Riaz Dobloni, Freelance facilitator and assessor

Riaz Dobloni

Freelance facilitator and assessor

Ubuhle HR

Location
South Africa
Education
High school or equivalent, Business management
Experience
20 years, 6 Months

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Total years of experience :20 years, 6 Months

Freelance facilitator and assessor at Ubuhle HR
  • South Africa
  • My current job since September 2017

Facilitate learnership training
Assess learnership portfolios

Sales Manager at Dion Wired
  • South Africa
  • My current job since September 2018

Managing and Achieving all Sales Targets
Managing Expenses
Delivering superior Customer service
Managing Operations & Maintenance of the Store Resolving customer queries and complaints
Risk management in all areas
Manage shrinkage
Display merchandise according to company standards
Staff planning
Performance management and IR

Senior Store Manager at Cotton On
  • South Africa
  • March 2016 to June 2017

Training and motivating staff to perform at their best, training sessions vary from procedures to motivational and leadership videos which helps to inspire them.
•Ensuring all security procedures are adhered to in terms of handing over banking.
•Enforcing company’s policies and procedures and ensuring that i am aware of any new procedures that may come through and making sure it gets filtered down to all my staff.
•Selection and recruitment, screening CVs with my management team and short-listing candidates. I conduct all final interviews.
•Handling all IR within my store, I can do investigations and initiate hearings as well as being a chairperson to hearings and enquiries.
•Managing casual wages on a weekly basis, ensuring that I have not gone over budget in any way.
•Monitoring staff attendance on a weekly basis and action taken against non-compliant staff.
•Staff development, created a succession plan for the store, candidates that show good leadership qualities are selected and are groomed to become future leaders.
•Managing cash discrepancies by following the companies disciplinary code for cash discrepancies. All discrepancies are investigated thoroughly.
•Conducting stock adjustments daily to identify out of lines or shrinkage and focusing on a workable action plan to minimise shrinkage.
•Shrinkage is managed by having regular meetings with security staff and focus on training (suspicious customers)
•Growing our customer base by opening new accounts and creating new business.
•Offering the best customer service by going the extra mile to ensure total customer satisfaction, making it a point to know who my regular customers are, and continually informing them of upcoming events and promotions.
•Driving turnover by promoting multiple sales and ensuring that staff are aware of our targets are how far we are to achieving targets. Ensuring that a plan is in place to achieving our target.
•I liaise with buyers and planners on a regular basis for stock as well as to query poor quality merchandise that may come through and customer feedback on our merchandise. Liaise with cosmetic reps. on upcoming GWPs so that i can plan events to achieve targets and drive turnover.

Store Manager at Truworths
  • South Africa
  • October 2011 to February 2016

Managing and Achieving all Sales Targets
•Managing Expenses
•Delivering superior Customer service.
•Managing Operations & Maintenance of the Store
•Custodian of all admin policy and procedures
•Risk management in all areas
•Manage shrinkage
•Display merchandise according to company standards
•Qualified assessor

Store Manager at Identity (part of Truworths)
  • South Africa
  • March 2009 to October 2011
Sales Manager at Incredible Connection
  • South Africa
  • March 2006 to April 2007
Store Manager
  • South Africa
  • December 2001 to March 2006

Education

High school or equivalent, Business management
  • at Eastbury secondary
  • November 1997

Specialties & Skills

Store Management
Merchandising
Customer Focus
Customer Care
BANKING
BUDGETING
CUSTOMER SATISFACTION
CUSTOMER SERVICE
DRIVING
LEADERSHIP
MANAGEMENT

Languages

English
Expert
Urdu
Intermediate