• Manage Procurement, supplier development, supplier auditing including China supply.• Manage Production, resource requirement planning, pull systems, process time reduction.• Manage Demand Planning and long range material forecasting.• Management of Quality Management System. (ISO 9001:2015).• Materials management, inventory, warehousing, demand planning utilising non ERP system (Quickbooks).• Implementation and management of Containment and Corrective Action Report system to support the identification of root cause for continuous improvement activities.• Implementation of Dynamics Business Central, inventory, production, MRP.• Define, implement and manage Key Performance Indicators in line with business requirements. • Implementation and management of production Make To Stock/Make To Order hybrid. • Implementation of Request For Change and Engineering Change Note processes to control change to system, process or product. • Define part number system and inventory planning parameters.• Define Bill Of Materials structures.• Define, implement and manage stock taking processes and activities. • Define job specifications within the team, source and hire, appraise, performance manage.• Responsible for creation and management of the Health & Safety Team, recruitment, sign off and creation of OHSMS (Formal ISO45001 unaccredited)

• Management of assembly and test teams, facilities/maintenance team, planning and purchasing team, warehouse team and 3rd party warehousing facility.• Manage builds, testing and inventories of Midas Consoles (XL8), Klark Teknik products and Turbosound products• Production planning short to mid-term to support Sales requirements and defined finished goods levels.• Define recommended finished goods levels to support Sales forecasts so to fulfill orders, buffer order randomness and cover seasonality variants.• Develop supplier relationships to support on time deliveries, improve quality and to gain a better understanding of how to work together to achieve the same shared goals.• Part of rapid plant level SAP implementation with full part number change.• Manage manufacturing related inventories, finished goods, raw material and work in progress utilising SAP. • Manage back-flush transactions in line with work outputs (CO01, CO11N, MIGO).• Interrogate SAP on inventory issues and availability of materials for production, including outstanding purchase orders due. (MB51, MB52, ME2N). • Export SAP data to excel for vlookup and pivot-table conversion for improved data analysis, including reviewing outstanding sales orders, finished goods and site wide inventory levels.• MRP sign off approval of £10K and £1K for non-inventory related items.• Manage outbound global shipments ensuring shipments are fit for export to import, utilising on site warehouse team and 3rd party warehouse function.• Manage site wide yearly stock takes.• Manage service B stock sales through 3rd party internet based sites.• Manufacturing and Warehouse representative/manager in the integration project of relocating Turbosound manufacturing facility from West Sussex to Kidderminster within 3 months.• Plan and implement manufacturing layouts to facilitate relocated products considering H&S, product and material flow and to meet cost, quality and delivery targets.

• Manage change projects in line with business needs, to specified budgets and timelines.• Plan, implement and monitor a refit of a production area into a service centre depot, create a refit specification in-line with budget and customer needs, manage budget and time line within specification and source appropriate contractors to complete the works.

• Development of inventory forecasts based on sales history/forecasts, seasonality, new product introductions and then used to plan warehouse space requirements and support further business decisions. • Utilise Kanban formula in real world scenarios, FG stock profiles, milkruns, RM requirements and sub assembly supermarkets.• Yearly Stock-takes to less than 1% variance from 20% historic.• Implementation of bar code system, to support inventory transactions, minimising human error and to ease the transition to further ERP changes.• Effectively organise, motivate, train and manage personnel promoting flexible working practises for the smooth running and development of Goods in and Stores functions. • Monitoring and reporting of Inventory levels, ensuring accurate updates to the business system to support manufacturing functionality and external auditing.• Create, update and monitor KPI’s to enable continuous improvement throughout the department and to further support business objectives.• Development of Oracle Inventory to support business reporting methodologies, including Cycle Count rollout and stock taking processes and procedures.• Create and manage inventory separation processes to support RoHS compliance requirements.

• Manage 70 manufacturing operatives and team leaders within an electronics assembly and test facility.• Ensuring on time deliveries to customer orders, within cost and quality targets.• Alignment of production activities with an “off the shelf” Oracle Business system.

• Manage up to 30 manufacturing operatives and team leaders within an electronics assembly and test facility.

• Communicating and scheduling supplier deliveries in line with material requirements. Planning and scheduling of stores kit picking to the production plan. Expediting shortages, fire fighting, problem solving to enable customer orders to ship on time.