Matt Samples Email & Phone Number

Leeds, West Yorkshire, England

Materials planner for FMCG EMEA.Freight and Logistics co-ordinator (inbound).Forecasting specialist.Applications; Dynamics AX 2009/2012, AGR, Phocas 6.0, Atlas 5.1, Windows 8.

Business established, from scratch, in my spare time whilst in full time employment.Venue decoration hire for special events, corporate functions etc.Covered events for Yorkshire Post Newspaper Group, CLIC Sergeant and Wakefield Wildcats, amongst others.Responsibility for product portfolio and inventory, purchase/sales ledger, marketing budgets and directives.

Achievement of key procurement KPI targets on behalf of 19 nationwide depots.Annual spend of £50m as a team of 4. 70+ suppliers, 6000 SKUs.Administration of imports; documentation processing, shipment monitoring and bookings.Assistant Product Manager (PPE) for 6 months.

Responsibility for small team of 3; 1200 SKUs, 20+ major suppliers.Management, training and development of Purchasing assistants.Direct reporting to company owner and MD on key issues and directives.

£3M inventory, 80+ suppliers.Contract negotiation; terms, pricing, stock rotation/scrap etc.General purchasing duties, including; expediting, ordering, vendor management and system data maintenance.Sole responsibility, within Procurement, for non-catalogue item enquiries and subsequent sourcing and quoting thereof. Development and implementation of internal system and procedure for handling non-catalogue items.