• Many transferable skills including: continual multitasking, making on the spot decisions, dealing with unexpected situations, being adaptable, providing feedback, hitting targets, dealing with delicate situations, planning, influencing and motivating others, negotiating, presenting and teamwork.• Teaching the 11-16 age range mathematics including the GCSE qualification• Responsible for pupil progress and hitting targets• Form tutor taking on pastoral duties – for example: guiding students to develop on a personal level, dealing with personal and data situations, supporting students with issues, behaviour management• Management and tracking of student performance• Day to day duties including lunch/break duties, preparing lessons, marking books, assessing students, pastoral duties.• Mentoring and training of PGCE students to gain their teacher training qualification.

• Many transferable skills including: continual multitasking, making on the spot decisions, dealing with unexpected situations, being adaptable, providing feedback, hitting targets, dealing with delicate situations, planning, influencing and motivating others, negotiating, presenting and teamwork.• Teaching the 11-16 age range mathematics including the GCSE qualification• Responsible for pupil progress and hitting targets• Form tutor taking on pastoral duties – for example: guiding students to develop on a personal level, dealing with personal situations, supporting students with issues, behaviour management• Management and tracking of student performance and data• Day to day duties including lunch/break duties, preparing lessons, marking books, assessing students, pastoral care.

•Category and product management of frozen, dairy, deli, fresh, bread, cakes and catering.•Monitoring and improving sales, income and margin.•Negotiating pricing/promotions and terms with suppliers.•Improving ranges and sourcing new products to both better the range and improve cost prices.•Effectively communicating with, leading and mentoring the depot buyers to improve their category sales.•Manage stock appreciations and losses.

·Continually use my strong numerical and analytical abilities to analyse and monitor sales/data/pricing/promotions and to create forecasts.·Responsible for 5 product groups.·Make data driven decisions to achieve the best results for the business.·Responsible for management of clearance stock to minimize obsolete stock and financial loss - cleared £56k worth of old stock in 4 weeks (89% of clearance for my areas)·Being on top of competitors; their ranging, pricing and activity.·Be customer focused to source new products where there are gaps in ranges and improve existing ranges, whilst ensuring the best commercial outcome and building in areas of growth.·Experience of sourcing from both UK suppliers and via the Far East.·Negotiate product ranges, terms and promotional support with suppliers.·Resourcing to obtain cost savings of £66k a year in one instance·Deliver end to end range reviews including packaging development with excellent sales and margin results improvement·Develop strong relationships with both suppliers and colleagues for effective cross functional working.·Communicating effectively and being able to influence for effective cross functional working e.g. with suppliers, quality, supply, presentation, promotions, HAL Asia.·Developing promotional initiatives and measuring results, eg. increasing sales by 76.8% via an online only promotion·Developing and delivering marketing projects including POS, store merchandising and store communication for implementation.

•Being creating and innovative – creating ways to promote and highlight products and offers to give stand out to increase sales•Designing posters/ point of sale / in store prints tickets to catch the customers attention ensure knowledge of our promotions / services offered.•Briefing press and promotional adverts, ensuring customer awareness to drive footfall.•Communicating with stores UK wide to ensure our marketing strategies are implemented correctly, and ensure colleagues are kept up to date with the latest information.•Ensuring legality on our prices/adverts etc.•Working to produce and sign off PR documents•Working on space planning for product layout•Ensuring we always meet and comply with our brand standards to give the strongest and most consistent message to our customers•Monitoring competitor activity for products and pricing on a daily basis•Working alongside suppliers such as TomTom and Garmin to ensure we have the most up to date product range to keep up with market trends, competitive prices and exclusives while negotiating for deals, rebates and contributions to support our promotions.•Designing and implementing range changes•Working with the multi-channel team to ensure the web-site is up to date with new products in order to drive further sales, whist ensuring products are promoted as effectively as can be.

• Being passionate about the company I worked for, believing in the product and services we sold, and passing this message across to potential members to ensure conversion of sales.•Touring and selling memberships for the club, keeping the member database up to date, calling leads and prospects to get booked in / signed up, paperwork.•Meeting monthly sales targets via sales and upgrading memberships.

·Provided excellent customer service, cash handling, ordering, making displays, filling shelves, answering phones/dealing with customers over the phone/calling customers about orders or previous queries and assisting on the shop floor, at checkouts and at the information desk. ·I also undertook roles in price checking, ad-hocs and gap walks, cash office trained and undertook a mini project to attempt to increase sales of a product.

·I undertook the beginnings of educational training with CIMA (Chartered Institute of Management Accounting) and undertook an orientation on the NHS viewing various areas/departments/functions in the NHS to gain an overall insight.·Preparing to become a future leader of the NHS.