James Walsh has over 21 years of experience as a supply chain manager and logistics manager. He is driven and highly experienced, with proven skills in supply chain management, facilities management, budget planning, and people management. He has a track record of growing businesses, including growing one company from zero to over 340 customers nationwide. He is motivated to take on new challenges and further his career.

1. JAMES WALSH
Lazybush Phone: 086 854 9623
Tullaroan Road Email: jameswalsh02@eircom.net
Kilkenny
IRELAND
26/09/15
James Walsh
PERSONAL STATEMENT
Driven, dynamic and highly experienced General Manager with 21 years experience in my own company as a Supply
Chain Manager and a Logistics Manager. I thrive both in independent and collaborative work environments. Proven track
record as a supply chain manager with management skills to facilitate the growth of a customer base from zero to over 340 customers
nationwide.
I have a motivational and supportive management style and I am determined to succeed and further my career in a new challenging position
within a fast growing organisation.
Key Skills – Supply chain management, facilities management including maintenance and preventative maintenance
management, budget planning, administration, transport maintenance and warehouse operations management, retail
operations management and technology.
Facilities Management-As a business owner I have gained invaluable experience in facilities
management .I was solely responsible for managing the upkeep of several of my own warehouse
units. This involved property management including all planned maintenance and preventative
maintenance ,health and safety issues ,insurance costs, heating and lighting maintenance, pest
control and security of all the units .I personally dealt with all transport companies in Ireland and
from abroad to insure the prompt and safe delivery of all products from supplier to our
warehouses .Because some of our products were very delicate every delivery had to be planned
and managed to ensure the minimum amount of damage while unloading from supplier
containers. I personally managed the transport logistics daily to optimise the distribution network
for our own van delivery service nationwide. This alone took a lot of staff management because of
necessity to load delivery vans after hours for an early morning delivery schedule nationwide.
Supply Chain Management-My experience in managing the start-up of a new venture as a
Wholesale Distributor helped me develop my management skills effectively across a varied range
of management roles.
These management roles included:
• Procurement of a suitable industrial unit suitable for a wholesale business distributing a
varied range of products.
• Design of unit layout for easy access of delivery trucks and the loading of our own
transport vehicles for nationwide delivery.
• Management of H&S for all staff members and continues revision of all operating
procedures and proper training for all forklift and commercial drivers.
• Management of best practice solutions in transport function including total management
of all company transport vehicles. Strict management over all maintenance and servicing
schedules over all transport vehicles to adhere to safety standards and optimisation of
each individual vehicle.
• Routine logistic management meetings with delivery personal to optimise delivery routes
to best practice standards as part of our transport team.
• Constant re-design of storage bays to facilitate expanding volume of products due to
rapid growth in business.
• Management of all re-cycling and waste disposal due to volatile nature of packing crates.
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2. CAREER HISTORY
18/10/2014 (to present date)
Boland’s BMW Waterford
Parts Development Sales for BMW, MINI, CITROEN AND HYUNDAI:
Responsible for the development of parts, accessory, s, Trade Sales, Retail Sales in the Waterford, Kilkenny
and Clonmel region. I am also responsible for stock purchasing and stock control and for the management of
the workshop parts requirements on a daily basis.
Oct 1992 – Nov 2013 – James Walsh Motor Factors, Clonmel, Co Tipperary
Manager/Owner/Director
Retail/trade/wholesale motor parts distributor. It was my responsibility to manage all retail /trade/wholesale sales and
all other responsibilities involved in running a business. James Walsh Motor Factors was set up in 1992 .I developed the
business over a 21 year period with a staff of 8 people .I organised and trained all staff members in counter sales and van
deliveries and van sales. I organised all van routes and controlled all accounts attached to these sales. All targets and
promotional/special offers were set and controlled by me including staff commission and any other customer issues.
• Supervised managers and retail sales staff.
• Profit and Cost Analysis.
• Continual employee training.
• Public Relations and Customer Support.
• Increased profit margins. Materials management.
• Administration.
• Stock Control.
• Marketing and product positioning.
• Advertising.
• Van deliveries route set up and van sales training.
• Collecting of accounts.
• Recruited and Trained 3 Assistant Managers and 12 counter Sales staff.
• Started this company as a new venture and increased turnover by 150% within the second year.
• Continued this growth and trained and employed staff over a 21 year period.
• Involved in managing and the setting up a separate wholesale company. This company initially was involved in selling automotive glass.
• Responsible for purchasing, delivery, storing, selling of this product and in addition I set up a dedicated supply network for our
customers nationwide. After I successfully developed the business, I sold the windscreen business to our biggest competitor. I then re-
organised the selling of a completely different range of products nationwide for this company. After the new range of products was
established I concentrated on my core business.
Jun 1997 – Sept 2002 –James Walsh Wholesale Ltd, Unit 21 Loughboy Industrial Estate, Kilkenny
General Manager/Sales Manager
James Walsh Wholesale is an import wholesale distribution company of automotive parts. The range included
windscreens, exhausts, stereos, alloy wheels, clutches, CV joints, battery’s etc.
• Responsibility to plan, organise and manage all sales and continually increase sales growth, while managing field
sales team and telesales team.
• Attract new business and customers while keeping current clients sales increasing.
• Continually ensure new business development.
• Supervise both field sales and telesales.
• Sales projections and forecasts.
• Profit and cost analysis.
• Materials management.
• Continual employee development and training.

3. • Administration.
• Public relations and customer support.
• Marketing and product positioning.
• Advertising.
Achievements
• Increased yearly company turnover over six years.
• Continually ensured sales growth: Increasing turnover by 42% in the first year in sales, 26% second year and an
average of 15% per year thereafter.
• Carried out a demographic study that pinpointed the automotive market and developed new business by
generating over 340 new customers with an extremely high rate of success proven in increased sales.
• Trained 4 Field Sales Representative’s team and organised routes for sales team.
• Trained and developed 9 Telesales personal and built up a telesales database.
• Initiated an in-house marketing strategy of monthly catalogues containing product offers, product news and
product updates which contributed 33% of monthly sales.
• Decommissioned van delivery service and contracted an overnight early morning delivery service which greatly
improved customer service and reduced labour by 30%.
• Sourced companies worldwide to manufacture contract and brand all products with an extremely high rate of
success proven in increased sales.
• Attended trade shows world wide securing existing supplier contracts and developing new supplier leads with
extreme success which ensured continual growth in revenue.
• Managed stock control of over 2,000 parts.
• Managed all inbound logistics from Europe and Asia.
EDUCATION & TRAINING
1984 – 1986 – Electronics Technician Certificate – Carlow ITC
1984 – Leaving Certificate – Saint Kieran’s College, College Road, Kilkenny
I.T. SKILLS
MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel), word processing, spread sheets, Mam retail & wholesale systems, RNH retail &
wholesale systems.
INTERESTS & ACHIEVEMENTS
Keen interest in Politics, Cycling, Vintage Cars and Motorcycles, Golf, Rugby, Hurling, Gardening, Music and Movies.
Ray Darcy Show: Our company was chosen to appear on Ray Darcy Show where Ray and Jenny produced 2 adds for
our company and I had to pick which radio add suited my company best .The best radio add chosen was then played on
show for free for 2 days .We had a great response from customers and the Bobble Head Ray on display behind our
counter was always a great talking point with customers.
REFEREES – Available on request.