Rutland Worldwide Freight are an independent freight forwarder supporting businesses with their international freight and trade compliance requirements. Celebrating 30th years in business and proud to be part of the CS Ellis Group, a 4th generation family business offering UK distribution and warehousing.

Supporting all areas of the business to ensure all import and export transactions are in conformance with Customs rules and regulations. Best procedures to ensure correct VAT and Duty is paid, or avoided, reduced and reclaimed where permitted

Freight Logistics and Trade Compliance Advisor with vast experience having worked for Freight Logistics Companies and Global Manufacturing Companies.Supporting businesses with their international freight logistics and trade compliance activities.

EU Transition Advisor. Supporting. advising and providing solutions for business on a daily basis as a result of BREXITSupporting international trade strategy post 1st January 2021. Supporting the International Trade Advisors on freight logistics and Customs proceduresContributing to the successful delivery of the DIT and ERDF funded Exporting for Growth Contracts.

Zeeco Europe offers end-to-end combustion and environmental systems for the refinery, production, petrochemical, LNG, power, pharmaceutical, and biogas industries.Responsibilities include cost effective management of all daily freight logistics requirements, from small parcels to abnormal size loads.Support all areas of the business with freight logistics requirements.Create visibility and provide analysis of all freight logistics spendCreate awareness of trade compliance, standardize and implement controlsEnsure the business was BREXIT readyKey achievements: Reduced global parcel spend by 70%Reduced general freight spend by 35%Prepared the business for BREXIT

Key duties•Responsible for identifying, and implementing an appropriate and cost-effective carrier supplier base and services to support the requirements of all the Commercial and Materials Purchasing Teams. Annual spend £15M•Establishing excellent working relationships with multiple global departments and BU's in order to understand requirements, leverage and exploit synergies and thereby reduce costs and improve the management of this significant spend•Source, identify & lead cost saving initiatives for the business year on year. £4m saving in 2017•Maintaining daily supply chain operations for all global functions with freight requirements to ensure critical timelines and expectations were met for internal and external customersKey Achievements•Implemented the use of rail services from China to UK to improve customer lead times by 2-3 weeks. £3.5m saving in 2017 compared to routing via air•Successfully led a project to review and implement road freight carrier to manage consolidation of inbound materials flows from UK and mainland European suppliers into CGT Ingolstadt, DE and CGT Craiova RO Plants. Improving lead times by 1-2 days and saving £500K annually•Working cross functionally on 6S project with Global Purchasing to review supplier TCO and incoterms. Saving £400k with one supplier in China.•Led project which significantly improved visibility of global inbound shipments to UK Plant providing better ability to plan production and reducing impact to the Plant. •Improving packaging of machines to improve container utilization, reducing risk of damage, reducing waste and reducing costs.•Led the implementation to route container shipments from Romania via Antwerp to USA, with significant cost avoidance (£2M) and reducing lead time by 1-2 weeks•Led logistics work to source and implement container de-vanning facility at Felixstowe to support warehouse optimisation project. £150k annual saving, plus providing flexibility of delivery.

Leading the development and management of European freight services, including customer sales, rate negotiations with 3PL's and Shipping lines, maintenance of trailer fleet, cost effective planning and routing of shipments to meet customer timelines, and production of financial records.

Approached by Euroute AB in June 98 to open European office and to develop and manage trailer services UK<>EU, full and part load services utilising own equipment and facilities. Successfully negotiating with 3PL's and partners to develop new freight forwarding services. Responsible for developing a successful operation with a healthy profit margin. From start up to over 100 export trailers per week from UK to mainland Europe, plus 3PL services to Finland, and Poland, and other freight forwarding activities with a healthy monthly profit. Relocated the operation from Purfleet to Immingham in May 2001 when Norfolkline purchased Euroute. Responsible for developing and managing part load and groupage services UK to Scandinavia.Major customers include: Ikea, Outokumpu, Rolls Royce, Autoliv