Roger Forsdyke, COO Willmott Dixon Interiors
Andy spend 13 years as the 'number 1' on 23 projects across the south coast and London leading both the pre-con and operational phases.
Andy was Award the Gold Medal at the CIOB Construction Manager of the Year Awards in 2019.
Andy led the Southern Construction Supply Chain Department from 2020 to 2023 for Willmott Dixon before a secondment to the national business to write white papers to re-categorise the £1b business in Key Trades.
Andy then moved to the Interiors business to write and enact the Supply Chain strategy, turning the business into profit within 12 months
Andy led the team to roll out Collaborative Planning training and software to all sites and operational people.
The team created a Lessons Learned programme giving direct continuous improvement to formal processes covering every aspect of the business.
Andy was accountable for ISO 9001 annual audits and reaccreditation
Andy led the team to re-define the business planning strategy for both JCT and NEC, continuously train all operational leads and ensure time was independently monitored on a weekly basis.
Every project that started & finished during his tenure finished on time or with a fully funded EOT.
Andy took over the team as they were struggling to meet the industry leading KPI's set at group level. Andy led a data based review of the targets and created simple actionable plans to address every item. Performance improvement was felt within 3 months.
Andy led the Regional diversity team focusing initially on gender parity and oversaw a 10% jump in his two year tenue. Initiatives included re-writing the job ads (nationally), piloting a Career Change Programme & launching a Mentoring Network with 60 individuals
After a challenge from an exec member for the business to truly understand the position of projects, live. Andy devised and launched a Measurement strategy. Taking the 5 defining KPI's to a projects success then digitising the process. Andy created a dashboard that gave a live objective view, nationwide, of critical performance on every project
Once these live objective measures were in place it gave the opportunity, not just to see problems live, but the opportunity to affect them.
Andy and his team then created a weekly escalation process where critical problems were independently reviewed then escalated systematically through the Senior Leadership Team to the Board within 3 days
Building on the success of the Measurement & Intervention strategies the subsequent challenge was to digitalise every KPI, both for projects and the business. Giving a single objective data source running from Project to Board, including weekly performance tracking directly to Supply Chain Partners. This work was completed within 9 months of conception.

Andy is an active Member of the Chartered Institute of Building

Andy's Woodmansterne School project won the Most Considerate Site in the UK in the £10 to £50m Category

Andy was awarded the Gold Medal in the Construction Manager of the Year Awards in 2019 form the Chartered Institute of Builders