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Dublin 12, County Dublin, Ireland

- Creation, development and maintenance of production plan for finished goods, to ensure that customer requirements are met, while facilitating efficient manufacturing operations.- Lead cross functional weekly planning meeting to align on weekly rolling schedule. Key stakeholders include production, engineering, procurement, customer service, demand planning, warehousing and logistics.- Participation in Continuous Improvement programs to support OEE improvements, ensuring that preventative maintenance and trials are scheduled.- Support and participate in New Product Development (NPD) project teams, responsible for production planning of trials, scale ups and product launches.- Facilitate cross-functional periodic reviews of master data for new and existing products, as they relate to planning and scheduling.- Support & Participate SAP IT projects.- Support medium and long-term capacity planning in terms of staffing and strategic capital investments.- Work to reduce and eliminate waste and identify opportunities to improve business processes.- Use Advanced Planning Module in SAP.

Athlone, County Westmeath, Ireland

Strategic and Operational role with the responsibility of the Logistics P&L, Procurement, Fulfilment, Sales RFI's & RFQ's, Contract Negotiations, Account Management, Transportation, Project Management & Peak Planning, and the general day to day activities over two DPD sites in Athlone & Ballycoolin, Dublin.• Full responsibility for the costs, service levels, and operational performance of the two sites.• Develop & present Weekly, Monthly & Quarterly Logistics reports to CEO.• Account Manager for the fulfilment customers & managing all their transportation & tracking either via the DPD Parcel Network or with 3PL’s; DHL, K+N; Syncreon.• Working closely with the DPD Network Team & the 38 DPD depots nationwide.• Leadership responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, training, performance evaluation.• Managing a large team of staff, approx. 40 to 80 during peak times. • Developed & delivered continuous improvement programs improving efficiency & quality for the operation.• Developed & maintained KPI's to meet and exceed annual objectives for Fulfilment & Warehousing.• Planning & managing logistics dept, including warehouse & transportation.• Coordinate integration of e-commerce pick and pack into warehousing operation.• Leading customer contract negotiations, pricing, renewals and onboarding of new customers.• Ensuring Inventory accuracy and cycle count compliance.• Maintain a safe work environment and ensure that employees are trained and follow safety procedures.• Creating SOP’s and processes for the warehousing and fulfilment operation.• Working daily with Irish Revenue & Customs Officers onsite.• Liaising with site security & ensuring TAPA; ISO; and AEO status is maintained.

Ireland

Currently tutoring several courses with nationwide with Education and Training Boards Irelando Warehousing; Leadership; Communications; Career Planning and Job Seeking Skills courses.• Co-ordinate the course schedule, the development & design course content and delivery.• Ensure a consistent approach is implemented for all training activities and that training effectiveness is measured and delivered to required QQI standards on a continuous basis.• Experience in delivering and assessing QQI accredited training classroom base.

Ireland

• Coordinated 11 Darkness into Light Walk in Laois, Offaly, Carlow, Kilkenny and Meath.• Ensured committees adhere to event procedures and H&S requirements.• Represent the charity in local media and attended cheque presentations and collect funds.• Identifed, build, motivate and continuously develop and train a network of volunteers and supporters.• Develop relationships with schools, colleges and universities and give presentations to raise awareness, support and engage financial help and attendance in person at events with high level external stakeholders or high level potential sponsors.• Work with volunteers and community representatives to develop regional annual activity plans and budgets.

County Kildare, Ireland

Partnering with the HP Senior Management to implement the closure of the HP Inc plant at Leixlip insuring assets where sold and or shipped globally.• Defined the logistical needs for all the liquidated assets on site in order to plan and implement the shipment and sale of goods globally.• Created a detailed project plan for all actions related to the closure within strict timelines.• Assembled and actioned a team of warehouse staff for to the project and assigned roles and responsibilities.• Monitored, measured and execution of the project plan to guarantee actions were on track and any risks avoided.• Working with a large stakeholder group containing supply chain, production, engineering, senior management, finance, facilities, waste and chemical management, EHS groups to coordinate the planning and timing of key deliverables. • Identified and approved the list of assets to be sold in a public auction.• Managed the Public Auction of HP assets to the value of $10 million US dollars while working closely with the liquidator, Liquidity Services UK, which involved the buying, selling & shipping of assets locally and internationally.• Coordinated the fixed asset identification and the financial removal and depreciation of assets from HP Inc Ireland and the dispositions of these assets to their new destinations to the value of $100 million US dollars.

County Kildare, Ireland

Managed the Material Master and Bill of Materials (BOM) for HP global using SAP.• Lead SAP projects to facilitate the delivery the customers products in order to improve the material master and generate efficiencies across multiple functions i.e. finance, procurement, planning.• Managed the bill of materials to support the customer’s production targets.• Maintaining the customer’s products in SAP to ensure on time visibility of all products to production.• Acted as the SAP global lead to manage the BOM, to support NPI’s across multiple HP sites in Ireland and worldwide.• Implemented global projects related material changes using Change Management methodology.• Managed the confidential documentation control and administration to support product traceability, product specifications and product revision history.• Supported other depts. Material & Sourcing Engineering; Finance; Manufacturing; Procurement, Planning & Logistics.• Presenting analysis of KPI’s HP management and reviewed and actioned strategies.• Supported HP globally in: Leixlip, Corvallis; Singapore & San Diego. • Supported HP Manufacturing Partners: Celestica Galway; FoxConn China & Czech Republic.

County Kildare, Ireland

Responsible for all Inbound and Outbound FGI shipments on all modes across all regions of the world to meet key metrics in a high capacity manufacturing industry.• Managed Vendor monthly dashboards for K&N; Expeditors; FedEx; DHL Express; DHL GF to achieve HP standards and metrics.• Introduced cost reduction processes on an annual spend of $20m.• Worked alongside Irish Customs to ensure HP continued to be compliant in TAPA; ISO; CTPAT and AEO. • Ownership of all HP shipping issues and responsible for an investigation and resolution. • Managed security meetings with An Garda Siobhan, RITS and HP Security, for the safeguard of HP products. • Managed shipping security escorts and reviewed escort reports from HP Security provider and DHL GF for the protection of HP shipments and products.• Preparation, presentation and analysis of KPI’s and SOP’s to DHL and HP senior management.

County Kildare, Ireland

Responsible for a team of colleagues, providing leadership and direction to ensure productivity and service KPIs are consistently achieved. SAP WM Management, Cycle Counting; Inventory Control; People Management; Customer Service; Health & Safety; Process Adherence / Audits; KPI’s; SLA’s; SOP’s; JIT Ordering; Good’s In / Good’s Out; Continuous Improvement; Presentations, SAP staff training.

Ireland

Carried out Good In’s / Out, Order picking, Goods replenishment, SAP transactions. Responsible for operating turret trucks, forklifts and electric pallet trucks in line with safety requirements. Perform duties at the request of the direct supervisor.

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