Simon Robinson
Despatch Manager – William Gibbons & Sons
Hay
simon.robinson777@googlemail.com
01922 515462

A resourceful and confident Distribution Manager, with a wide range of experience within the logistics and warehousing industry. An experienced Collect & Delivery manager, capable of performing a wide range of roles within a warehousing and multi-site distribution environment.
I am an effective, self-motivated and communicative employee who works well in all environments.
1 Planning and scheduling high volume order routing deliveries approx. 10,000 tracked items amongst 95 drivers, ensuring the best possible delivery service in the most cost effective manner.
1 Overseeing the loading and unloading of consignments approx. 60000 items per night involving 7.5 & 18 tonne vehicles & artic trailers, ensuring trailers are optimally filled and that service costs are kept to a minimum
1 Co-ordination of deliveries into the Warehouse/Direct shipments to customer in line with current
priorities
1 Measurement and calculation of international shipments ensuring compliance with dangerous goods act.
1 Producing and quoting same day and route pricing information, monitoring cost and overseeing invoicing.
1 Liaison and communication with sales administration enhancing customer business.
1 Adhering and monitoring performance KPI’s: delivery & collection, driver on route performance management.
1 Recruitment, retention and motivation of 95 vetted drivers including administering appraisals and disciplinary procedures.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Despatch Manager
William Gibbons & Sons – Wolverhampton
December 2015 to Present
Responsible for delivery of the William Gibbons & Sons printed product to over 800 customer locations daily. From printed proofs to large palletised consignments, arranging the vehicle movements, loading and adhering to customer delivery times across the UK. Liaising regularly with production managers & fulfillment lines, ensuring that each delivery is made on time every time by constructing a delivery programme for the warehouse team to work within a 24 hour window. Route and trailer optimising efficiency is key to delivering significant delivery profit margins.

Warehouse & Delivery Manager
LWC Drinks – West Bromwich
June 2015 to December 2015
Managing a team of warehouse order pickers and a fleet of Class 2 delivery drivers, providing accurate and on time delivery of LWC Drinks to public houses across the Midlands. Accurate order picking of over 6,000 housed products, route optimising, vehicle maintenance, drivers infringements, ensuring that as a business LWC were compliant with the Operator’s Licence.
Qualifications & Courses
IOSH – Managing Safely

Manager
POC
August 2014 to May 2015
APLE (Amazon Logistics Nottingham)
Person of Contact Manager working within an Amazon Logistics Site in Nottingham. Daily face to face contact with the Amazon operational team.
Prime next day products B2B & B2C. 20 assigned route’s delivering a daily average of 2,800 items within the DE & LE postcode. Recruitment, retention & training of an increasing pool of 30 self- employed drivers delivering the Amazon customer promises via the Amazon delivery process. On road driver management ensuring each delivery is attempted within the 10 hour route parameter with KPI’s of First Time Delivery Success achieving 97% daily. Customer concessions are kept to a minimum ensuring Amazon Delivery Process is adhered to. Fleet management of 28 tracked delivery vehicles, driver daily checks and good housekeeping is maintained. Driver payroll and deductions administered, Driver 121 and performance managed weekly.

C & D Manager
DX – Tipton
November 2013 to August 2014
Delivering high value items B2C in car derived vans. Vetting, recruiting and on road management of all Drivers, resulting in delivery & collection KPI’s being achieved. Cost savings made via integrating the 2 delivery models onto the one vehicle via an Owner Driver Route Tendering Process & realigning all routes schedules. Collection & Delivery manager overseeing 50 self-employed B2B Drivers in Transit sized vehicles alongside 45 Lifestyle couriers.

Operations Manager
DX – Tipton
November 2011 to November 2013
Operations Manager for the West Midlands DX site, managing 60 employed staff (some unionised) on the AM & PM shifts, sortation of DX Mail, timed deliveries & Pharmaceutical products. KPI driven by misorts, timed delivery/collection times, items sorted per an hour and trunk departure times. Customer focus on high profile items such as solicitors, land registry and police documentation.
Qualifications & Courses
Health & Safety Responsibilities & Risk Assessments

Back-shift Manager
City-Link – Stone
February 2005 to November 2011
Backshift Manager responsible for customers freight collection’s across a fleet of 30 various sized vehicles. Managing a shift team of 20 staff unloading, check weighing, scanning and routing over 5,000 next day / timed sensitive items nationally across 65 locations. Managing the loading of 7 super cube Articulated Trailers destined for various HUB locations across the UK & Ireland, trunk departure times to be adhered to & achieved along with trailer freight presentation. Administering staff appraisals, investigations and disciplinary, alongside Employee performance improvement programmes. Employee attendance monitored via the Bradford Ratio scoring structure.

Qualifications & Courses
OCR Level 3 Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC National)
Supervisory workshop 1 & 2
Shift Managers Health & Safety Awareness
Disciplinary & Grievance
Counter Balance FLT

Shift Manager
Tufnell’s Parcel Express Limited – Stafford
July 2004 to February 2005
Split Shift manager overseeing the manual unloading of the inbound deliveries from the Articulated Trailers onto the 7.5 tonne delivery vehicles. Ensuring vehicle capacity is optimised, achieving delivery KPI’s and daily collections across the ST, WS postcode region. Implementing the driver debrief of returned items, collections and ensuring Tachographs, vehicle checks and driving hours are legally in line. Managing the outbound sort of the collected freight overseeing the manual handling and freight loading onto the outbound trailers.

Transport Manager
KC Transport – Stafford
January 2003 to July 2004
Route optimisation of 15 transit sized vans delivering same day products nationally. Quoting customer’s prices and aligning routes to achieve minimum cost to the customer, at maximum profit to the business. Being competitive on price with a premium service. Sourcing new customers via cold calling and customer visits. In boot deliveries managing through the night deliveries into recipients vehicles on a pre 7am service.

Backshift Manager
Target Express – Stafford
September 1994 to January 2003

Plant Mechanic
Unirents (Aldershot) – Aldershot
January 1993 to August 1994

EDUCATION

Motor Mechanics
Stafford College
1990 to 1993

GCSE’s in Physics
Robert Patterson School
1987 to 1990