As part of the central European Supply Chain team working on the company’s Global Supply Chain project, and other wider projects while retaining responsibility for global delivery performance• Worked as a member of cross functional business projects representing Supply Chain including the company’s Brexit transition, repositioning of part of its product portfolio and major business realignment project. Representing Supply Chain both from a technical and functional perspective.• Provided training to global planning teams on the use of the new planning system across many different countries and languages. Much of this was done remotely due to Covid meaning training and delivery needed to be adapted for remote training.• Act as a key member of the team embedding of the global forecasting and planning system. Giving support to locations to ensure full adoption and providing technical SAP refresher training to further increase peoples SAP knowledge. Became a central coordination point for the regions to reach out to• Provide training laying the foundations for the future implementation of long-term planning. Working with sites to familiarise themselves with the process so they can identify parts of their master data that need improvement such that the future work can be implemented efficiently• Identify the supply chain policies and processes needed globally working to provide a greater level of standardisation but still allowing flexibility where required. Work with the regional Supply Chain leads to prioritise the implementation sequence• Lead the company’s global shortage process development. Working with all regions to gain alignment on the process to standardise how shortage is identified and managed across all locations• Analyse the material movements within Europe and make proposals to optimise the distribution network working cross function with the European sales management, supply chain and purchasing teams

As part of the central European Supply Chain team predominantly working on the company’s Global Supply Chain project, while retaining responsibility for global delivery performance and global complaints process• Worked as part of a global team designing and developing the global forecasting and planning system, taking the lead role on the design of the system front end and functional processes within the system.• Worked with the project manager to define project plan including travel plan and resource allocation• Developed training material and codes of practise to support the implementation of the global system• Provided training to global supply chain teams, improving the use of SAP, including but not limited to sales order management, purchasing processes, master data management. Training was adapted to be mindful of the different language and cultures• Provided training to global sales force on the use of the new forecasting system across many different countries and languages.• Line management for complaints department, Supply Chain Development Analyst and Graduate Trainee working within the department

As part of the central European Supply Chain team providing additional working on short term mini projects, providing excel expertise to analyse data and improve reporting but also working on specific projects such as below• Develop global report for measuring company delivery performance including procedure on how to complete the requirements for data entry and report generation. Trained all global locations on the process• Roll out European complaint reporting systems to cover all global locations. Including training of all individuals globally responsible for complaint management. Reviewed the task instructions and updated in accordance with new standards• Worked as part of the team identifying the Global forecasting and planning system. Developed part of the supporting data and presentations to gain support for the capex• Undertook a secondment on manufacturing site. Implemented planning processes to allow site to plan production in line with forecast, orders, and existing plans. Streamlined process and ensured repeatability. Acquired plant management responsibility for one of the production assets. Required planning of production, liaising with production staff as to requirements for production and production confirmation. Provided induction to site planning processes for new Site Supply Chain manager.• Line management for maternity cover within complaints department

Placement 1: QAExposure to Quality Assurance. Developed an understanding of the importance of having documented processes and document control. Processes worked upon as belowo Designed and implemented procedures for Process Validationo Worked with one of the production units to help develop the cleaning matrix for the planto Worked with purchasing to define the process to analyse data for supplier reapprovalsPlacement 2: Supply ChainWorking as part of the central European Supply Chain team. Processes worked upon as belowo Proceduralising and automating month end processes. Working in conjunction with other members of the team defining processes and developing macros to streamline processo Customer complaints report development. Work on developing and refining European customer complaint reporto Outstanding order report development. Develop existing report, creating macro to streamline process and develop task instruction to provide structure to process Placement 3: Supply ChainWorking as part of a site Supply Chain team. Primarily focused on optimising tank logistics to maximise operational efficiency and identify areas for investment to improve potential outputs.

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Arranging and executing the plans for school events requiring additional furniture including but not limited to exams, parents evening and productions