WMG

Jan Godsell is currently a Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Strategy at WMG, University of Warwick. Univerity. Her work focuses on the pursuit of more responsible consumption and production through the alignment of product, marketing and supply chain strategy with consumer needs. In particular Jan’s work focuses on the design of end-to-end supply chains to enable, responsibility, sustainability, flexibility and productivity.  She leads the Supply Chain Research Group and the Supply Chains in Practice (SCIP) industrial collaborator forum. From 1st September 2021, she will become the Dean of the School of Business and Economics at Loughborough University. 

As a chartered engineer, Jan has more than two decades of combined industry experience in product development, innovation, supply chain strategy, and process improvement working for ICI, Astra Zeneca and Dyson. She has advised government and industry on supply chain strategy and its relationship to industrial and business strategy. Jan is currently a member of the Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) supply chain resilience advisory group. Jan is also a member of the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF) advisory groups for Manufacturing Made Smarter and Driving the Electric Revolution. She is also the co-director of the Made Smarter Network+.

I work as a Lead Engineer in WMG's Supply Chain Research Group, where I focus on developing, growing, and anchoring supply chain capability and resilience for manufacturing supply chains. 
  
I graduated from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki with an MEng in Mechanical Engineering and from Warwick Manufacturing Group, University of Warwick, with an MSc in Engineering Business Management in the top 1% of my class.

I started my career in a new product development function for an agricultural SME, where I assisted with product design, operations, procurement, and supply chain design. I joined WMG as an Analyst, where I worked with Jaguar, Land Rover, Siemens, Vodafone, and Highways England, among others, to identify collaborative business opportunities for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles. Being promoted to the role of Project Engineer I continued to work on developing strategic and commercially viable supply chains for emerging technologies, as well as developing digital tools and appropriate methodologies to maximise the role of UK suppliers. Currently, I am leading the development of the Supply Chain Resilience Hub, which will serve as a cornerstone for post-pandemic recovery, as well as managing a team of project engineers for the Supply Chain Research Group's applied research project portfolio.

I am a Project Engineer of WMG focusing on the supply chain management (SCM) section. I acquired my master’s degree in supply chain and logistics management at University of Warwick; Bachelor’s degree in SCM at Michigan State University, which ranks No.1 in SCM in US. I am certified in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM) and certified in Transportation and Logistics (CTL).

I have 5 years of working experience mainly at a Fortune 500 automotive company in SCM field including purchasing, operation, warehousing, and logistics across multiple international projects around the world. I joined WMG last year and previously focused on distribution and manufacturing research to establish a more sustainable and resilient manufacturing environment in UK.