Kerry Ahern Email & Phone Number

Stockport, United Kingdom

My role is to support the business in supplying products and services that cannot be fulfilled by the adidas Group global supply chain solutions. I have expanded and managed the local Supplier portfolio, ensuring agility and cost competitiveness. Outside of Supplier portfolio management, my most important responsibility is to drive cross-functional collaboration between internal and external stakeholders including Customer Services, Merchandising, Sales, Legal, Quality Control and Distribution. I have built effective internal relationships based on trust and I have demonstrated excellent Project Management skills by managing expectations with key stakeholders, facilitating regular project meetings, identifying potential risks in advance by agreeing roles and responsibilities with key stakeholders.Key Skills gained:• Defined bespoke Service Agreements ensuring suppliers adhere to pre-defined SOP’s• Continuously reviewed and monitored supplier performance in accordance with our KPI’s by including feedback from key stakeholders to identify areas for improvement in our current processes• Ability to drive costs down to increase profit margins • Maintained and developed key relationships with a wide range of Suppliers to ensure a world class service to our internal & external customers.• Ensured that all suppliers are compliant with the group requirements, working in partnership with the SEA team and ensuring all documentation (A01’s, NDA’s & welcome packs) are logged through the FFC Platform• Utilized benchmarking and tendering to ensure that the most competitive prices are attained • Creation of seasonal/monthly/weekly forecasts to Suppliers to ensure that capacity is fully employed, identifying any peaks ahead of time and minimizing a “just in time” way of working• Showcased new innovations and opportunities to the wider business by incorporating new additions, introduced the latest technology in embellishment such as digital watermarked transfers

Stockport, United Kingdom

My current responsibilities include the following…Full responsibility of the apparel and accessories buy, this includes all aspects of Minimums, Failed Orders, Priorities, Pull Forwards, IBM, IBM Migration and the Dedicated Ship. Responsible for Tennis Apparel, Women’s Originals Apparel and all Licensed/Commercial Football clubs kits including Chelsea, West Ham United, Fulham, Scotland and Irish Football associations to name a few, ensuring Purchase orders are placed accurately, on time and are tracking in at 100% Drive fluid cross-functional communication across the business on order tracking through ALMs (Aligned Logistics Meetings), to support key strategic accounts and global product launches. Identifying any delays and working with factories and Global teams to push for improvements where possible. Subcontracting/Local Article Creation – I was part of the project team to design and roll-out new processes for management of embellished product through the systems, ensuring subcontracting processes run smoothly, purchase orders and delivery notes created in good time and labelling/barcode data is provided to third party suppliers to enable smooth transitions into the Warehouse and customers. Support the collation of team metrics - Ensuring regular and accurate flow of data to update the business. These include OTIF (On Time in Full) & KPI measures - Ensuring all monthly targets are met wherever possible – consistently achieving > 90 % on-time ex-factory. Non – Conformance - Warranting issues from the warehouse in relation to incorrect labelling, packaging and embellishment issues are raised with the QC department and the factory, helping the QC team to raise claims and requesting discounts from incorrectly decorated garments with factories. Training and mentoring of Purchasing Assistants - Providing support to ensure that their duties of amendments, cancellations and assisting with buying purchase orders are done to the best of their abilities.

Responsible for policing the Launch Order book from placement through to delivery and escalating any issues to the team manager.Managing production of weekly tracking reports and monthly summary tracking documents to update key stakeholders.Coordinating and driving fortnightly ALM launch meetings with all relevant parties, documenting minutes, actions and escalations.Coordinating critical path meetings with all key areas of the business to ensure a successful launch.Allocating available stock to sales orders by following the launch management process for allocation, to include review of order types, sizes and percentage allocations.Working closely with the Category Managers in setting up future launches.Informing all necessary parties at all times of confirmed launch dates and allocation of product and where there are product availability delays.

Macclesfield

My role at Elms Marketing was Sales Assistant. The company provided a number of embellishment services including heat transfer, screen printing and embroidery for a number of global clients including adidas, Puma, Umbro and Henri Lloyd. Responsibilities…Ensure that the customers’ orders were processed promptly onto the Pegasus (Opera) system and the job instructions were passed onto the correct department on time so that the customers’ deadlines were met.Order stock from suppliers on a daily basisProvide quotations for clients and customers and chase up any active quotes.Continually source new products from suppliers and negotiate with them to ensure best possible price and lead time.Dealing with daily customer queries, such as chasing up artwork, stock, monitoring delivery dates and providing excellent customer service. Handling of the customers’ orders from quoting to delivery, ensuring a smooth transition from start to finish.

Higher National Diploma, Purchasing, Procurement/Acquisitions And Contracts Management

A Level, English Language

Level 3 - Supply Chain Practitioner, Logistics, Materials, And Supply Chain Management, Distinction