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Experience Partner Intimeprofit August 2009 – Present (3 year 4 months) Maidstone, Kent Intime PROFIT offers a unique opportunity to increase the profitability of your business.We are an advisory practice specialising in guiding owner / directors of small to medium sized businesses and partnerships towards increasing profits through time-managed, deliverable and accountable activity. Proven methodology and simple business science will help you:• cut… Show more Experience Partner Intimeprofit August 2009 – Present (3 year 4 months) Maidstone, Kent Intime PROFIT offers a unique opportunity to increase the profitability of your business.We are an advisory practice specialising in guiding owner / directors of small to medium sized businesses and partnerships towards increasing profits through time-managed, deliverable and accountable activity. Proven methodology and simple business science will help you:• cut costs• add value• and increase sustainable, profitable new business.By working with intime PROFIT you open your doors to fresh insight and your mind to fresh ideas. Through weekly meetings we help stimulate thoughts, actions and routines that enable you to reach out to your market, further and more effectively. Business practice will improve as disciplines are tightened. Your actions will return favourably to the revitalised efforts you put in. Your intime advisor introduces a wealth of relevant experience in successful business management, insight and profitable growth. As a client, you remain totally in control. Your advisor helps you set weekly targets, combining innovation with a new level of motivation. We recognise that ‘change is constant’, so as your business develops we adjust the proven intime PROFIT 3 Step Process to ensure profitable growth – Review, Plan, Action.Guidance is tailored to the industry (your business), the business manager (you) and the business environment (your resources, location, market and audience). Show less

Responsible for running a successful business, motivating staff, ensuring that budgets are controlled and adhered to and targets are achieved consistently Managing between 350 - 400 staff with responsibility for ensuring that the highest standards of customer service and efficiency are maintained throughout the storeEnsuring that the store consistently achieved an average turnover of £24 - £30 million with takings of approximately £0.5 million per week Responsible for encouraging… Show more Responsible for running a successful business, motivating staff, ensuring that budgets are controlled and adhered to and targets are achieved consistently Managing between 350 - 400 staff with responsibility for ensuring that the highest standards of customer service and efficiency are maintained throughout the storeEnsuring that the store consistently achieved an average turnover of £24 - £30 million with takings of approximately £0.5 million per week Responsible for encouraging, coaching and developing the team to ensure that all sales and profit targets are achievedPlaying a pivotal role in ensuring that all relevant legal food and health and safety requirements are followedActively involved in local community events and organisations such as charities, town centre management, schools and the WIKey AchievementsIncreased year on year profitability from 2% to 4% during period managing the storeInstrumental in taking the store from being a failing store and achieving only 2 out of 12 KPI's to achieving 10 out of 12 KPI's Show less

Over this period was manager of Canterbury, Larkfield, Sittingbourne, Whitstable and Ashford. In all stores had responsibility for ensuring that the high levels of customer service were maintained, health and safety was adhered to and targets and budgets were metKey AchievementsSuccessfully managed Canterbury store from 2002 - 2007, maintaining profitability and overcoming the obstacle of a large ASDA store opening up in close proximityManaged Larkfield store in 2001 and… Show more Over this period was manager of Canterbury, Larkfield, Sittingbourne, Whitstable and Ashford. In all stores had responsibility for ensuring that the high levels of customer service were maintained, health and safety was adhered to and targets and budgets were metKey AchievementsSuccessfully managed Canterbury store from 2002 - 2007, maintaining profitability and overcoming the obstacle of a large ASDA store opening up in close proximityManaged Larkfield store in 2001 and successfully managed to maintain customer service throughout a refit of store without the store actually closingInstrumental in successfully managing the Whitstable store through a major extension in 1996 which resulted in a 40% increase in trade; Appointed to manage the Sittingbourne store twice. Initially in 1994 after the recession was tasked to deal with the store having lost 30% of its trade to a nearby ASDA and managed to achieve staffing adjustments without redundancies. Then in 1998 appointed to manage the new Sittingbourne store and from previous knowledge was able to influence the marketing department to increase projected trade levels by 25%, thus ensuring correct stock and staff levels to provide the right levels of servicePlayed a key role in the opening of a new store in Ashford in 1992 having managed the previous store and a staff of 300 in 1990Appointed regional Health and Safety Food Champion in 2003 with responsibility for dealing with any specific health and safety issues Show less

Throughout this time was Grocery Manager of the new Peckham Store, Senior Department Manager of the Crystal Palace Store, Deputy Manager of the Bexleyheath Store, Lee Green Store and Tonbridge StoreKey AchievementsSuccessfully overhauled the ordering and replenishment system and brought the Bexleyheath Store up to the required standard in 1985Achieved clear progression from smaller to larger stores and then ultimately to store manager of Ashford in 1990

Actively involved in the merchandising of all new store openings, refits and extensions with responsibility for managing a team of up to 50 merchandisers as well as ensuring all products are ordered and delivered at the right time and liaising with store staff, management, suppliers and builders

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