Conor Blake

Responsibilities:

• Oversee planning and execution of promotions and competitions to boost brand visibility and sales.
• Liaising with suppliers, wholesalers, and branding agencies to implement effective marketing strategies.
• Managing social media channels and curating content aligned with industry trends.
• Creating engaging graphics for Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and WhatsApp using Photoshop and Canva.
• Producing 'AutoXstra' trade magazines in Adobe InDesign to promote new to market parts, company news and industry insights.
• Develop promotional flyers and offer sheets to support sales initiatives.
• Producing quarterly newsletters and updated internal communication materials for staff noticeboards.
• Developing monthly internal/external emails via Mailchimp to help promote brands, product offers, staff competitions or other company news, as well as updating email signatures via Exclaimer etc.
• Producing monthly marketing reports to assess campaign effectiveness, recommend improvements for future initiatives and analyse performance metrics of the company’s digital marketing channels.
• Conducting market research by visiting customers to gather feedback on marketing strategies.
• Involved in the development stages of the company’s new e-commerce site ‘NAVcat’ – e.g. creating, resizing and uploading promotional image banners.
• Organising internal initiatives, team-building days and charity events - e.g. NICHS Staff Health Checks, Healthy Breakfast Weeks, and Macmillan Mighty Hike etc.
• Office Admin - e.g. dealing with staff uniform and merchandise requests, alongside inventory monitoring.
• Additional Training – e.g. certified Health Champion, Mental Health First Aider, First Aider and Fire Warden.

Responsibilities:

• Heavily involved across the development process of the company's new website - e.g. uploading and updating content across the site, resizing image banners, creating new web pages etc.
• Campaign involvement - e.g. played a key role in the promotion of internal and external events via the company's website and social media.
• Content planning - e.g. researching public holidays/topical events for content ideas, creating, updating and scheduling social media posts in content calendar etc.
• Content creation - e.g. writing project case studies, copy for social media posts and devising promotional graphics via Photoshop.
• Setting up, managing and monitoring social media channels.
• Analytics and reporting experience - e.g. producing monthly performance reports regarding the company's social media channels.
• Dealing with customer/colleague POS and sample requests.
• Dealing with customer site visits, trade shows and exhibitions.

Responsibilities:

• Replenishing shelves.
• Stock rotation/stock take.
• Dealing with customer queries and complaints.
• Adhering to company health and safety regulations, ensuring cleanliness standards are met.
• Trained in variety of departments; shop floor, tills, F+V, dairy, off-license (supervisor), warehouse (supervisor) etc.
• Dealing with and monitoring cash flow.
• Training new staff members.
• Forklift certified - Unloading/loading of and checking in deliveries (dealing with delivery drivers and processing paperwork).

Responsibilities:

• Restocking shelves.
• Customer service.
• Stock rotation.
• Following company health and safety procedures for all key operations.