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Melbourne, Vic, Au

Sharp & Carter was born from a desire to bring humanity, humility and a level of care to the recruitment industry.For us, candidates aren’t skills on resumes. They’re humans with lives and desires outside their work, which are just as important as the jobs they do.When you really understand people and prioritise their best interests, you know the right environments for them to thrive - and that’s when everybody wins.We know this because we’ve built a people-first culture with the highest staff tenure in the industry.With empathy as our greatest strength, we lead positively and live our culture, which radiates outwards from our teams to clients and candidates - in every interaction.It means we can deliver extraordinary outcomes through our culture of uncommon care. For more information regarding our locations and specialisations, head to our Sharp & Carter LinkedIn page.

Docklands, Victoria, Au

Viva Energy is a Royal Dutch Shell branded licensee owned by Vitol since August 2014. Vitol is the world’s largest privately owned energy trader. Viva Energy is one of Australia’s largest fuels retailer based on market share and consists of approximately 1,100 Shell Branded sites nationally. Leading a team of 7 reports, reporting to the GM of Retail and providing commercial support to the Viva Energy Directors, role accountabilities included: Development of the medium to long term Network strategy for all Shell branded Retail sites, primarily Network expansion (assessment, construction, site design and standards), performance, investment and property divestment programs and gain Director endorsement for business cases underpinning required strategy and capital expenditure, Building a viable property pipeline for future site opportunities, Management of the Coles Express Property relationship and Commercial assessment of branding for retail opportunities. Key Achievements: Expanded Retail footprint by 40 stores in 3 years and identified 250 potential property opportunities for growth, led development of growth strategy which underpinned the performance of multiple business units, negotiated successful commercial outcomes with Coles Express, implemented business structural change resulting in effective use of resourcing, collaborative working and wider business KPI alignment, significantly improved team engagement (top 5% of business management engagement) and team performance achievement and drove transformation change improving the operation of the capital works program, redesigning and effective capital approval process for Director approval.

Melbourne, Vic, Au

Coles Liquor brands included Liquorland, First Choice Liquor and Vintage Cellars with in excess of 780 Retail outlets in Australia. Leading a team of 7 reports, reporting to the GM of Finance and providing commercial guidance to the Director for Coles Liquor, developed strategies and insightful analysis to drive turnover, operational efficiencies and reduction in operational costs and evaluated property investment proposals and performance of Network growth.Key achievements: Through the engagement and endorsement of the Liquor GMs and Director, led an operational cost project identifying $15million of cost reductions, Liquorland Warehouse concept termination via the preparation of a performance review strategy document identified recommendations for product range and stock holdings to align to customer mission and demographic, Review to terminate future lease risk for underperforming First Choice Liquor Brand

Coles Express is the Petrol and Convenience Retail channel within the Coles Group. All 750 Retail sites are leased and operated by Coles Express under the Alliance Agreement with Viva Energy (Shell Branded Licencee). Leading a team of 5 reports, reporting to the GM of Finance and providing commercial support to the Director for Coles Express, role accountabilities included: Transformation of process, systems and reporting improvements for Merchandise , Marketing and Logistics, Develop strategies, reporting rhythm and insightful customer analysis to underpin the Convenience store sales and profitability turnaround.Key Achievements: Educated and influenced the GMs and the Director on the Convenience Store potential and led the required business ,transformation for reporting, processes and systems to extract data for informed decision making, Developed strategies to transform the Tobacco category underperformance, Developed and commercially evaluated the Convenience "Down Down" campaign.

Melbourne, Vic, Au

Coles Grocery is the largest division within the Supermarkets business with a sales turnover of $20 billion. Leading a team of 6 reports, reporting to the GM Finance for Grocery and commercial supporting the Merchandise GM Group, role accountabilities included: Strategy and commercial support for the Business Category Managers to ensure business targets were achieved, provide reporting, category performance reviews, provide insightful customer focused analysis to drive category performance, coordinate trade meeting performance presentations for the GM Group, coordinate budget and forecasting processes and business case preparation.Key Achievements: Drive double digit like for like sales growth and achieved stratech targets for margin through category strategy development, promotional effectiveness and supplier support initiatives, Re-Engineered trade reporting information for the GM Group to drive informed decision making

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

The Just Group is a consolidated group of apparel and stationery retail brands including Just Jeans, Portmans, Jacqui E, Peter Alexander, Jay Jays, Dotti and Smiggle with a Retail footprint across Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and the UK of over 1,000 outlets. Leading a team of 11 reports, reporting to the Chief Financial Officer and providing commercial support to the Director Group, the role accountabilities included: Providing insightful analysis to improve site trading performance and profitability, implement and monitor operational actions to improve efficiency and reduce costs, Evaluate property investment proposals for Network growth and manage loss prevention strategies and process.Key Achievements: Developed and gained endorsement fro the Director Group for the labour efficiency model and framework to drive labour forecasts and efficiency curbing labour expense, Established a Store Quarterly Review Forum to improve operational stakeholder commercial acumen and understanding and drive actions to improve underperforming outlets and benchmark operational cost to sales initiatives.

Graduate

Bachelor Of Commerce (B.Com.), Accounting And Finance