Christopher Reece Email & Phone Number

Ossett, GB

Bradford, England, United Kingdom

• Responsibilities:
• Managing a variety of categories, for example Household and Pet, Frozen and currently Beers, Wines and Spirits. Category takings of £1.98bn for the past 12 months, up to £120mn per week in peak periods.
• Managing a team of specialists and shared resource by supporting their development.
• Reporting to directors and other high-level management regarding team performance, issues faced and high profile promotions.
• Working with suppliers to improve efficiencies and reduce costs.Achievements:
• Improving business team ways of working by ensuring the team own supply chain meetings and communicate issues.

Bradford, England, United Kingdom

• Responsibilities:
• Managing a variety of categories, for example Household and Pet, Frozen and currently Beers, Wines and Spirits. Category takings of £1.98bn for the past 12 months, up to £120mn per week in peak periods.
• Managing a team of specialists and shared resource by supporting their development.
• Reporting to directors and other high-level management regarding team performance, issues faced and high profile promotions.
• Working with suppliers to improve efficiencies and reduce costs.Achievements:
• Improving business team ways of working by ensuring the team own supply chain meetings and communicate issues.

Bradford, England, United Kingdom

Responsibilities; - Managing a team of seven specialists and three collaboration managers. - Managing colleagues development plans and ensuring they have the tools available to succeed. - Challenging poor performance and looking for constant improvement within the team.- Working with other stakeholders across the business to ensure we support in store.

Bradford, United Kingdom

• Responsibilities:
• Managing a team of 7 people to ensure targets are met. Also ensuring the team follows GSOP legislation.
• Reporting to directors and other high level management regarding team performance, issues faced and high profile promotions.
• Leading a depot move and arranging for stock to be transferred between the old and new site for 900 products.
• Engaging with key stakeholders regarding promotional plans, range changes and other activity to ensure business needs are met.
• Working with logistics colleagues to ensure that pick estimates are accurate and costs are not exceeded in this area.

Bradford, United Kingdom

• Responsibilities:‬
• Day to day ordering of all products that the company takes from the UK.
• Import products from around the world, some countries that I have worked with are Australia, Chile and South Africa, France and Germany.
• Plan and deliver high value promotions in store through detailed planning and effectively communicating with the commercial team.
• Responsible for forecasting and purchasing plans.
• Work with suppliers to ensure availability and build value to joint business plans.

Tockwith

• Responsibilities:
• Analysis of a major retailer’s purchasing and financial data.
• Creating formal claims to suppliers for significant monies owed.
• Forecasting supplier audit periods and meeting audit targets.
• Formatting financial audits, creating supporting evidence and sending claims.Achievements:
• Substantial commercial understanding of corporate finance.

Leeds, United Kingdom

• Responsibilities:
• Have public interaction when serving them on the tills and when serving them their food.
• Following all health and safety procedures thoroughly when working with food to avoid any problems.
• Deal with cash transactions at the till point and then counting the money at the end of the day.
• Using receipts for orders I had to ensure that all orders had been delivered correctly and that our store had received all the food that had been ordered.Achievements:
• Understanding of the commercial environment.

Bachelor’S Degree, Accounting And Finance, 2:1

Applied Science (C) Law (D) General Studies (D)

Education record

Activities and Societies: Cricket Team, Rugby Team.Maths (A), Religious Education (A), Applied Science (BB), English Literature (B).