Shahzad Muhammad Akram
25 April 1973
76 Western Avenue
Newport
NP20 3QZ
shahzadakram778@gmail.com

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 2010 Masters in Business Administration (MBA)
• 2009 Masters in Law (LLM)

VOCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

• 2017 Education & Training level 3
• 2016 Nebosh Certificate in Health & Safety level 3
• 2013 Certificate of Professional Competence Managers Road Haulage National & International CPC level 3

DRIVING LICENCE CATEGORIES

AM/A/B1/B/C1/C/D1/BE/C1E/CE/D1E/f/k/l/n/p/q

RECENT WORK HISTORY

2017 – Present
Eddie Stobart C+E
Walking floor Hanson contract

2015 – 2016
Nr Evans
Transport Manager/Project Manager

• As the Transport/Project manager I demonstrated excellent organisation and planning skills, furthermore, I was able to lead and motivate a team of 30.
• The job although varied as I had two roles, I was typically involved in the day to day operation management, finances, budgets and profit loss accounts.
• I had to make sure the Transport operation met its performance and targets monitoring through kpi’s and benchmarking with other similar companies, reporting directly to the Managing Director.
• As the logistic industry is the 2nd highly regulatory industry after aviation, it was my duty to make sure I complied by all rules and regulations set by DVSA, and made sure health and safety was adhered to at all times

2014 – 2015
XPO logistics Senior Planner

• As my time at XPO my role was to plan loads for vehicles carrying general haulage, in line with clients orders and expectations, always coordinated and planned accordingly with WTD.
• I had to always actively utilise vehicles with a view to support and maximise daily revenue targets, also made sure the vehicles were available for 6 weekly inspections, servicing and MOT without affecting the operations with careful planning.
• In this role communication was key making sure to conduct driver briefing to high standards, debriefing to ensure all concerns and issues were handled without any unreasonable delay.

2011 – 2014
Head of Transport Eurofoods Ltd

• As head of transport managing five depots including head office it was a challenging and unique role.
• It was my role to be able to communicate with four managers and delegate work accordingly and be able to be available for them to deal with any fleet compliance or driver issues.
• One of my main duties and responsibilities was to manage the vehicles to be roadworthy and drivers were complying with traffic and driver hour rules.
• As the operator’s licence was in my name it was my responsibility to the wider public through the traffic commissioner, for ensuring that I was always compliant.
• It was my duty and responsibility to review audit and approve payroll, expenses and draft budgets.
• Always supported and monitored all depots regularly and provided facilities for coaching to managers or training to drivers.
• One of main strategies was to improve recruitment of the drivers and the retention of the drivers by offering different incentives to them.
• All servicing, inspections, MOT of vehicles were my responsibility for all depots and records at each depot were duplicated and held at head office to be able to monitor in an efficient way

INTERESTS

WORK-RELATED INTERESTS:

I enjoy networking and making new contacts to forge strong relationships with internal and third party development teams to ensure positive results for myself and employers’ business.

I am keen to continue to learn and research to improve my skills and knowledge of the industry.

PERSONAL INTERESTS:

I enjoy keeping fit and swimming. I have a keen interest in boxing and have boxed at an amateur level when I was younger.

I am also a keen motorcyclist and enjoy travelling.

LANGUAGE SKILLS

English – Native language
Urdu – fluent
Punjabi – fluent

REFEREES

Available on request