ customs requirements, internal SOP’s, SAP route data (ie.transits, incoterms), order scheduling, etc)
• Primary lead for onboarding new suppliers for DC Operations and Goods In functions.
• Implementation of CARGO X (blockchain) process across Finance and Shipping teams for compliance with Egyptian (NAFEZA) customs and letter of credit requirements
• Responsibility for coordination of global outbound air freights, and reporting to support BCORP CO2 minimum reduction of 5% YOY, and reduction in budget activity
• Reporting on monthly vessel ITF agreements across outbound APAC and US, for “Human Rights of Sea Farers” campaign

St Petersburg, Florida, US

• Managed team responsible for the import (clearance) and export functions (documentation, bookings, pricing, etc) associated with the shipments of flight simulators, low level training devices, spares, system updates.
• Coordination of cross functional activity for OOG project movements via 3PL providers, ensuring project timings met, SOW’s issued and costs monitored against bid/ budget activity, under DAP incoterms (customer sites in.
• Implemented simulator reporting activity to provide Programme Management team end-to-end visibility of shipment status.
• Management of temporary movements of engineer tool kits across global customer sites.
• Collaborated with internal depts. on compliance project to improve data records on tariff codes, country of origin, supplier declarations and hazardous classifications.
• Facilitated implementation of IPR regime to provide projected £80k duty savings P.A.

Hamburg, Hamburg, DE

• Managing multiple EU based 3PL service providers, responsible for storage and distribution to end customer
• Review of 3PL KPI reporting activity
• Auditing of European and US warehousing facilities in conjunction with Compliance team
• Represented Melrob Ltd at Chemical Business Association UK logistics committee

London, England, GB

• Responsible for a team of 7 undertaking all administrative tasks for international exports to approx. 80 markets (Retail & Wholesale) via 30 different freight providers.
• Collaboration with multiple internal departments on scheduling of both shipments and deliveries aligned with weekly forecasts, and global promotional events.
• Implementation of UK freight tender for multiple product suppliers, and UK store deliveries.
• EMEA (Northern Europe and Iberia) DTS tender, achieving an above target average of 96.9% OTIF service level to over 400 retail stores.
• Implementation of operational SOP review process, to ensure full compliance with market inspection agencies (Intertek/ SGS) exporting requirements.
• Production of management reports encompassing KPI’s, costs and trend analysis.

London, England, GB

• Responsible for the co-ordination of the goods in administration function, and UK DTS outbound activities supplying 300+ stores from The Body Shop global distribution facility.
• Management of inbound pallet flow 100k+ PA

London, England, GB

Global Transportation Manager (Outbound), Export Manager and Global Transportation Coordinator