John Kavanagh Email & Phone Number

Essex, England, United Kingdom

Promoted to Regional Manager after a successful 6 months secondment leading the Essex Region and delivering on key strategic objectives and transformational change

Romford, United Kingdom

After being approached by an Area Sales Manager for Holland & Barrett I decided to return to the health and wellbeing sector of the retail industry and became the Store Manager of the Romford millionaire store for H&B.Within a year I was able to increase the sales by 15% per week with use of strategic action plans and increasing the shop floor standards of the store.I was able to develop and coach the store team into understanding better merchandising standards and managing their time to their full advantage.After 6 months I was progressed into becoming a Store Manager Trainer and my store was recognized as a Centre of Excellence.I have regularly covered the area for the Area Sales Manager during holiday periods and have been recognized as the Senior Store Manager for the Essex & North London area.I am now undergoing Area Sales Manager training alongside my current Area Sales Manager by visiting stores and completing standards checks, compliance reports, coaching Store Managers and store teams into achieving improved KPI results. I also attend Regional Meetings and assist in developing strategic action plans.

West Thurrock, Essex, United Kingdom

After many years’ experience in the Health & Beauty sector of the retail industry, I decided to move in a different direction to progress my career.I trained within the business to become a Store Manager however there was not a permanent position available once I had completed my training.I accepted an Assistant Manager position within one of Clintons Top 10 stores, situated in the Intu Lakeside Shopping Centre in Thurrock, Essex.After 7 months I was offered a position as Store Manager of a smaller store within the same Shopping Centre.By briefing the team daily on company objectives and setting individual targets, my team and I were able to increase the weekly sales of the store by 5%.I was also rewarded for increasing the participation results of the Clintons Reward Membership Card and achieving the highest participation in the area.

Ilford, United Kingdom

After my Success in Savers Stores Plc, I took on the role of Assistant Manager of a Top 100 Store in Superdrug, starting at the Ilford store. After just 6 months in this role, I was promoted to Acting Manager for the store.With the Ilford store being a Top 100 store this means that store takings must be above £60k per week, which the store was only just achieving. To ensure the store did not drop out of the Top 100 ranking, I coached and motivated the store team to achieve £65-£70k per week.In the same year I was offered the position of Store Manager of the Leytonstone Store, which was an un-invested store. After being in the store for a year, I turned the store into an invested store by increasing sales from £12k per week to £16k per week. We also achieved the best Christmas sales that year the store had ever achieved.After achieving these results I then went on to become Store Manager of the Cranbrook Road, Ilford store which was an underperforming Pharmacy Store with shrinkage of over 3%. Shrinkage was reduced to under 1% and in terms of sales, I achieved LFL positive growth of 5%.In 2008 I achieving an exceptional bonus by achieving 3rd in the East London area rankings for KPI Scores due to hard work and development of my team.

Romford, United Kingdom

Eager to learn the ways of running a retail store, I progressed within Savers quite quickly, working my way up from a part-time Team Member to Store Supervisor in just 3 months.Appointed as a key-holder for the store within 6 months, I was trusted with the day to day running of the store when the management team were not present.I was relief cover for other stores on the area, as my Area Manager trained me cover stores.Promoted to Acting Manager of the Southend store whilst there wasn’t a Store Manager or Assistant Manager present. During this time the store sales increased from +0.2% LFL to +3%. I was also able to raise the store standards and availability of products, which included changing discretionary spaces with different products that aided the increased sales.