Nov 2025 – Mar 2026 · 4 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

Jun 2025 – Nov 2025 · 5 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

Nov 2022 – May 2025 · 2 yrs 6 mos

• Role and key responsibilities:
• Executive on the Ocado Logistics board with a team of 150+.
• Demand/capacity planning and optimisation: spanning day to day through to 10 year network planning.
• Logistics and distribution: Last mile and middle mile planning and optimisation.
• Analytics and BI: Across the Logistics business unit, including Supply Chain, Planning and Operations.
• Inventory optimisation: Also managed stock holding, stock flow and supply network optimisation plus new site stock build planning for part of the duration of this role.
• Key skills and achievements include:
• Supply Chain and Logistics Planning leadership: Strategic planning expert (S&OP/IBP). Executive owner of the S&OP process for the UK Logistics business (>1bn items shipped per year, 13,000+ operational colleagues).
• Org Design and cost management: Aggressive focus on cost. Reduced team headcount by 10% within one year through vacancy management, with no impact to performance. P&L responsibility for significant parts of a >£2bn annual turnover business.
• Customer and service focus: Through close collaboration with other business functions delivered a >£1m increase in weekly revenue through customer service improvements.
• Digital transformation and change management: Completed the successful migration of all logistics planning systems across a 3 month period with minimal disruption.
• Stakeholder management and negotiation: Ownership of the relationship with senior client executives, responsible for negotiation of annual budget targets with client partners.
• Process improvement and automation: Removed 20% of hours from a Supply Chain admin team through automation of workflows.
• Analytics and Data Science: Created a 3 year Data Strategy from scratch. Delivered insights through Analytics teams worth >£4m in annual cost savings.

Jul 2021 – Dec 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Role and key responsibilities:
• Leadership role within Ocado Logistics managing a team 70+, covering Supply Chain, Operations, Planning and Analytics.
• Owner of the strategic Supply Chain and Logistics planning process (S&OP/IBP).
• Inventory optimisation: stock holding, stock flow and supply network optimisation, new site stock build planning.
• Long term network capacity and supply optimisation, including new site location analysis, RDC/NDC optimisation analysis and capacity planning.
• Logistics and distribution: Last mile and middle mile planning and optimisation.
• Analytics and BI across the Logistics business unit.
• Key skills and achievements included:
• Supply Chain planning: Successful go-live of 4 new automated warehouses, including stock build, labour planning, logistics system configuration and network optimisation.
• Network redesign: Created and executed capacity plans to enable the successful closure of the oldest warehouse in the network, representing more than a quarter of total network capacity.

Aug 2017 – Jul 2021 · 3 yrs 11 mos

• Role and key responsibilities:
• Leadership role within the Planning and Supply Chain Department, managing a team of 25+ Analysts, Analytics Managers and other specialist roles such as a project manager.
• Key skills and achievements included:
• Supply Chain and Logistics Planning leadership: Expert in strategic planning (S&OP/IBP). Developed and took ownership of the S&OP process across the UK Logistics business.
• Network development and governance: Created and had board approved a 10 year network plan covering new site location and NDC/RDC supply strategy.
• Technical programme leadership: Chaired a 2 year government funded research initiative worth >£3m through the transfer of technology from academia into the business. Listed as an inventor on the resulting patents.
• Navigating business disruption: Logistics leader during Coronavirus pandemic during which sales increased >30% within weeks.

Apr 2016 – Aug 2017 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Role and key responsibilities:
• Leadership, management and coordination of high value/high impact cross business projects.
• Product and project management of work between the Data Science department and IT teams.
• Ownership of long term future warehouse location and delivery site capacity planning and strategy.
• Management of 3 roster planners tasked with creating rosters for c. 10,000 hourly pair staff.
• Setting standards for the Planning Analytics team.
• Maintaining a strong and productive client relationship with Wm Morrisons Supermarkets plc.
• Deputising on a regular basis for the Head of Planning Analytics.

Jan 2014 – Mar 2016 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• Role and key responsibilities:
• Leading a team of 3 analysts
• Driving performance improvement and cost reduction of Ocado delivery operations, through analysis work and by leading business wide projects
• Maintaining a strong and productive client relationship with Wm Morrisons Supermarkets plc.
• Planning and optimising delivery van routing efficiency
• Planning driver recruitment and headcounts
• Improving on-time to customer performance
• Short term order forecasting methods, analysis and tools
• Customer slot booking analytics
• Delivery site catchment area optimisation
• Analytical support of driver resource planning activities
• International expansion routing analysis

Dec 2011 – Jan 2014 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Dec 2009 – Nov 2011 · 1 yr 11 mos