Robert Carr Email & Phone Number

Normanton, Gb

Castleford

Castleford

• General Manager of business’s with an annual turnover of up to £12,000,000.• The last 7 years running flagship new concept destination stores within Comet.• Deputizing for regional operations manager, supporting the Yorkshire stores in the field. Running daily conference calls, coaching and developing peers.• Creating and running training courses, writing and preparing PowerPoint presentations for area meetings. • Very experienced in dealing with a large diverse workforce and highly competent, with all areas of managing colleagues from performance/capability to disciplinary and absence management.• Main point of contact to the area for advice and often personally deal with the most challenging situations.• Consistently performed at the highest level winning Store manager of the year on 3 occasions and Managers Manager of the year for four years • Worked with a high level of autonomy within the business, creating strategies, developing business plans and reacting to the markets. • Operational effectiveness and a high level of control within the business is a key strength.Over the last 3 years achieving the highest audit grade within the Yorkshire area.• Had fantastic success with very high risk stock loss stores, the last two Bradford and Leeds where reduced by 75% due to strong operational process’s

Fully accountable for margin generation of the store ensuring performance was exceeded whilst delivering world class customer service .My last Store Huddersfield was the latest large concept destination branch in the company and I was responsable for the recruitment and induction of a new sales team.The success achieved within this enviroment ensured my subsequent promotion to store manager within 6 months.