Experience

Clipper Retail

• United Kingdom
• Retail Office Equipment
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Procurement Supply Planner

  • Nov 2021 - Present



Blackline Safety Europe

• United Kingdom
• Public Safety
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Stock Manager

  • Dec 2018 - Nov 2021



Coast2Coast Teaching School Alliance

• Events and Marketing Co-ordinator

  • Oct 2015 - Nov 2018

  I am responsible for the day to day running of Coast2Coast including the management of a member of staff. I support and report to the Director of the Teaching School. Key successes in this role include:• Planning and running strategic meetings both internally and externally.• Identifying and planning courses for each academic year.• Researching, negotiating with and booking external industry leading speakers for conferences for each academic year.• Maximising recruitment onto the courses and conferences by identifying and using various advertising methods.• Organising, booking and preparing venues for Teaching School events and carrying out all meet and greet and customer satisfaction functions.• Raising revenue and increasing profitability as well as identifying and implementing cost savings.• Ordering and managing stock for marketing gifts and academic books.• Overseeing the rebranding of Coast2Coast TSA including creating a brand new website.• Creating Teaching School budgets, presenting proposed profit and loss, tracking costs and revenue.• Presenting final actual profit and loss and analysing differences for all activity.• Identifying new suppliers and venues, as well as negotiating best prices.



Teleplan International

• Netherlands
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Operations Manager

  • Dec 2013 - Sep 2015

  An all-encompassing role in which as well as having responsibility for all aspects of leading the development of the operational policy and procedure, I was also responsible for all aspects relating to the management of the site from a facilities aspect. As a member of the UK Senior Management Team, I also deputised on site for the UK General Manager in his absence. Key successes in this role included:• Overseeing operational, planning, systems and controls.• Improving the operational systems, processes and policies and implementing better management reporting. • Applying lean principles including 5S to all aspects of the operation.• Responsible for driving continuous improvement and delivering world class operational performance. • Procurement and contract management.• Reducing the cost of building and grounds maintenance; cleaning and vending services.• Improving program profit and loss through operational efficiencies.• Responsible for developing repair processes of high technology electronic products.• Maintaining excellent working relationships with key customer contacts and Business Development Managers.

• Materials Manager

  • Jun 2008 - Dec 2013

  Responsible, as a member of the site management team, for leading the development of policy and procedure relating to all aspects of the warehouse function including inventory control, purchasing and logistics. Key successes in this role include:• Reducing costs by widening the quantity of authorised suppliers used, setting up repair processes and creating / managing supplier KPIs.• Improving efficiencies by cross skilling staff and streamlining the department.• Reducing stockholding and stock obsolescence by improving purchasing control and selling aged stock.• Increasing stock take frequency from annually to quarterly and moving towards continual cycle counting, leading to fewer stock discrepancies and greater stock accuracy.• Setting up stock profiling and stock analysis (using A,B,C profiling).

• Materials Team Leader

  • Nov 2001 - Jun 2008