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Education
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References
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Xiaojie (Chris) DU

Orange,NSW

Summary

A highly driven and motivated manager with 6 years' team management experience in retail industry, having an education background in Marketing, Business Management and Hospitality Management. In ensuring quality customer service while maintaining well team management. Focusing on maintaining customer satisfaction and contributing to company turnover. Seeking opportunities to expand career level and management skills while facilitating company growth.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

HR Manager

Twig&Twine Co Homeware Living
Orange , NSW
01.2023 - Current
  • Recruiting applicants for vacancies to fill open positions with qualified staff for whole company
  • Training new employees to implement company policies
  • Communicating with supervisors to plan and reviewing employee evaluations.
  • Solving problems between staff and managers

Key Achievement:

  • Trying to balance the relationships between managers and employees, reducing the hiring stress for managers

Store Manager

Twig&Twine Co Homeware Living
Orange , NSW
08.2016 - Current
  • Determining product mix, store layout
  • Tracking and analyzing sales and customer trends
  • Creating purchasing policies and exploring new suppliers and setting prices
  • Promoting and marketing the general and seasonal products
  • Preparing daily work schedules, arranging deliveries, dealing with shopping centre management and enforcing company policy
  • Hiring, training cashier staff, and training supervisors
  • Ensuring compliance with occupational health and safety regulations

Key Achievement:

  • Grew sales and exceed the sales targets year by year, slightly dropped in 2022 influenced by currency inflation
  • Built well customer relationships and company reputation along the local community and customers
  • Built a well-trained team, especially two supervisors

Training Store Manager

Twig&Twine Co Homeware Living
Orange , NSW
05.2016 - 08.2016
  • Store daily opening and closing
  • Cashing handling and banking
  • Putting out stock, changing the overall layout and trained for stock ordering
  • Learning and implementing company management and running policy

Key Achievement:

  • Managed the store back to normal trading conditions after the previous manager left without notification
  • Dealt the issues with old staff and developed a new team
  • Changed the store layout with new looks, made the sales figures back to normal level

Event & Meeting Team Member

Merivale Meeting
Sydney , NSW
01.2016 - 04.2016
  • Set up and packed up event equipment, leaving area clean and tidy
  • Organized materials, cleaned facilities and set up equipment to prepare for events
  • Delivering service, helping manager to arrange the time to delivering food and beverage
  • Dealing with customers’ requirements and problem solving

Key Achievement:

  • Performed good staff skillls, learnt how the event set up and running
  • Practiced the knowledge learnt

Property Sales Consultant

Ausunland Australia Real Estate
Sydney , NSW
08.2015 - 01.2016
  • Developing customers and building the customer relationship
  • Selling the property and providing the investment advice

Key Achievement:

  • Gained the communication skills along different cultural people
  • Implemented the selling skills, sold and signed one property contract

Cashier

Icase Club Phone Accessories Shop
Sydney , NSW
06.2014 - 07.2015
  • Shop daily opening and closing
  • Selling the phone accessories
  • Doing inventory replenishment

Key Achievement:

  • Achieved best sellers for 5 times
  • Earned living fees during study period

Manager's Assistant

Little Lamb Brisbane
Brisbane , QLD
02.2014 - 06.2014
  • Inspected dining and serving areas for cleanliness and proper setup.
  • Trained workers in food preparation, money handling and cleaning roles to facilitate restaurant operations.
  • Resolved problems or concerns to satisfaction of involved parties.
  • Reconciled daily transactions, balanced cash registers and deposited restaurant's earnings at bank.
  • Trained new employees to perform duties.
  • Checked with customers to get feedback on food served, resolve issues, bring additional items and refill beverages.

Key Achievement:

  • Learnt how the restaurant's business running daily
  • Well communicated and coordinated food supply with back kitchen
  • Got promoted to manager assistant after 1 month shifts

Education

Master of Management(Tourism&Hospitality)

International College of Management, Sydney
Sydney, NSW
07.2016

Bachelor of Business Management -

University of Tasmania
Hobart, TAS
06.2013

Bachelor of Marketing -

Shanghai Ocean University
Shanghai China
06.2013

Skills

  • Microsoft Office Skills
  • Customer Service Management
  • Communication and Interpersonal Skills
  • Budget Control
  • Recruitment and Hiring
  • Team Leadership
  • Employee Engagement and Motivation
  • Conflict Resolution and Problem Solving
  • Supplier Monitoring
  • Sales Promotion
  • Policy Development and Enforcement
  • Fast learner and Results-driven
  • Enthusiasm and Empathy

References

Wei Yi

Twig&Twine Co Homeware Living Director

0426066999

Iain McColl 

Operator Manager Merivale 

Iain.McColl@merivale.com 

Iris Xu

Sales Manager

Ausunland Australia Real estate 

xxu425@hotmail.com

Languages

English
Chinese (Mandarin)

Timeline

HR Manager

Twig&Twine Co Homeware Living
01.2023 - Current

Store Manager

Twig&Twine Co Homeware Living
08.2016 - Current

Training Store Manager

Twig&Twine Co Homeware Living
05.2016 - 08.2016

Event & Meeting Team Member

Merivale Meeting
01.2016 - 04.2016

Property Sales Consultant

Ausunland Australia Real Estate
08.2015 - 01.2016

Cashier

Icase Club Phone Accessories Shop
06.2014 - 07.2015

Manager's Assistant

Little Lamb Brisbane
02.2014 - 06.2014

Master of Management(Tourism&Hospitality)

International College of Management, Sydney

Bachelor of Business Management -

University of Tasmania

Bachelor of Marketing -

Shanghai Ocean University
Xiaojie (Chris) DU