Stuart Tosh
Warwickshire
Summary
A dedicated and hard working individual with experience across all areas of retail and trade businesses. A leader who is invested in building winning teams and developing individuals to meet their full potential through coaching and development. A highly commercial individual who promotes entrepreneurial thinking and openness to new ideas. An ability to move quickly from strategic to operational thinking.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work history
Supply Chain Director
Highbourne Group
10.2020 - Current
- Senior Executive responsible for the End to End Supply Chain covering Product purchasing near and far shore, Logistics, Transport, E Fulfilment, Company Fleet and ESG for Carbon and Waste
- Successfully separated the Plumbing and Heating Division from Travis Perkins and sold the business to Harvard Investment Group (Private Equity)
- Set up Group Functions and Governance on areas that did not transition from Travis Perkins Group
- Network development strategy and implementation for the Highbourne Group
- Customer delivery Strategy and implementation
- WMS and CMS system implementation in 3 months over peak trading to ensure new customer deliver strategy was achieved
- Outsourcing of Warehouse and Logistics to 3PL with a £3 million saving recognised in first year with future savings planned at over £15 million
- AI implementation for Branch ordering with a potential of £20 million reduction in working capital
- Company stock management of entire Supply Chain inclusive of Branches which resulted in a reduction of over £50 million in 12 months
- Implemented monthly Carbon footprint measurement and improvement plans
- Company Car scheme to support Carbon reduction plans
Director of Supply Chain
Homebase
06.2018 - 09.2020
- Responsible for the Supply Chain covering Inbound, Logistics, Transport and E Fulfilment at both an operational and strategic level
- Network right sizing reducing estate from 8 to 3 warehouses
- Contract dispute management with Tender management of international freight and UK & Ireland transport
- Implementation of new 1 man and 2 man home delivery solutions
- Transformation of Distribution with improved Health and Safety, significant cost reductions of 23% in Supply Chain along with customer satisfaction improvement
- Closure of Bathstore warehouse and operations with integration into Homebase network
Central Operations Support Manager
Homebase/Bunnings
10.2017 - 05.2018
- Head of the central support team who look after all aspects of support for the Store and field teams
- Opening 3 new Clearance Outlet stores
- Customer care call centre management
- Store call centre management - designed to support the stores with any technical issues they may need resolving
- Management of the communications to the stores from the Support Centre
- Project management and delivery of new projects in the stores
- Store openings
- Stock management for closing and conversion stores
- Business reporting and analysis to the Area and Regional Managers to ensure that any business issues are identified and communicated to the stores and field teams
- Organised financial and operational data to help with yearly budgeting and planning.
- Secured process improvements for increased quality, compliance and efficiency
- Cultivated culture of continuous improvement, clearly outlining objectives and ideal processes to support Regional teams
Project manager for Managing Director
Homebase/Bunnings
03.2017 - 09.2017
- Working for the Managing Director on stock and flow projects. Reducing inventory across the company by £28 million
- Advising on actions to implement to ensure re balancing and redistribute stock to the right place at the right time
- Business lead on stock for all areas of the Homebase business
- Supported the transition of Stores from Homebase to Bunnings
Divisional General Manager
Homebase/Bunnings
10.2014 - 02.2017
- Looking after the tactical and strategic planning and running of 168 stores in the South of the UK
- Sales budget of £950 million and a cost base of £100 million
- Leading a team of 8 Regional managers, ensuring delivery of sales,costs and service metrics
- Team development and succession planning
- P&L responsibility for divisional performance
- Succession planning and development of team members
- Overall growth and product category strategy development and delivery
- Working cross functionally with Commercial and Marketing teams to help drive sales initiatives
- Translating lean production methodology into retail operations
- Driving entrepreneurial behaviour within a framework across store teams
- Influencing fellow directorate and investing in cross functional stakeholder engagement to deliver Commercial agenda
Account Director
Unipart
06.2013 - 10.2014
- Promoted to Director for 3 main clients in the Consumer Sector for Unipart
- Working closely with Sainsburys, Home Retail Group and Ocado to deliver operations and solutions
- Existing cross functional account development, both for contracts on site and in stores
- Defining new business offers, account development and stakeholder relationship building
- International growth and operational consultancy for global accounts in Australia
- Iterative development of a new management information system
- Re defining the company Graduate scheme for Operations
General Manager
Unipart
07.2011 - 06.2013
- Working for a 3PL logistics provider on a Sainsburys Non Food contract
- Trained in several aspects of Lean processes and project management
- Delivered a £3.1 million saving in 18 months. 21% reduction in total costs for the site
- Helped design and deliver the tender documents and pitch to Sainsburys for their new site in Daventry
General Manager
Tesco
04.2010 - 06.2011
- Set up of a Centre of Excellence in a temperature sensitive warehouse in order to train and develop new General Managers
General Manager
Tesco
06.2009 - 05.2010
- Opened a 1 million square foot Distribution Centre with Automation and high security facilities
- Consolidation of 2 warehouses into the new facility with in the £150 million budget
General Manager
Tesco
03.2008 - 05.2009
Operations manager
Tesco
09.2006 - 04.2008
Warehouse manager
Lidl
08.2005 - 09.2006
Sales Operations Manager
Lidl
04.2003 - 07.2005
District Manager
Lidl
09.2001 - 03.2003
Pub Manager
Scottish and Newcastle
09.1999 - 08.2001
Education
Degree in Hotel Services Management - Management
09.1995 - 06.1999
Skills
- Executive leadership
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Programme & Project Management
- Business integration
- Team building & coaching
- Budgets & Capex
- Cross functional leadership
- Customer Service
- Import Operations
- Supplier Relationship Management
- End to End Supply Chain
- Strategy and Development
- Automation
- Omni Channel
- 3PL and In House Operations management
- Multi site management
- Transformation
- S&OP
- Contract management
- Stakeholder management
- Network design
Personal Information
- Date of birth: 09/23/1975
- Marital status: Married
Affiliations
- Chairman of Warwickshire Schools Badminton Association
- Football coach and Commitee member
- Golf
Timeline
Supply Chain Director - Highbourne Group
10.2020 - Current
Director of Supply Chain - Homebase
06.2018 - 09.2020
Central Operations Support Manager - Homebase/Bunnings
10.2017 - 05.2018
Project manager for Managing Director - Homebase/Bunnings
03.2017 - 09.2017
Divisional General Manager - Homebase/Bunnings
10.2014 - 02.2017
Account Director - Unipart
06.2013 - 10.2014
General Manager - Unipart
07.2011 - 06.2013
General Manager - Tesco
04.2010 - 06.2011
General Manager - Tesco
06.2009 - 05.2010
General Manager - Tesco
03.2008 - 05.2009
Operations manager - Tesco
09.2006 - 04.2008
Warehouse manager - Lidl
08.2005 - 09.2006
Sales Operations Manager - Lidl
04.2003 - 07.2005
District Manager - Lidl
09.2001 - 03.2003
Pub Manager - Scottish and Newcastle
09.1999 - 08.2001
Napier University - Degree in Hotel Services Management, Management
09.1995 - 06.1999
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