Stuart D Email & Phone Number

West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

• Part of the senior management team I manage Sigma’s national DC and have responsibility and accountability for the site, team performance and safety standards across Australia, all labour and transport activity –.
• I managed the implementation of the DC, and all associated services.
• Resource plan developed and delivered to Kmart’s required timeline including sourcing and training of all staff.
• Liaised with Kmart and the Shop Fitter to ensure their needs were met and achieved by taking away legacy issues and ‘pain points’, and spending time at sites to understand their needs as customers of our service. Results
• Financial saving of $2.1m in stock ordering by clearing 3PL sites
• Manage a $4.2m annual budget delivering savings of $1.4m in Freight and Storage by improving space utilisation

• Managed 1 of the 3 DC’s in England and managed CI and Implemented new processes and procedures throughout the network to improve performance, improve safety and reduce costAccountabilities/Achievements
• Warehouse budgetary responsibility of £4,500,000 per year.
• Accountable for all aspects of Health and Safety and compliance standards.
• Team performance and standards.
• Distribution to 900+ retailers on a complex delivery schedule
• Consistently delivered budget KPI’s / UPMH (Units Per Man Hour) to the business and continuously drive for improvements

United Kingdom

I was employed as charge hand for a new DC where I learnt all aspects of warehousing and worked in all departments of the DC. After 2 years I was promoted to Supervisor and also assisted in opening another new DC. I was then promoted to Shift Manager where I had full accountability of 1 shift in a 24/7 operation.