Connor Thomas Email & Phone Number

Cannock Wood, England, United Kingdom

Stuck In The Mud is an open age, all ability run club. A community putting one foot in front of the other to tackle anxiety and depression. 1 of 4 people in the UK will experience a mental health problem of some kind each year in England. Stuck In The Mud hosts a weekly run club (Thursday) at📍7pm. The meeting point is Burntwood Rugby Club Car Park, Chase Water❗️❗️. With the ambition to get a great bunch of people together who will run, walk, skip or roll their way through a 5K. Chat to one another, check in on those around you and how they are really feeling. It’s all about getting moving, giving the mind a break and being social.

• Manage operational capacity and resource deployment to achieve all Equipment Designs for New Stores, Refits, and International. Developing a minimum of 10 store plans a week, recent example ‘Wilko Acquisitions – 56 stores opened in 5 weeks.”• Communicated and influenced others at the director/head of levels to drive action and continuous improvement cross-functionally.• Led a team of cross-functional design, project management, and construction staff to consistently meet and exceed project KPI targets.• Proposed detailed and strategic updates to drive the impact of existing layouts. Recent Example, DRS Scheme in the Republic of Ireland.• Produced detailed feasibility reports, design proposals, and project updates to stakeholders, facilitating positive relations and soliciting feedback.• Competitor Visits/Store Visits to ensure designs are current, relevant, and on-trend.• Developing and defining Store Planning Principles.

• Cross-functional working with buyers, merchandisers to create and maintain our Visual Merchandising Planograms churning every week.• Developing team members through 1-2-1 and Reviews.• Create, develop, and implement strategic micro/macro planning initiatives to drive sales and profitability across all retail stores.• Analyze sales and space data, and customer behavior to identify opportunities for space optimization and visual merchandising improvements.• Presenting recommendations for new fixture solutions that will drive incremental sales and margin growth.• Setting critical paths and defining strategy to ensure projects are delivered effectively.

Willenhall, West Midlands, United Kingdom

• Defining Yearly Critical Paths for all Macro Merchandise Layout changes alongside the Store Planning Manager.• Providing seasonal planogram support to maximize sales performance across FMCG/GM categories inline with seasonal buying critical path.• Conducting regular site visits to validate the implementation and ensure customer experience is at its optimum.• Develop equipment Layouts to include Clothing and Frozen Food Ranges by manipulating existing store space to ensure incremental growth.

Willenhall, West Midlands, United Kingdom

• Designing all macro merchandise changes through AutoCAD based on Project Brief, 820 stores including UK and ROI.• Generating Sales Per Bay analysis for stores using PowerBI to ensure product mix within stores meets customer behavior driving basket spending and overall profitability. • Launching new macro trial planograms during the ‘Simple Price’ movement.

Erdington

Duties – Including all of the below. Responsible for Health & Safety compliance ensuring a score of at least 85% is achieved. Duty managing on days the store manager is not in-store ensuring all functions of the shop run to the standard expected including tills/coffee shop. Continually improving service scores and reducing number of customer complaints. Deputizing for Store Manager in absence, which may mean conducting business reviews with area manager/company directors or managing annual campaigns.

Solihull, United Kingdom

Duties – Reported to the Store Manager. Full accountability for profit & loss, responsible for driving store sales and profit performance. Ensuring the correct product mix was presented along the shop floor to improve weekly cash earner sales, top ten and impulse sales. Managed support functions such as stock audit and visual merchandising. Coached Team Leaders and Sales Executive to drive their personal performance as well as business performance. Drove profit performance alongside Stock Team Leader ensuring a strong cost management was upheld and continually delivered stock processes based off daily routine which lead to major improvements on our stock tracker which moved from -5.5% to -2.1%.

Walsall, United Kingdom

Duties – Managed all rotas for a store team with 30 colleagues, set up winter sale in a store with a weekly budget of £85,000. Delivered a weekly revenue improvement by 30% and Finished Winter Sale with the 16th highest sale participation out of the whole company. Led the re-merchandising of the Spring Summer 2018 product over a 7 week period of night shifts to ensure store was refreshed after a busy Winter Sale Period.

Leicester, United Kingdom

Duties – Ensuring that commerciality is at the heart of all merchandising decisions on Soft Goods. Working with Buying Managers and Merchandise Managers to ensure the stock decisions we’re making are correct for the business, and are the best decisions possible for key stakeholders such as stores. Coaching and aiding a small team when help is required or work needs validating before launch. Applying myself to projects such as Keep It Simple to try and ensure that workload is at its most efficient state and that we’re not wasting resource or time.

Leicester, United Kingdom

Duties – Creating briefs that all Dunelm stores follow when merchandising stock. Liaising with Merchandisers, Buying teams and suppliers to ensure stock is allocated correctly and innovating how space is used to increase churn and increase profitability within sections that may not be performing at their best. Analyzing financial information weekly and KPI’s, to help stores react to trade feedback so that profitability is at its best. Working with software such as excel, Spaceman, SAP to ensure everything required in the role is completed to the highest quality.

Ws11 1Td, Cannock

Duties – Whilst working as a sales executive, I continuously worked to improve myself on the ‘management programmes.’ These programmes developed me by teaching me all the qualities needed to be a manager, these being: Sales, customer service, cash management, merchandising, warehouse management, stock replenishment, ordering process, duty management through step up, sale setup, team leading, key holding and hospitality duties (informal role). Due to excellent performance in-store, I was recommended for a job by my area manager. This recommendation lead to me successfully getting the job.