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Melton Mowbray, Gb

Derbyshire, United Kingdom

Leading and coordinating the support function within the European Purchasing team. Project management for a number of European and cross functional workstreams, I continue to provide the communication and coordination function for the purchasing team, covering market and commodity reporting, operating plan budget, financial reporting, sales support, continuous improvement, sustainability data etc. 2 direct reports but facilitating within a team of 12 colleagues and wider European & global business. Creating internal and external communication materials (presentations, communication statements), occasional support to European PR function, creation and maintenance of internal SharePoint sites for commodity data and information sharing with commercial teams. Collaboration with cross functional teams to coordinate and provide data, building of data files, consolidation of information for buyers, finance, commercial teams, global colleagues. Management and maintenance of team data files, problem solving and tracking. Supporting the Purchasing Managers to keep the team on track and able to meet internal and external deadlines.

Derby, United Kingdom

Project management role including commodity tracking, some financial data analysis, communication of purchasing information and data to the rest of the business, cost saving project coordination across European business and data collation. This is not a buying role but a support to the buying, Finance, NPD and Sales teams.

Secondment to the European Purchasing Team made permanent as of 1st October 2015

Promoted 1st October 2010

Concept to launch NPD for dry seasoning blends, meat marinade systems and liquid sauces. Project management, problem solving, process development. Customer facing role, product presentations, work shops and concept ideations.

Sole NPD resourceConcept development, dried fruit blends, dry stuffing mixes, soaked fruit blends. Customer specifications on internet based systems. Customer facing role as support to sales team.

Various roles and duties as required by customers. Mostly product testing, sampling and development.

Concept to launch NPD & process development of sandwich lines for Tesco & Ginsters. Cost control, quality standard setting and supplier standard setting for raw materials on sandwiches and ready meal products. Transfer of 100+ products from one site to another & set up of new production facility.

Concept to launch development of blended cheese products. Project management, problem solving, customer facing role, resource to Sales team.

Concept to launch NPD for Schwartz dry seasonings range.

Luton, England, United Kingdom

Product & process development taking sandwich & product concepts from kitchen scale to factory scale up and launch. Problem solving, customer facing role. Specification writing for M&S.

Chertsey, Surrey

QA Assistant, customer complaints, store visits with Acc. Managers, restaurant visits.

Colworth House, Sharnbrook

R&D Centre, High Wycombe

Initially food analysis (H2O, fat, protein, pH, Dionex sugars, ash), then NPD for biscuits, conbars, chocolate samples, enrobing. Also short term placements in micro lab and on site library

Bsc (Hons), Food Science

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