Dave Baker

Dave Baker

B2B schools and club leader at Decathlon UK

Leeds, England, United Kingdom
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About

Motivated to grow business and team projects through leadership. Love and live sport.

I lead on the B2B for schools project for Decathlon UK. Working with market leaders in the Education industry to help connect and deliver the best range of sports equipment for schools. My aim is to get more kids active through our quality products and services and deliver on our promise of making sport more accessible to the many

Please reach out and connect if you work in the education system, I would love to hear your insights.

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Experience

  • Decathlon UK

    Decathlon UK

    9 years 3 months

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      B2B Schools and Club Leader

      Decathlon UK

      - Present 1 year 8 months

      Manchester, England, United Kingdom

      Leading the strategy to bring new business from schools, universities and sports clubs through our B2B platforms for the UK.

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      Store Manager

      Decathlon UK

      - 3 years

      Leeds, England, United Kingdom

      Lead on the new opening project of Decathlon in the city of Leeds. My aim was to increase sport participation and health levels to the people of Leeds through our products, platforms and teammates.

      I led a team of up to 30 teammates, directly managed 7 department managers.

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      Store Manager

      Decathlon UK

      - 2 years 10 months

      Liverpool, United Kingdom

      I became the store leader of the concept Decathlon store in Huyton, Liverpool. In my role I had to build and lead the store's project and lead between a team of 8-9 teammates, working on their development in the process.

      My main aim was to try and make sport more accessible to people in the area and begin to start a Liverpool city project where we expand across the city.

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      Store Manager in Training

      Decathlon UK

      - 10 months

      Stevenage

      A role where I trained the key skills and roles to become a store manager for Decathlon.

      I helped develop the team we want in our new store alongside the store manager through recruitment days. My main role to begin with was to connect Decathlon with other local businesses within the Stevenage area through a business to business style strategy.

      In the role, when the store opened, I split responsibilities with my store manager. I took the lead on roles including creating…

      A role where I trained the key skills and roles to become a store manager for Decathlon.

      I helped develop the team we want in our new store alongside the store manager through recruitment days. My main role to begin with was to connect Decathlon with other local businesses within the Stevenage area through a business to business style strategy.

      In the role, when the store opened, I split responsibilities with my store manager. I took the lead on roles including creating timetables, running the productivity reports and training half the team on their development. I leant a lot about how to run an efficient and productive business on a small scale.

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      Department Manager

      Decathlon UK

      - 1 year 2 months

      Sheffield, United Kingdom

      My first job was the graduate scheme at Decathlon Sheffield. I was 6 months as the leader of the Running department and a team consisting of around 4/5 staff and later transferred to lead the Cycles department which had a team of 10-11 staff and looked after a £2 million a year business.

Education

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    Sheffield Hallam University

    Bachelor's Degree Physical Activity, Health and Exercise Science 2:1

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    Activities and Societies: Volunteering society - Project Leader of the 'Games club'​ which involves running games and sports sessions in primary schools to engage children to be physically active and learn new games. I lead a team of 4 volunteers and manage the timings, sessions and contact with the school. Table Tennis Sports team - A member of the second team which competes in the BUCS league every Wednesday

  • Wetherby High School

    A levels Biology - B. Physical Education - A. Psychology - B

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    Activities and Societies: Captain of football team for 3 years. Duke of Edinburgh Silver Award. Step into Sport volunteer for 2 years.

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Volunteer Experience

  • Project leader of 'Games club'​ at Sheffield Hallam

    Sheffield Hallam University

    - 9 months

    A chance to organise and manager a small team to run activities for kids. A passion I have had all my life is coaching and it was my first chance to manage a team on my own project.

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  • Independent football club

    club captain

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