Thomas Carson28 Fay Green, Abbots Langley, Herts, WD5 0JP

07533 549 480 tomcarson28@gmail.com,

A retail supply chain professional with five years grounded experience in both Omni channel & FMCG envi-ronments. Excellent organisational, communication, networking and supply chain skills gained in a fast paced changing environment. Experienced in vendor management , delivering significant cost benefits focusing on end to end lean stock movement. A vibrant, creative and self-motivated individual that can 'hit the ground running' and manage their own workload without constant direction. An individual who learns quickly and is able to "think outside the box”, looking to build a long term career in the supply chain and procurement sec-tor.

Key Skills• Advanced user of MS Office, familiarity with industry common operating systems• Full working knowledge of JDA, Manugistics, iReplen (Wickes in house store replenishment), DCS,

Calidus and intermediate level at Business Objects• Good team working skills coupled with strong interpersonal skills• Ability to think and work calmly in highly pressurised environments• Excellent oral communication with a confident skill level in presentations• Advanced knowledge of Utopia, Range management and Aloe and WMS systems (Ocado in house sys-

tems)• Experienced in managing product waste in an Online FMCG retailer

Employment HistoryOcado LTD

From: 8th Dec 2014 – CurrentRole: Demand Manager

Owning the demand and forecast planning process across Home care, P&G and Fish at both category and SKU level (c 2.5K Products). Using all available data, manage systems and intelligence to ensure production of accurate purchase orders optimising efficiency across the supply base delivering to all KPI targets for availability, product waste and customer fulfilment. Working along side the trading function to build strong supplier relationships, managing performance through effective reviews and SLA management.Effectively mentoring new starters (1-to-1’s and probation reviews).

Key Achievements• Consistently running purge at 0.26% of circa £2M+ Assortment with a target of 0.6% (annualised

saving of £354k). • Unilever account, managing supplier effectively to deliver a 5% improvement in availability to cus-

tomer.• Collaboratively managing a supplier scorecard with P&G enabling greater buying/profit rates for

Ocado (e.g No. touches per order, Truck Fill %, NEDI).• Delivering a new way of working for predicting availability issues delivering an increase along with

with other initiatives, of 2% in overall business availability.• Initiating a business case for Tote pick solution at suppliers to enable an ease of put away in depots.

Wickes Building Supplies - July 2011 – 5th Dec 2014

From: May 2012 – CurrentRole: Commercial Supply Chain Planner (Category Demand Planner)

Working within the Product Supply department, fully integrated within the commercial trading environment. Responsible for the end to end supply chain managing 1580 products across Paint, Woodcare, Confec-tionery categories and until recently Flooring and Multi channel DC(All Wickes product). Delivering optimum product availability throughout the Wickes estate from multiple suppliers through 3 Intermediate Warehouses and all direct to store routes, by effective forecasting of promotional activity and seasonal influences, within category level stock budgets. Liaising with suppliers to optimise performance, stock availability, whilst min-imising supply chain costs.

Key Achievements• Introduction of the Dulux range (115 products) into 215 Stores in 6 weeks. • Improving Flooring store availability from an avg. of 96% to 99.%, supporting £1m weekly sales• Reducing a historical overstock by £2.5m• Delivered a 10% increase in availability in the Multi channel DC.• Consistently delivering 99.5% availability in the Paint category supporting £800k weekly sales • Managing the transition from Sales to Demand forecasting for +2000 skus.

From: February 2012 – May 2012 Role: iReplen Project Analyst (Auto Replenishment Project)

Responsible for the forecasting and trouble shooting of issues for c 4500 sku’s. Whilst performing the role of pilot user acceptance, highlighting system bugs to the development team and making recommendations for improvements and amends to functionality through the change request mechanism

Key Achievements• Part of core team throughout Trials and Pilot stages all key KPIs achieved and rollout was to schedule.

From: December 2011 – February 2012Role: Transition Team Analyst (Delete Stock Management Project)

Part of the project team whose remit was to manage delete product out of the Wickes supply chain, providing weekly visibility of full pipeline, attending the regular range review project meetings where mark down recom-mendations would be made. . Key projects I was involved in were tiles, flooring, doors and power tools.

Key Achievements• Range exit management, tiles, flooring and doors category, total cost value of £9m with a target write off

value of £329k, delivered a saving of 13%, £43k.

From: July 2011 – December 2011Role: Central Analyst – Central Product Supply

Member of the Javelin Project team created to manage the stocking in of 14 new stores within a project time-line of 3 months. Managing the stocking in process for all direct suppliers, dealing with all key stake holders. Interim category supply management of +1800 skus, delivering product availability throughout the Wickes es-tate, liaising with suppliers to optimise performance and stock availability whilst minimising supply chain costs.

Key Achievements• Delivered a 30% reduction in OOS’s in the Lighting Category

EducationFrom Institution2009 – 2011 St Joan of Arc Catholic School 4 AS Levels, including ICT

2005 – 2008 St Joan of Arc Catholic School 9 GCSE’s, including Maths, English and ICT

Other Qualifications

2013 White belt Lean Six Sigma2013 Member of the Advanced Supply chain Development Scheme at Travis Perkins Group2014 Beginners course in Supply chain at Cranfield University