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
2022.11 - 2024.06
- 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
2021.12 - 2022.11
- 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
2018.02 - 2021.11
- 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
2017.03 - 2018.02
- 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
2014.04 - 2017.03
- 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
2011.11 - 2014.02
- 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 1991.01 - 1996.01
Business Studies -
Baverstock Comprehensive School 6th Form
Birmingham 1996.01 - 1997.01
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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
2022.11 - 2024.06
Operations manager
VKVP Haulage
2021.12 - 2022.11
Fleet, Compliance and Training Manager
3PL
2018.02 - 2021.11
Express Freight – HGV driver and Traffic operator
2017.03 - 2018.02
Maritime Transport – HGV Class 1 Tramper Driver
Maritime transport
2014.04 - 2017.03
Euro Packaging UK Ltd – Assistant Transport Manager
2011.11 - 2014.02
Business Studies -
Baverstock Comprehensive School 6th Form
1996.01 - 1997.01
GCSEs -
Baverstock Comprehensive School
1991.01 - 1996.01