Area Manager
Caboodle Pamper & Play
Total years of experience :13 years, 11 Months
• Team management, structure and hiring for staff of 50+ over 3 branches
• Responsible for all daily operations, store maintenance and mall co-operation
• Developed all company and store policies for staff and customers
• Increased revenue and retail earnings through new suppliers and staff incentives
• Responsible for overall Marketing, Events and PR implementations
• Helped with the initial set-up and operation of opening up Future Kids in Knowledge Village.
• Trained myself and other teachers a new teaching curriculum that the founder of FK had developed to provide whole brain training in a 50-minute class.
• Set up all administration systems - class timetables, payment systems, student records and filing systems.
• Worked on all aspects of Marketing and in line with our PR agency - Holding meetings, creating email marketing (newsletters and e-shots), social media set-up and instruction for growing our online social community, designing leaflets, brochures and hand-outs.
• Assisted the Managing Director with a range of business development activities such as, creating
new business, managing existing clients and project management for web development.
• Managed all aspects of Marketing (Social media channels, email marketing and online
advertising) and PR (Press release, blogger outreach and editorial features) for the company.
• Event management for industry themed coffee mornings and evening drinks.
• Founded the J4C brand and concept in August 2011 and worked with a web development team to launch the business in March 2012.
• Developed marketing, sales and operation strategies for a team of 4 staff to build the current success of J4C today.
• Built relationships with over 60 employers to advertise their job vacancies with J4C, companies such as OMD, Lbi, Greenpeace, Hogarth (WPP).
• Developed a digital strategy for using social media to recruit and build brand awareness.
• A thought leader in the industry of online recruitment regularly invited to talk and participate in industry events. Speaking at The European Job Board Summit in Nov 2012 on ‘the social job site’.
• A winning business of the Creative Pioneers Challenge ran by the IPA and Metro in July 2012.
• Top 10 successful businesses at The Young Entrepreneurs Festival in September 2012.
• Working on the Business Environment and the Business in Context modules of the Business and Enterprise Programme.
• Contributing significantly to the design of the teaching, learning and assessment of those course modules from an SME and entrepreneurial/start-up perspective.
• Selling online recruitment solutions across the reed.co.uk website to different
Businesses.
• Encouraging companies and agencies to pay money in order to advertise
their jobs on the reed.co.uk website to generate candidates and applications
to their vacancies.
• Worked hard to achieve sales targets and earn commission on my product
sales.
• Succeeded at Beauty Event with the top sales figures. Made as many make
over appointments with clients as possible and sold the most products.
• Trained and worked in make-up application and sales for the Estee
Lauder Company and worked freelance in my spare time at special
occasions, e.g. Weddings, Parties.
Received a 2.1