Jason Ashcroft [He/Him] Email & Phone Number

Calne, Gb

United Kingdom

Successfully performed TUPE transfer for 3500 Argos colleagues into Sainsbury’s within agreed timeImplemented a voluntary sign-up for Argos colleagues to adopt Sainsburys’ T&Cs and pay structure to support business alignment, reporting a 91% first time sign-upRolled out alignment across a 15K-strong Regional Fulfilment Centres, eBay and Clearance team; coordinated with Union reps and presented a strong case with positive results reflected in the ballotImplemented Colleague Communications and Engagement and incentivisation blueprint from concept to delivery resulting in a 98.9% 1-2-1 engagement metric across a 3-week window

Berkshire, Hampshire And Surrey

Ownership of all business development activity and operational performance of 200 colleagues within 29 stores delivering an annual revenue of £48MProject Managed business unit for new ‘Café 1869’ and bakery operations to be rolled out on time across the group from inception to launch; delivering a 6% year on year increase in sales-revenue, including largest company sales increase due to coffee up-sellLed a Regional Fish Counter to win the National Supermarket MSC Award 2017Incorporating and managing budgets at Regional level to be cascaded to local level to support wider business objectivesCollaboration with Regional Operations Manager to identify business opportunities and areas of the business where Lean measures would be implemented to reduce costs and wasteEmbedding a culture of health and safety coaching with a focus on food safety compliance and health and safety in the workplace concerning product placements and equipment operations

Witney Oxfordshire

Management of retail operations of £50M revenue store with +500 staff, leading a team of 8 managers; delivering agreed financial benchmarks in coordination with mystery shopper targetsAchieved labour cost targets following a pattern of placing the right people in the right place at the right time with follow up 1-2-1 coaching to consolidate staffing structure and optimise performanceInfusing each department with a customer-centric approach, ensuring maximum repeat business by creating an optimised customer experienceImplemented processes to review team performance, enhanced with continuous 1-2-1 coaching with a pathway to regional succession plans to capture and progress talent

Recruitment, management and ongoing development of a 48-strong team; delivering year on year sales growth of 12% for Bakery, 8% for Grocery and 6% for ProduceCreated a legacy of reductions in miscellaneous losses in Bakery by 4% which equated to £1.2M and reduced expenditure due to waste by 2.5%Developed 2 team members to the level of Department Manager within 2 years

South England

Business Partnering to SCC Retail, property and development teams; main point-of-contact for HR legal direction and process support and management, including store closure and infill investmentSuccessfully led and managed multiple people and process change projects simultaneously whilst rolling out a new business model with a newly integrated teamDelivered 93% redeployment benchmarks following Regional and Store Manager upskillingDivisional HR support for the ‘lead the way’ retail management restructure programme, implementing consistency in approach and process across the group HR Lead during the opening of Croydon Regional Fulfilment Centre, incorporating retail management restructure, recruitment, role profile, performance evaluation and salary benchmarkingProject Managed UK-wide ‘Fast Track Delivery’ redeployment into Fulfilment Operations Authored management and colleague support guides as a one-stop online management support tool

Performing a broad range of tasks and functions as an HR Generalist including the authoring of people policies, conducting disciplinary and grievance actions, recruitment and selectionOwnership and accountability of Health and Safety process implementation across 3 sites; customer relations, sourcing, procurement and inventory control

Associate'S Degree, Cipd Hr Personal Developement, Lecturate

City & Guilds 120A/B 121, Bakery, Credit

High School