Matthew Cox

Experience

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  Wickes Building Supplies Ltd

  Jun 1990 - Jun 1994

  Temporary Branch Manager
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  UNI-RENTS LIMITED

  Jun 1994 - Jun 1995

  Branch Manager

  Managing a plant hire branch.

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  DENIS WELCH MOTORSPORT LIMITED

  Jul 1995 - Jun 2000

  Sales/Purchasing/Stores Manager

  A very successful motorsport company that specialises in Austin Healey historic racing and rallying and latterly E Type Jaguars. Core responsibilities included sourcing and buying parts, stocking parts, product development, sales and marketing, international exhibitions, workshop support and customer support.

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  Extec

  Jun 2000 - Dec 2006

  Extec was a highly entrepreneurial, aggressive sales focused family business with year on year growth. Matt worked across all departments creating a QMS that was critical to the company’s ongoing success and eventual purchase by Sandvik.Managing 15 staff, introduced perpetual inventory control, lean projects, stores modernisation through plant & IT projects. Assumed Engineering Manager role for main site, full product line management responsibility, engineering, first line sourcing, customer requirements, market expectations Concept through to full engineering drawings.

  • Materials Manager

    Jul 2005 - Dec 2006

  • Senior Design Engineer

    Jun 2003 - Jun 2005

  • Design Engineer

    Jun 2000 - Jun 2003
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  Sandvik Mining and Construction

  Jan 2007 - Aug 2013

  Managing 4 staff and 250 users over 2 sites Multi-site AX Dynamics implementation including hosting at Swedish IT centre. Managing 8 staff, £130 million spend, multi-site integration project into Sandvik aftermarket.

  • IT Manager

    Jan 2012 - Aug 2013

  • ERP Project Manager

    Jan 2010 - Dec 2011

  • Supply Chain Manager

    Jan 2007 - Mar 2010
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  STRICKLAND TRACKS LIMITED

  Aug 2013 - Aug 2019

  Operations Manager

  Strickland Tracks Ltd are an international global leader in undercarriage track assemblies. Matt had full responsibility for the UK site and was part of the senior leadership team. Core responsibilities included Production Oversight (capacity planning/management, quality, H&S, cost control/improvement); Supply Chain Oversight (sourcing strategy, stocking strategy, supplier contract negotiations, material storage and production servicing); Engineering Oversight (resource management, consultative engineering resource, product offering strategy, design for manufacture, DFMEA and PFMEA); Facilities Oversight (CAPEX improvement projects, TPM strategy, environmental).Business achievements included turnover increase from £35M to £70M whilst reducing inventory from £19M to £12.5M; productivity increase by 86% within single shift pattern; labour costs per produced assembly reduced 31% over 6 years despite 3% year on year increase in hourly rate; ISO9001-2015 Certification; Sage 200 ERP implementation; £400K Office refurbishment project. Show less

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  A-Trax Global

  Jan 2020 - now

  Commercial Manager

  A-Trax, a subsidiary of global sourcing experts ATG, supply crawler undercarriage systems for a wide range of machines including screeners, crushers, trommels, excavators and stackers for the crushing & screening, construction, quarrying, agriculture, material handling and forestry industries.The company offers an impressive range of crawler undercarriage systems, with rubber or steel tracks, that have exceptional flexibility across a variety of applications and machinery. Manufactured in the UK in our bespoke production facility, we supply standard sizes or can work with you to create tailor-made solutions.Matt’s core responsibilities include new client onboarding, developing long terms relationships, negotiating tender and contract terms and conditions, calculating client quotations, providing pre-sales technical assistance and product education, assisting in the design of custom-made products, implementing lean manufacture techniques, managing the growth and success of the team, working to KPIs to measure success and being responsible for the production, procurement, and planning of daily operations. Show less