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Ashley Johnson

Brisbane,QLD

Summary

With over 10 years of experience in driving profitability through strategic client engagement, effective sales strategies, and team development. I have led teams to success and provided training in all areas and avenues of a retail business.


I am extremely passionate about client experience and client relationship management, while continuing to uphold company standards.


My leadership style emphasizes transparency, collaboration, and continuous development, ensuring a harmonious work environment that drives productivity. I am extremely loyal, motivational and thrive off of working within a team dynamic.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Assistant State Manager

Scanlan Theodore
05.2023 - Current

• 4 QLD boutiques and 1 concession boutique - approximately 40 team members

• Lead, mentor and inspire boutique management teams, fostering a culture of development

• Reporting directly to Head of Retail with State Management on a weekly basis

• Driving the achievement and success of all financial and company led key performance indicators

• Minimizing costs with strategic rostering and monitoring productivity

• Implementing effective operational tasks to ensure seamless results

• People management and performance-based conversations

• Ongoing training with staff – day to day

• Recognizing areas for development and improvement within QLD

• Recruitment of all retail roles from management to casual sales associates

• Driving a client centric sales approach, ensuring boutiques execute exceptional client experience standards

• Leveraging various Client Relationship Management tools to cultivate brand loyalty

• Oversee inventory management and loss prevention strategies within the State

Boutique Manager

Scanlan Theodore
05.2022 - 05.2023

• Empowered the team to effectively build relationships with new clients and maintain relationships with existing clients

• Working with store budgets and driving a team to exceed key performance indicators

• Client experience training with team

• Recruiting team members for positions within the boutique and executing relevant training

• Managing day to day operational boutique tasks

• Implementing visual merchandising direction from Head Office

PPT Sales Associate

Zimmermann Wear
10.2020 - 05.2022

• Sales and client experience role

• Building relationships with new and existing clients

• Working with boutique and individual budgets

• Operational day to day boutique tasks; client requests, reservations, outreach, layby's, in store emails, online orders, stock investigations

• Boutique daily tasks; visual merchandising, stock replenishment and organisation

Boutique Manager

Zimmermann Wear
05.2014 - 01.2020

• Building client relationships; shopping experience focus in store, outreach to clients, client requests and appointments

• Store budgets, individual budgets; driving a sales team to exceed KPI's

• Client experience training a full team

• Staff recruitment and training

• Weekly reports

• Liaising with buying and allocations team in order to maximise sales succession

• Client requests prior to a launch and fulfilling orders

• Consignment sales for VIP clients

• Product knowledge training

• Upholding visual merchandising expectations

• Launch preparation

• Store operational tasks; online orders, layby's, stock management, in store emails

Assistant Boutique Manager

Lisa Ho
01.2012 - 03.2014

• Client experience and client appointments

• Implementing boutique daily tasks and operational tasks

• Upholding visual merchandising standards

• Product knowledge training

• Rostering

Education

Certificate - Reformer Pilates Instructor

Studio Pilates
Brisbane, QLD
08.2021

Diploma - Interior Design

Commercial Arts Training College
Brisbane
2013

Diploma - Fashion Styling

Australian Institute of Creative Design
Brisbane
2010

Skills

Client Relationship Management

Training and development

Sales and client experience

Strong communication

Strong attention to detail

Computer literacy

Problem solving

Time management

Timeline

Assistant State Manager

Scanlan Theodore
05.2023 - Current

Boutique Manager

Scanlan Theodore
05.2022 - 05.2023

PPT Sales Associate

Zimmermann Wear
10.2020 - 05.2022

Boutique Manager

Zimmermann Wear
05.2014 - 01.2020

Assistant Boutique Manager

Lisa Ho
01.2012 - 03.2014

Certificate - Reformer Pilates Instructor

Studio Pilates

Diploma - Interior Design

Commercial Arts Training College

Diploma - Fashion Styling

Australian Institute of Creative Design
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