John Clark Email & Phone Number

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Hamilton

Managing the Barclays Diamond store situated in the very busy designer store center in Livingston where the USP is high quality diamond sales.My key responsibilities in this role are to set, communicate and achieve store targets through interpreting KPI's and sales reports and deploying appropriate action to develop my team to consistently achieve maximum.

This role was to build an Audit and Compliance Department, develop a policy & procedure framework which would deliver structured support for the planned growth of the business.The most crucial task was to consolidate the company stock file, understand the reasons why it's integrity had been compromised and develop and deliver training, which would reverse.

My role with Anthony Karpe was to develop the diamond, jewelry and quality watch areas within the business, which had its roots firmly in the giftware sector. Along with developing and training staff and management for new stores. I was also involved in procuring, installation and training for a major system update that would operate across both the retail.

Initially I was approached to open and run the then newly acquired store in East Kilbride, I moved soon afterwards to Stirling to further develop a large unit in a busy town center mall. This store quickly grew to be the highest turnover store within the company through staff and product development.

In many years employed at H Samuel I progressed through differing roles from management trainee to senior store manager with secondments to the training department to assist in rolling out major projects across the company.Additional ExperienceI have been a Group Scout Leader for 20 years. This involves managing a large group of adult volunteers and most.