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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.
• 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

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

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.
• 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.
• 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

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.

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.
• 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.
• 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

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 &.
• 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.
• 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.
• Extended to local satellite depots maximising trailer turnaround / utilisation for warehouse loading and transport deliveries

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