Operations Director

Ref: BBH:533855

Oakham

£80,000

• Permanent

About the candidate

Dynamic tactical and strategic senior leader with experience of working in the FMCG, E-Commerce, wholesale, and the general manufacturing industry, from a start-up growing to SME and also big brand businesses.

What makes them great?

• Created, monitored, and improved the KPIs for each department. Availability up to 96.3% from 94.3%, Average order shipment time 1.2 days, 97% of repairs completed within 5 days.
• Supported the sales value growth of 2.5% in 2020, 61% in 2021 and 11% in 2022.
• Inventory reduction greater than 10% year on year supporting increased sales.
• Strategic stock management, analysis of stock and issues resulting in overall stock reduction of 38%, £11m in stock and 54%, £6.5m in overstocks since 2008. Improved cash flow and supplier payments as a result.
• Increased OTIFIC service levels from 91% to 99%

Areas of expertise

• Managing the end-to-end supply chain, purchasing from a global supply base.
• Setting up and managing various 3PLs to support the growth of the business in the UK and Europe
• Capacity planning and warehouse reconfiguration so more products could be stored within the owned locations.
• Working with internal and external sales teams regarding forecasted sales, targets and margin expectations, understand variances and re-forecast where necessary.