Experience

Medical Research Network

• United Kingdom
• Research Services
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Senior Vendor Manager

  • Jun 2021 - Present

  - Line management of up to ten Vendor and Contracts Associates and Senior Vendor and Contracts Associates of varying skill and experience levels;- Managing regular one-to-one meetings with all reportees including workload and task prioritisation assessment;- Ongoing performance monitoring, conduction of annual performance, development and probation period reviews;- Participation in interviews and new employee induction;- Overseeing processes of Vendor qualification and governance, ensuring high-quality and sufficient output of these processes across the team;- Audit attendance and representation of Vendor and Contracts Management Team (VCMT) Audit request fulfilment, provision of audit finding responses and associated continuous improvement where necessary;- Ownership and management of Vendor capabilities database for the company, feeding into the sales process;- Ownership of Training processes within VCMT ensuring all new employees are trained to the required standard in relevant areas;- Controlled Document and associated training creation and conduction. Show less

• Vendor Manager - Vendor Relationships

  • Aug 2019 - Jun 2021

• Senior Vendor and Contracts Associate

  • Jan 2019 - Aug 2019

• Vendor and Contracts Associate

  • May 2017 - Jan 2019

  • Search and approval of new vendors• Liaison with Sales and Operations Teams• Management of vendor processes post project award• Vendor governance programme management• Invoice reconciliation• Equipment management



Stobart

• United Kingdom
• Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain and Storage
• 700 & Above Employee

• Stock Control Team Leader

  • Jul 2016 - May 2017

  • Utilizing a number of effective communication styles: team briefs, daily reports to direct and operations managers, regular feedback to the client, problem/query resolution with the QA/transport/planning teams, mediation between client and the operation to implement process changes;• Task management and prioritisation through schedule and weekly envelope creation for the team; workload creation and review with the team;• Process and procedure creation and enforcement through team briefs, SOPs and weekly envelope creation;• Navigation of different stock control and document management systems, to include JDE, DWMS and DocuWare to resolve queries, discrepancies and failed transactions;• Stock control, depot admin and generic inbox management and query resolution;• Generation and presentation of daily reports such as stock KPIs, BBE and adjustments;• H&S spot checks and reports; daily warehouse floor walks to identify operational standard shortfalls and resolution implementation;• Cover stock manager’s periods of absence and oversee depot admin position;• Return to work interview completion, accident and incident investigation;• Stock board creation and maintenance Show less

• Depot Admin

  • Aug 2013 - Jul 2016

  • Organisation of training courses, accommodation and transport;• HR and managerial team support, note taking;• Vacancy creation and management, assistance in the recruitment process;• Induction of new employees and introduction to the company and the site; All company policy and procedure sign-off in the form of personnel and training folders;• Maintenance of all consumables on site;• Raising POs and dealing with invoice queries;• Office H&S checks, COSHH register creation and maintenance;• Generation of daily, weekly and monthly KPIs;• Monthly and weekly payroll processing and record keeping, wage query resolution;• Holiday and absence tracking and reporting; • Population and maintenance of training matrices;• Enforcement of company’s procedures on site;• Building and nourishing relationships with clients and suppliers;• Ah-hock tasks Show less