octavian teodor rapan, Regional Manager

octavian teodor rapan

Regional Manager

Prezzo Ltd England

Location
Romania
Education
Higher diploma, Financial Analysis and Cost Optimization
Experience
15 years, 1 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :15 years, 1 Months

Regional Manager at Prezzo Ltd England
  • United Kingdom - London
  • January 2014 to October 2015

Supervised 40+ restaurants from a chain of 200+. Opened 3 new restaurants from project to full functionality. Continuously monitor and verify all the units to meet the expected figures for sales, the level of quality service delivered to the customers, the level of consumption, train the managers and the staff of each unit to be up to date with the company's new policies. I implemented training programs for selling, attitude towards clients, courses of familiarizing the new employees with the surroundings. On a average, the restaurants that I held training meetings noticed a 30% increasing in beverage sales, in the first week after the session of training, stabilizing to a solid 10% in the next 3 months. I was able to lower the breakage with a 15%, while the rotation of the staff was 75% quitters in the first 3 months of employment. I had to overview the reports from each unit, to aggregate al daily reports into the format for the sales department. I had to hire, promote, demote and fire unit managers and staff alike.

Head Waiter at Princess Cruises
  • United States
  • May 1999 to July 2012

Supervised a part of the Restaurant staff to meet the requirements of the company, to reach the target scores for revenue, customer's satisfaction, quality of the service. I was in charge of training new and old employees to enhance their abilities to sell and please the customers, payrolls, organize shifts for 250 people, rotation, end of contract appraisals, promote or demote according to the performance and conduct. Most important achievements were acknowledged by the company: promotions I received based on my overall performance

Education

Higher diploma, Financial Analysis and Cost Optimization
  • at Public Ministry of Labour
  • September 2008

Business rentability and identifying ways to optimize the production costs in hospitality industry

Bachelor's degree, Management using Computer Analysis
  • at Romanian-American University
  • June 2006

I had the privilege to learn in one of the first and the best Private Universities in Bucharest, with an American way of teaching. My major was in Business Management(marketing, HR, advertising, legal) using Computer Analysis

High school or equivalent, Mathematics & Physics
  • at Bilingual High School Jean Monnet
  • August 1996

one of the best and most demanding high school in Romania, with Bilingual teaching(romanian and french)

Specialties & Skills

Cost Optimisation
Customer Service Management
Revenue Management
Selling Ideas
Budget Analysis
negociaciation skills
decision making
good advisor for others
leadership skills
analytic way of thinking
team player
time management
speaking and writing

Languages

English
Expert
Italian
Intermediate
Spanish
Intermediate
French
Intermediate
Romanian
Native Speaker

Training and Certifications

Managing Stress (Training)
Training Institute:
Princess U
Date Attended:
June 2003
Building strong customers relationships (Training)
Training Institute:
princess U
Date Attended:
June 2003
Achieving Personal Goals (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2003
Dealing with Difficult Customers (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2003
Basics of Effective Communication (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2003
Internet Basics (Training)
Training Institute:
Princess U
Date Attended:
May 2003
Certificate of Excellency- best wine seller in the fleet in 2003 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2003
Valid Until:
January 9999

Hobbies

  • stay fit
    workout, eat healthy, grooming
  • play chess
    got my Ist category in chess before I was 10 y.o. By the age of 14 I had an ELO of 2100 points. I still enjoy playing as time allows.
  • play pool
    couple of tournaments won, it's a game where strategically mind meets hand accuracy.
  • ride fast cars and motorcycles
    cannot testify my top speed as it will be considered an evidence against me :)