Having worked in Retail & Sales Management for 10 years and Recruitment for another 4 years prior to joining Priority Recruitment, I was drawn to this environment as I quickly realised that Priority Recruitment were doing something differently. It is a pleasure to work in this ethical yet effective environment, where clients & candidates are valued and long lasting effective relationships are formed. Priority Recruitment launched in 2012 and is quickly becoming one of the fastest growing specialists within the Retail, Leisure and Hospitality industries; initially created for retailers by retailers Priority Recruitment offer a full channel retail recruitment service but more importantly than that we here at Priority Recruitment appreciate you and your business because we have been there ourselves; we have that inside industry knowledge and experience that even today is scarce among recruiters in any sector; frightening to think but true!With an office in Manchester City Centre and access to 20 offices across the UK Priority Recruitment covers all the key retail hotspots in the UK; we can recruit any role in any location for any business!Priority Recruitment works with many well known high street, trade, lifestyle, and luxury brands, placing candidates into a variety of management & sales focused roles, across all sectors from fashion to home and hospitality.SpecialtiesRetained search, Retained advertised search, Recruitment, HeadhuntingTo see some of the roles being managed by myself & my team click here: https://www.priorityrecruitment.co.uk/consultants/kieron-smithson

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Detail2Retail specialising in Operations, HR, Store and Head Office roles Assistant Manager and above. Covering Food Retail, Non Food Retail, Fashion Retail, Retail Sales or Retail superstores.

During late 2015, whilst on a period of extended Paternity Leave I also took the opportunity to do some freelance work in my sporting arena. Working with Urban Attack, one of the most innovative & exciting Obstacle Course Races, I was involved with obstacle design & build, course design and ongoing management of a new shared sport facility - Urban Attack Park.

As a Senior Consultant within LOFT Talent Acquisition where I focused on providing the best candidates in the Marketing, Sales & Quality Assurance sector, working across Food, Ingredients & Sports Nutrition markets. The vision at LOFT is to become The Key International provider to the Pan-European Food Science, Food Manufacturing and Nutrition Arena. Currently working across both commercial and technical disciplines within numerous different specialisms such as specialty ingredients, formulations, supplementation, analysis, research or flavour and fragrance enhancement.

As part of this specialist team I recruited salespeople and managers for all types of trade and merchant businesses, targeting and matching particular skill-sets and approaches to the trade or technical environments they are needed for.I invested time in understanding the client business, site managers and processes they may be working with. By doing so, I ensured that the candidates & roles I recommended were excellent matches. Helping my clients to build high performance teams and ensuring my candidates had positive career progression. Roles: •head office roles including category, marketing & finance•executive level jobs •branch management jobs •area sales manager jobs •key account manager jobs •internal sales jobs •showroom manager jobs •regional sales manager jobs •k&b designer jobs Industries: construction / plumbing and heating / electrical wholesalers / roofing merchants / trade kitchen and bathrooms / builder’s merchant / commercial heating / tool & plant hire / drainage and civils

I am responsible for the delivery of sales and profitability across the Showroom department. Required to lead and inspire my team to achieve sales and profit targets, whilst ensuring we provide every customer with an exceptional shopping experience. Ultimately I am responsible for a 'Store within a Store', reporting directly into the Store Manager and significantly contributing to the overall success of the store. I am responsible for keeping up with competitor activities and effectively communicating this to my team, inspiring a healthy attitude towards competition. As the leader I motivate others and use my eye for maximising sales opportunities to ensure we capitalise on every opportunity. I need to coach and develop my people to become highly effective in a sales environment unlike any other in this business. This is a fast paced and dynamic environment so I need to lead my team to achieve and exceed company expectations. I also need to build long term relationships with our high value trade customers.

Sales assessment & high performance team coaching project.

My role at Desi Mobi required me to take responsibility for a number of sales channels. Primarily my role was to drive the Desi Mobi brand by signing up new independent dealers throughout the North of England, managing their performance and assisting them in driving it to the next level, whilst ensuring adherence to compliance policies throughout my dealer base. I was also required to manage sales performance within national chains. This was also supported by additional marketing teams and a direct sales team, also under my control. I also took on the responsibility of multi-channel marketing, dealing with the local media agencies and measuring the success of different campaigns.

As the general store manager (GSM) I am responsible for everything within my store. This is broken down into three key areas: Sales (inc' customer service), Compliance and People, each of which is further split into various Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s). My sales figures have shown month on month growth and success across all KPI’s even as new products are added to the portfolio. Since the introduction of Fizzback customer service reporting I have excelled against this new challenging target for my customer service performance measures. Compliance is essential within this industry to prevent fraud and ensure ethical trading in-line with the companies’ policies and also to ensure conformity to a variety of governmental and regulatory bodies , I have passed compliance every month I have been a GSM. I work with my team to ensure we deliver target every month compliantly, a key indicator of my effectiveness in working with my team is the number of people I have promoted under my leadership. I have overseen in excess of 9 promotions including 5 to management level.