Andrew Eades Email & Phone Number

Cardiff, Gb

Cardiff, United Kingdom

I am currently working with large UK Retailers including Peacocks, Jane Norman and the Edinburgh Wollen Mill to help drive incremental growth within their businesses.I can help identify what steps they need to take to drive growth, as well as helping see through implementations of those plans. My background is in UK retail, but also with a solid background in Magento development, bricks and mortar retail and online. Giving me a unique position and outlook on available solutions.I have launched large scale multichannel projects in the past, and have excellent relationships with many ecommerce solution providers.If you need advice or help growing your ecommerce business, then i would love to hear from you.

Cardiff, United Kingdom

Website Development company specialising in Magento and Wordpress. We have a team of Developers, Designers and content writers helping businesses all over the UK grow their online presence and salesOnline Graphic Design (Branding / Banners, Websites)Print Graphic Design (Flyers, Posters, Logos)Magento DevelopmentWordpress DevelopmentPHP DevelopmentSearch Engine OptimisationPPCContent Writing

Swansea, United Kingdom

Drove incremental traffic and growth to the website through new website initiatives and best practice online solutions

I joined the company in 2007 when it had only 6 stores and a basic £1.2 million online business. Over last 5 years I have led the team; driving a 45% year-on-year growth with increasingly higher profits. I have contributed to the growth of the company, relaunching the website, introducing reserve and collect and increasing store footfall through online campaigns to help it become the biggest outdoor company in the UK.GOoutdoors.co.uk is now the 1st most visited outdoor website in the UK and 10th most visited website in the sports and fitness category (Hitwise - Jan to June 2010, July to Dec 2010)My key achievements and experiences during my time at GO Outdoors:• New Website Re-Design / Re-Build - Improved navigation structure, SEO and functionality; Increasing and maximising the online sales (+77%) and increasing visits by 58%.• Introduced and led multichannel functions into the business - including reserve and collect (£3 Million Sales over first 7months).• Created £500k company wide promotional campaigns; driving footfall and sales into stores/web through Multichannel Marketing, including Email, Mobile, Web, PPC and Social.• Streamlined the E-commerce Operations and Call center department’s, by removing unnecessary processes and finding better ways to achieve our goals.• I attend weekly trading meetings; have involvement in company decisions, present the web/multi-channel figures and provide new opportunities for the business.• Experience speaking at board level on a monthly basis and at our supplier conference with over 200 people attending• I designed a new dedicated warehouse (layout, stock, systems/processes) to maximise fulfilment and allow growth. I worked closely with the Head of Property, IT, HR, & Operations.

Sheffield

System Specification for New functionality on the website, to enhance customer experience & improve operation processes, HTML + CSS + SQL. Ensuring the development of the website's have proven ROI, increase Visitors and conversion to meet the needs of the business

Managing the E-Commerce OperationsManaging a team of Pickers, Packers and a small call centre.Ensuring Customers are dealt with effectivelyImproving Processes

Coventry

Managing the products, stock and backend Functionality to improve the sales and order management of the website. Tasked with enhancing the catalog of 1000 products and ensuring all 7000+ products were on the website.

This was a part time job whilst still studying, and gave me a good insight into how a distribution center operates. During the time i was there i worked the whole process, from picking through to packing and loading.The experience proved useful in my future roles at GO Outdoors

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