Experience

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  Priory Direct

  • United Kingdom
  • Packaging and Containers Manufacturing
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Procurement Buyer

    • Apr 2023 - Present

  • Stock Controller

    • Jan 2021 - Aug 2023

    • Reviewing all SKU usages and supplier performance with Operations/Accounts/Customer Service teams, focusing on key ranges, keeping stock levels to an optimum point to ensure available stock for same day dispatch and cash flow balance. Highlighting and reviewing overstocks and poor performing ranges, inbound carriage cost reviews and ensuring good supply of any essentials the business requires. • Placing and updating all purchase orders, resolving price changes, chasing any overdue orders or solving any issues or order requirements through alternate sourcing from stockists or other manufacturers, cost analysis or logistical opportunities. • Forecasting peak usage, and ensuring all suppliers can cope with a significant increase in demand, through sharing data and building delivery plans/order schedules taking into account operational constraints such as Goods In capability and cash flow, whilst utilising data from previous sales years, Customer Service/Sales team forecasts, current usage data, SAP queries and any other relevant sources. Presenting this to Directors and making any adjustments required to deal with changing operational demands.• Running any supplier meetings that are required, including presenting any data and resolving any existing or developing issues.• Analysing products sales and categorising into a multi-tier structure, ensuring top tier products are prioritised from a stock holding, cash flow and goods in perspective. • Briefing and developing the Priory forecasting software for re-platforming, as well as testing any ideas or functionality to prove or disprove it’s viability. Any issues or additions are highlighted and new working put forward collaboratively with the Development Team and Directors to enable our forecasting to deal with unpredictable issues and become functionally tighter, whilst simplifying the volume of data presented into an easy to read format, with drillable data available for deeper understanding where required.

  • Warehouse Administrator

    • Apr 2020 - Jan 2021

    • Support with warehouse management and day-to-day running of operations including full cover in Warehouse Manager’s absence. • Releasing customer orders to the pick/pack teams, including resolving stock shortfalls or inventory issues, coordinating own transport deliveries, custom dispatch requirements such as freight forwarding paperwork, priority dispatch or customs clearance forms.• Stock control and inventory management improvements through stock taking and ongoing process improvements, data injection into SAP and running and reviewing reports.• Monitoring stock levels and placing purchase orders when required, through forecasting, reviewing usage analysis reports and providing supplies essential for the business to function.• Maintaining a safe, legal, and effective operating environment.• Goods being processed in a timely manner, including completing and overseeing checking and booking in processes, reviewing and reporting any supply or delivery issues, and escalating poor performances to the Procurement Manager. • Maintaining and daily clearance of the relevant Trello boards, including resolving any customer service issues, mispicks, nil value orders or quality control issues. • Liaising and ensuring efficient operations with multiple courier services, including resolving any lost pallets or delivery issues, coordination of collections to maintain next day delivery promises and manually raising delivery paperwork in times of systems issues.

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  Tillett Racing Seats

  • Sittingbourne

  • Stores Coordinator

    • Jan 2016 - Apr 2020
    • Sittingbourne

    Stores Coordinator – (Job Title changed and additional responsibilities taken on in addition to previous role) responsible for: • Logging all inbound deliveries on Access Factory Master, including relevant batch numbers, quality control of goods and correct internal location maintenance. • Establishing and reviewing min/max stock levels to minimise possible shortages and reduce funds being tied up in unnecessary or excess stock, whilst working with the purchasing and compliance teams to establish purchasing patterns to reduce admin, lead times and supplier shortages through blanket and call off purchasing. • Recording internal stock movements to workshop locations/staff, identifying patterns of excess use and wastage of company resources with Department Supervisors.• Identifying and scrapping obsolete stock to minimise wasted warehouse/workshop space. • Responsible for the safe and tidy storage of company resources. • Assisting the coordination of year end stock take and recounts. Dispatch and Production Coordinator – responsible for: • Preparation, storage and dispatch of outgoing orders – working with admin and production teams to ensure timely completion to key target dates. • Quality control of outbound goods, including working with production teams to identify problems causing or caused by manufacturing issues. • Stock control and assembly of bracket, fixing kits, and other relevant items.• Unloading and loading of both inbound and outbound goods.• Fire Marshall and First Aider duties.

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  Caterham Cars Ltd

  • Dartford, United Kingdom

  • Production Purchaser

    • Jun 2014 - Jan 2016
    • Dartford, United Kingdom

    • Monitoring and optimising stock levels across multiple key accounts, reordering to cover full production plans, as well as aftersales and any additional demand.• Working closely with the engineering, sales and marketing teams to ensure prototype parts are transitioned from design stage through testing and into full production use, including set up of new part numbers and updating bill of materials.• Meeting with new and liaising with existing suppliers to establish new relationships and drive improvement - notably quality and delivery performance to meet Caterham requirements.• Improving efficiency and reducing costs through a variety of purchasing means, such as economic batch sizing, setting up delivery schedules to avoid delivery charges.• Resourcing components when needed, ensuring they meet strict guidelines and remain cost effective and competitive.• Resolving any invoicing or delivery queries as well as keeping track of credit limits in order to keep accounts clear, ensuring the release of goods in a timely and effective manner.• Overseeing ordering and maintaining a record of all company clothing across all Caterham branches and departments.

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  Menzies Distribution

  • Maidstone

  • Operations Support

    • Nov 2011 - Jun 2014
    • Maidstone

    Promoted from Afternoon Shift Team Leader• Monitoring stock movements, utilizing information from multiple sources such as SAP, Excel and physical reports, between multiple branches. • Accounting for waste and overstocked items, transferring stock internally and externally to wherever required based upon demand and to ensure waste is minimized.• Resolving customer supply issues at multiple levels including investigating and resolving potential fraudulent claims,• Liaising with various departments to ensure quality control throughout the logistics and supply chain has been accounted for.• Effective stock management and decision making, prioritizing high value client’s demands whilst ensuring smaller clients are catered for in both unexpected situations and day to day practice.• Ensuring all Legionella checks are carried out in the workplace, and reporting any issues.Afternoon Shift Team Leader – responsible for:• Overseeing the subscriptions department – including resolving all customers’ queries, crediting accounts and overseeing staff on a day to day basis as well as using several databases to monitor key customers accounts.• Running the afternoon shift - involving all aspects of the day to day running of the afternoon shift, including hiring, training and conducting disciplinary actions for multiple teams of new/existing staff, resolving issues or equipment failure to keep the business running, implementing new systems to improve productivity, managing deliveries and organizing daily work rotas. • Effective management of the Office – including ordering new equipment and maintaining filing systems, contacting third party contractors when needed and general housekeeping tasks.• When needed I am also able to provide cover for a variety of staff including fork lift truck and pallet bearing truck/high lift pallet bearing truck operators as well as running other shifts and all roles within the warehouse or office.

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  Vodafone

  • Chatham

  • Sales Assistant

    • Jun 2011 - Jul 2011
    • Chatham

    I was called by the Store Manager and asked to come and provide some temporary cover following my success at Christmas see Vodafone Nov - Jan 2011

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  Vodafone

  • Chatham

  • Sales Assistant

    • Nov 2010 - Jan 2011
    • Chatham

    • Establishing customer needs and wants, recommending relevant products, up selling additional products/services, setting up new equipment and accounts for customers• Product support for new and existing customers; analysing faults and solutions to both software and hardware issues, updating mobile phone software/operating systems and booking in/sending out relevant repair work • Managing customer accounts; updating customer accounts, resolving issues and providing support for a variety of services.

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  Kent Flush Doors and Joinery

  • Medway

  • Trainee Estimator

    • Apr 2010 - Sep 2010
    • Medway

    • Compiling and delivering competitive quotations• Following up and ensuring quotes have been used in tenders• Re-quoting any projects that may have changed in budget or specification between original quote and order placement,• Updating and managing the relevant estimating and administration databases.• Ensuring the company wins the work.

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  Fitness First UK

  • Chatham

  • Membership Consultant

    • Oct 2008 - Jan 2010
    • Chatham

    • Carrying out marketing, selling activities and signing up new members • Arranging presentations, client needs analysis and preparing training packages• Promotional activities; face-to-face and telephone promotion• Managing the relative administration and database functions • The ongoing challenge of client retention and development including referrals

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  The Penny Theatre

  • Canterbury, United Kingdom

  • Team Leader

    • Sep 2006 - Jul 2008
    • Canterbury, United Kingdom

    • The Theatre’s kitchen, restaurant and bar facilities • Direction, motivation and control of two independent teams and their overall operating efficiency • To ensure customers were served courteously in a clean and inviting environment• Maintaining clean safe working conditions for the staff• Problem solving• Stock checks/inventories and ordering for both the bar and kitchen facilities