Clifford Hobbs - Manufacturing & Supply Chain
Clifford Hobbs is our manufacturing & supply chain specialist. Clifford has broad and progressive hands-on experience across the supply chain and operations in both large and small organisations. Clifford has held GM and multi-site supply chain responsibilities nationally and across Europe, plant and production management roles; and led production engineering - working on factory layouts, production methods and workflows. He has operated across Europe and the Middle East in both permanent and interim positions, as well as in the capacity of an independent consultant, for many organisations including: Carnaud MetalBox; Continental Can; Crown Cork & Seal; Corus; Arcelor; Alcoa; BASF; Valspar Group; PPG Packaging; ICI Packaging Coatings; Eddie Stobart; Taylors of Martley; Roadferry Group; Coca Cola; Pepsi Cola; Britvic; Nestle; Campbells; Heinz; Mars; Premier Foods; Baxters; United Biscuits; Tesco; Asda; Sainsbury; Marks and Spencer; B&Q; Nationwide; HSBC. Clifford has vast experience in lean supply chain and world class manufacturing environments, successfully implementing continuous improvement and best practice initiatives. Excellent with people, he communicates well at all levels and across functions, with a proven team building ability. He has a reputation built on improving costs and operational performance through business process review, re-structuring and change and improvement in workflows and controls. Comfortable and experienced in supplier and customer facing roles and negotiations, he succeeds by forming effective partnerships to reduce inventory and supply chain costs.
John Atkinson - Procurement
John Atkinson is our project procurement specialist. John specialises in procurement and supply chain management and has over a decade of experience in Procurement strategies (advice, creation and implementation); tender processes including tender construction and process management; global sourcing; outsourcing (production and services); supplier relationship management and controls; e-procurement; logistics management; supplier audit. Although UK based, John also maintains a fully staffed office in Beijing enabling us to support clients sourcing projects from the China and the far east. John’s experience with organisations such as focus DIY, the DTI and a number of venture capital organisations, enables us to create innovative cost reduction and performance improvement solutions for our clients.
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