Steve Eastwood

Qualified International Walking Football Referee

About

Specialties: Experience in business growth / development, rationalisation, cost reduction and turnaround situations Maintaining excellent customer service and working with them to achieve the best results all round Detailed knowledge of the following sectors: Dairy food industry, food manufacturing, wholesale, impulse, retail, distribution/logistics, restaurant/hospitality and care industries. HGV Driver Trainer / Assessor/ First Aid Instructor and was part of the excellent Wincanton team that won the Training Team of the Year 2018 issued by The Talent in Logistics Group I have also set up a social media site for Professional hgv drivers site with well over 98k trucking members and am interested in discussing advertising opportunities with relevant suppliers.

Country

United Kingdom

City

Warrington

Industry

Transportation/Trucking/Railroad

Skill

Professional Driving, Communication, Direct Sales, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Sales Operations, Cold Calling, Training, Sales and Marketing, Customer Experience, Class 1, Grocery, Sales Processes, Teamwork, Outside Sales, Microsoft Applications, Convenience Stores, FMCG, Retail, Negotiation, Supply Chain

Experience

Qualified International Walking Football Referee

WFA

2025-4 - Present · 1 yr 6 mos

Andalusia, Spain

Having gained promotion from Tournament + Referee status to International status, now picked to Referee at The World Nations Cup in Spain October 2025

Enjoying Early Retirement

Where ever I lay my hat

2021-5 - Present · 5 yrs 5 mos

Torrox, Andalusia, Spain

DCPC Driver Trainer / Driver Assessor/ First Aid Instructor / Spill Responder

Wincanton

2015-12 - 2021-5 · 5 yrs 6 mos

St. Helens, England, United Kingdom

To continually improve the driving standards and skills of professional drivers who drive or hope to drive on behalf of Wincanton PLC / Co op This will be achieved by a program of annual training, on road assessment and coaching so forming part of the groups Operational Excellence Initiative. I was also part of the team that won The Training Team of the Year Award 2018 issued by The Talent in Logistics Group.

FMCG - Distribution

Wincanton

2010-10 - 2021-5 · 10 yrs 8 mos

St. Helens, England, United Kingdom

Chilling out from the joys of Managing / Selling within the FMCG arena and now driving a great big HGV class 1, working on a fully composite food site. Distributing to over 500 retail Co op stores over a 24/7 operation, average case throughput 1.7m cases, on average in excess of over 2,000 stored deliveries per week. No pressure - mind you miss the thrill of the big sale at times and the joy of seeing a company grow and develop

Referee

Lancashire FA

1992 - 2021-5 · 29 yrs

Leyland, England, United Kingdom

Football Referee at local level now and recently qualified as a Walking Football Referee Refereed at both Wembley and Old Trafford

Owner

Dairy Fresh Wholesale Limited

2007-11 - 2010-8 · 2 yrs 10 mos

Trafford Park, England, United Kingdom

Delivering a full range of Dairy and Food products to a diverse range of customers in and around the Manchester/ Stockport area up to six times per week

Sales Director

Fresh Foods Direct

2005-6 - 2007-10 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Trafford Park

Sales Director for a small friendly family owned Chilled Wholesale Delivery Business. Delivering a full range of Dairy, Bread and Morning goods plus a range of Dry goods from a fleet of 13 refrigerated vehicles to everyone from Schools, Care homes, Canteens and Corner Shops in and around the North West area. Introducing and sourcing new products, negotiating prices and terms and adding them to the company product list to enable the company to deliver a Whole Food Delivery Service. Tendered for and won the contract to supply five Boroughs with the Dairy contract for a 3 year period, value £2m +

Sales Manager

Hopewell Farm Foods

2003-7 - 2005-5 · 1 yr 11 mos

Poynton, Cheshire, United Kingdom

Grew sales by 100k per month Gained new business Re-vamped the whole sales process

Sales

Delice de France

2003 - 2003

Sales, Sales and more Sales to retail accounts in and around the London area

NAM

Lancashire Dairies

1983 - 2002 · 19 yrs

Manchester, United Kingdom

Worked my way up from Delivery Driver to NAM looking after the impulse sector - great times and such a learning curve- met some great people on the way and dealt with some great companies like Superdrug, Co op, Granada, Palmer & Harvey, Nisa and many many more, learnt a lot !!