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Ashby De La Zouch

Greenford

• Collaboration with multi 3PL DHL sites working across a 24:7 platform; focused on ODIF deliveries to FMCG and Retail customers across complex £26m regional warehouse / transport environments at 8% growth• Managed 3PL performance reviewing sufficient warehousing and transport to meet stock holding requirements; export inbound freight providers to ensure efficient route to market in line with contractual SLA / KPIs • Contract performance management for all stock movements attain maximum cost, quality, service, signing service remuneration in line with T&Cs• Commercial Management by cost effective adherence to the operational budget reviewing volume, budget, actuals; purchase order maintenance for direct & indirect goods and services; approving invoice submission • Stock Management via B2B and full stock counts to maintain products stored and transported to Ferrero quality standards • Strategy Network Planning in line with growing needs of the business to accommodate storage and distribution capacities against operating standards

Leicester

• Network Transport Planning for National Operating Centres; supporting Network Service & Capacity planning and southern based 3PL providers• Led UK Traffic Planning team of 13 across 24/7; routing regional Warehouse & Transport operations, providing consistent strategic and operational decisions to deliver customer deliveries• Translated a weekly forecast into a Day 1 order for Day 3 planning cycle, reacting to plan changes and maintaining route optimisation • Owned planning of Raw Materials and Bought In Finished Goods internal transportation to deliver a compliant UK factory supply, agreeing daily outputs and collects to storage or picking warehouses• UK Pallet Team Account Holder, delivering a robust collaborative relationship between Pepsico and 3PL pallet providers. Over delivered with increased revenue 10% ; reduced failures by 21%; increased backhaul income by 11% and reduced pallet variance by 65%• Transitioned Fresh Crop Potato collects by procuring a 3PL haulier, agreeing lane transfer and rates for South West collects into Leicester manufacturing, delivering £80k savings• Applied daily interpretation of UK Network Capacity Model including 3PL warehousing, to control inventory on hand stock levels against forecasted production or national shortages to meet volume fluctuations • Modernised Weekly Resource Forecast process for UK Network to execute daily volume; overseeing three depots, 400 Core drivers, 150 Agency against accurate work profile phasing to mitigate operational constraints• Enhanced 3PL relationships, influencing 3PL on boarding for 8000 pallet transition between two 3PL warehouses to regain inventory control plus multidrop deliveries transferred to an alternative 3PL haulier within two weeks to avoid 40% on cost• Enhanced functional positioning by supporting integration of Traffic Network Routing System upgrade, generating an advanced, optimised platform

Leicester, United Kingdom

• A Transport Manager for a c.£32m business with c.70% by volume of all Walkers Snacks Distribution stock movements• Provided leadership and drove performance excellence to 300 on shift drivers to deliver a balanced scorecard comprising of safety, service, people and cost• Agile management of executional directs developing dynamic teams through individual scorecard / objective reviews; coaching core competencies to realise standards, behaviours and personal growth• Vehicle responsibility, adhering to "O license" requirements to ensure OCRS compliance from EU drivers’ hour’s regulations to RTCs and tactical adverse weather management• Delivered 100% compliance to an audited Global Safety program, applying ‘Just Culture’ approach and reduced Planned General Inspection labour hours by 50%• Implemented a driver trip feedback mechanism to improve perception of planning accuracy by driver engagement delivering transparent actions; converting negative perceptions • Successful Project Management applying Lean Six Sigma tools to deliver Kaizen events: • Reduced Transport execution team Headcount delivering £40k savings• Delivered £250k productivity and 1 point Km/L/Hr increase by reducing drivers debrief time of 6000 hours per annum • Designed and delivered office refurbishment, resulting in multi department co location • Analysed barriers to roll out Isotrak upgrade to ATMSi by taking the lead as account liaison; driving Isotraks development program, renegotiating service level agreement with critical deliverables, accountability and communication for focused product delivery• Modernised Logistics Network Financials by owning Transport feed into Tableau, eliminating existing system restrictions by unlocking built in functionality of Isotrak, Mitrefinch and Proxy cards

Leicester

• Led UK Raw Material 24/7 team of 12 on a rotating continental 12-hour shift basis, tasked with receiving raw materials for onward UK network distribution • Evaluated Raw Material variables creating supply chain solutions for various executional complexities to ensure 'business as usual' with minimal intervention • Corrected BIFG process for UK & European 3PL from purchase order to receipt matching for invoicing • Drove operator cultural change by implementing foundational upskill to address shift skill in-balance, eliminating variances by team owning total agenda and anomaly reconciliation, removing manual entry errors at weekly and monthly close• Positive impact to Raw Material and Finished Goods inventory accuracy of zero variances > 30 days; year end stock count 99.96% hit to financials & 99.85% hit to stock count with 0.001% adjustment, reducing count errors by 93% for a multi million stock value• Restructured operational headcount reducing by 40% entering competency based 30 day consultation, rebalancing skills to inventory and financial controls delivering £126k savings, +57% of target• Rentokil account holder, AIB (American Institute of Bakers) 980 showing a 200 point improvement, MEWP, 1st Aid, Chemical spillage skills• Wrote Business Case and capital request for replacement of condemned boilers & heaters and office refurbishment for £122K, negotiating quotes from procurement to invoice receipt• Crashed installation timelines due to financial year end, completed associated Change Management and MESS documentation, plus contractor Permit to Work

Reading, United Kingdom

• Secondment to deliver creative thinking of end to end process for Raw Material conversion into Finished Goods by 3PL; reduced process steps to forecast, plan, execute, reconcile stock and invoices • Simplified complex supply chain into a structured three-week cycle, transparent metrics underpinned with robust role & responsibility definition across informed multi functions, providing ‘business as usual’• Demonstrated strong influencing skills, building trust and collaboration between commercial and operations; steering internal & 3PL directors• Solution for TRDU Co pack - a £42m category with 50% year on year growth, delivering an incremental 20% service level; 25% volume fill 20% productivity savings at £100k, 50% planning efficiency, clearing outstanding invoices > 90 day terms

London, United Kingdom

• Ultimate responsibility for the Transport & Warehouse Satellite depot, 24/7 execution team of 25 drivers & 2 Coordinators; day & night shifts, tasked with stock receipt and transhipment overnight for onward day delivery to South England • Reinvigorated corporate standards, behaviours and values by providing leadership and driving performance excellence to deliver a balanced scorecard comprising of safety, service, people and cost• Agile management of executional directs through individual scorecard / objective reviews; coaching core competencies applying Covey 7 Habits and Myers Briggs • London Olympic Customer Delivery revision implemented due to Olympic Route Network, successfully shifting 60% shift of daytime routes to night drivers, resulting in zero safety, service and cost impact converting into £96k savings • Fleet responsibility, adhering to "O license" requirements to ensure OCRS compliance from repair & maintenance to EU drivers’ hour’s regulations to RTCs and tactical adverse weather management• Worked in strong partnership with Leicester Warehouse & Transport operation and Fleet Legal Compliance to deliver world class customer service whilst also ensuring adherence to all statutory legislation• Delivered consultation for depot relocation and subsequent closure via group and 100 Individual consultation meetings, setting and maintaining attitudinal standards for usual business high performance • Project managed exit and entry plan, requiring O License application, 24 tractor and trailer relocation and facility provision, completed with four weeks• Set up DHL Hatfield short term lease contract overlaid with a phased work transfer to Leicester to counter 22 voluntary redundancies aiding final depot closure ahead of Tesco RDC direct routing

Leicester, United Kingdom

• Streamlined multi core contracts to offset Agency Equalisation Regulation on cost and optimise driver profile• Led monthly Site Safety Action team and Planned General Inspection driving effective front line engagement to analyse trends to prevent the next incident by addressing unsafe conditions and behaviours• Managed in-house potato haulage end to end transition requiring bespoke trailer design with Lawrence David; led recruitment drive and upskill; executed Farm Risk Assessments for Leicester, Legal Compliance measures & Traffic Plan incorporation • Collaborated with AGRO and Mercian Growers establishing tonnage splits by farm, volume forecast and phasing based on strong relationships

Leicester, United Kingdom

• Managed c.55 night based employees plus 12 Yard Controllers and 16 IMI Warehouse, Inventory & System Technicians; providing leadership to drive performance excellence to deliver a balanced scorecard comprising of safety, service, people and cost• Agile management of executional directs developing dynamic teams through individual scorecard / objective reviews; coaching core competencies to realise standards, behaviours and personal growth• Responsibility for the maintenance of facilities with respect to Food Safety standards to drive compliance with AIB International.• Redesigned site perimeter security for HGV and employee access to satisfy Sarbains Oxley Financial and Asset Risk Assessment post 9/11 with campus Proxy card implementation and re scope for HGV / contractor entrance• Implemented C3 Yardsmart, an automated web based yard management system to provide full Yard asset visibility, increasing gate throughput, shunter rates with efficient movement paths; enhanced loading bay activity improving warehouse performance • Extended to local satellite depots maximising trailer turnaround / utilisation for warehouse loading and transport deliveries• Upgraded Warehouse RDTs to be IMI Warehouse compatible, considering quantity; asset value and IT changes to deliver appropriate RDT at £200k spend• Managed 32k pallet space HiBay build, including BIT self-test to ensure specification delivered pallet through puts, pallet handover points, crane putaways • First class execution through strong relationship build with Project Team and Contractor Management • Disruption free integration with existing MHE, achieving operational capacity within 4 weeks

Coventry And Lincoln, United Kingdom

• Split site role for Coventry & Lincoln Manufacturing sites, owning training program delivery for front line and levelled employees c.600• Bottom up budget build for technical and development progression• Commissioned Training Matrix Database build, to record training, capture skill matrices; build & track budget spend resulting in UK roll out• Coached objective and development plan setting. • Technical Expert Trainer, delivered facilitator skills ahead of writing & delivering technical training for system-led Technologies• Certified Advanced Facilitator trained, delivering training to trainers and course participants such as facilitation, performance management processes and coaching programs

Leicester, United Kingdom

• Production Manager including Process, Packaging and Finished Goods Dispatch process • Responsible for production line assets and approximately 50 personnel• Safety Action Team leader responsible for driving the safety culture on site including Employee Risk Protection, Risk Management Standards and Behavioral Based Safety• Financial and legal responsibilities for production, successfully delivering target objectives against Safety, Service, Quality and Cost KPI’s

Sheffield

• FMCG supplying M&S with Cook / Chill; short shelf life; Recipe Dishes of Italian; Chinese & Indian • Recruited as Quality Assurance Supervisor, responsible for individual component, final product and equipment checks; including food safety and hygiene as a batch production process• Progressed to Production Supervisor, sole responsibility for the afternoon / night shift, completing the production schedule, full clean down and generating plans for 06:00 shift

Bsc (Hons) Industrial Food Technology

Activities and Societies: Universtitat de Autonoma, Barcelona, outplacement for Pilot Plant Cheese Manufacture; trialling milk.

Biology, Chemistry & English, A Levels