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Tadley, GB

Wokingham, England, United Kingdom

Southampton, England, United Kingdom

Southampton, United Kingdom

As Key Account Manager at Garmin, I look after the Watch area of the business for the southern half of the UK. This includes independent and national jewellers, such as H Samuel, F Hinds, Fraser Hart and T H Baker, as well as online and duty-free businesses such as ASOS, Next and Harding Retail. With this wide variety of accounts, I am highly adaptable.

Wokingham, England

In this role I managed a variety of channels and key accounts including Duty Free retailers e.g. Harding Retail & Dufry, Mail Order/Online e.g. Shop Direct & Next, Clearance e.g. Costco, plus Corporate Accounts e.g. O C Tanner. All this totalled over £2.5 million turnover, and I was tasked to deliver sales targets which I delivered on.My main tasks.

South East England

I managed over 250 store accounts in an area which included many of the most high-profile and biggest cash-taking outlets in the country, using the methods below to ultimately maximise sales and make Citizen the 'go-to' brand for retail staff and customers. ✔️ Building lasting and memorable relationships with key sales personnel.✔️ Analysis of sell through.

Maidstone

The focus of this role was to support the manager and role-model for the rest of the team (8 people) as well as take the lead on vital tasks for the success of the store such as:✔️ Visual merchandising.✔️ Training & coaching.✔️ Setting and exceeding store and individual sales targets.✔️ Creating and monitoring staff incentives. ✔️ Figures analysis.The role.

Southern England

This was a varied field-based role, mainly focused on the visual merchandising of Sekonda watches across 120 H Samuel branches across the South. Other responsibilities included staff training, presentations at management meetings, stock audits, stand installations and building relationships with stores and area managers to promote brand visibility and.

Maidstone

In this position I strived to meet and exceed sales targets by maximising each sale. I attended a sales training course and in my own time completed the Jewellery and Education Training (JET 1) qualification to learn the business. I was also responsible for merchandising the highly coveted diamonds department as well as undertaking administrative tasks.

Maidstone

This was my first position in the jewellery and watch industry and here at H Samuel I learnt the business at grass roots level - gaining product knowledge and sales skills to allow me to regularly exceed targets. I was firstly responsible for the gifts and collectible department and later moved onto the silver department. During my time in this role I also.

Ba (Hons), Media Arts, 2:2

Activities and Societies: Worked at the Student UnionModules included: Direction of a short dramatic film, television production and.

3 A Levels (Sociology: A, English Literature & Language: B, History: C) And 9 Gcses (All A-C Grades)