Richard Husbands
Southampton,United Kingdom
Summary
Accomplished logistics and supply chain professional with extensive expertise in project management, inventory control, and 3PL contract management. Demonstrates proficiency in multi-site logistics, budget oversight, and freight operations, ensuring time-sensitive deliveries and international logistics are executed seamlessly. Possesses deep knowledge of manufacturing processes, supplier assessment, and materials requirement planning. Skilled in risk assessment techniques and data analysis software to optimise supply chain operations. Adept at using enterprise resource planning systems for tactical execution and workforce training. Committed to enhancing organisational ability through effective project planning and scheduling while maintaining regulatory compliance. Career goals include driving innovation in logistics management to achieve operational excellence.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work history
Event Operations Director
Sports Logistics Ltd.
2003.01 - 2019.01
- Co-ordinating the supply, delivery and time critical installation of advertising material at global sporting events.
- Used to pragmatically managing workflows from master production schedules with more than 5000 unique inventory items.
- Working as a de facto ambassador for FIFA, ICC, IRB, IAAF and UEFA at multiple tournaments.
- I have worked on five continents, in more than thirty countries.
- Overseeing detailed surveys of multiple event venues throughout the world.
- Co-ordinating the manufacturing and purchasing of event specific material requirements. Typically, initial base material purchase costs are more than £4 Million per event. Total production and installing budgets are more than £10 Million.
- Pragmatic planning of simultaneous multi drop deliveries and installations.
- Building strong working relationships with 3PL suppliers.
- Overseeing the production of zero fail material documentation for transportation.
- Efficient labour coordination. Used to leading teams of more than 200 staff.
- Ongoing sourcing and evaluation of 3PI and 4PL service providers to ensure the ongoing efficiency of the business.
- Peerless within the industry, Sports Logistics are the World's leading supplier of advertising and decoration for global sporting events including Football, Cricket and Rugby World Cups.
Logistics Manager
Sports Logistics Ltd.
1999.04 - 2003.01
- Co-ordinating the supply, delivery and time critical installation of advertising material at global sporting events.
- Used to pragmatically managing workflows from master production schedules with more than 5000 unique inventory items.
- Working as a de facto ambassador for FIFA, ICC, IRB, IAAF and UEFA at multiple tournaments.
- I have worked on five continents, in more than thirty countries.
- Overseeing detailed surveys of multiple event venues throughout the world.
- Co-ordinating the manufacturing and purchasing of event specific material requirements. Typically, initial base material purchase costs are more than £4 Million per event. Total production and installing budgets are more than £10 Million.
- Pragmatic planning of simultaneous multi drop deliveries and installations.
- Building strong working relationships with 3PL suppliers.
- Overseeing the production of zero fail material documentation for transportation.
- Efficient labour coordination. Used to leading teams of more than 200 staff.
- Ongoing sourcing and evaluation of 3PI and 4PL service providers to ensure the ongoing efficiency of the business.
- Peerless within the industry, Sports Logistics are the World's leading supplier of advertising and decoration for global sporting events including Football, Cricket and Rugby World Cups.
Education
Project Management fundamentals – Lean, Cascade, Scrum, Six Sigma etc.
Coursera (Stanford University and Google)
GCE A Level: History, Politics, English Language and Literature
Reading Technical College
GCE O Level: 8 Subjects including Maths, English and Sciences.
Presentation College, Reading
Skills
- Project management
- Inventory control
- 3PL contract management
- Multi-site logistics
- Budget oversight
- Freight operations
- Time-sensitive deliveries
- International logistics
- Manufacturing process knowledge
- Supplier assessment
- Materials requirement planning
- Risk assessment techniques
- Data analysis software
- Enterprise resource planning systems
- Tactical execution
- Workforce training and mentoring
- Workforce management systems
- Inventory control proficiency
- Inventory control system
- Performance metrics evaluation
- Vendor management capability
- Regulatory compliance
- Logistics management
- Employee training
- Supply chain optimisation
- Production scheduling
- Organisational ability
- Project planning and scheduling
Richard Husbands CV Additional information
- Due to the cyclical, event-based nature of my time with Sports Logistics, I gained extensive experience in an unusually wide variety of roles. A simplified event cycle would be:
- 1.Tender, 2.Multi-site survey, 3.Venue decoration CGI approval, 4.Advertiser artwork manipulation, 5.Individual artwork approvals, 6. Manufacture of all event material (From tens of thousands of running meters of venue decoration to individual bespoke items – typically more than five thousand SKUs.) 7.Simultaneous multisite nationwide transportation, 8.Multisite installation, 9. In-event servicing of all advertising material – movement of field signs, ad hoc repairs and replacements and facilitation of client artwork changes.
- After the event:
- 10. Full de-rigg, recycling and ethical disposal, 11. Consolidation of all material with the potential to be re-purposed and re-used (around 50 %).
- Depending on circumstances (Mainly other events) I would take a leading role, in charge of any, sometimes all of those stages through the cycle. Being able to do so effectively required not just technical knowledge acquired through experience, but a genuine ability to communicate effectively and honestly with labourers, senior executives from global corporations and rights holders, and everyone in between. I enjoyed a successful 20-year career doing a job I loved, primarily because of an ability to wear multiple hats, often on the same day.