Responsibility for the material management across a pharmaceutical production facility in accordance with Lean/ Just-In-Time principles; activities focused on achieving customer service level targets, ensuring all necessary materials are ordered and delivered on time in full.• Multi-Skilled Supply Chain Professional with the ability to support the end to end supply chain process as a result of continuous development beyond existing role across procurement, supply and export functions • Proactively managed costs, including price negotiation, supplier switches and vendor rationalization, which resulted in 2% - 5% annual saving year on year during 2005-2009 on a total overall spend of four million across 76 suppliers• SAP expertise with advanced understanding of all procurement and planning functions in SAP, including Business Warehouse reporting tools• Project lead on the introduction of plastic pallets to our corrugated supplier giving a cost saving of £20,000 and a labour saving of 200 hour p.a. on handling time throughout material supply teams

Responsibility for coordinating the delivery of goods by air, land and sea, including all documentation in accordance with regulatory and industry requirements

Responsibility for the contract management of all packaging suppliers, including contract negotiations and day-to-day management.• Additional responsibilities included the creation & coordination of packaging artwork.• Organised & executed annual stock takes across two sites and managed weekly perpetual checks• IT proficiency in Microsoft Office packages - Excel. word, PowerPoint and Outlook