Experience

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  Blackpool Council

  • Administration Clerk

    • Mar 1998 - Present

    I have various roles to my job. These entail, being resposible for organising Promenade Collections and Rota's for 16 staff members. E-Procurement for the whole department. Managing my own and Managers diaries. First point of call for visitors and enquiries to the department both over the phone and face to face. All aspects of invoicing to raising and paying. Arranging meetings. Minute taking. Running the petty cash. Interviewing for potential staff for Business collections. All forms of banking. Everything else that is entailed in running a busy office.

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  Lightpool Festival

  • Blackpool, United Kingdom

  • Administrator

    • Jul 2016 - Jan 2017
    • Blackpool, United Kingdom

    In 2016 as part of the Illuminations we held a Lightpool Festival. I have never worked on a festival before and found myself thrown in the deep end working with new people with new ways of working. What an experience it turned out to be. I've met some wonderful people who I've thoroughly enjoyed working with. As they had little or no experience of working within a local Council, I felt my 18 years knowledge has been invaluable. I did everything from setting up new suppliers to ordering goods along with sorting everyone's invoices from hotels to artists. I was the only administrator and to say it was a busy period is an understatement. I've been given some challenging tasks and like to think I've risen to the challenge in a very professional manner. Guys/Galls it's been an absolute pleasure to work with you and hope we can do it all again if funding can be found. What an enhancement to Blackpool the Festival was.

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  J.C.A. Kitchen & Plumbing merchants

  • Showroom Manager

    • Mar 1990 - Apr 1996

    I interacted with the public to entice them to buy a new kitchen, bathroom or bedroom. I was the first point of contact. I went to clients homes to find out their requirements and measurements that would then enable me to design a new room for them, I would then encourage the sale. I also managed other staff members and trained junior members. I designed on a CAD system. I was also responsible for cash handling. I co-ordinated with the fitters on all aspects from start to finish of the job to ensure our clients a successful and happy end project. I worked long hours six days a week to succeed in this job and I feel I was very successfull.

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  Magnet Ltd

  • Preston, United Kingdom

  • Kitchen Designer

    • Apr 1988 - 1990
    • Preston, United Kingdom

    I was employed as a kitchen designer and attended one of their invaluable training courses. I also trained junior members of staff. I was the first point of call for potential clients on entering the showroom. I then followed through with visits to the homes/buildings and presenting our finished products and negotiating prices. I then liased with the fitters and followed the job through to enable final payment.

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  Burton's Biscuit Company

  • Wages Clerk

    • Jun 1976 - Jan 1982

    Cash handling was a big part of this job. I used to count all the cash and put the money in pay packets for over 800 members of staff. I manually added up all the hours to balance on clock cards. I dealt with tax codes and N.I. departments. I also covered all other aspects of office work from typing to book keeping. I was proficient in fax machines, comptometers and adding up columns of figures in my head.