Dawn Cunningham Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

Banbury, England, United Kingdom

Haddenham, England, United Kingdom

Haddenham, England, United Kingdom

United Kingdom

-Category management of fresh fruit and veg- Procurement partner for the branston pickle manufacturing site (for ingredients)

Haddenham

>Looked after the following categories; Dried fruit, processed vanilla, chocolate & organics.

Haddenham

o Managing timelines and cross functional meetings to meet business expectations for project/ savings launch dates.o Supporting stakeholders when escalations were raised. For the UK and South Africa flavour solutions business.

Haddenham

Reading, United Kingdom

Haddenham, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom

• NPD process management• Category management • Collaborating cross functionally to participate in optimisation projects in terms of cost, quality, service and innovation.

Oxfordshire

• Sole contact for any indirect procurement • Indirect purchasing – facilities management/ calibration/ service contracts for manufacturing/ supporting IT.• Supplier and stakeholder management.

Henley - On - Thames

• sustainability*Strategic category management, specifically on dried ingredients.• Sourcing organic niche products that are produced to baby grade legislation.• Project managing/ sourcing/ cost reductions/ identifying co-packer synergies• Working with co-manufacturers and looking at each ingredient they were buying to look at the supply chain for cost down opportunities.

*Implementation of a business intelligence system*Business change.*Cross function process/procedure analysis and development*Unit testing*Project Management

Bicester

Buyer at Ultra ElectronicsProcurement Specialist at Unipart Automotive

·Managing key items for Subway franchisees across the UK and Europe c.3000 stores across several countries.·Managing the categories of Dairy, Packaging and Grocery Items (sauces, bread toppings etc) on behalf of the European franchisees.·Global category management, involved in the strategic alignment in the global purchasing of Marinara sauce, plastic packaging. This involved corresponding regularly with our sister companies in Australia, America, South America and Asia.·Analysing my commodities and making forecasts for the market.·Monitoring exchange rates.

Managing the categories of Dairy, Packaging and Grocery Items (sauces, bread toppings etc) on behalf of the European franchisees.

·Creating, implementing and policing all of the purchasing processes to aid the flow of information between departments.·Collating information and creating contract appendices, contact information, rebate forms etc.·Management of the benefit tracker for on-costs, cost avoidances and savings and then to be the lead for the external auditors.·Influenced cross-functional project teams and analysing purchasing data.

Looked after the smaller contracts and worked with suppliers to reduce costs/ improve quality. Worked with Navision MRP systems to monitor stock levels.•Maintained solid working relationships with the suppliers and internal customers including finance, manufacturing, quality and stores•Looked at ways to reduce overall spend on the BOM/ raw materials.•Influenced cross-functional project teams and analysed purchasing data•Ran MRP via Navision 3 times a week.•Monitored reorder points and made strategic decisions to adjust if the external/internal climate changed

In charge of supplier relationships and working with them to improve performance at getting internet circuits delivered to different businesses on time. Also helped in the quotation process and worked with suppliers to enable us to get the best price for our end customer.

Established professional relationships with clients and provided a superior level of customer serviceDealt with major ophthalmic accounts in a financial sense, raising credits, re-invoicing the clients, dealing with proforma accounts etc, whilst complying with the Sarbanes Oxley guidelines.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Business Administration And Management With Geography

Education record