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England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

Essex, England, United Kingdom

Southend On Sea, United Kingdom

• Overall responsibility for overseeing the smooth day to day operation of dual stores with a combined annual turnover of £40m operating in a Regional shopping centre Flagship location and high street shopping centre.
• Managing and directing a team of 10 Managers, 16 Supervisors and up to 450 colleagues, with a total payroll in excess of £2.5m and controllable expenses of £600k
• Overseeing dual stores with multiple departments including beauty, jewellery, luggage, furniture, footwear, womenswear, numerous concessions, 3 restaurants (now outsourced), and formerly also a foreign currency kiosks.
• Monitoring the movement of cash, banking, cash safe, cash delivery, cash pickup, vouchers, and foreign currency
• Ensuring the ongoing training and development of the teams
• Assisting in the interviewing and selection process for Manager positions

Westfield Sheppards Bush London

• Reporting to a Senior Store Manager, leading a team of 13 Divisional Managers for a flagship store consisting of 250 colleagues in a high profile West London shopping centre
• Assisting overseeing the smooth day to day operation of the store and maintaining standards of customer service
• Cultivating good ongoing relationships with internal and external stakeholders such as store support, shopping mall managers, external business managers and consumers
• Overseeing the security, health & safety and wellbeing of colleagues and consumers
• Managing financial budgets of circa £9m with an annual turnover of £30m
• Ensuring that P&L is within set budget

West Thurrock, Essex, United Kingdom

• Reporting to a central team of project coordinators in a £3m store overhaul, with full budget control for £110k store implementation, with the store still operational
• Managing and leading a team of 12 colleagues on a project with a total of up to 200 people working on it at any one time
• Overall responsibility for overseeing all areas from health and safety to customer visuals and experience
• Liaising with store staff to ensure all were kept up to date on developments, and that customers were informed
• Facilitating presentations to the staff to prepare them for the planned works
• Looking at technical drawings and providing input to ensure that the correct configurations were implemented into the store

West Thurrock And Basildon

• Reporting directly to the Store Manager, managing a combined team of 70 colleagues across 3 Divisions
• Provided ongoing coaching and mentoring to ensure the team delivered an exceptional Shopping Experience for the customers
• Successfully achieved budgeted profit

• Reporting to the Store Manager and Area Director
• Managing multi-site facilities including solo units, encompassing a team of up to 500 colleagues and 12 Managers
• Worked in Flagship, High Density, High Turnover and Problematic stores, the last with circa £70m turnover p/a
• Successfully managed 2 store development projects
• Store Liaison for coordinating contractors and configuration of the store
• Project Lead on a 3 month project for the introduction of a Homeware Department at the Brentwood store

Colchester, United Kingdom

• Lance CorporalHM ARMED FORCES (ROYAL LOGISTICS CORPS)
• Trained as a Chef, part of a unit in 19 Regiment Royal Artillery
• Undertook a 6 month tour of duty in Cyprus with the UN, as a Chef cooking for 10-15 personnel
• Undertook a 6 month tour of duty in Kosovo, working in field kitchens initially, with a team of 7 chefs
• Completed tours of duty and exercises in Canada and Germany

Education record

Education record