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Chichester, England, United Kingdom

Purpose: Create key measures for the business, analyse data to ensure integrity, and highlight to senior management key changes week on week so that strategic commercial decisions can be made with validity.• Collaborated closely with C-suite members, strategically advising from commercial and crop data, ensuring forecasts were met through either stock levels or if procurement was needed.• Continually followed up with the C-suite on implementing agreed actions and enforcing compliance.• Spearheaded improvement in data accuracy, achieving a significant yearly savings of £200K in a single instance.• Influenced strategic direction of the organisation based on product yield forecasts, historical data and market conditions.• Orchestrated development of management reporting, highlighting key differences in short- and medium-term consumption forecasts v budget as well as other strategic financial information.

Chichester, England, United Kingdom

Purpose: Improve and implement processes that reduce manual actions within planning. Driving efficiency and productivity whilst significantly increasing accuracy.• Formulated and automated grower forecasts being populated into the stock management system, achieving 99% timesaving V previous systems and 100% accuracy, eroding manual errors completely.• Devised and built an interface for 2 payroll systems, achieving a 95% timesaving V previous system.• Modified current systems to enhance workflows and meet new needs.• Designed impressive solutions to overcome existing system challenges. Developed an EDI Creation tool, which eliminated keying errors, achieving 95% timesaving on the previous manual procedures.• Proposed outlining requirements, potential solutions and required resources, timelines and costs to achieve objectives.• Identified current inefficiencies and recommended changing functionality, i.e. moving the Stock management sheet to SharePoint allowed multi-user access, increasing productivity by 60%.• Facilitated system expansion, modification and updates.

Selsey

Purpose: Manage, develop and coach the Demand Planning and Forecasting Team, ensuring day-to-day processes were efficient and accurate whilst continuously monitoring mid to long-term forecasts and capacity requirements.• Accountable for a team of seven. Processing orders, raising production orders, communicating despatch requirements to hauliers, and production scheduling for 6 factories across 4 sites.• Managed daily analysis of sales trends in comparison to forecasts, adapting production requirements.• Overhauled existing systems to increase accuracy, reducing costs and waste. Significantly improved forecasting preciseness from 88% to 94%, saving ~£4M pa.• Factory productivity increased by an average of 5%. Reducing payroll by £1.2M pa.• Selected, trained and performance-managed staff to build a results-focused team.• Coordinated the dispatching of transport vehicles distributing goods across the UK.• Introduced operational and administrative procedures to uphold the integrity of current processes.

Rugeley, Staffordshire

IPurpose: To build a planning team from conception for 2 existing factories and a newly built automated plant.• Managed, trained and developed newly appointed staff members. Facilitated project team's setup of correct project control structures, systems and tools.• Coordinated strategic planning activities based on current data.• Calculated and maintained alternate performance option plans to avoid delays in production completion.• Planned implementation of new forecasting demand policies.• Consulted with C-level executives, influencing high-level decision-making.• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop and implement new policies. Managed and coordinated processes by setting accurate timetables and critical performance metrics.• Devised systems to measure direct and indirect results of new policies.

Selsey, West Sussex Uk

• Maintained production levels, identified material shortages and monitored inventory to meet order delivery requirements.• Oversaw multiple supply chain functions to facilitate business operations, including warehouse and logistics management.• Leveraged effective supply chain planning systems to improve demand, sales and operations for the distribution network.• Drove Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and continuous improvements throughout logistics and supplier operations.• Challenged teams to achieve high performance within the distribution network to meet inventory targets.• Owned S&OP process by planning demand, supply and logistics in line with organisational strategy.

Selsey, United Kingdom

Selsey, West Sussex