Jarlath Bradley

• Responsible for the management of all UK, European and Chinese supplier portfolios.
• Stringently monitoring stock levels on our inventory system on a daily basis, reactively ordering when customer demand or stock trigger levels are met, as well as bi-monthly bulk ordering based on sales histories.
• Consistently cross-referencing pricing lists between suppliers, sourcing and pricing new and more competitive suppliers globally.
• Negotiating with suppliers to secure the most competitive prices, terms, and delivery schedules.
• Dealing with international customs clearance, couriers and freight forwarders, such as TCB, Westmond, Maersk etc.
• Organising supplier collections and deliveries via courier, such as DHL, TNT, Fedex etc.
• Point of reference for all quality issues, e.g. defective/incorrect products received, and resolving them with our suppliers.
• Ensuring that our production chains, supply chains and shipping routes are consistently reliable.
• Ensuring that all customer requirements and specifications are met by our suppliers and relaying vital information, such as supplier and delivery lead times to our customers.
• Building and maintaining positive rapports with existing and potential suppliers.
• Regularly visiting suppliers throughout the UK and Europe, building and maintaining positive face to face relationships, inspecting production processes and facilities.
• Hosting supplier site visits, often resulting in liaising outside of office hours.
• Striving to ensure that lean stock levels are strictly adhered to, company expenditure is minimised, and stock shortages never occur.
• Designated First Aider.
• Designated Fire Warden.
• Designated Emergency Co-ordinator.
• Designated Key Holder.
• Valid Aislemaster and Counterbalance forklift licence.

• Prolific liaising with current and prospective customers in a strong customer interfacing environment, striving to ensure total customer satisfaction at all times.
• Regularly meeting face to face with customers, whether it is on site or outside that, and also via telephone and email when not possible.
• Ensuring that all customer demands, customisations, and specifications are met efficiently in a constantly evolving and often bespoke industry, and maintaining excellent customer relationships and confidence.
• Full responsibility for Goods In department, overseeing the receipt of all products received from suppliers, and ensuring that they are correctly allocated and inputted in our internal inventory database.
• Constant liaising with suppliers across the world, in particular our Chinese suppliers.
• Arranging bulk container shipments from suppliers via multinational couriers, and organising clearance with Customs.
• Regular and stringent quality checks conducted on all products received and despatched.
• Allocation and maintenance of stock within warehouse, via internal Sage inventory database.
• Regular stock takes and warehouse audits to ensure are stock levels are consistently accurate and up to date.
• Strong knowledge of our products and industry.
• High levels of competency and efficiency in utilising our internal inventory database, along with general clerical and administrative tasks.
• Intra-site stock transfers between our Coalisland, Belfast and Canadian facilities, including arranging and packing shipments and collections with couriers and hauliers.
• Regular trips to our Canadian facility to conduct vital tasks and ensure a competent and reliable support network is in place for our Canadian colleagues.
• Organising and executing on site deliveries to customers across Ireland, ensuring that all deliveries deadlines are met promptly and on time.
• Competent operation of hydraulic hose manufacturing equipment and machinery, including quality testing.
• Issuing and conducting on the job training to new and junior members of staff, and tasked with driving company standards and ethics.
• Van and flat bed lorry duties, such as delivering to customers.
• Forklift duties, encompassing various warehouse tasks, along with the loading and unloading of courier and delivery vehicles.
• Valid Counterbalance, Bendy and Reach forklift licences, with strong experience in operating these vehicles.

My role encompasses a wide array of tasks and duties, including, but not limited to:

• Responsibility for the operation and maintenance of fully automated and computerised bagging lines and machines.
• Working closely in conjunction with colleagues and superiors to ensure daily customer deadlines and specifications are fully met.
• In-process quality checks, including cosmetic, weight and acidity checks.
• Stock control duties, along with the processing and archiving of customer invoices.
• Forklift duties, including the loading/unloading of lorries, and inventorising and housekeeping of stock in storage areas.
• Operation of shovel loaders.
• General maintenance and upkeep of all machinery and equipment within company.

· Execute specific lean production projects.

· Conduct external and internal Kanban, constraint management, one-piece flow production, workplace organisation and setup reduction.

· Establish lean teams for organisation and at departmental level.

· Train and guide members working on lean processes.

· Direct and implement project administration and management.

· Conduct cost and benefit analysis, schedule and allocate resources.

· Direct materials department to ensure inventory and production control.

· Supply produced and purchased on time as suitable for lean manufacturing.

· Establish and conduct progress reviews once in month.

· Ensure constant application of company procedures and policies.

· Identify areas of process improvement occasions.

· Establish goals, objectives and select cross-functional members in team.

· Execute tracking action plans, analyse programs and oversee progress.

· Coordinate follow-up meetings for every project to ensure work is completed and improvements are implemented.

· Investigate client complaints related to quality.

· Assist in the development of SOPs specifically focused on various plant manufacturing processes.

· Consistently striving to meet and exceed quality management goals by promoting and incorporating Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) across all production activities.

· Development of a capacity plan with the aim of increased production efficiency whilst minimising waste.

· Development and motivation of production staff to consistently maximise their performance potential.

· Strong knowledge and utilisation of lean tools and methodology.

· Continuous improvement.

• Responsibility for the daily prioritisation and management of workload and flow in a market leading pharmaceutical and clinical supply distribution facility, shipping life-saving medical supplies and treatment to institutions and patients worldwide.
• Responsibility for strong daily output and achieving daily and monthly shipping targets.
• Working to stringent customer and courier deadlines, in a daily pressurised environment, ensuring all orders are dispatched effectively on time.
• Constant and effective liaising with the Distribution Office Supervisors, Distribution Co-ordinators, Project Managers via email, telephone, Microsoft Teams and various internal communication systems in our Craigavon headquarters.
• A key conduit between several departments, ensuring that all specifications and customer requests are communicated clearly and relayed promptly to the Distribution floor staff that I oversee.
• Constant communication with couriers, responsible for ensuring requested shippers are delivered to ensure orders are dispatched on time.
• Daily individual and group training of new and existing members of staff in all aspects of Distribution, such as picking and processing orders competently, inventory and warehouse tasks, ensuring that Good Manufacturing Practice and Standard Operating Procedures are adhered to at all times in a heavily regulated industry.
• Daily problem solving and troubleshooting, resolving issues and a reference point for all queries encountered by our operators.
• Regular periods of assumed supervisory tasks, taking charge of 15 operators in the absence of the Distribution floor supervisor.
• Registered First Aider on Distribution floor.
• Fully qualified in the Handling and Processing of Dangerous Goods.
• Fully trained and experienced in the processing and supervision of high risk Dry Ice orders, with the value often in excess of £1,000,000.
• A prominent member of staff in the establishment of our brand new Dundalk EU Distribution facility in 2019, entrusted with numerous additional responsibilities to ensure the facility became operational.

• Highly skilled and vastly experienced in all aspects of Distribution tasks, including but not limited to the picking and processing of orders.
• Working to strict deadlines in an often pressurised environment.
• The successful processing of orders to customer specification and parameters, strictly adhering to various temperature storage ranges the supplies require.
• The effective processing of customer site and depot orders.
• Vast knowledge of and experience in processing intra site transfers between Almac facilities, resulting in a deep understanding of the parameters and requirements involved.
• Extensive knowledge of all Almac customer portfolios and clinical studies, and the specialist and specific instructions relative to each one.
• Entrusted with the training of new members of staff in the picking and processing orders, passing on my own knowledge and experience.
• The competent processing of specialist and high risk orders, such as "Just In Time" and "Direct To Patient" orders, Controlled Drug shipments, Dry Ice orders and the legal shipping of Dangerous Goods.
• Extensive knowledge of all couriers, their respective booking systems and software, shippers involved, transit times and shipping restrictions.
• Responsible for the manifestation and timely dispatch of orders, interfacing daily and working closely on site with couriers.
• Working unsupervised in satellite and off site buildings.
• Fully experienced in shipping administration tasks, such as second checking all documentation relative to each dispatched order, and reporting any mistakes and amending them.

Took a career break to work and travel Australia.

*Please refer to the most recent period of employment as Senior Distribution Operator Grade 2, listed above, thank you.