Sainsbury's Leadership Experience
While working for Sainsbury’s on my team leader course I engaged with management from my department and store management to help improve profit and loss score for the store. This included improving areas such as lottery, gift cards, commercial wastage, etc. I worked proficiently on the gift cards and lottery to improve sales with effective promotional advertising and placement of the commercial products. This was done with working with the national lottery in ordering the correct promotional advertising and using the correct planograms for the store setup. In adding supporting value towards the gift cards, I used simple actives in product placement and additional signage to attract the consumer. These were simple activities with minimum price
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These include from working together with the security team and janitors to maintain the store to its high standards, to working with outside charities for our community programmes. In building these relationships up I have gain confidence in rising to challenges knowing I have the supportive team there to help me work collaboratively. Such can be demonstrated in working with our maintenance contractors to improve the carpark which I felt had come to a condition of a threat to health and safety. Working with my department management and the contractors we could come to a decision where areas needed proficient attention but to work together to sustain costs. Also, looking at why the problem occurred was because of the material being used, so a suggestion of using another material to become sustainable for the future was made.
Working on the busiest day of the year during the Christmas period, the store had one of its two baler systems which compacted cardboard go down and wasn’t going to be fixed until after Christmas. This was a major operational impact to the warehouse and allowed stockpiles of cardboard to mount. When I came in, my store manager wanted the area clear, which I immediately reacted to the problem in setting up a manual system for colleagues to separate cardboard from plastic. This was done by simple laying
These include from working together with the security team and janitors to maintain the store to its high standards, to working with outside charities for our community programmes. In building these relationships up I have gain confidence in rising to challenges knowing I have the supportive team there to help me work collaboratively. Such can be demonstrated in working with our maintenance contractors to improve the carpark which I felt had come to a condition of a threat to health and safety. Working with my department management and the contractors we could come to a decision where areas needed proficient attention but to work together to sustain costs. Also, looking at why the problem occurred was because of the material being used, so a suggestion of using another material to become sustainable for the future was made.
Working on the busiest day of the year during the Christmas period, the store had one of its two baler systems which compacted cardboard go down and wasn’t going to be fixed until after Christmas. This was a major operational impact to the warehouse and allowed stockpiles of cardboard to mount. When I came in, my store manager wanted the area clear, which I immediately reacted to the problem in setting up a manual system for colleagues to separate cardboard from plastic. This was done by simple laying