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Ashford, Gb

Ashford, Gb

Oversee day-to-day warehouse operations, including shipping, receiving, inventory management, and order fulfilment. - Lead and mentor a team warehouse staff, providing guidance and ensuring a productive work environment.- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimise supply chain processes and maintain inventory accuracy.- Implement safety protocols and best practices to ensure a secure and compliant work environment.- Monitor and analyse warehouse metrics to identify areas for improvement and enhance efficiency.- Ensure import and export shipments are fully customs compliant.- Ensures adherence to contract specifications and established policies and procedures. Manage and update fitters schedules and oversees the delivery and installation of products. Manage a team of installers who are responsible for installing, servicing, and repairing furniture and major components.- responsible for leading a team of furniture installers, ensuring the successful and timely installation of furniture and related products at client sites.

Tonbridge, Gb

Primary responsibility is to oversee and manage all aspects of the day-to-day operations related to waste collection, recycling, disposal, and transportation.Crucial role in ensuring the efficient and safe management of waste resources while complying with environmental regulations and company policies. Strong leadership, organisational, and problem-solving skills. Overseeing and coordinating the daily scheduling and route planning of the fleet whilst working closely with Customer Service & Transport departments. Direct and regular liaison with the drivers to ensure customer requirements are always delivered to the highest standards, with a focus on continuous improvement.Investigate raised safety concerns and accidents.

Brentford, Middlesex, Gb

Managing 8 Logistics depots for loose, bagged aggregate across Kent , London, Sussex managing 28 staffCovering tasks as planning and shipping of the DAY trucks (approx 95 trucks) to fulfil customers orders providing excellent service. Visiting sites with drivers or commercial teams to meet customer's.Promoting the company values, strategy, various key objectives and producing KPI’s on performance and meeting challenges and working closely with departments. Meeting with Transport Managers, drivers - Topics - frequently on the quality of shipping and earnings, reducing empty mileage, working hours directive, supporting toolbox talks to drivers in various topics, incident, accident investigations, Responsible that Duty of Care was being adhered too and records were kept for waste transfer. Staff performance reviews, appraisals, 1-2-1 coaching and mentoring of supervisors, staff.Trained ISO auditor carried out cross functional internal audits including safety and logistics environmental awareness.

London, Westerham, Gb

Management of the logistics network and responsibility for introducing new practices and procedures within this organisation's with in-house drivers, and their fleet of vehicles, included significant changes within the existing structure, ensuring all deliveries we delivered on time and in full (OTIF).Managing with their planning of the loads, vehicles defects and servicing scheduling. Overseen all loads were secured and safe for deliveries to customers. Introduce weigh scales in their business to ensure we were compliant with weights and loads. Closely working with the Sales teams, production and finishing teams to ensure smooth operations and introduction loading areas for parcels couriers.Ensuring customer service was maintained at a high level, monitor OTIF and investigating with other departments (weekly) review the OTIF and any failures using the 5 Why's (Kanban techiques).Meeting face to face with customers, and visiting their premises to build stronger relationships.

Working with various Freight / Logistics companies to help with their SAP (in house and provide training) and with their clients that are using SAP / Interfaces. Identifying areas of improvements for the client and their customer with SAP to maximize savings time and or financial.

London, London, Gb

Management of the logistics network and responsibility for introducing new practices and procedures within this organisation's retail sector. This included significant changes within the existing structure, tendering of new contracts, SLA's and preparation for implementation. Under took a project to appoint a new supplier for a track and trace system to be implemented in to the network of 25 Scope vans , after reviewing 6 proposals from supplier's.Undertook training of the Driver's of the new tracking system, implemented daily vehicle checks training with the driver's and ensuring the routing of the collections was done efficiently and effective.

Working with various Freight / Logistics companies to help with their SAP (in house and provide training) and with their clients that are using SAP / Interfaces. Identifying areas of improvements for the client and their customer with SAP to maximize savings time and or financial.

Vernier, Geneva, Ch

Responsible for the transportation of chemicals globally via all modes, approx. 100m tonnes annually. Managing annual freight budget of £8m ensuring rates are being applied and monitoring. Regular face to face meetings with the appointed carriers to monitor performance viakey KPI’s. Ensure on time deliveries to customers and cost effective running of the Shipping department, all in-bounds and out-bounds from the plant. Pro-actively supporting all other departments involved or relying on the knowledge and expertise of the shipping department. Ensure processes are in place that all shipments for all modes are monitored and processed on time - ensure all incidents are analysed and relevant corrective actions are in place and followed up with the carriers.

Vernier, Geneva, Ch

As part of the Ashford site team we worked with the Global Programmers of SAP with the move from mainframe legacy system to SAP for Ashford;identifying potential gaps in systems, working on solutions and aligning with carriers (SAP interface). Became a super user of SAP for order to cash and logistic flow ensure a smooth/ seamless transition from legacy to SAP for our customer's and carrier's, appointed key user and responsible for training of 20 plus staff. Part of the logistic and warehouse project team that created and set up three 3rd party off site warehouses for finished goods to picked and shipped by air, Road and sea with interface for documentation and EDI,s for shipment status.Then a key to move to paperless export declaration system via an interface to UK CHIEF system, via a programme called Global Trade System (GTS) for all Givaudan UK Exports.

Global Customer Service & Logistics Manager with a successful track record of building Global Customer Care multi-lingual international teams and delivering Best in Class customer service and profitability. Managing teams of 25 people, and responsible for in house logistic's provider (3rd Party).Ensuring staff were training was being reviewed, and the company, personal objectives were being met by regular 1-2-1's. Coaching, mentoring of staff and carrying out Staff Performance reviews when neededEnsuring customer service was maintained at a high level, monitor OTIF and investigating with other departments (weekly) review the OTIF and any failures using the 5 Why's (Kanban techiques).Meeting face to face with customers, and visiting their premises to build stronger relationships.

Worked with other Department Managers to identify areas of improvement and find efficiencies.Range of skills needed from :Documenting system detailsMeasuring company wasteIdentifying relationships between systemModelling potential outcomes for system changesResearching new equipment and techniquesTraining team membersPlanning budgets and allocating resourcesTracking progress

Given 2 year project to centralize one warehouse in production plant in Ashford to supply directly to customers in Germany, Italy and Spain. This involved working with the relevant site head and teams,resulting in closing 3 warehouses and supplying directly from Ashford site which involved transferring the data for over 300 customers Appointed international carriers to these markets were tendered with price structure, lead-times.

Assigned to the Planning team for 2 years, to understand the planning and procurement processes, working with buyers (training). Then identified areas of improvements, then worked on these improvements via projects to final delivery of benefit to the business.

Responsible on for 5 members that looked after Asia/ Amercian markets. Ensuring orders where monitored and keeping customers updated on the progress. Managing the training of this team, setting objectives and ensuring deadlines were met. Meeting with clients and ensuring KPI's were met.The teams were responsible for:Responsible for activities related to export to ensure compliance which included:• Air, Sea and Road transport• Export documentation compliance• Inspections• Letter of Credit/Bank Presentations

Responsible for activities related to export to ensure compliance which included:• Air, Sea and Road transport - global export markets• Export documentation compliance• Inspections• Letter of Credit/Bank Presentations

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