Graham Allison
About
Graham Allison is from United Kingdom. Graham works in the following industries: "Internet", "Retail", "Military", and "Research". Graham is currently Regional Director - UK Operations at Amazon, located in United Kingdom. In Graham's previous role as a General Manager at Amazon, Graham worked in Edinburgh, United Kingdom until Aug 2020. Prior to joining Amazon, Graham was a Site Leader at Amazon and held the position of Site Leader at EDI4 - Amazon Dunfermline. Prior to that, Graham was a Site Leader at Amazon, based in GLA1 - Gourock, United Kingdom from Feb 2016 to Jan 2018. Graham started working as Senior Operations Manager at Amazon.co.uk in CWL1 - Swansea, United Kingdom in Mar 2014. From Jan 2013 to Feb 2014, Graham was MBA Pathways, Operations Manager at Amazon.co.uk, based in Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Prior to that, Graham was a MBA 2011/2012 at University of Edinburgh, based in Edinburgh from Sep 2011 to Oct 2012. Graham started working as Warfare Officer at Royal Navy in United Kingdom in Feb 2006.
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Graham Allison's current jobs
Regional director for Scotland, NE England, Wales and Ireland. Leading an operations team across eight very large scale sites with teams in the thousands.
Graham Allison's past jobs
Promoted to Director level with additional responsibilities UK wide.
Progressed to leading the largest fulfillment centre in the UK, a 1.1M sq ft site responsible for UK Reverse Logistics, processing all UK customer returns and shipping customer orders round Europe.
SOM and Site Leader for GLA1 Gourock Fulfillment Centre. A 300,000 sq ft site able to process hundred of thousands of orders per day. The site became the most productive non Amazon Robotics site in the UK.
Responsible for Amazon EU's largest fashion and shoes warehouse completing millions of customer orders each month. Led a team of 1050 staff to YOY order growth of 35% and productivity improvements of 16%. Responsible for an eight figure budget in a high-tech automated enviroment and building the technical expertise of all picking processes around the UK.
January 2013: Dunfermline Site - Inbound Operations Manager Promoted to Operations Manager and transferred to Inbound to drive process improvements. Led large scale 12 week Kaizen to turn EDI4 into the EU Model Area. 2013 peak delivered 41% more volume with 20% less labour. October 2012: Dunfermline Site- Outbound Area Manager Responsible for both pick and pack operations for Amazon's EDI4 (Dunfermline) site. Successfully delivered site's record volume for festive peak 2012.
Awarded Leadership Scholarship for University of Edinburgh Business School. Led consultancy project for Diageo assessing commercial rail transportation and infrastructure. Negotiation, decision analytics, statistical analysis and management accounting.
Completed five years as a RN Warfare Officer with a focus on navigation, gunnery and meteorology. Sub specialisations included leadership, radar theory, fluid dynamics and explosives. Five active deployments on six warships including three in Middle East, one austral summer in Antarctica and one as part of the amphibious assault element of NATO. Awarded top Warfare Officer prize at BRNC Dartmouth.