Craig Russell

Senior Merchandise Planning Manager - Tesco Mobile @Tesco

Welwyn Garden City, GB

Manage supply chain operations, distribution, fulfilment, logistics and merchandise planning for Tesco Mobile with 5 direct reports who manage the day to day activities, looking after an £8 million operational expenditure budget and jointly responsible for a £350 million purchase budget. I stand over the supply chain operations for the business in distribution and logistics partnering with the depot, this includes developing, implementing and continually improving internal controls and processes by and assessing and reviewing our approach to improve where necessary. Either from a cost and efficiency perspective or emerging threats from experience. Security is a recent area of focus and we have started work on improving this with Group security. Develop and lead within product operations, to maintain a well functioning department including, budget adherence, working with finance for analysis of our operational spend. I also review the operational activities with the various stakeholders and suppliers to ensure that our operational risk is minimised and that we are not open to abuse or other threats. I oversee the business analysis for merchandise planning and accurate forecasting of stock to meet the strategic direction of the business working closely with buying and commercial to meet the targets that have been set. • Investigate and removed unsuitable supplier from our business who posed a reputational risk. • Used performance grading in store allocations to reduce stock holding reducing overall stock levels from c£80 million down to c£50 million. • Modernised depot kitting operations, streamlining our processes and removing manual elements, reducing operational cost by up to • Improved SIM fulfilment processes reducing operational cost by and lessening our waste and environmental impact. In addition moved various activities into more suitable suppliers, achieving better overall results and reduced operational cost by

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