CV examples by job

Manchester, UK— B2B distributor of workwear and PPE, around 2,000 trade accounts in the North of England.

• Grew my territory's annual revenue from £1.1m to £1.4m in two years by opening 38 new accounts in construction and facilities management.
• Hit 112% of target in 2025 and 104% in 2024; ranked 2nd of 9 field reps on new-business revenue.
• Won back 9 lapsed accounts worth about £120,000 a year by offering free quarterly stock reviews.
• Run around 12 customer visits a week across Greater Manchester and Lancashire, with every visit and quote logged in Salesforce the same day.

Salford, UK— Office equipment and managed print supplier for small and mid-sized businesses.

• Made 60–80 outbound calls a day and booked an average of 8 qualified meetings a week for the field team.
• Closed £310,000 of new contract revenue in my final 12 months, 18% above target.
• Cut quote turnaround from 3 days to same day by building standard pricing templates in Excel.

Stockport, UK— Independent TV, audio and computer shop.

• Sold extended warranties on about 1 in 4 TV and laptop sales, against a store average of 1 in 6.
• Booked home delivery and installation for customers buying large TVs and sound systems.

Residential property manager looking after about 1,200 rented homes.

• Manage the diaries of 3 directors and book around 40 meetings, viewings and contractor visits a week.
• Moved 1,200 tenancy files from paper to SharePoint in 5 months, so staff now find a document in seconds instead of searching the archive room.
• Built an Excel tracker for gas safety and electrical (EICR) certificates; no certificate has lapsed since it went live in 2024.
• Process about 150 supplier invoices a month in Xero, matching each one to a purchase order before approval.

Three-surgery NHS and private dental practice.

• Booked and confirmed around 90 appointments a day across 3 surgeries.
• Cut missed appointments by about a quarter by introducing text reminders the day before.
• Took patient payments and checked NHS charge exemptions, balancing the till at the end of every day.

B2B payments platform for UK online merchants, team of 60 engineers.

• Rebuilt the merchant onboarding flow in React and TypeScript, cutting average sign-up time from 25 minutes to 9 and raising completed sign-ups by 18%.
• Cut p95 response time on the payments API from 820 ms to 310 ms by adding PostgreSQL indexes and caching frequent reads in Redis.
• Moved 14 services from manual deploys to a GitHub Actions pipeline with automated tests; releases went from fortnightly to several a day.
• Review around 15 pull requests a week and mentor 2 junior developers.

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Digital agency building web apps for charities and retailers.

• Built and launched 9 client web apps in React and Node.js, from first sprint to go-live.
• Raised unit test coverage on the agency's shared component library from 35% to 80% with Jest.
• Fixed accessibility issues across 3 charity websites so they met WCAG 2.1 AA.

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General haulage and trunking operator with around 140 vehicles.

• Drive night trunks of about 450 miles between Doncaster and the South East, arriving within the booked slot on 98% of runs over the last 2 years.
• No accidents and no tachograph or drivers' hours infringements since joining in 2022.
• Average 9.4 mpg on the fleet's telematics, in the top 5 of 60 night drivers.
• Carry out walkaround checks and defect reports every shift; my vehicle passed both DVSA roadside checks it had, with no defects found.

Builders' merchant delivering to building sites across South Yorkshire.

• Made 10–14 multi-drop deliveries a day in a rigid with a lorry-mounted crane, unloading safely on busy sites.
• Delivered 99% of orders in the customer's booked time slot in my last full year.
• Gained my Category C+E licence in 2021 through the company's driver training scheme.

York, UK— Independent brasserie with 90 covers and a private dining room.

• Run the pass on Saturday services of up to 140 covers, keeping ticket times for mains under 18 minutes.
• Raised food GP from 66% to 71% in a year by re-costing the menu, cutting waste and changing two suppliers.
• Wrote and costed 4 seasonal menus with the head chef, using local Yorkshire producers.
• Kept the kitchen's 5 food hygiene rating through two inspections, managing HACCP records, the allergen matrix and temperature logs.
• Train and supervise a brigade of 6, including 2 apprentices who passed their Level 2 commis chef apprenticeship.

Harrogate, UK— Four-star hotel with a 70-cover restaurant and banqueting for up to 250.

• Ran the sauce and grill sections for the restaurant and banquets of up to 250 guests.
• Cut weekly food waste on my section by about a quarter by prepping to forecast covers.
• Covered for the junior sous chef on days off, running the pass for restaurant services of up to 70 covers.

York, UK— Neighbourhood bistro, 45 covers.

• Worked every section from larder to pastry within 18 months.
• Made the weekly stocks, sauces and bread, and covered the larder section on busy weekends.