penny rawson

9500 Sqft, two floor store. 35 strong team. Including childrens fashion, travel and home. Company project work including space management and regional stock right manager.

As the area manager I had accountability for 11 stores and a headcount of 44 including 11 managers. Achieving +7% LFL Q3, +3% Q4 is a demonstration of key skills. Influencing and people skills have been key in making an impact when remote managing in tight time scales. My responsibilities included driving sales, recruitment, training and development, driving service standards, new store openings and events.

* Store duty manager duties include; cash handling, risk assessing, store opening closing, organising daily briefing of 600 strong team, ensuring store and service standards are 100%, line managing other members of the management team. * Department included 30 brands and managing 36 staff. * KPI targets included Labour turnover, stock loss, payroll, sales and margin. * Key achievments; * Under performing dept moved from 180k behind plan to * 15 k over 6 months. * First half 2009 * 24% v plan, * 26% v lry. * Stock loss result reduced from 1.6% to 0.1 %. * 16.7% payroll saving.

Winner of regional model store 2013 Currently store manager of new Cheshire Oaks store opening August 2014

Neuroscience is a fast paced, self driven research based course. Literature review followed by the ability to develop and express your own innovative ideas and project plans are the key skills developed in order to gain grants and make a real difference to this area of scientific knowledge. It is a relatively new area of research where basic biological principals, coupled with new technological advances are used to link perception and psychology to the physical body for the first time. It is an exciting area as it has vast implications for medicine and artificial intelligence.