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London, England, United Kingdom

Specialist lending company providing loans against luxury assets.

London, United Kingdom

Hopkins and Jones have recently purchased the stock and assets of Suttons and Robertsons and I am pleased to join the senior management team of the new larger entity. With 6 stores throughout London and Manchester, we offer a very high class and tailored experience to discerning clients looking for alternative funding lines.

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Working with the founders of a new start-up business within Financial Services. Covering Operational Structure, Insurance, Marketing and Business Development to support the creation of the business plan and product launch in Q3 2019.

London, United Kingdom

In additional to my Group Supply Chain role, I am responsible for UK Sales Operations- Turnover £20m p.a. Managing a team of 'first responders' to web and phone enquiries, plus being the central hub for a BDM team to deliver their leads into. Negotiating on all commercial terms in bespoke deals and personally servicing the top 10% of clients. Providing.

London, United Kingdom

After a 3 year term in New York I am now currently working back in London in a new Group role looking after all aspects of Borro's supply chain in the UK and the US.

Greater New York City Area

• Management of a team of 35 people which included sales staff, appraisers, logistics managers, BDM’s and marketers for the New York office location
• All day to day activities involved in running a business in a new territory
• All loan due diligence, process and sign-off
• All US based 3P service providers

London, United Kingdom

Built from scratch the UK supply chain for Borro Ltd. I established various delivery mechanisms to move high value luxury assets to and from their owners. I owned the duty of care towards these assets to provide a world class service always ensuring the assets were fully protected from the moment they left the client to the moment they were returned.

Developing and maintaining volume forecasts for the UK distribution Network, both inbound and outbound at two levels:Strategic- annual budget with quarterly revisions to include capacity management within the Network.Tactical- 8 weeks rolling by collaboration.Create and maintain a specific sub-plan for container inbound and work with the Primary Logistics.

Responsible for delivering an effective distribution solution to meet the needs of my customers, internal and external, and provide a conduit between distribution operations and commercial colleagues. To ensure the end to end supply chain delivered the right service at the right cost and continued to evolve, through project work, to meet the needs of the.

Responsible for warehousing, delivery and branch replenishment systems for all UK store stationery and consumables. Delivered savings via on line printing at store and economic ordering from suppliers based on production run sizing and design lead times. Reduced environmental levy on carrier bag disposal by moving supply to ‘lighter stronger’ extruded.

Responsible for resource planning across the main operational disciplines at the NDC based in Stevenage. Ran 3 very successful peak night shift operations, overseeing 7 supervisors and over 120 staff. Competent in the management of all warehouse function including 1st line manager disciplinary responsibility.Introduced productivity measurement by function.

Completed management training, worked as a department manager across varied functions instore.

Education record

Activities and Societies: Alumni Change Management Project Management Marketing Skills Corporate Finance Creativity Cultural Diversity IT.

A-Level, Maths, Physics

Studied A-Levels