Michael Took Email & Phone Number

Durham, England, United Kingdom

Durham, England, United Kingdom

Durham, England, United Kingdom

West Boldon, Tyne And Wear, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

- Founder and Director of high-end men’s fashion, directly responsible for all business aspects of the day-to-day running of the business- Designed and created all social media content, responsible for regularly updating and generating online interest and sales for the business- Designed, edited and created the online marketing video for our website, this was done in collaboration with my fashion designer, allowing me to demonstrate my creative flair- Similarly, responsible for the designing, editing and maintenance of our shop website, regularly updating to ensure content is a fresh and relevant as possible- Collaborated with other fashion businesses, both start up and established, on co-designing fashion lines for joint release including all financial, marketing and operations aspects, with business both in the UK and across Europe. Good articulation being the key for success.

Sunderland, United Kingdom

- Entrusted to handle thousands of customers accounts year in year out, including personal, premier and business accounts- Responsible for cascading training to colleagues on a weekly basis around new processes and marketing communications to ensure quality of service for our customers- As we are directly responsible for dealing will all kinds of issues on our customers’ accounts, we are required to maintain a high level of professionalism during any meetings in our office in the corporate business environment

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

York, United Kingdom

- As a manager for the top sporting brand in the world, there was a level of expectation to be knowledgeable around global sporting events, sponsored athletes and their performances.- Responsible for the motivation of the staff in addition to many HR responsibilities, weekly rotas, hiring and firing of new employees and training of new staff to mention but a few.- Responsible for Visual Merchandising within the store, remerchandising the store with new stock and changing the visual window displays.- A store champion for our new Nike Assist program, conversion targets within the store amongst other targets.

York, United Kingdom

- Responsible for maintenance and organisation of own department, delegation and management issues for this area were my responsibility- Assistant V.M to the department when required to assist with remerchandising the store- Liaising with department managers to ensure cohesive day to day running of store operations-Key holder and trusted with the handling of store deliveries every week

Sunderland, United Kingdom

- Assist the manager delivering team briefs to other employees about shop targets, KPI’s and personal targets.- Store technology champion, in charge of devising and delivering training and information on all new and developed technologies to all employees, both current and new.- Member of a select merchandising team, on call to the V.M Manager for UK & Western Europe to assist with the re-merchandising of various stores throughout the UK

Msc Business With Marketing Management, Business

- Predicted Grade of Distinction - Part of a marketing consultancy team offering a full consultancy service to real world business solving.

Sport & Exercise Psychology, Psychology, 2:2

Activities and Societies: President of Cricket Society for 2 years. Secretary of Cricket Society for 1 year- Dissertation research project.

Business Studies, Pychology, Sport Studies & General Studies

Activities and Societies: CricketA-Levels : Business Studies (C), Psychology (C), Sport Studies (C) & General Studies (D)

Gcse, 12 Gcses A*-C Grade

Activities and Societies: Basketball, Football, Cricket, AtheleticsEnglish Language (A), English Media (A), Mathematics (B), Science.