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Shayna Birch

Summary

Skilled in planning and operations management. Background running successful business operations with knowledge of budgeting, staffing and marketing. Accomplished in driving customer and revenue growth with proactive strategies and daily management.


Committed manager with exceptional leadership, organisational skills and communication abilities leads high-performing cross-functional teams. Leads projects, company operations and business growth.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education

Work history

Argos Store Manager

Sainsbury's
Midsomer Norton, United Kingdom
05.2024 - Current
  • Leading a high performing team and ensuring the customer is at the heart of everything that they do.
  • Leading a team of colleagues to deliver at pace in a fast paced, omni-channel business.
  • Use of reporting, analytics and data to drive business change and improvement to consistently deliver for the customer.
  • Regularly meeting with colleagues to discuss performance, actions and responsibilities.
  • Oversight and management of store performance and celebrating, coaching and performance managing colleagues to ensure consistent results and improving delivery where required.
  • Responsible for the recruitment, induction and ongoing training for my team is managed and delivered appropriately and to the correct legal standard.
  • Responsible for the safe and legal operation of the store. Ensuring that all colleagues are competent within their roles and are adhering to all policies and procedures.
  • Responsible for the management of all controllable costs and cash office to minimise loss and drive a profitable store.
  • Ensuring colleagues are delivering the Financial Services offer in line with the FCA regulations.
  • Leading on change delivery - connecting what change means for the business with the welfare of my team.
  • Responsible for creating and role-modelling an inclusive culture within the store and working with my team to ensure that action has a positive impact.
  • Responsible for the management of all resources in line with resource planning tools to ensure that all outputs are being delivered.
  • Strong commercial awareness - responsible for ensuring profitable sales, strong marketing, and upselling of extended warranty products.
  • Key Stakeholder Engagement - responsible for forging and maintaining positive relationships with stakeholders from across the business as well as external stakeholders.
  • Responsible for working with key stakeholders across multiple brands within the Sainsbury's group to manage talent, supporting knowledge of the Argos brand and contributing to the deliver of the wider business goals as one winning team.
  • Management of end-to-end Employee Relations issues within my team - full case management of conduct cases from Attendance right through to Gross Misconduct cases.
  • Management of Fair Treatment processes within my store, ensuring that grievances are heard and dealt with according to company policy.

Argos Trading Support Manager

Sainsbury's
Street, United Kingdom
03.2020 - 05.2024
  • Shayna to fill in

Education

GCSEs -

Example School
Glastonbury
09.2013 - 07.2017

Skills

  • Inventory management
  • Budget oversight
  • Staff training
  • Profit and loss understanding
  • Performance monitoring
  • Recruitment and hiring
  • Health and safety compliance
  • Sales target achievement
  • Effective communication
  • Retail software usage
  • Store security measures
  • Complaint handling
  • Strategic planning
  • Staff rota arrangement
  • Brand promotion
  • Inventory control
  • KPI target setting
  • Results-based leadership
  • Operational planning
  • Recruiting and interviewing

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Argos Store Manager

Sainsbury's
05.2024 - Current

Argos Trading Support Manager

Sainsbury's
03.2020 - 05.2024

GCSEs -

Example School
09.2013 - 07.2017
Shayna Birch