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Oxford, England, United Kingdom

East Midlands, England, United Kingdom

Following a period of consulting throughout Europe, with Hays 4PL, I spent 14 years designing, implementing and operating e-fulfilment solutions for some of the UK's major retailers: Boots.com, John Lewis Direct, Cath Kidston, Habitat, Sainsbury's and many more. I returned to consulting to help retailers minimise their fulfilment risk and drive margin.

Nuneaton

A leading online Bathroom Retailer with significant year on year growth. Previously a Ferguson PLC company, subject to an MBO in March 19.With a team of 80 staff, lead the development and delivery of a multisite in-house warehouse logistics strategy in this rapidly growing online retailer that operates in the UK, Ireland, Netherlands and Belgium. The.

The market leading car parts distributor to the UK aftermarket, with an annual turnover of £800 Million and annual growth of over 25%.Led a high-performing team of 700, operating from 3 Distribution Centres, in Tamworth, with a total floor area of 1 Million ft2. Delivered highly cost-effective daily replenishment of 170,000 items from 120,000 SKUs to 190.

United Kingdom

An award-winning VC backed niche logistics provider with an annual turnover of £40 Million that provides online fulfilment and reverse logistics services to leading retail brands including; John Lewis, Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Screwfix and Fortnum & Mason.Led, developed and motivated a team 600 in the provision market leading 3rd party e-fulfilment services.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Implemented a combined e-fulfilment and returns processing operation for Sainsbury’s and the European e-fulfilment operation for Habitat. Designed and delivered the migration of the e-fulfilment live operation from two sites to be consolidated into a larger site of 250,000 ft2 without impacting the trading of John Lewis. Rationalised the iForce site.

A VC backed provider of transactional Print and Mail services to the Mobile Telecommunications, Banking and Utility sectors. TUPEd from Hays Logistics.Implemented a formal change process. Ensured the team of 42 was trained in PRINCE 2 and key team members were qualified ITIL Service managers. Full P&L responsibility for a budget of £1.2 Million.Key.

Successfully delivered an increasingly diverse and complex range of projects in UK and Europe, covering manufacturing and retail as well as due diligence and acquisitions.Consultant & General Manager - European Supply Chain Solutions, based in Paris. Worked predominantly in Poland and Holland as a Supply Chain Consultancy to Unilever. Identified ways to.