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Mark Connor

Trimley St Martin,Felixstowe

Summary

Driven professional with leadership and strategic planning skills, coupled with strong background in team management and operational efficiency. Skilled at fostering team collaboration and implementing process improvements. Focused on driving growth and achieving organisational success.

Loyal employee with solid understanding of training and mentoring employees. Dedicated team player, proactive and hands-on in task completion.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education

Work History

General manager

OpenUltra Felixstowe Ltd
Felixstowe
11.2022 - 06.2024
  • Identified and resolved operational issues impacting productivity, performance or profitability.
  • Directed day-to-day work of employees and motivated teams to exceed objectives.
  • Recruited and managed senior staff with focus on delivering clear results.
  • Maintained organisational compliance with applicable legislation and regulations.
  • Developed key operational initiatives to drive and maintain substantial business growth.
  • Worked with board of directors to establish objectives and decisively lead operations.
  • Established budgets based on historical, current and forecasted business data.

Operations manager

VKVP Haulage
Felixstowe
12.2021 - 11.2022
  • Maintained smooth-running business operations by delegating priorities to staff abilities.
  • Led and managed administrative staff to maintain smooth daily operations.
  • Monitored health and safety measures for guaranteed compliance.
  • Translated senior management directives into actionable front-line policies and implemented changes with staff.
  • Streamlined processes to improve and optimise office operations.
  • Organised financial and operational data to help with yearly budgeting and planning.
  • Investigated issues affecting group operations, prepared reports and helped correct problems.

Fleet, Compliance and Training Manager

3PL
02.2018 - 11.2021
  • Carrying out all aspects of Fleet and driver Compliance, purchasing new trucks and trailers, Selling, preparing vehicles and trailers to go off fleet, I was also a transport manager on the company’s Operators licence
  • Driver induction and training
  • During my time I also setup and ran a DCPC within the business for both employed and external driver.

Express Freight – HGV driver and Traffic operator

03.2017 - 02.2018
  • I started my time with Express freight as a HGV driver and quickly moved into the office to help cover holidays and never move back put to trucks, I was routing 35 trucks out of all uk ports.

Maritime Transport – HGV Class 1 Tramper Driver

Maritime transport
04.2014 - 03.2017
  • I currently work away all week tramping from port to customer, rail port and depot, making container deliveries and collection, using a D-Tec splitter trailer
  • My other duties for which I carry out daily include, Vehicle daily checks, defect reporting (should any arise), Tacho graph hours, Journey planning
  • I am also health and safety champion for our Felixstowe depot and attended regular health and safety meetings.

Euro Packaging UK Ltd – Assistant Transport Manager

11.2011 - 02.2014
  • I was taken back into Euro Packaging as the backhaul manager, to setup my idea of backhauling our own vehicles to save money, once this was setup I was moved to Assistant transport manager to look into making more cost savings with the transport and warehouse operations.

Education

GCSEs -

Baverstock Comprehensive School
Birmingham
01.1991 - 01.1996

Business Studies -

Baverstock Comprehensive School 6th Form
Birmingham
01.1996 - 01.1997

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Skills

  • Business administration
  • Strategic planning
  • Operations management
  • Operations oversight
  • Brand management
  • Revenue growth
  • Policy development
  • Problem-solving
  • Calm under pressure
  • Communication skills
  • Public speaking
  • Leadership
  • Social media marketing
  • Budget management

Custom

Other than spending quality time with my family & friends, I enjoy fishing, F1, pigeon racing and football.

Timeline

General manager

OpenUltra Felixstowe Ltd
11.2022 - 06.2024

Operations manager

VKVP Haulage
12.2021 - 11.2022

Fleet, Compliance and Training Manager

3PL
02.2018 - 11.2021

Express Freight – HGV driver and Traffic operator

03.2017 - 02.2018

Maritime Transport – HGV Class 1 Tramper Driver

Maritime transport
04.2014 - 03.2017

Euro Packaging UK Ltd – Assistant Transport Manager

11.2011 - 02.2014

Business Studies -

Baverstock Comprehensive School 6th Form
01.1996 - 01.1997

GCSEs -

Baverstock Comprehensive School
01.1991 - 01.1996

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