Direct Buyer at DENSO Manufacturing Ltd (2025-05 – Present)
- Driving cost reduction strategy while ensuring market competitiveness and maintaining quality assurance.
- Supporting new project launches - Sourcing of parts for new products, ensuring readiness for production cycle.
- Supplier management - Building strong supplier partnerships, conducting annual performance reviews, and fostering innovation.
- Risk mitigation - Applying strategies to minimise risks, ensuring continuity and compliance across procurement operations.
- Implementing procurement strategy by commodity while managing commercial risk, and ensuring compliance.
- Negotiating pricing, contracts, and delivery schedules to secure value and continuity of supply.
- Managing supplier performance, onboarding, supplier visits, and continuous improvement.
- Monitoring procurement KPIs, analysing spend/market data, and identifying risks and opportunities.
- Managing financial challenges within the supply base - transfer of parts and tooling effectively with in short notice period.
- Customer cyber attack - supplier engagement to assess risks and manage order status. Effective communication with suppliers during shut down period.
- Contributing to annual cost saving target achievement.
- Implementation of a supplier performance scorecard to help improve/maintain quality, delivery, competitiveness, sustainability & other metrics.
Materials Scheduler / Supply Chain Analyst at Blue Earth Foods Ltd (2022-06 – 2025-05)
- Daily tasks – ensuring all materials are on site in the correct quantity/areas to ensure the factory operates efficiently. Monitoring daily deliveries and next days plan/delivery schedule.
- Ingredient/packaging ordering – monitoring all daily/long life material orders. This involves raising purchase orders, tracking confirmations, and ensuring timely procurement to support production needs.
- Overseas purchasing – managing the procurement of materials from international suppliers, successfully negotiating contracts to secure favourable terms and ensure timely delivery.
- Supplier engagement/management – maintaining regular contact with suppliers and conducting visits to ensure their performance, reliability and availability of product continuously meets our standards. This ongoing engagement helps build strong relationships and ensures a steady supply chain.
- Managing internal changes to materials - overseeing internal material changes by deciding the appropriate timing for these changes and effectively communicating the plan to all relevant internal stakeholders. This ensures a smooth transition and minimises disruption to production.
- Managing stock rotation - with the aim to mitigate waste of fresh ingredients.
- Stock management - strategically managing stock purchases to minimise on-site inventory while ensuring sufficient stock levels for daily operations. This involves balancing stock availability with cost-effective inventory control.
- New Product Development (NPD) - collaborating with the NPD team after product handovers to introduce new materials on site for trials. I also communicate forecasts to suppliers to prepare for product launches once customer volume agreements are finalised.
- Contract management – Overseeing contract agreements with suppliers, focusing on ensuring coverage, availability, and competitive pricing. This involves negotiating terms, monitoring performance, and maintaining strong supplier relationships.
- Managing the gaps in supply of materials. Finding contingency from current supplier/outsourcing to ensure continuity of supply.
- Overcoming late order increases to mitigate customers shortages and enabling the factory to operate efficiently.
- Achieving cost reduction targets through strategic purchasing/benchmarking supply base.
- Delivering 100% of Christmas CFTO orders both years at Blue Earth.
Commercial & Supply Chain Analyst at Mudwalls Farm Ltd (2021-08 – 2022-06)
- Analysing sales data – creating reports to identify any patterns, pick accuracy / order fulfilment
- Project management – click & collect project.
- Customer Experience analysis – tracking issues and matters of fact. Response to customer complaints.
- Learning a new stock management/sales order processing system that was implemented to improve accuracy and efficiency. Educating out to colleagues while performing day to day tasks.
- Successfully launching click & collect project.
Sales Co-Ordinator at Mudwalls Farm Ltd (2021-01 – 2021-08)
- Co-Ordinating order allocations – communicating with the buyers / logistics & supply chain
- Capturing and processing all retail customer orders – via multiple channels.
Operations and Logistics Co-Ordinator at Mudwalls Farm Ltd (2020-10 – 2021-01)
- Labelling – co-ordinating product information including country of origin and price / BBD etc.
- Stock Management – pushing short shelf-life products / surplus stock to ensure minimal waste.
- Logistics – organising route plans for deliveries. Managing drivers and fleet maintenance.
- Product stability analysis – monitoring products over defined time periods / temperatures.
Commercial Assistant at Mudwalls Farm Ltd (2020-02 – 2020-10)
Similar task to the Sales & Operations Assistant with the addition of creation of NPD forms for new retail periods across the business.
Sales & Operations Assistant at Mudwalls Farm Ltd (2019-08 – 2019-11)
- Telesales: Calling the clients to take orders and upsell.
- Admin: General administration task.
- Sales: Communication with clients, building relationships
- Product knowledge: seasonality knowledge and how that influenced market price & supply
W/House operative – 6 months at Henry Coles & Co (2019-01 – 2019-06)
- Serving customers
- Picking stock for orders
- Using forklift truck for heavy items
- Cleaning and maintaining the W/House
- Self-motivation: Getting to work on time every day without fail in all conditions.
- Team work: working as a team to effectively get the tasks done on time.
Internship for 20 weeks at Countrywide Farmer plc (2017-04 – 2017-09)
This was a placement where I was working across the entire business, including 4 retail stores, the Head Office and with B2B managers visiting customers.
- Communications
- Working with others
- Applying Knowledge
- Applying Initiative
Shop Manager – Holiday and w/e job at Tunnel Barn Farm Fisheries (2012-06 – 2015-09)
- Serving customers
- Shelf stacking
- Weighing in matches
- Shrub and reed management
- Organising competitions
- Teaching fishing to school kids
- Opening/Closing at the end of the day
- Peg management
- Fish healthcare
- Customer engagement: how to communicate with paying customers in order to make their fishing experience enjoyable and get them catching fish. Dealing with awkward situations and calming them to a satisfactory conclusion.
- Self-motivation: Getting to work on time every day without fail in all conditions.
- Knowledge: I learnt about different fish diseases and how to manage them, a huge variety of products in the shop and how to advice clients on purchases.
- Management: How to manage the fishery. Ensuring fishing clients could access all areas of their allotted pegs. Also, guiding them to where the best fish were.
