Experience

Rexel UK Ltd

• United Kingdom
• Wholesale
• 700 & Above Employee

• Assistant Manager

  • May 2023 - Present



Buildbase

• Wholesale Building Materials
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Assistant Branch Manager

  • Aug 2021 - May 2023

  After being senior sales and learning how a trade store works and run as a post to a partnering store, I wanted to go back into a management role, this opportunity came up to run an already established branch and team with new management

• Senior Sales

  • Nov 2020 - Aug 2021

  using all my skills and knowledge decided to go to a trade store and move away from a partnering store, to learn how a branch works and runs improving on my product knowledge whilst dealing with customer calls and orders and gaining new sales potentials.

• Store Supervisor Partnering

  • Feb 2019 - Aug 2021

  After running a successful branch for a few years, I moved to Kent and became store supervisor at the Medway store.Using my knowledge and skills that I gained in my previous roles, I used my skills and knowledge to turn a good branch into a better branch.I learned valuable HR and recruitment skills during this period, hiring 2 new members of staff training them up to do their day to day roles whilst running the branch.Together with my team we gained new sales opportunities and contracts whilst improving a budgeted branch of 50K a month to doing over 120K a month. Show less

• Supervisor (Partnering)

  • Feb 2017 - Feb 2019

  Promotion to shadow and learn from current manager / supervisor until he retired to take over and become supervisor.During this time period I learned the valuable skills on how to run a branch, study and read reports including profit and loss reports and KPI's to maximize branch sales and profit of a small store whilst dealing with day to day tasks of ordering stock, serving customers and gaining addition sales opportunities.I was at the Romford branch for around a year at the start before I moved back to my old branch thurrock during the timescale to take over and run the branch due to my old supervisor leaving Show less

• Sales Assistant (partnering)

  • Feb 2015 - Feb 2017

  Sales assistant working alongside the supervisor to service the local council contract to fulfill our customer needs with goods and materials to complete their jobs for council tenants in Thurrock.Job role included serving on the front desk, stock checking and ordering stock, answering the phones and dealing with stock requests including new items to order in, van stock replenishments and van stock checks. This is where I learned and gained the knowledge of all of the different type of building materials to service different trades as I had no prior experience in the trade ranging from electrical, plumbing, gas and boiler spares plastering and fencing. Show less