Pasquale Festa
Assistant General Manager
Dudley
07473 995486

WORK EXPERIENCE

Assistant General Manager/Transport Manager
Copart UK – Wolverhampton
2016-07 – Present

Transport Manager
Biffa Waste Services Ltd – Wednesbury
2015-03 – 2016-06

Drivers Coordinator
BCA LOGISTICS
2013-09 – 2015-03
BCA Logistics is the logistics branch of the British Car Auction Group. BCA Logistics moves an excess of 1,500 vehicles on a daily basis trough its network of self employed drivers.
Responsibilities:
• Check driver’s progresses throughout the day to make sure that all the work allocated to them is going to be completed.
• Book out drivers tomorrows work both over the telephone and via manpack 3 and discuss with them any
issues that may occur and if needed re plan their working day.
• Assist them with support from other drivers the get to their collection destination, it is also my duty to provide different work if anything happens to the planned one or we need to make any changes to avoid a job to fail.
• I have to meet very tight KPI and my work is constantly monitored.

San Severo Italy Supply Chain Director
Lufa Service
2010-01 – 2013-04
Lufa Service is an organic recycling business that collects organic waste from various sources to make compost that is then sold to the farming and agriculture industry.
Responsibilities:
• Responsible for all the purchasing of goods and services, this included transports, building maintenance and consumables.
• Arrange all the inbound and outbound transport to and from our warehouse using our own fleet of 5 tipper trucks.
• Compliance managing drivers hours tacho graphs and trucks planned maintenance making sure that these
meet the authority guidelines.
Achievements:
• Through a revision of the driver’s daily schedule and a change in the collection delivery routines and routes we have achieved an overtime cost reduction of about 50% from 2000 hours annually to 1000 hours annually and a cost of fuel reduction of about 10%.

Distribution Director
Servis UK Ltd – Wednesbury
2002-01 – 2008-06
Servis UK Ltd a large household appliances distributor that sold up to 500,000 items yearly. Servis uk
purchased its products from the Italian Mother company and its Spanish and Swedish other factories. All the goods where delivered to the Wednesbury NDC and delivered to customers either in full loads or trough the Servis Home Delivery network.
Responsibilities:
• Employed by Servis UK as purchasing manager of goods, excluding finished products, and services such as
delivery of spares to our engineer’s network, the purchase of new vans, FLT etc.
• Managing the development works of our warehouse and offices block alongside our Group Facility Manager,
the Italian subcontractors and the local authorities.
• From January 2003 I have been promoted Distribution Director and alongside the above responsibilities
the following where added manage and motivate a team of 15 office staff plus 10 warehouse operatives, 3
HGV drivers and 7 teams of Home Delivery drivers and mates, named professional in the company Restricted
Operator Licence and I was in charge of the vehicle planned maintenance and Mot, allocate work to 3PL
companies and tariff negotiation, manage and meet Sla for our Home delivery service and keep this above
95% first time delivery.
• Named professional in the company Restricted Operator Licence which involved responsibility for vehicles planned maintenance, Mot, tachograph checks and driving hours.
• I reported directly to the Managing Director.
• Improve the overall level of the department that was quiet poor and inefficient and with a great staff turnover.
• Motivate staff and make them feel part of a long term project of which they where a very important part.
• From January 2006 together with the other duties I have worked at the start up of a new company Servis Weee Ltd. This branch of the business dealt with the WEEE Directive. Prepare all the relevant documentation that made Servis Weee become at same time a Weee Compliance Scheme and an authorized AATF (treatment site).
• Acquire customers to join the Servis Weee collection schemes that used mostly Servis UK reverse logistics.
• Prepare and file all the relevant paperwork that was needed to prepare the yearly return of the total amount of Recovered, Recycled and Reused waste of Electric and Electronics waste.
Achievements:
• Saving in the waste costs by differentiating the waste in various categories polistyring, carton boxes and general waste, the first 2 where recycled and the third was then compacted and sent to landfill.
• Cost savings in the maintenance of FLT by introducing a planned maintenance system that prevented more
costly repairs and avoided breakdown.
• Renegotiation of all the transport tariffs which lead to a 2% reduction of them, adding more transport
companies and directed the staff to allocate work to companies trying to optimize the suppliers economies this has lead to an overall cost saving of about 15%in the first six months.
• The internal process changes have made possible a reduction of 2 members of staff working in the dispatch office.
• Managed a change in the Home Delivery service by moving from a hybrid system to a completely outsourced
one. This together with a real time monitoring system, that allowed to check in real time the state of the deliveries, lead to a great improvement of our SLA levels that where well above the minimum requirements of 95% first time delivery.
• Servis Wee ltd in the first year that operated and presented a WEEE return has overachieved the
commitments of Servis UK ltd, in the amount of WEEE that it was responsible for, allowing the sale of excess Weee Documents for a total value of more than 250,000 pounds making Servis Weee a profitable business.

Birmingham Sales Manager
Abbey Cappuccino – Birmingham
2000-10 – 2002-01
Abbey Cappuccino a supplier of coffee and coffee machines to small businesses and privates.
• Create leads for new customers with cold calls, present to customers the products range and to sign contracts.
• Manage the import of coffee from the Italian factory, including the transport arrangements.

EDUCATION

Political Science
Urbino University

Electronic Engineering
Technical College

AWARDS

Iosh qualified
2016-09

CERTIFICATIONS/LICENSES

CPC (Certificate of Professional Competence)
2014-07 – Present

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

• Skills
A committed, passionate, pro active and always looking to learn new skills.
A professional with very good commercial knowledge and communication skills and able to communicate at
all levels.
Able to work of his own initiative or as part of a team, good leader and team builder capable of getting the best from people.
Enjoys to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.
Good decision maker under pressure.
Operating Systems
AS400, Manpack3