Elfleda Dixon

I was employed to open the store in Ashburton. This position involves the day to day running of a busy and successful store. Some of the duties include :-

- Ensuring store budgets and targets are met

- Recruiting, training and leading team members

- Extensive administrative duties

- Stock Management

- Marketing

- Building and maintaining supplier & customer relationships

- Booking in vehicles for maintenance

- Invoicing work completed by mechanics

- Data entry of hours worked.

- Ensuring customers happy with service given

Originally employed as a Client Services Manager, after a short time promoted to an Account Director with a portfolio of clients in excess of $25 million. Some of the duties of this position were to : -

- Develop and execute business plans for clients

- Ensure retention of all existing clients

- Negotiate attractive contracts with travel suppliers for clients.

- Positively resolve all client issues / queries

- Identifying new business opportunities

- Monthly analysis reporting to clients

Appointed to set up a Holiday Centre within an existing Corporate Travel Office. This was very successful and managed to achieve a profitable $1 million operation within 18 months.