Experience

ARDEN ACADEMY

• South Africa
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head of Geography

  • Sep 2021 - Present



St Augustine's Catholic High School and Sixth Form College

• Teacher of Geography

  • Sep 2016 - Sep 2021



Summit Learning Trust

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Initial Trainee teacher

  • Sep 2015 - Jul 2016



GAME Digital

• Retail
• 700 & Above Employee

• Deputy Manager

  • Sep 2014 - Aug 2015

  The Bullring store is a top turnover store within the company achieving a turnover of over £5.5 million in the last financial year. Experience of leading and working within a large team of 18 full time members of staff. Through combining effective payroll management and focusing on sales of high margin products we achieved the highest profit of the top turnover stores over the Christmas period. Have successfully managed major launch dates of new games and achieved an exceptional Black Friday sales day and midnight.Have continued to break Key Performance Indicator records within the store especially within technology sales and guaranteeing future business through deposits. Responsible for all new Seasonal Team Member inductions to the store along with training and coaching Volunteered for Game at EGX in September breaking the last record at gadget show. Show less

• Deputy Manager

  • Sep 2013 - Aug 2014

  The Cribbs Causeway store is a flagship store for the Region and South Division of Game with a turnover of over £3.5 million in the last financial year. Key part of the management team for the two biggest console launches in history which were consecutive weeks apart exceeding over £1 million in sales. Responsible for running two successful Seasonal Team Member hiring campaigns bringing new talent into the business. Volunteered for GAME at the Gadget show in April 2014 we had a record breaking sales week impressing the regional manager with the consistency of large sales. Experience of setting up a store in one day for the gadget show and then also breaking it down in a day. Have on numerous occasions been asked by my regional manager to go and help underperforming store and was specifically asked to lead a team to fix one store after a particularly turbulent management change.Passionately engage with the community by effective use of social networking and running store events. Ability to performance manage, motivate a team to achieve and produce effective reviews. Responsible for implementing all aspects of new promotional activity including, POS, staff training and merchandising displays to company standards but also using my own commerciality when needed. Demanding the highest possible standard of customer service from all to maintain the smooth operation of the business.Achieving daily, weekly, monthly KPI’s through effective shop floor and till management. Show less



GAME Digital

• Retail
• 700 & Above Employee

• Deputy Manager

  • Nov 2012 - Jul 2013

  Responsible for a large proportion of daily running of the store including- cashing up, task delegation, dealing with customer queries and producing weekly rotas. Led from the front as a shopfloor manager ensuring everyone was approached and really optimising and adding on to sales. Target driven approach led me to produce a excel spread sheet that broke down targets based on KPI’s per hour for each member of the team.Training and development at Galleries was very important I was responsible for training the temporary Christmas teams and the training of a new Senior Sales Assistant. Show less

• Sales Assistant (Key Holder)

  • Nov 2009 - Nov 2012

  Excellent product knowledge, efficiency, punctuality and sales performance meant I was successfully kept on after the Christmas period. In one year I became a key holder for the 2010 Christmas extended hours. Achieved numerous employee of the month awards.



Bristol Hippodrome

• Front of House Assistant

  • Apr 2011 - Sep 2011

  This was a summer hospitality position. This gave me a new range of cliental to serve which I quickly became accustomed to. It also gave me experience of bar work that was highly intensive having to serve all the patrons in just the short time before or during the intermission of the show. There were other aspects of the role such as managing large groups of people upon arrival and helping them find their way and I was also lucky enough to work on the disabled entrance and help many patrons with entrance to the building and helping with many of their needs. Show less