Leon Edwards
Valley View,Australia
Summary
Experienced purchasing professional with strong leadership, program management, and planning skills. Effective communicator through verbal and written channels. Highly organized with advanced problem-solving abilities. Proven track record of improving policies, reducing waste, and delivering efficient, high-quality materials to meet business requirements.
Warehouse operations professional with extensive experience in managing teams and streamlining processes. Proven ability to lead and motivate staff to achieve operational goals. Known for reliability and adaptability, excelling in dynamic environments and fostering collaborative team culture.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Purchasing Officer C-CBRNE Program
Babcock Pty Ltd
07.2022 - Current
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to identify opportunities for cost reduction and process improvement.
- Developed strong working relationships with key suppliers, ensuring reliable delivery of goods and services.
- Streamlined purchasing processes for increased efficiency, resulting in time and cost savings.
- Managed a team of junior purchasing officers, providing guidance and support for their professional development.
Regional Coordinator
Babcock
01.2019 - 01.2022
- Within this role I managed Monthly Service packs, Service defects within the regional Tier 3 space that managed at the time 72 Tier 3 ports.
- Provided regular updates to senior management on regional progress, challenges, and opportunities for improvement.
- Fostered strong relationships with key stakeholders, promoting collaboration and driving business development.
- Entered data, generated reports, and produced tracking documents.
Purchasing Officer - Civil Contracts
Babcock
01.2018 - 01.2019
- Within this role I managed timely placement of stock & customer specific order requests for civil contracts of SAMFS and MSP GROUP
- Communicate order progress, ETAs and any necessary changes to Workshop Manager
- Review stock orders and demand levels, making proactive adjustments as needed
- Ensured DIFOT and OTIF were managed at an acceptable Target
- Issue purchase orders to subcontractors in a timely manner
- Ensure Invoices were chased up and managed GRNI on a monthly basis
- Reviewed and improved stocking policy to align stock requirements with workshop team to improve completion of time to complete services
- Introduced Kits for Work orders and Picking Paperwork within the IFS system
Operations Leader
Schneider Electric
01.2015 - 01.2018
- Within this role I lead a large team to pick and pack our daily deliverers for external and internal customers
- Communicate and drive activities to ensure improvement targets are met
- Coordinate the team to complete work on time to expectation
- Review of head count against targets/volume
- Ensure quality standards are met and customers satisfaction is at the forefront
- Use lean tools to improve process
- Lead large team over two warehouses
- Reduced customer complaints by 30%
- Introduced a consumable Kanban system in the warehouse removing stock outs
- Reduced headcount by 20% by optimizing warehouse
- Keeping Inventory Accuracy above 95% with a thorough RCA process
- Creating one area for team meetings and KPI reviews
- Implement new flows to distribution centres
Warehouse Optimization Analyst
Schneider Electric
01.2011 - 01.2015
- Within this role I was responsible for the optimization of the warehouse and layout, and for the maintenance of the warehouse data
- Lead and support continuous improvement projects
- Manage and maintain Warehouse data
- Store Design and Optimization
- Eliminated 20% of F & M items for workstations without need for repacking from suppliers
- Created automated Heatmap in excel
- Created a sustainable training plan to identify skill gaps in the warehouse
- Optimize and manage materials with consolidation of plants reducing warehouse staff by 4 FTE
- Removed all 3PL holdings saving 60k per annum
- Reduction of warehouse picking LT to Shopfloor by 33%
Education
Administer Chain of Responsibility Policies and Procedures -
01.2018
Flourish -
01.2017
Lean six sigma Training -
01.2013
DMAIC RCA training -
01.2012
License to perform high risk work -
11.2024
Diploma of Transport and Distribution Certificate 5 -
01.2007
Skills
- Decision Making
- Managing team’s performance
- Advanced in Microsoft excel
- Lean thinking and implementation
- Managing priorities
- Great people skills
References
Andrew Romano, 0437 817 078
Matthew Hutchins 0400 049 300
Timeline
Senior Purchasing Officer C-CBRNE Program - Babcock Pty Ltd
07.2022 - Current
Regional Coordinator - Babcock
01.2019 - 01.2022
Purchasing Officer - Civil Contracts - Babcock
01.2018 - 01.2019
Operations Leader - Schneider Electric
01.2015 - 01.2018
Warehouse Optimization Analyst - Schneider Electric
01.2011 - 01.2015
COR AUSTRALIA - Administer Chain of Responsibility Policies and Procedures,
Schneider Electric - Flourish,
Schneider Electric - Lean six sigma Training,
Schneider Electric - DMAIC RCA training,
- License to perform high risk work,
Institute of Applied Logistics - Diploma of Transport and Distribution Certificate 5,
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