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Farhan Ahmed

Farhan Ahmed

Luton,Bedfordshire

Summary

Experienced professional with expertise in staff scheduling, training and development, and team management. Demonstrates strong interpersonal skills and a proven ability to coach staff, assess performance, and manage operations effectively. Skilled in incident reporting and problem solving, with a focus on optimising team performance and achieving organisational goals.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
2010
2010
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Assistant general manager

Wagamama
St Albans
10.2023 - 01.2025

Key Responsibilities:

As a Manager at Wagamama, I led daily operations, team development, and customer service excellence in a high-paced restaurant environment. My role focused on driving sales, optimizing efficiency, and ensuring a positive workplace culture.

  • Led and motivated a diverse team, fostering a positive and collaborative work environment.
  • Delivered exceptional guest experiences, ensuring high service standards and customer satisfaction.
  • Trained, coached, and developed team members to achieve performance targets and career growth.
  • Supported financial performance by managing budgets, inventory, and labor costs.
  • Analyzed sales trends and implemented strategies to maximize revenue and efficiency.
  • Maintained high standards of health, safety, and food hygiene compliance.
  • Problem-solved in real-time, addressing operational challenges with quick decision-making.
  • Worked closely with senior management on business strategy, marketing initiatives, and local engagement.

Assistant Restaurant Manager

Lussmanns Fish & Grill
Harpenden
11.2021 - 09.2023
  • Manage the day-to-day operations of the restaurant, including supervising staff, overseeing inventory and ordering supplies, and ensuring quality food and service
  • Create and implement strategies to improve overall restaurant performance, including increasing revenue, reducing costs, and enhancing customer satisfaction
  • Develop and enforce policies and procedures to maintain a clean, safe, and healthy working environment for staff and customers
  • Hire, train, schedule, and motivate restaurant staff, including servers, cooks, and other employees, and provide ongoing feedback and coaching to improve performance

Shift Supervisor

Starbucks
Luton
01.2018 - 10.2021
  • Delivering a legendary customer service to all customers by acting with a customer comes first attitude and connecting with the customer
  • Discovers and responds to customer needs
  • Executing store operations during scheduled shifts
  • Organizing opening and closing duties as assigned
  • Following all the operational policies and procedures, including those for cash handling and safety and security, to ensure the safety of team during each shift
  • Assisting new team members training by positively reinforcing successful performance and giving respectful and encouraging coaching as needed
  • Creating daily store orders efficiently to keep the waste minimum and store inventories to par level

Operations Manager

Falconhouse Grammar School
Karachi
01.2014 - 02.2016
  • Supervising and evaluating all non-instructional classified staff at the site
  • Manage all school scheduling, special events, field trips, cafeteria, transportation, maintenance, playgrounds and cleaning
  • Manage community use of school site
  • Manage school budgets
  • Responsible for school safety plan: disaster preparation, fire drills, student, staff and public safety, and student health
  • Maintain equipment, textbook and supply inventories
  • Coordinate with the principal to maintain a positive, safe learning environment for students by enforcing the school discipline plan
  • Responsible for school public relations and communications plan: promote the school and district through positive relations with community, businesses, parents and students
  • Perform other duties as assigned & maintain regular attendance

Operations Manager

Anchor Trading Company LLC
Dubai
12.2012 - 09.2014
  • Conducts daily inventory analysis to solve inventory problems
  • Accurately record the quality, quantity, type, style, and any other characteristics of the inventory
  • Responsible for ensuring organization has the right amount of stock to meet customer needs and also to avoid overstocking items; which ties up cash and creates storage issues
  • Managing the ongoing relationship with suppliers
  • Manage ordering more from the appropriate supplier and negotiate pricing and a timeline for delivery and Making daily reports

Education

Bachelor's - Commerce/Accounting

Karachi University

Skills

  • Staff scheduling
  • Training and development
  • Staff coaching
  • Performance assessment
  • Incident reporting
  • Operational management
  • Strong interpersonal skills
  • Excellent problem solving skills
  • Team management

Personal Information

Title: General Manager

Custom

  • Photography
  • Cricket

Timeline

Assistant general manager

Wagamama
10.2023 - 01.2025

Assistant Restaurant Manager

Lussmanns Fish & Grill
11.2021 - 09.2023

Shift Supervisor

Starbucks
01.2018 - 10.2021

Operations Manager

Falconhouse Grammar School
01.2014 - 02.2016

Operations Manager

Anchor Trading Company LLC
12.2012 - 09.2014

Bachelor's - Commerce/Accounting

Karachi University
Farhan Ahmed