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Coventry, England, United Kingdom

Store Manager of the Store of Excellence flagship shop for the Heart of England Co-Op. Five directly reporting Management Team members, with a large team of indirect reports. Multi Million Pound Turnover store with the highest sales turnover in the company. Training store for new Store Managers joining the business. On site services include a Food To Go range including Hot Food and Deli Co, in store Bakery, in store seating area, Amazon Parcel pick up, self service photos, dry cleaning service, large fresh food and produce offering, off license and full grocery ranges. Bringing a large shopping basket option to a convenient location.

Royal Leamington Spa, England, United Kingdom

Rejoined Morrisons as Store Manager, managing a multi million turnover superstore. Operating the store with 12 direct reporting Salaried Managers and over 190 colleagues. Traditional supermarket offering with a full Market Street Counters, Brew Coffee shop, Pharmacy, Garden Centre, Hand Car Wash, Customer Cafe, full range of Nutmeg Clothing, in store Floristry and Morrisons Daily Petrol Station. Responsible for all metrics associated with the store profitability, standards, safety and compliance. Key achievements:- - Delivered a performance upside of sales in a challenging trading environment of over a 12% swing from taking over the store to leaving.- Passing the Safe and Legal Audit - Green* at Leamington Spa- 5⭐️ EHO Food Hygiene Inspection from Warwickshire Council- Reduced in store waste and markdowns by an average of £4k per week from taking over the store to leaving- Reduced warehouse stockholding by over 90% to provide a cash benefit to the business. - Delivered a stocktake result at 0.64% better than company set target(£74k cash value)- Four shrink Audits passed- Consistently delivering above 96% on the hygiene audits - Delivering 125% LFL growth on the in store Deliveroo business- Consistently delivering payroll and other controllable costs - expenses and energy. - Successfully coached a Team Leader to pass the Pathways assessment. - Ensured that every reporting manager to myself had a live PDP. - Recruited and coached three new Line Managers to the business.

Field Based

Responsible for an Area of stores based in Coventry, Warwickshire and Birmingham. This includes fifteen Poundland stores and also two Pep&Co fashion clothing stores. For the full year 2020/21 led the business for LFL sales as the top performing area at 12.9% growth. Only one other area in the business finished above 10%. High turnover Area with 17 direct reporting salaried Managers, a further 26 non direct reporting salaried Managers and over 400 colleaguesPreviously operated on the South Region and relocated to the Coast to live in Worthing managing 16 Poundland stores including the Isle of Wight, managing a high sales and footfall patch.

Willenhall, West Midlands, United Kingdom

Part of the Retail Services department based at head office working as an Operations Manager. Retail Lead of the relationship with the Trading department, representing retail in forums such as Activity and Promotional Planning. Planner of all Retail workload, working alongside the Visual Merchandising Team and Trading to ensure it is achievable, balanced and impactful for our Retail Stores. This work is then costed into our Retail Productivity team to allocate hours for task completion. Working cross department between HR, IT, Finance and Property as a pivot point between retail on projects, incentives and ways of working within the Non-Trading element of business. Led the business as project lead on various change initiatives including:-1. Launching Gift Cards into the store proposition 2. Led on the removal of 5p carrier bags, initiating a cost and environmental benefits3. Led the business on the Retail Bonus Scheme for Stores and Area Managers4. Introduced Retail Headsets into the business through a successful trial. Added responsibility has been undertaken working with third parties to provide additional services to Head Office based colleagues.

Willenhall, West Midlands, United Kingdom

Delighted to hold the position of Retail Project Manager reporting directly to the Retail Director. Involved in a wide range of work in the following fields:-EngagementIncentives Data AnalysisBusiness ChangeCentral OperationsForward planning for storesCost and waste reduction projectsFuture business development work groupsGuidance and instruction materials for publication to Store Managers and teams Head office and field based.

Nuneaton, Warwickshire, United Kingdom

Store Manager of Queen's Road Nuneaton Poundland with full Pep & Co offering.Led the store through Christmas 2017 to Record breaking sales for both a day and a week for the highest in the history of the store.Trading positive to both LFL and target for 2018.Reduced overstock holdings instore so all excess stock is on top stocks of shelves only. No warehouse stock. Liaised with distribution centre management to improve our instore warehousing practices. Introduced new equipment including a bailer to drive instore productivity.Worked with the Area Manager to increase the amount of deliveries to the store each week to further improve on shelf depth of fill and availability. Nominated to be a Training Manager for new Store and Assistant Manager’s joining the business.Covered the Area Manager during his annual leave to oversee and manage 21 stores across Warwickshire and Birmingham.

Cannock, Coventry, Hinckley

At B&M I managed three stores. Cannock (21,000 sq ft destination store)My final position in the company was that of General Store Manager at Cannock Homestore. Exited the business with a completely green 2017/18 KPI scorecard. Only Manager on my area to be achieving this. Attaining LFL sales, LTO, wages, stock loss and compliance to company expectations and above. Delivered the store back to positive LFL trade through commercial decisions and shop floor availability immediately upon entering the store. Coventry (14,000 sq ft retail park store)Previously Store Manager at Coventry Airport Retail Park. Company sales race winner for Christmas 2016 over a four week period for my area out of 18 stores. Achieved the highest increase against company set targets winning a bonus for myself and store colleagues.Best trading store on my area with double figure positive year on year growth each week around 20-25%.Promoted five colleagues into supervisor roles within the store, three internal promotions and two externally recruited. Promoted one colleague to salaried Floor Manager from supervisor level based on the performance and attitude. Floor Manager from my previous store Hinckley joined me as a promotion, taking their first Deputy Store Manager appointment.Delivered two six monthly stock takes better than company expectations.Hinckley (9000 sq ft high street store)Improvements made in store under my management led to me winning Store Manager of the Quarter for Q2 2016. Key achievements:-- Reduced stockholding in the warehouse by over 75% and delivered six monthly stocktake result better than company expectation. - Identified two colleagues as part of my succession plan and took both to the next level. One supervisor promoted to a Salaried Floor Manager, rewarding the hard work and commitment they had put in. One colleague promoted to supervisor based on attitude and work rate.

Coventry, Solihull, Stratford Upon Avon, Hinckley

I was previously a Senior Manager for Morrisons and held various Senior positions for over eight years. Key achievements - Reduced ambient back stock holding in one store by 75% whilst growing the business above company average -Successfully opened a new Morrisons store, fully involved with staff recruitment prior to launch and the training of both Department Managers and colleagues who had transferred over from Somerfield as part of the store acquisition -New store achieved exceptional sales growth under the Morrisons brand upon opening, over 100% increase in LFL sales figures- Seconded to Projects in London to train Management teams for newly acquired stores. This included Managers transferring through the acquisitions and also newly recruited Managers. Signed off training records for all new Managers and help prepare them for their new roles-Covered and ran a smaller store for 3 months as Manager with 40 colleagues and 3 Managers reporting to myselfI held responsibility for the whole store as part of the Senior Management team which covers every operational aspect of the business including meeting sales, waste and payroll targets.As a Senior Manager I was managing teams with 150-350 colleagues store dependent and had between 5-8 salaried Managers reporting directly to me.

Coventry, United Kingdom

I worked part time for the company during my studies at University initially on a 16 hour a week contract.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), General, Merit

Dissertation study- An exploration into the use of price as a viable competitive strategy for retailers in the UK supermarket industry..

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Sports Management (Hons), 2:1

Third year project - An investigation into the marketing strategies of clubs in the British Basketball League(BBL)

A Levels And Gcse

Activities and Societies: Member of the school Basketball, football and athletics teams. Completed full Secondary School Education.