Thomas Bamford – Maersk

Company: Maersk

Role: Inventory Manager

Thomas is the Inventory Manager for Maersk at East Midland Gateway, we are a multi-user site, handling a large SKU range and stock holding. He oversees all contract’s stock on site, and ensure all customer requirements are met, with regards to stock integrity.

Thomas’s role didn’t require any formal qualifications, only logistics experience. He was approached on LinkedIn by Maersk’s talent team for a Startup site in his region. He was always interested in puzzle solving and have found that Logistics is just an ever-evolving set of interconnected puzzles that need solving. During his Career, Thomas has relished every time he is presented with a problem that needed a resolution.

As an Inventory Manager, Thomas loves being able to guide and support his team to better themselves, as well as support the operations to achieve their goals, to be the best logistics team we can be!

In his last role, Thomas led the team to records an increased location accuracy from 46% to 95% in the quarterly Cycle Counts across over 100k locations in the warehouse. This would be a career highlight that instantly comes to mind.