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Carly Smith

Sales & Events Manager UK at Sticks'n'Sushi

Carly Smith is the Sales & Events Manager UK at Sticks'n'Sushi. Carly previously worked as Deputy Manager at Ted Baker from March 2019 to December 2019 and as Senior Event Manager at ETM Group London from June 2016 to March 2018.

Carly is responsible for the growth and development of The Botanist Broadgate & Broadleaf, 2 300 capacity venues in The City of London. Providing focused training programmes, marketing strategies and sales initiatives for the events and management teams.

Some of Carly's key achievements include:

• 8% growth on year on year pre-booked sales through venue maximisation and up-selling initiatives, reporting on such through weekly and monthly performance reviews with Managing Director

• Pro-active sales concepts and marketing drives to stay on top of an ever changing hospitality sector

• Successfully opened a new venue. Implemented Collins and Open table system and trained entire team to the desired standard

• Facilitated the soft launch of the venue and lead the team to ensure consistency and quality

• Lead the team to success though training, supporting and continuous coaching, focusing on development plans, appraisals and incentives resulting in lowest staff turn over to date

• Took ownership of all exclusive events within both venues providing clear communication and function sheets for venue team and client

• Planned and executed ‘slider decider’ 2017, ETM’s yearly promoted external event including all aspects of health and safety, costings, staffing and execution on the day

• Developed a strong and stable Social media following on Facebook, twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn

• Client show rounds and tastings

• Cross selling within group

Carly Smith has a Bachelor of Arts in Fashion/Apparel Design from Leeds College of Art & Design, a City & Guilds in Women's Wear Stage 1 & 2: Pattern Cutting and Design from Leeds College of Art & Design, and a Foundation Course in Art and Design from Northbrook College of Art & Design.

They are on a team with Mathilda Asp - Office Host, Dan Munt - Operations Director, UK, and Cosette Perez - Head of Marketing UK. Their manager is Andreas Karlsson, CEO.

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