Manager Sales

SOGOL LUNT

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Jersey City, NJ, 07302

Cell: 917-***-****

Email: **********@*****.***

CAREER HISTORY:

**/** – 10/14 Robert Walters PLC, New York, NY

Global executive recruitment firm

Corporate front of house receptionist and administrative assistant

• Answer all incoming calls and transferring to the

• Greet all visitors

• Booking all appointments with clients and candidates

• Reformatting and editing resumes and registering in the internal

database.

• Registering visitor names in the building security system

• Maintaining a clean and welcoming reception, conference room and

meeting rooms.

• Maintaining and updating staff directory and call logs.

12/11 – 12/12 Robert Walters PLC, London, UK

• Part of an eight member reception team managing two main reception

areas, 32 meeting rooms, two conference rooms and two switchboards

for the London headquarters.

• Working alongside executive offices of the CEO, COO and CFO.

• Meeting and greeting all visitors.

• Responsible for booking all appointments with clients and candidates.

• Liaising with IT department, facilities and housekeeping to ensure all

needs of clients and consultants are met.

• Setting up board meetings and client events, including catering and

drinks.

• Booking couriers, dealing with deliveries.

• Logging and distributing temporary passes.

• Upon returning back to the US, transferred to the New York City office as

head receptionist and co administrative assistant.

02/11 – 09/11 REISS LTD., London, UK

Assistant manager

• Supported manager in daily operations of £2 million (Approx. $3.5 million)

turnover store with one supervisor and on average, 17 members of sales

team.

• Assisted in recruitment and training of employees.

• Maintained a stock loss of no higher than 0.02% to 0.05% weekly.

• Excellent understanding of weekly and daily sales reports and applying them

to drive sales.

• Gained knowledge of menswear and tailoring.

• Submitted weekly and monthly KPI and product analysis to area manager.

• Responsible for biweekly floor moves and assisting the visual merchandising

team on their visits.

• Made commercial decisions to maximize sales as well as ensuring high

visual standards are kept at all times.

07/04 – 12/10 WHISTLES, London, UK

Premium ladies fashion brand 06/08 – 12/10

Senior store manager

• British heritage brand re launched by Jane Shepherdson, former long

term brand director by TopShop and once named “The most powerful

woman in British fashion.

• Promoted and brought in to turn around a low performing branch.

• Drove sale and increased turnover year on year

• First year, +4% budget and +14 on LY

• Second year, +6.6% budget and +13.3% on LY

• Top 10 store in like for like growth two years in a row

• Surpassed all seasonal and yearly store targets

• Significantly reduced stock loss from 3% to 0.7%

• Profit and loss accountability and shrinkage in controllable costs

• Consistent top performance in KPI’s in region

• Effective stock management and stockroom organization to optimize

performance

• Regular weekly reports and season overviews to area manager

• Excellent commercial skills and creativity with V.M

• Recruitment, training and development of assistant manager, supervisor

and team of 6 sales staff

• Responsible for team development, training and appraisals

• Responsible for collating product information and category best sellers

and reporting to area manager and region during weekly conference calls

• Developed a strong relationship with HO department, for example,

merchandising to ensure the right package is in place.

• Received training in the following:

o ATV, stock loss, payroll to sales ratio.

o KPIs

o Retail appraisal

o Commercial workshop

o Corporate responsibility

Assistant manager 07/04 – 11/07

• Promoted from supervisor to assistant manager, reporting to store and

area managers

• £1.5 million (Approx. $2.5 million) turnover store

• Managed a staff including one supervisor and seven sales assistants

• Responsible for training of supervisors

• Managed payroll, scheduling, reports and inventory

• Extensive work with visual merchandising and standards

• Responsible for integrating new computer and till systems

• Promoted to manager

11/03 – 04/04 ALMEIDA RESTAURANT & BAR, London, UK

• A Terence Conran restaurant serving classic French cuisine.

• Receptionist.

• Responsible for greeting customers, taking reservations and entering all

information into the reservation database

• Allocated tables and maximizing capacity

03/03 – 11/03 CLERKENWELL DINING ROOMS & BAR, London, UK

• Modern European cuisine in a stylish environment owned by Zak Jones

and Andrew Thompson formerly of L’Escargot

• Receptionist / Event Organizer

• My main role was in charge of reception but I also assisted with

reservations, private functions, bar and general running of the Restaurant

and maintaining a high level of service to the clients.

EDUCATION: LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY, CW Post campus, 2 years

COMPUTER SKILLS: Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook

American Citizen

References furnished upon request

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