Samantha Patton
Moorfields,Ballymena
Summary
Accomplished professional with extensive expertise in tax preparation, sales planning, and franchise operation. Demonstrates strong skills in business regulatory compliance, financial management, and customer relationship management. Proven track record in environmental sustainability implementation and digital marketing strategies. Adept at process improvement, project budgeting, and supply chain optimisation. Committed to ethical conduct and enhancing business development through effective B2B partnerships and networking proficiency. Career goals include advancing operational efficiency and fostering sustainable business practices.
Overview
2026
2026
years of professional experience
Work history
Business owner
Eden Playgroup & The Hideaway Cafe
- Business Management - Overseeing daily operations of the preschool, including budgeting, finance management, and administrative tasks.
- Regulatory Compliance - Ensure compliance with local and national regulations regarding child care standards, health and safety protocols, and early years education
- Staff recruitment and management - Hire, train, and supervise a team of educators and support staff, fostering a positive and collaborative workplace.
- Curriculum development - Design and implement age-appropriate educational programs that promote the social, emotional, and cognitive development of children
- Parental Engagement - Establish strong relationships with parents and caregivers, maintaining open lines of communication regarding children's progress and preschool activities.
- Quality Assurance - Monitor and evaluate the quality of education and are provided, implementing improvements based on feedback and assessments.
- Marketing and outreach - Develop and execute marketing strategies to promote the preschool, attract new families, and maintain enrollment targets.
- Financial Oversight - Manage tuition fees, grants, and funding allocations to ensure financial sustainability and growth.
Business owner
Registered Childcare provider
2017.10 - 2025.12
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, ensuring effective interaction with children, parents/guardians, and colleagues
- Strong understanding of child development and age-appropriate activities
- Ability to create a safe and engaging environment
- Patience, empathy, and the ability to handle challenging situations
- Paediatric first aid certified, safeguarding certified
- Management of Health and safety
- Planned and implemented age-appropriate activities to stimulate children’s physical, cognitive and social development
- Prepare and serve nutritious meals and snacks
- Assist with homework and provide educational support
Material scheduler/Stock Controller
Schrader Electronics
2014.05 - 2017.02
- Creating and maintaining a production plan in line with sales orders.
- Forecasting future demands ensuring production has the capability to fulfil orders. This requires managing manning, materials, skill requirements and costing
- Providing prompt feedback to all Suppliers in relation to their accounts
- Audit and follow up on stock discrepancies and cost to inventory holdings
- Maintenance of supplier schedules in line with MRP and production changes
- Managing stock integrity ensuring accuracy and storage conditions are maintained
- Liaising with suppliers on mandatory stock takes and delivery status on current demands
- Managing external issues that may affect supply – weather, material constraints, machine down time for repair etc.
- Providing up to date delivery reports for suppliers
- Liaising with management and production staff to ensure inventory levels are correct against production plan weekly
- Working with the buyer, building relationships, improving quality and costs with Suppliers
- Taking responsibility for your own working day, accounts and working within company KPIs
- Taking an active approach to supplier development and investing in building a good working relationship
- Managing stock holdings and reducing, where possible, company inventory costs
- Returning of damage goods or non-requirement of materials to primary suppliers
Supply Logistic Agent/Planner/Stock Controller
Bombardier CLF
2013.04 - 2014.04
- Providing weekly kitting interface schedules to allow management to govern the release of kits to operations
- Communicating with store analysts to ensure all rework orders, shortages and kits are correct and MRP systems are updated
- Working closely with internal departments to achieve master schedule
- Adjusting and maintaining a clean order picture to minimise disruption to production in line with company KPIs
- Update and maintain stock data within the MRP system, batch control, out of date stock and over stock
- Creating and submitting bill of materials
- Working in a natural team environment in support of AES (lean) natural team targets
- Managing batch size and minimum demand qualities by managing supply chain requests, lead times and freight costs
- Monitoring the flow of returns and scrap ensuring costs are not occurred and in line with company KPIs
- Controlling rework orders, purchase orders maintenance and the management of supplier held stock
- Controlling of shortages on level 0 or Constraint levels by working with procurement and sourcing to come to an agreed promise date
- Measuring start on time and finish on time areas to evaluate where costs can be reduced and where efforts should be focused
Senior Shipping Coordinator
UPS
2012.04 - 2013.04
- Coordinate the shipping of freight by contacting appropriate freight carriers
- Ensuring all goods inwards deliveries, supplier invoices are correct and in line with demand
- Prepare Shipping paperwork as well as completing shipping transactions in Excel and E2K (UPS MRP system)
- Regular supplier review and audits to ensure GDP procedures are followed
- Schedules and Coordinate both Domestic and International freight forwarder transactions
- Liaising with accounts for the preparation of invoices ensuring shipping costs are calculated accurately and passed onto customer
- Controlling of priority shipments into the UK from the US and Europe
- Minimising the need for expedite shipments so to keep costs within yearly targets
- Ensuring Custom documents are completed and in the correct manor
- Calculating costs of all shipments and ensuring accuracy
- Ensuring all daily and weekly OTD targets are met
- Monitoring of OTD and expedited shipments in line with company KPIs
- 3rd Party exports for Bombardier (Shorts Brothers)
- Temporary
Transport Planner/Controller
Wincanton Logistics
2010.01 - 2012.01
- Responsible for the day to day planning and control of a shift in a busy transport operation
- Maintaining KPI's including Trailer fill, DOT and MPG and non-conformance issues effectively and efficiently
- Monitoring of driver performance with regular reviews of performance
- Being able to problem solve and use my own initiative
- Ensuring the fleet is roadworthy i.e. current MOT Cert and serviced within company guild lines and law
- Having a competent knowledge of Legalities within a transport department
- Load plan orders to ensure that the customers requested delivery times are met while managing freight costs
- Prioritising loads by time schedule, special characteristics and customer priority within tight deadlines
- Controlling refrigerated vehicles, drivers and contractors ensuring costs and overheads fall within the yearly financial targets
- Monitor and review Tachographs for legal compliance and WTD in compliance with FTA regulations and driver legislation
- The use of the Isotrak tracking system
- Managing delivery schedules liaising with suppliers, while managing freight costs and maximising trailer fill
- Working in an FMCG environment and keeping good relations with warehouse staff and other team members
Supply, Storage and distribution Specialist
Royal Air Force
2001.01 - 2010.01
- Management of RAF assets in the UK and world wide
- Ensuring all direct reports are aware of their responsibilities and complying with H & S legislation
- Coaching and nurturing of direct reports while monitoring performance through annual appraisals
- Management of raw materials, stock taking and document control
- Delivering equipment to operational front line ensuring correct procedures are followed
- Sound knowledge of WMS – i.e. Vital USAS 1 & 2 (RAF MRP system)
- Working on airfield installations and in specialised storage areas
- Working with dangerous goods – ensuring regulations governing documentation, packaging, storage, handling and the transportation of hazardous goods are followed
- Storing, moving, handling and accounting for fuels and gases (ADR)
- Dealing with spillages to avoid environmental damage
- Supply accounting, placing and processing orders
- Monthly stock taking account, batch control and review of stock holdings
- Yearly stock audits and review of how to cut costs on stock holding
- Inventory and stock management for equipment out on loan
- Packing/unpacking of consignments, tracking and ensuring dangerous goods comply with EU regulations
- Complying with Military security on site and within your dedicated work area
- Controlling all auditable documents for monthly and yearly audits
- Processing sales invoices, receipts and payments reviewing of purchase ledgers
- High level of customer service to internal and external customers
- Controlling unit inventories, data monitoring and performance reporting
- Conducting station audits on individual inventories
Education
CCDL - Level 5 - Leadership and Management
People 1st
NVQ Level 3 - Warehouse and Storage
Royal air Force
BTEC Diploma - Public Services
NERC
GCSE’s - Mathematics, English, English talking and listening, Religious studies, History, Media Studies
Bangor Girls High School
RSA CLAIT Stage 1 Pass -
Bangor Girls High School
RSA CLAIT Stage 2 Pass -
Bangor Girls High School
ECDL Pass -
Bangor Girls High School
Health & Safety at work Qualified -
Roy Air Force
Skills
- Sales planning and execution
- Business regulatory compliance
- Customer Service
- Customer relations
- Business administration
- Business development
- Issue resolution
- Employee management
- Financial management
- Operations management
- Logistics management
- Business planning
- Product development
- Budget administration
- Supply chain optimisation
- Financial Forecasting
Timeline
Business owner
Registered Childcare provider
2017.10 - 2025.12
Material scheduler/Stock Controller
Schrader Electronics
2014.05 - 2017.02
Supply Logistic Agent/Planner/Stock Controller
Bombardier CLF
2013.04 - 2014.04
Senior Shipping Coordinator
UPS
2012.04 - 2013.04
Transport Planner/Controller
Wincanton Logistics
2010.01 - 2012.01
Supply, Storage and distribution Specialist
Royal Air Force
2001.01 - 2010.01
Business owner
Eden Playgroup & The Hideaway Cafe
CCDL - Level 5 - Leadership and Management
People 1st
NVQ Level 3 - Warehouse and Storage
Royal air Force
BTEC Diploma - Public Services
NERC
GCSE’s - Mathematics, English, English talking and listening, Religious studies, History, Media Studies
Bangor Girls High School
RSA CLAIT Stage 1 Pass -
Bangor Girls High School
RSA CLAIT Stage 2 Pass -
Bangor Girls High School
ECDL Pass -
Bangor Girls High School
Health & Safety at work Qualified -
Roy Air Force