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Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Multi Brand British Retailer, with large selection of brands ranging from Luxury, Streetwear, Contemporary, Outdoor, Active, Skate-wear, Homeware, Lifestyle and Apothecary products £6m turn over store, 14,000 square foot 2 story space. Responsible for over 50 employees. 2 x Assistant Store Managers, 4 x Supervisors, Visual Merchandiser + and selection of Sales, Stock and Cashier employees. Commission based retail, focusing on a premium level of customer service and relationship building and clienteling. Collaborated and worked with numerous high profile brands to deliver in-store installations, product launches and unique social and community events in and out of the store. The store was used as the company training and onboarding model store, with new management employees spending dedicated time within the store to understand company direction and ways of working as well as hosting existing management teams for regular retail meetings.

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

British Luxury Heritage retailer in Menswear, Womenswear & Non Apparel and Motorcycle products. Assuming Full Store Manager responsibilities of full running of stores on daily and weekly basis. Commission based retail, focusing on a premium level of customer service and relationship building. Working with higher value luxury products ranging up to £1,500+ price points for individual units. Managing team of highly skilled Sales associates ensuring they are set up with the necessary tools and communication of store targets and expectations, to achieve the very best results and deliver an exceptional in-store customer experience. Implementing new company directions and focuses under new ownership, Delivering training to team on all new company related goals and new product directions. Full ownership of the store teams daily productivity and Rota scheduling as well as all store recruitment. Daily analysis of commercial business and maximising on all trade opportunities.Operational planning daily, weekly, monthly. Setting up store expectation and operating processes, Deliveries, Stock transfers, Audits, Daily processing of online orders, replenishment of shop floor stock, Store security checks and banking procedures. Ownership of all store Visual launches, Space planning, reviewing product depth, category analyses and effective scheduling to ensure this runs smoothly as does not impact the stores open trading times. Leading regular Store visits and Video conference calls weekly with Head of retail, Talking through store performance in depth and weekly plans for trade and operations. Completing a full overview and detailed understanding of store business, KPI performance and reasoning behind any commercial decisions as well as people and operational plans.

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Assistant Store Manager of the New Allsaints Concept Store in Manchester Arndale. The store was designed to show how the brand wants to move forward in the future and present a newexperience to the customer.Responsibilities of Store Manager Level, Overseeing overall daily running of the store, ensuring the team are set up with the necessary tools and communication of store targets and expectations, toachieve the very best results and deliver an exceptional in-store customer experience.Full ownership of Recruitment through to team succession plans, Daily productivity and Rota scheduling. Daily analysis of commercial business and maximising on all trade opportunities.Operational planning daily, weekly, monthly. Setting up store expectation and operating processes, Deliveries, Company large scale stock transfers, Audits, Daily processing of online orders, replenishment of shop floor stock, Store security checks and banking procedures.Ownership of all store Visual launches, Space planning, reviewing product depth, category analyses and effective scheduling to ensure this runs smoothly as does not impact the stores open trading times.Leading regular monthly Store visits with all levels from Company Directors, Head of Retail, Area Management, Visual Managers. This involved full overview and detailed understanding of store business, KPI performance and reasoning behind any commercial decisions as well as people and operational plans.Video conference calls with Head of retail and Area management, Talking through store performance in depth and weekly plans for trade and operations.Working with team of Managers below myself, Overseeing their development and being their direct point of contact for daily, weekly expectations. Full ownership of their personal development plans and daily coaching with them to make them the best leaders they can be. Overseeing their development and promotions in store or to another store.

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Whilst closing the Manchester Market Street store to relocate inside the Manchester Arndale Centre. The company opened a temporary outlet store in a different unit inside the Arndale Centre alongside running of the previous store close down and the new store relocation process.An invaluable experience planning and executing the operations, closing and set ups of 3 separate units at one time over a two month period. Ensuring daily running of the outlet store remained at a high level whilst also spending time across the other two units overseeing operational processes of store set up and closure.

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Assistant Store Manager in £3m turnover company top 10 location. Luxury retailer in Menswear, Womenswear & Non Apparel. Start of new management structure in store. Worked to change the store's culture, strategy and daily running processes of the store.Rebuilt the team through management and recruitment of new additions and implemented new directions in training and on-boarding strategy.Implemented new ways of working, established new working standards. Working alongside Store Manager to achieve all stores new goals and deliver consistency in stores overall performance and running.

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Senior Floor manager in £3m turnover company top 10 location. Luxury retailer in Menswear, Womenswear & Non Apparel. Team size 35+ during peak seasonal trade. Ensuring the highest level of customer experience is maintained at all times, with personal client relations and through the in store team. Controlling overall daily running of the store, all operations, developing and leading the Junior management and sales teams.

Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Menswear Manager of £3.9m turnover company top 10 location. Team of 45+Responsible for Recruitment, developing and leading the sales team. Commercial analysis and visual merchandising. Joined the store in October 2016, Week 39 of the retail year. Store sitting in £130k gross sales deficit. Brought in as part of Management change to turn this loss around. 13 weeks later WK 52 (End of year) the store had recovered £92k of the loss ending the year -1%.

Sheffield, England, United Kingdom

£2.6M turnover company top 10 store. Approached for the role to support in rebuilding the store team and put in place clear standards and working methods. Oversaw training of Junior Management and in store Sales Team, Floor Service, Visual standards, Rota planning, Store operations and recruitment. Supported Head office Visual Merchandising team in implementing Trial of New company visual zoning initiative and supported further roll out of this across other stores.

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

£1.8m Menswear Store Turnover.Menswear Store Lifting £58k during 2015 financial year. Full ownership of all Store management responsibilities, Running of store, Planning, Recruitment. Wage and Rota costs.

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

£2.7M Duel Site turn over, £161k lift 2015 Menswear Store +£58K / Womenswear Store +£103K. Working underneath Duel Site Store Manager. Assisting in all Store management responsibilities, Daily running of store, Planning, Recruitment, Wage Cost and Rota planning and Visual Merchandising.

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

Supervisor and In store Visual Merchandiser over Duel Site location for Menswear and Womenswear separate stores. Continuing with previous responsibilitie as well as being part of a select team from the company that supported the Head Office Visual Merchandising Team in this period with monthly company visual directives. Travelling to London Head office each month to complete these with the Creative VM team, creating the trends and layouts then sent to all company stores to replicate.

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

Duel site role across both the Menswear and Womenswear stores, Situated opposite each other in separate units. Supported management in running of store as well as delivering highest individual sales of the in store team.

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