Head of Warehousing and logistics

• Oct 2022 - Present

B2C Operations Manager

• Oct 2021 - Oct 2022

Warehouse & Logistics Manager

• Apr 2020 - Jun 2021

Distribution Centre Team Manager

• Apr 2019 - Mar 2020

Warehouse and logistics manager

• May 2017 - Mar 2019

RESPONSIBILITIES • Manage the Ashmead site; Managing all Warehouse and Production staff.• Managing a £514,000 budget for Warehousing & Production. Reporting monthly spend.• Manage transport service and budget control. Reporting monthly spend.• Plan the future operation of the site, production, picking & dispatch and storage requirements.• Oversee the production planning ensuring efficient use of the production rooms. • Managing the Warehouse and Packhouse teams. Recruitment, training, admin & appraisals.• Stock management. Ensuring accurate stock levels at all times. • Managing and reviewing KPI’s. • Holding daily operations meetings with the team leaders. • Updating and maintaining all site processes and procedures.• Ensure site is BRC audit ready at all times. • Maintaining Health & Safety and Risk Assessments. • Keep the warehouse & Packhouse sections of the company food safety management system up to date.KEY ACHIVEMENTS• Project manager for the Warehouse relocation project. Delivered on time and to budget.• Improved Site H&S. Zero reportable accidents and reduced near misses.• Wrote & implemented Warehouse processes & procedures to achieve BRC A grade• Saved 9% per annum on labour by mechanising the Packhouse production line.• Reduced temporary staff costs by 9.5%.• Reduced transport costs by 1%• Reduced off site storage costs by 50%• Implemented SLA’s to ensure customers and colleagues received a consistent service. • Improved order dispatches, reducing damages with an order accuracy rate of 99.8% Show less

Warehouse Manager

• May 2017 - Nov 2017

Warehouse Manager

• Nov 2010 - Apr 2017

RESPONSIBILITIES • Oversee the operation of the Warehouse. Stock control, pick & pack, transportation, deliveries and organization. • Oversee the production planning ensuring efficient use of the production rooms. • Managing Warehouse team of ten staff (recruitment, training, admin & appraisals). • Managing and reviewing KPI’s. • Holding daily operation’s planning meetings my team leaders. • Setting & agreeing budgets. Managing and reporting set budgets. KEY ACHIVEMENTS • Part of the team responsible for the locating and fitting out of a new site. Updating all ways of working and SOP’s, moving into new warehouse, and closing two sites. • Managing warehouse stream to deliver a new IFS ERP system. • Planned and implemented multi bin storage locations for all pukka sites. • Planned and implemented order picking using barcode scanners. • Implemented cyclical stock counts. • Implemented working split shifts. 7.00 to 15.30 and 10.00 to 18.30 • Improved dispatch lead times. All orders are now dispatched within 24 hours. • Implemented production lead times to get the most from my production rooms. Order day one, order dispatched day three. • Improved the layout of finished product warehouse by implementing a more efficient pick walk Show less

Warehouse Manager

• 1995 - Nov 2010

RESPONSIBILITIES • Operation of the Warehouse. Stock control, pick & pack, transportation, deliveries and organization. • Managing a team of 6 (recruitment, training, admin & appraisals). • Setting & agreeing budgets. Managing and reporting set budgets. • Health & Safety and Risk Assessment. Forklift and Reach Fleet. • Inventory Management Stock control (Using SAP) KEY ACHIVEMENTS • Reduced year-end inventory differences from 25%to 1.8% with a cash difference of £1500. • Reduced the time taken carrying out the year-end inventory from 2 days to 6 hours • Stock control and accuracy - 98.2%. • Introduced and implemented the “5’S” methodology to the workplace. Show less

Warehouse operative

• 1993 - 1995

RESPONSIBILITIES • Picking and packing orders for dispatch. • Loading and unloading deliveries. • Dealing with customers. • Carrying out inventory checks. RESPONSIBILITIES • Picking and packing orders for dispatch. • Loading and unloading deliveries. • Dealing with customers. • Carrying out inventory checks.