Geoffrey Allen Email & Phone Number

looking after the TECH area and general store sales

Athlone

Objective: To integrate into a new team, and push on to be a valued member of the team.Responsibility: I primarily have a sales roles within the team selling home appliances and entertainment devices. My role is also to look after digital area, displays and presentation.Key Achievements: To be updated......

Galway & Drogheda

• Objective: To motivate and train clients to achieve their health, fitness or weight loss goals. • Responsibilities: My duties are to instruct correct use of the fitness equipment and ensuring that technique and quality of the exercise is to their advantage in achieving their goal. I would motivate and care for the client’s safety and wellbeing. Instruct clients on the sásta meal plan and how healthy nutrition ties into the exercise and this can be the difference between achieving their goal and not. I would also look after Facebook posts and response to traffic coming from the digital marketing. • Key achievements: Successfully motivating clients to achieve their health, fitness and weight loss goals.

Athlone

• Objective: As general manager of the leisure centre, I was to bring a technical experience to leisure centre where there was little of before, as well as day to day running of the different departments and oversee the rebranding & renovations of the centre. • Responsibilities: Staff development, management & training; weekly and monthly balancing of arcade machines, vending machines and tills, reporting and recording of this information; procurement of new business whilst maintaining existing customer relations; organising events and market these events through the different channels of digital marketing, social media and local newspaper. • Key achievements: Developing a new website by sourcing a reputable web designer, assisting in the design and later maintenance of the professional out lay of the website, keeping it fresh & current of the latest company offerings. I developed my digital marketing, design, social media and marketing in general from this experience.I successfully hosted a new event idea “Halloween Spooktactular Fun Day” where I negotiated a deal with a professional photographer and artist to capture images of children in costume with digital background effects whilst the kids played and had fun in our activity centre. I created a digital database of schools locally and nationally for marketing purposes; this was used to assist with the rolling out of the “The Great Athlone Adventure Tour 2014”, mail and advertising campaign. I also implemented the HACCP Food Safety Program and trained all staff in its importance of health & food safety to our customers.

Maynooth And Mullingar

● Objective: My primary aim was to manage and develop the retail store from a B store, to an A store whilst developing my staffs skills and ensuring customer retention. Further goals included achieving and exceeding monthly targets through sales, and also maintaining and increasing the PC service area within the store.● Responsibilities: I had the responsibility of dealing with suppliers in regards to stock replenishment, stock costs and purchasing. I had to procure new business through sales targeting schools & colleges, local businesses.Managing and motivating staff to increase sales and ensuring store efficiency.Analysing store performances and implementing strategies set by the area manager.Reporting accurate information to area manager of sales, targets, stocks and local competitor awareness and analysing this information to ensure best practise.Providing high level of customer satisfaction, in keeping with company policies and procedures.● Key achievements: Developing a highly skilled technical team and provided stability within a store, which previously endured a high staff turnover.With the skilled team, I help to engage their knowledge and create the best service working area within the company and later our model was rolled out to the other outlets.I improved the store rating from a B store, to an A store by achieving sales targets and developing the store in locality as a reliable and knowledgeable place to shop.Received an award for outstanding achievement in sales and service to the company.

Midlands Region

● Objective: Provide a ground presence in the Midlands region for the company and maximise sales & service to existing customer base. Procure new leads and develop the business in the region for the supply of copy and print managements systems of Ricoh Ireland on behalf of Digi-Net Business Solutions. ● Responsibilities: My duties were to develop new business in the region and actively maintain existing accounts by providing a high level of customer service. I had to cold call on new opportunities and achieve my sales targets.● Key achievements: I gained valuable insight into a field sales role and knowledge of the different products that are available to business and offices from a print management company.

Athlone, Westmeath

● Objective: To be an integral part of an efficient team and drive sales in the consumer electronics store by communicating and listening to customers and ensuring a high level of customer service.● Responsibilities: My duties included having to prepare, present and merchandise the retail floor daily. Achieve weekly and monthly targets set by management. Provide high standards of customer service to both the public and business clients alike, dealing with and resolving customer issues by repairing and providing technical assistance. Negotiating large orders and building great rapport with clients. ● Key achievements: Sales exceeding €90,000 profit in one year. Reliable attribute for technical abilities in problem solving and negotiating the best possible outcomes for both company and customers.

Athlone, Tullamore & Mullingar

● Objective: To be part of a busy team and drive sales in the consumer electronics store by communicating and listening to customers and ensuring a high level of customer service.● Responsibilities: Greet and welcome customers to the store, sell and provide technical and knowledgeable assistance to their issues, setup and install television & home entertainment systems on a daily basis. I would have monthly targets and KPI’s to achieve whilst focussing on providing optimum customer service at all times. ● Key achievements: This experience provided me with a launch pad into fundamental skills and knowledge required to succeed in this sector.

Tullamore

● Objective: To operate a machine as part of a team in assembling parts for Dell Desktops.● Responsibilities: My duties included the assembly of Dell computer casings and inspection of quality arriving out of the machine. ● Key achievements: As a team we full filled all targets and quotas set by management.

Athlone, Westmeath

● Objective: Selling of motor Insurance products by receiving Inbound calls.● Responsibilities: Main duties in this role were to supply motor Insurance to the over 25’s population with some administrative duties, such as recording of information and filing of the customers details to the correct department.● Key achievements: Achieved target in my first month.

Athlone, Westmeath

● Objective: Cold calling customers of UK bank and Credit Card companies and sell additional products and services. ● Responsibilities: I was involved in personally answering up to and over 300 calls daily while selling insurance policies for the top five British banks, also international credit card companies. I was involved in team development through staff meetings, also achieving weekly sales targets.● Key achievement: The highest number of sales on a product for MBNA in one day, considered by team the campaign manager as highly motivated with an excellent phone manner.

Certificate In Frontline Management, Frontline Management, Pass

Activities and Societies: None as it were a part time course Modules Completed: ● Second Year, 2008-2009: Business Studies and Human.

Certification In The Fundamentals Of Computers, Hardware And Software, Pass

Modules covered: • Fundamentals of computer hardware basic input and output services. • Equal skills training in software programs such.