Billy Kirkby
Headington,Oxfordshire
Summary
Dynamic and results-driven professional with a strong foundation in finance and leadership, adept at decision making and delegating tasks effectively. Demonstrates exceptional adaptability and problem-solving skills, with proven expertise in stakeholder collaboration and team building. Proficient in Microsoft Office and Google apps, skilled in scheduling planning, recruitment, catering arrangement, and social media marketing. Committed to leveraging communication skills to drive organisational success while pursuing opportunities for growth in strategic roles.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work history
Marketing and events coordinator
John Lewis & Partners
Oxford, Oxfordshire
2024.07 - Current
- Streamlined internal communication processes with efficient scheduling and organisation tools.
- Devised effective email marketing campaigns resulting in higher open rates.
- Managed vendor contracts to ensure timely delivery and budget compliance.
- Facilitated team meetings for improved departmental collaboration and efficiency.
- Organised staff training sessions to improve overall productivity levels.
- Assisted in budget management, ensured cost-effective use of resources.
- Achieved successful event planning by coordinating logistics, vendors and promotional materials.
- Drove customer engagement through creation of innovative promotional events.
- Supported design team in creating impactful visuals for advertising campaigns.
- Handled event logistics, contributed to seamless execution of corporate functions.
Shop support
John Lewis Partnership
Oxford, Oxfordshire
2022.01 - 2024.07
- Covering day to day administration, system, finance and compliance tasks at John Lewis Oxford.
- Also helping Partners with any problems they have that may affect day to day trade or that could improve their way of working.
- I cover GDPR within the branch and regularly do floor sweeps to make sure we are compliant to data protection laws.
- I also look over all systems within the branch and regularly check all devices and make sure they are all maintained to a high standard of performance so partners can make the best use of them.
- I also recently took charge of Recruitment and I will be running peak recruitment within the branch where we will be interviewing over 250+ people in around 2 months. This is so we are adequately staffed over the peak season.
- My team and I look at all cash admin for the branch and we check the cash counted values against the cash expected values weekly to see where our cash discrepancies are then we report these to our profit protection to be investigated.
Waitrose
Oxford, Oxfordshire
2019.01 - 2022.01
- Myself and one other team leader led a Night Shift of over 30 partners for 3 years, Meeting all expectations given to us by the managers in the day so that the shop was always prepared for trade. Without much leadership above me for most of the time I was there.
- Most shift's i would have to be very independent and make sure that regardless if we were left tasks to do, we still maintained the shop standards and made sure the shop was compliant for open of trade.
- I also helped partners with workday tasks like supporting them with elearning and time cards, as well as ordering business dress for partners on the night shift.
- I created the rota's which we used on the night shift which in time once fully recruited helped with making the night shift run as smooth as possible and accounted for if we had holidays or sickness.
Midcounties co operative
Oxford, Oxfordshire
2016.01 - 2019.01
- First job of mine so basic retail work i.e Serving customers, stock replenishment, Baking and Cash counts.
Wellers Accountancy Work experience
Oxford, Oxfordshire
2016.01 - 2016.01
- Basic Admin work to help out the office and shadowed multiple people in the office with day to day admin task.
Education
GCSE - Maths B, English Language/Literature 5, Science Core/Additional C, German C, Geography C, Sport leadership/DOE Merit
Cheney
OxfordAAT Level 2 Merit - Business
OCVC
OxfordSkills
- Finance
- Adaptability
- Decision making/delegating
- Leadership
- Competent in all of Microsoft office
- Competent in all Google apps
- Scheduling planning
- Recruitment
- Stakeholder collaboration
- Catering arrangement
- Communication skills
- Problem-solving
- Team building
- Social media marketing
Timeline
Marketing and events coordinator
John Lewis & Partners
2024.07 - Current
Shop support
John Lewis Partnership
2022.01 - 2024.07
Waitrose
2019.01 - 2022.01
Midcounties co operative
2016.01 - 2019.01
Wellers Accountancy Work experience
2016.01 - 2016.01
AAT Level 2 Merit - Business
OCVC
GCSE - Maths B, English Language/Literature 5, Science Core/Additional C, German C, Geography C, Sport leadership/DOE Merit
Cheney