Business Development Manager
Homechoice Real estate LLC
Total years of experience :32 years, 10 Months
Setting up advertising, liasing with clients and suppliers.
Driving staff to appointments.
Supervising handyman and cleaning staff of sister company, Homechoice Cleaning Maintanance LLC.
Sourcing and purchasing merchandise for new Company Emporium UAE. Merchandising and performing sales at new company.
Company Landmark Group t/a ShoeMart IBN Battuta Mall
Position Store Manager
Period 28/11/2012 to 09/04/2013
Task and Key Responsibilities:
• Motivation of staff to achieve sales targets
• Ensuring company policies & procedures applied in-store at all times
• Maintaining presentable appearance of store & staff
• Interacting with customers so as to facilitate sales and resolve customer issues
• Monitoring/controlling shrinkage in-store
• Managing time effectively of staff in-store, setting rosters
• Daily Banking checks and confirmation for stores in mall
• Training and facilitating training of staff on merchandise and upcoming promotions
• Performing and following up on requests and instructions from senior management.
• Controlling budgetry costs ie. Petty cash and Overtime.
• Maintaining Barometer of efficiency files daily.
Reason for Leaving: No visible path for personal development at present.
Summary of self
I'm an extremely punctual person with a high sense of responsibility, loyalty and ethics.
I have the ability to relate to people get them to accept new concepts and ideas. Building healthy relationships' is key to my leadership style but understanding people diverse personalities and adapting my leadership skills to the situation is paramount. I tend to spend more time listening when in conflict situations so as to reach speedy resolutions.
Religion and family play a large part in my extramural life. I enjoy reading and spending times in the outdoors.
Task and Key Responsibilities:
• Motivation of staff
• Ensuring company policies & procedures applied in-store at all times
• Maintaining presentable appearance of store & staff
• Interacting with customers so as to facilitate sales and resolve customer issues
• Monitoring/controlling shrinkage in-store & attaining sales budgets
• Managing time effectively of staff in-store, setting rosters
• Daily cashups and POS control as well as monthly sale recons
• Training and facilitating training of staff on merchandise and upcoming promotions
• Advising clients on network and coverage availability.
• Promoting postpaid & prepaid cellular solutions to clients.
• Aiding clients with handset, tablet & pc setup
• Performing device switches for clients.
• RICA agent status valid, performing swipswaps and doing RICA capturing daily
Task and Key Responsibilities:
• Motivation of staff
• Ensuring company policies & procedures applied in-store at all times
• Maintaining international merchandising standards in store & windows
• Interacting with customers so as to facilitate sales
• Monitoring/controlling shrinkage in-store & attaining sales budgets
• Managing time effectively of staff in-store, setting rosters
• Daily cashups and POS control
• Training staff on merchandise
• Educating customers on product features and usage
• Transfered from V&A store July2009 to the Sandton City store
Reason for Leaving: Tenant of house absconded and sub-let, no vacancies with Busby in Western Cape at time.
Position Hepkers/Frasers Store Manager
Period 12 1998 to 11 2007
Task and Key Responsibilities:
• Motivation of staff
• Ensuring company policies & procedures applied in-store at all times
• Maintaining merchandising standards in store & windows
• Interacting with customers so as to facilitate sales
• Managing time effectively of staff in-store, setting rosters
• Daily cashups and POS control
• Training staff on merchandise
assisting clients in pharmacy frontshop as well as assisting pharmacist in dispensary with filling prescriptions.
Industry was sales of home electronics
Position Office assistant
Period 02 1991 to 05 1991
Task and Key Responsibilities:
• Repair office filing
• Liason between clients and technicians
• Receiving repairs from clients and returning
Reason for Leaving: Completion of 3month contract
Awards Obtained School Colours for Basketball, Fencing & Rugby Western Province colours for Fencing Tertiary Institution Cape Tecnikon Qualification National Diploma Plastics Technology Year Completed 1993 Leadership Roles Captain of junior western province fencing team Awards Obtained Senior provincial colours for fencing Extramural Activity Fencing
Vice Captain 2nd XV Rugby, Captain Fencing Club, represented South africa at commonwealth games foe fencing