DHL spearheads competitive drive with appointment of Tender Manager for UK and Ireland
DHL has appointed Tony Kells to Head of Tender Management, UK & Ireland. Tony moves into this role from senior field manager for DHL’s key accounts where he was responsible for managing a national sales team.
In this newly created position, Tony will manage DHL’s UK and Ireland tender unit, which includes responding to and seeking customers’ multi-product tender requests across the whole of DHL’s proposition from Express, Freight, Mail and Solutions, through to Danzas Air and Ocean.
Tony will also work closely with other DHL functions such as customer operations in order to enhance DHL’s benchmarking system and to ensure best practice as part of the tender process.
Speaking of his new appointment, Tony Kells said: “In order to remain competitive, companies are constantly reviewing their supply chains and are increasingly looking to procure distribution services through a variety of tendering methods. DHL offers customers a one-stop shop that can provide solutions across the entire supply chain. My role will be to ensure that we continue to operate a superior unit that is able to respond to an ever increasing number of complex, multi-modal tenders in a professional, competitive and timely manner.”
Tony brings a wealth of DHL experience to the role. Since joining the company in 1992, Tony has held various senior positions including sales manager at East Midlands and country manager in Jordan.
Deutsche Post World Net is the world’s leading logistics group.
Its integrated Deutsche Post, DHL and Postbank companies offer tailored, customer-focused solutions for the management and transport of goods, information and payments through a global network combined with local expertise. Deutsche Post World Net is also the leading provider of Dialog Marketing services, with a unique portfolio of efficient outsourcing and system solutions for the mail business. Some 380,000 employees in more than 220 countries and territories worldwide generated revenue of *43 bn (USD 58 billion) in 2004.
