Extremely dependable individual, challenging and perceptive, allowing a strong team ethic to prevail, but equally as focused when working alone on projects. Driven, tenacious and enthusiastic with exceptional communication and interpersonal skills across all key internal and external stakeholders. Determined to breakdown any boundaries to achieve goals, whatever the challenges, acting with urgency and efficiency.

Supply Chain Manager @ Establish with UK and Global suppliers a supply chain strategy for Wilkos, to deliver the business needs ensuring cost effective inventory and improved on-time deliveries. Successfully implemented through developing and coaching people in modern SAP techniques and focussed supply chain improvements. Key Deliverables • Responsible for £100 million sales in FMCG category ranging from Washing and Bathing to Cosmetics, achieving 99.15% instore branch availability. • Managed transition of 10,000 SKU’s through Major Category Review for FMCG to achieve exceptional launch and contribute to 10% growth YOY. • Improved supplier delivery performance and relationships through vendor management from 94% to 98.81% • Lead team of 5 Stock Demand Planners to manage cost to maximise efficiency of spend without impacting delivery or safety standards. • Created new Goods not for resale process for stores ensuring all key stakeholders involved and sold in to senior management. Project delivering business £500k saving in costs annually. • Joint promotional forecasting with Suppliers and Trading to maximise sales and stock holding efficiency. Ensured forecasts were communicated within the correct timescales. • Tracked, analysed and maintained forecasts. Reported on forecast accuracy & identified trends and seasonality. Adjusted short term forecasts where necessary. • Delivered to KPI’s regarding £35 million stock holding and waste. • Worked closely with Trading, commercial & Suppliers to ensure promotional activities and regular range changes were successfully executed and if overstocks ever occurred. • Created daily, monthly and weekly reports within supply chain identifying short term or long term issues with availability, forecasts and supply. • Worked closely with Buying, Merchandising, Promotions, QA, DC Logistics and Retail to launch new ranges efficiently and achieve 100% availability on time. From April 2013 to Present (2 years 9 months) Project Manager @ Establish links with third party suppliers to ensure business critical deadlines were met through SAP system initial build stages interfacing with their software systems. Planning and communicating Plan A whilst creating a contingency strategy. Key Deliverables • Building key relationships with Third Party Suppliers, SAP HCL consultants, BRM’s and SME’s to deliver smooth transition from A400 system to new SAP system. • Manage relationships with Third Party Suppliers ensuring Interface Specifications support, Sign off, their system changes/costs are agreed, communicated and within the required budgets/timescales. • SAP process design documents reviewed and challenged when initial interfaces failed. • Interface master document analysed and adjusted where systems misaligned. • Key processes delivered through influencing Third Party Suppliers into cultural change. From December 2012 to April 2013 (5 months) Data Analyst @ Managed early stages of SAP implementation for Wilkos ensuring our Master Data was 100% clean for all Store, Product and Supplier records. Challenged the key business stakeholders on their day to day processes after thorough investigations. Key Deliverables • SAP build and process design documents reviewed and communicated to key business stake holders to deliver cultural change. • Building key business stakeholder relationships with all departments to gain knowledge of how data is used and document Product, Supplier and Store data. • Influencing the Business to cleanse their Master Data from 91% to 100% accuracy and emphasise the importance of quality data and their role in owning, cleansing and verifying data. • Negotiating with Business Data Owners, BRM’s, SME’s and Change Champions to gain agreement of maintaining 100% cleansed data so future load up into SAP is kept to an exceptional quality. From November 2011 to December 2012 (1 year 2 months) Store Manager @ Manage several stores across east region ensuring businesses are moved forward through sales and profitability, through coaching store team members to deliver exceptional standards and customer service and satisfaction. Key Deliverables • Managed turnover of £8 million ensuring all Company Policies and Procedures are followed and Business Plan and profitability is on track. • Coached 4 managers and 100 team members to deliver exceptional customer service winning the highest standard ‘Platinum Award’ • Store Appraisals conducted on a quarterly basis and team members performance managed whenever conduct issues occurred. • Health and Safety put at the forefront of everything ensuring relevant checks were conducted to safeguard customers and team members. • All trading and legal compliance requirements managed to an exceptional standard. From January 2008 to November 2011 (3 years 11 months) Night Trading Store Manager @ Complete transformation of large Asda store every night ensuring teams motivated to turn the impossible to the possible and deliver close to 100% availability to all customers. Key Deliverables • Managing £2 million weekly turnover in a Night trading environment ensuring customer experience was not at risk whilst essential replenishment was conducted. • Coaching 4 Department managers and 200 team members to deliver exceptional store standards on a consistent basis. • Stockloss managed to ensure yearly loss under 1% through following thorough procedures. • Store budget management controlled through right people, right place, right time process ensuring Promotion and Seasonal planning is taken into account. From July 2006 to January 2008 (1 year 7 months) Hull, United KingdomStore Manager @ Key member of the management team when company grew from 30 stores to 400 stores in 8 year period contributing to setting up stores from four walls to fully functional trading stores with trained efficient store managers and team members. Key Deliverables • Store Management training developing team members for up to 50 stores. • Store Budget management controlled to ensure Sales per hour achieved 10% above target on a regular basis whilst customer service satisfaction maintained. • Project managed 15 New Stores from equipment set up to stock replenishment to team member training, fluctuating between hands on to man- management. • Leading remerchandising teams to deliver 100% Range Changes across UK within the agreed timescales to excellent standards. From August 1998 to July 2006 (8 years) Night Store Manager @ Managed Morrisons store and delivered excellent standards to a previously struggling store by training and motivating team members to look at their own aspirations and development. After store improvement, four of the team members eventually promoted. Key Deliverables • Managing £1.5 million weekly turnover ensuring store standards at the highest level and store budgets controlled. • Coached and developed 150 team members with quarterly appraisals and guided exceptional personnel to work towards excelling in their job roles. • Performance management where conduct issues occurred. • Customer Service Levels kept at the highest level whilst ensuring H&S at the forefront. From January 1996 to August 1998 (2 years 8 months) Birmingham, United Kingdom

High School @ Hylton Redhouse School From 1979 to 1984 Sukhbinder Sodhi is skilled in: Supply Chain, SAP, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Project Management, Store Management, Data Analysis, AS400 system, Lotus Notes, Change Management, Global Sourcing, Logistics, FMCG, Inventory Management