Ryan George

26 Curtis House

Morecambe Street

LondonSE17 1EB

Tel: 07548 639548 / 0203 091 6302

Age: 30

D.O.B 16/03/1985

Nationality: British

Email: ryandavidgeorge@gmail.com

I am a young, energetic, enthusiastic, dedicated and passionate person with thirteen years management experience under my belt in the retail, trade, leisure and the entertainments industries. I have always pushed 100% to be successful in all my roles to learn and develop my skills. I have managed teams of up to fifteen people. During my employment with the Greeting Card Group (Cardfair & Cardwarehouse) I turned around three of their under achieving stores.

My biggest achievement was with Crown paints where at 21 years of age I was the youngest manager employed by the company and one of the highest achievers. I tripled turnover in my own store and when the company decided to open their first retail store, they asked if I would take on the role.

My skills include

• An excellent track record in Achieving targets and beating targets to maximize sales

• Excellent customer service, always well presented and polite

• Strong team player and leader

• Strong at creating visual layouts of merchandise with POS

• Excellent administration including stock takes, auditing and organizational skills to complete all tasks to the highest standards

• Ability to increase footfall and happy to meet clients to gain extra business.

• Strong in Advertising

• Following company policy and procedures keeping up store standards.

June2010 – Current - SG Productions London Manager

Managing and recruiting staff, overseeing all aspects to running the venue. This included, hiring staff, arranging advertising with magazines, organising flyers, whilst attending to the general running of the venue including, stocking, stock takes, audits, rotas, payroll, cashing up and entering data into the customer database. This all aided in building reputation of high quality of events. Currently I have created and I am running two of London's biggest events.

Nov 2006 June 2010 Crown Paints Enfield, London Store ManagerManaging a trade center for the Crown Paints brand with a turnover of a half a million pounds a year. Achieving targets for paint and sundry sales and delivering a high quality of service to customers whilst controlling costs, keeping within a set budget and maintaining a high level of efficiency. Successful sales and people management experience gained, and a high level of customer service skills, excellent organizational and administrative skills. My role involved sales, advertising, cash handling, stock counts, auditing, stock control and teamwork.

Sept 2003 – Oct 2006 Greeting Card Group Enfield, London Store Manger / Area Manager

Managing a retail store for The Greeting Cards Group located within a busy shopping center. Overseeing a team of 5 people. The role involved cash handling, payroll duties, stocktaking, stocking shelves, ordering, serving customers, administration. During my time within the Enfield branch I was offered the challenge of increasing the sales within a failing store in Ilford, after accepting the offer the store increased its turnover three fold within three months. Due to my successes within the company I was trained and

performed as an Area Manager for 8 months.

Aug 2000 Aug 2003 – McDonalds Southgate, London Assistant Manager

Reporting to the Store manager I was responsible for daily operations involving kitchen areas and till fronts. Main duties included preparing food, serving customers, keeping all food stocks rotated and following health and hygiene to the strictest standards. During my shift I would run a team of up to ten staff. Other duties included cleaning, ordering stock and training. I also received first aid training

References

Crown Paints (Gina Hammilton) and Head office (Alexandra Clemson)

SG Productions (Steven Geller)

Education 20012003 Broomfield College London.

Advanced Business GNVQ

Clean driving license, held for 13 years