Craig Ashmead

Experience

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  Ratcliff tail lifts

  Jan 2013 - Jan 2014

  Sales Executive

  • Creating sales leads in person and by phone across a designated business sector by enthusiastically offering products and services, arranging appointments with corporations and businesses of all sizes.• Conducting meetings and presentations with managers, business owners and employees at all levels of the corporate structure, providing competitive quotations for planned works in person and by phone.• Liaising with workshop team to monitor progress of works following successful sales, collating details and maintaining a flow of communication with customer, promoting company image and reputation.• Working within a greater sales team to pool ideas and resources toward building further innovative revenue streams and gain added value from existing clientele. Show less

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  The Savanna

  Jul 2014 - Jan 2018

  • Involved with the day to day running of the production facility.• Work directly with wholesale and marketing teams on product promotion.• Involved directly with product development team, in creating new products for shop sales and wholesale clients.• Assist wholesale manager in working with external marketing teams as we explore new marketing avenues.• Manage multiple different teams in the production facility.• Making sure that production standards maintain high, across all areas.• Creating production schedules based on sales, targets and day to day upkeep of the facility.• Working with external suppliers to make sure stock is kept at consistent levels based on the needs of production.• Introduce different operating procedures • Creating documentation, to ascertain SALSA• Building and operating a retail system.• Operating numerous machinery in the business.• Guiding new team members in the operation of machinery and processes.• Work with assigned budgets to meet sales needs. Show less • Monitoring stock levels of both the Warehouse as well as the local shops, of both product and ingredients needed for the product. On occasion running the complete distribution of products to the shops. Including the ordering of products for specific stores.• Involved in the creation of the product at various stages. As well as the creation of web orders and wholesale orders.• In charge of the creation of the barcodes and specialised labels required on the packaging for specific businesses. This encompasses a multitude of different programs as well as machinery. • Lead operator of complex machinery particularly a multi headed bag producer as well as a specialised satchel maker. • Lead the introduction and implementation of a new retail program which tracks the creation of products, as well as a complete overview over the business. • Involved in production planning ac as well as budgeting for the production of main line products. • Constructing documents, such as charts, order sheets and directions through the use of programs such as Word and Excel.• Using programs such as Retail IT to plan and produce products enabling reports to be produced monitoring the process at each stage.• Working alongside Shop Managers to monitor, order and move stock amongst stores to reap the ultimate results Show less

  • Assistant Production Manager

    Jun 2015 - Jan 2018

  • Technical Operations Supervisor

    Jul 2014 - Jun 2015
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  Vestey Foods UK Ltd

  Jan 2018 - Jul 2020

  - Work with third party logistics providers domestically and internationally to arranging collection and delivery of finished stock to our customers namely the United Nations (UN) and Ministry of Defence (MOD).- Tendering costs amongst freight forwarders, considering length of freight Providing the head of department and directors of a cost break down and analysis to each destination.- Liaising with the relevant agencies to obtain the correct certification required for shipping, ie health certs, RPA and chamber of commerce for COC’s - Working with our DGSA regarding dangerous goods handling.- Invoicing customers upon delivery, based on pre-agreed rates for multiple contracts.- Finished stock management, movement of stock within an ERP system (Navision)- Working with accounts resolving any invoicing issues which may have occurred.- Created SOP and documented fully process from procurement to despatch.- Improved internal processes using our ERP system instead of Excel- Booking in stock deliveries into customers third party storage depos - Monitoring cost fluctuations- Bettered internal processes using our ERP system instead of Excel- Part of Vestey foods HACCP team, making sure end to end processes encompass all new processes. Providing HACCP lead with any recommendations or alterations to the process which need to be input or to be considered. Show less - Planning maintaining a production schedule and projections as required for various customers, including the UN, MOD and various defence and commercial contracts.- Data analysis based on historical order information in order to provide accurate procurement forecasts. If required raising orders to support procurement. - Identifying stock requirements by maintaining stock projection’s, making sure stock figures were reporting correctly. Where necessary resolving stock discrepancies. Liaising with suppliers to ensure any adjustments to the production schedules could be accommodated.- Ensuring production was appropriately sequenced to minimise stock wastage and meet client delivery requirements Identify the optimal order of production based on orders and BBE constraint- Data analysis based on historical information, identifying trends creating a forecast.- Should a shortage occur, nutritional compliance should be checked to meet the customers requirement. I have been in involved with checking nutritional information of existing stock for a possible substitution. - Date extensions are in some cases required, I have been involving with the procurement of labels pre-approved by our technical department.- Building and maintaining relationships with suppliers making sure requirements can be met. - Monitoring cost fluctuations Show less

  • Logistics Co-Ordinator

    Aug 2019 - Jul 2020

  • Assistant Production & Planning

    Jan 2018 - Aug 2019
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  Click Entertainment Limited

  Oct 2020 - Mar 2022

  Logistics Coordinator
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  Thermo Fisher Scientific

  Mar 2022 - now

  Project Manager