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Giant DurbanvilleStore Manager
Apr. 2017 - Apr. 2019Durbanville, Cape townCurrently I am one of the Managers at Giant Durbanville where I am responsible for the following Day to day duties: - Doing the daily cash up first thing in the morning or the evening before
- Layout & organise all the workshop jobs for the week
- Capture all the Job card profiles of new and current customers before the workshop starts with the day's work
- Prep store to be ready before opening store for start of trading for the day.
- Open store every morning
- Receive & Capture all stock that has been received on the day
- Price all new and received stock while ensuring all SOH( Stock On Hand) is correctly priced and merchandised on the floor.
- Managing all workshop bookings
- managing spares for workshop and for job as per quotations
- Ordering stock for floor as well as workshop
- Assisting sales floor with sales where needed
- Managing petty cash and payment of suppliers
- Managing the attendance register
- Creating & designing all marketing content for our social media platforms
- Updating SOH list of stock for sales team
- Phoning customers with Quotation of there service of their bicycle
- Notifying customer when their bicycles are ready for collections
- ringing up workshop jobs for customer upon collection of their bicycle
- Closing of store at the end of business for the day.
Silverback TechnologiesGlobal Supply Chain Manager
May. 2015 - Mar. 2017Cape Town Area, South AfricaAs the Global Supply Chain manager At Silverback Technogies my Duties involved the following: - Sourcing new suppliers & building relationships with current vendors
- Negotiating on deals for our Specification on our bicycles
- Dealing With international warranties
- Dealing with online technical queries
- assisting with website and specifications - Quality control on samples as well as production runs
- Doing all 127 model SKU's specifications of each model Year(MY)
- Training Factory staff on how to assemble our bicycles
- assist with aligning orders and doing loading where needed for Containers (CUFT calculations)
Giant DurbanvilleAssistant Store Manager & Workshop Manager
Aug. 2014 - Apr. 2015Cape Town Area, South AfricaI was an Assistant Store Manager as well as the Workshop Manager from the store opening dealing with all the daily operations at Store level including the Workshop as follow: - Meet & greet customers
- Daily stock ordering
- Sales on the floor where needed
- Booking in of bikes - Servicing of bikes - Doing quotations for customers on service
- Testing riding bikes to ensure the correct quality is pushed out of the store - Doing follow up on collections and warranty spares
- making sure customers are informed and kept in the loop with regards to the progress of their servicing of their bicycle at the store including the cost involved in the service/repairs needed
- Making sure our Customers are well looked after by keeping their bikes in tip top race and ready for their next ride.
Olympic Cycles RiverclubGeneral Manager
Jan. 2014 - Jul. 2014Observatory, Cape townAs the General Manager where I am responsible for the following day to day duties: - Doing the daily cash up first thing in the morning or the evening before
- Layout & organise all the workshop jobs for the week
- Capture all the Job card profiles of new and current customers before the workshop starts with the day's work
- Prep store to be ready before opening store for start of trading for the day.
- Open store every morning
- Receive & Capture all stock that has been received on the day
- Price all new and received stock while ensuring all SOH( Stock On Hand) is correctly priced and merchandised on the floor.
- Managing all workshop bookings
- managing spares for workshop and for job as per quotations
- Ordering stock for floor as well as workshop
- Doing sales - Phoning customers with Quotation of there service of their bicycle
- Notifying customer when their bicycles are ready for collections
- ringing up workshop jobs for customer upon collection of their bicycle
- Closing of store at the end of business for the day.
Evolution Holdings Regional Manager
Aug. 2012 - Dec. 2013As the Regional Manger at Evolution Holdings my duties for the Western and Eastern Cape Region was as follow: - Managing 52 Staff members & servicing a 104 chain stores around the Western & Eastern cape regions
- Dealing with Customer Service centres and product enquiries
- Heading the each new Space planing layout with the head buyers of each chain store group.
- Checking of each store's MOR reports on daily store visits to check, if products where correctly merchandised and priced.
- Making sure all promotions are merchandised on gondolas
- securing visible floor space for promo's in store and assisting with weekly inshore promos
- Assembling all products for customers at Store level as well dealing with customer returns at store level.
- negotiating with buyers on top up orders at store level as well as working together to maximise sales at store level.
- training of all staff at store level to ensure good product knowledge as well as correct assembly to avoid any unnecessary returns.
- Ensuring all Pi labels where correctly labelled
- Merchandising all product and check that all merchandising was correctly merchandised and displayed at store level.
- Reporting back to Operation manager on a daily basis to ensure targets are met and that sales are on track for every quarter.
- Dealing with all national technical issues on product due to my strong technical back ground
My MechanicsOwner
Jan. 2010 - Aug. 2012South AfricaI started a mobile workshop with the idea of providing service to my customers. what started as a collections and delivery service, end up being as a mobile service centre that enabled me to service my customers bicycles from the comfort of their own homes.
Cycle Maintenance CentreWorkshop Manager & Sales Assistant
Dec. 2007 - Dec. 2009South AfricaAs the Workshop Manager, my daily duties & operations at store level including the workshop as follow: - Meet & greet customers
- Daily stock ordering
- Sales on the floor where needed
- Booking in of bikes - Servicing of bikes - Doing quotations for customers on service
- Testing riding bikes to ensure the correct quality is pushed out of the store - Doing follow up on collections and warranty spares
- making sure customers are informed and kept in the loop with regards to the progress of their servicing of their bicycle at the store including the cost involved in the service/repairs needed
- Making sure our Customers are well looked after by keeping their bikes in tip top race and ready for their next ride.
Willie Engelbreght CyclesStore Room Manger, Bicycle Mechanic and Sales Assistant
Jan. 2005 - Dec. 2007South AfricaAs the Store Manager, Bicycle Mechanic & Sales Assitant my daily duties & operations at store level including but not limited to: - Daily stock ordering
- Receiving and booking in of stock being received from suppliers.
- distributing stock to required stock holding bin location
- distribution pending orders/products to the assigned sales team and workshop staff
- Sales on the floor where needed
- washing of all bicycles for the workshop
- Servicing of bikes - assisting with testing riding bikes to ensure the correct quality is pushed out of the store - Doing follow up on collections and warranty spares
- managing all backend operations are run and stock levels are maintained at the optimal level for workshop and Sales Team.
Bellville CyclesSales Assistant
Mar. 2003 - Jan. 2005Cape Town Area, South Africaas a sales assistant, my daily duties & operations at store level include as follow: - Meet & greet customers
- Assisting with sales on the floor
- Following up with new sales leads
- the ordering of products for customers
- following up with customers on collections of products that have been ordered.
- Booking in of bicycles for services
- assisting with building and prepping of new bicycles that have been sold.
- Doing quotations for customers on service
- Testing riding bikes to ensure the correct quality is pushed out of the store - Doing follow up on collections and warranty spares
- making sure customers are informed and kept in the loop with regards to the progress of their servicing of their bicycle at the store including the cost involved in the service/repairs needed
- Making sure our Customers are well looked after by keeping their bikes in tip top race and ready for their next ride.
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