 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.
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