Insider profil
Top Insider Advice
By experience a project is like a journey, the goal is essential but the path to get there is just as important. Keeping good relationship, a "can-do" attitude, open to find the right compromise to move forward are essential. There are strong things to take away from all projects, even in the failures and that should in no case affect the following experience, on the contrary it should reinforce it. Grow together all the time in contact with others, whatever the age or experience, mutual exchange is essential. Work is an important part of our life, it must be source of wisdom as well and part of our personal development.
Career path
Brand Comms Manager
Kingfisher
Started 05/2017 to PresentComms POS Manager (Store + Head Office)
Castorama (Kingfisher)
From 09/1997 to 05/2017Company
What do you like about your job and the company?
I really appreciate our Project mode organization, ensuring confidence, autonomy and complete view of each project. It's a project mode inside my team (with Brand, Content and Comms manager), with all others Kingfisher stakeholders in charge the roll out ( Product, Quality, Packaging) and with our Banners Teams (Market, POS, Digital, Catalogue, Marketing...). It enriches both my Professional and Personal experience
Greatest achievements
I am very satisfied with a previous Joinery project (windows) creating a strong asset pack with lots of rich content as imageries, videos, icons set, line drawings. It had an impact on artwork packaging rendering, and all my recommendations about web page layout, videos and imagery use on Social Media have been respected by Digital and Content teams to ensure a perfect roll out of the new range. Web pages were attractive with links to video and imagery carousel, The "How to install" video (very difficult to manage) had lots of view in the YouTube channel and the Range video had a great impact as well. A nice project to work on with a 360 impact on comms.
Devrim G
sourcing quality engineer
Top Insider Advice
quality is important, to provide good quality product meaning is not to block production, it means cooperation across the production quality and sourcing teams
Natalia N
Top Insider Advice
Curiosity drives growth, both in technical skills and as a leader. Being open to feedback means you’re always learning, adapting, and improving. Whether it’s from your team or your own experiences, embracing challenges and new ideas helps you move forward and build stronger connections with others.
Jen S
People Ops Team Lead
Top Insider Advice
The importance of a strong network should not be underestimated. During my career with Kingfisher I have built good working relationships with key contacts who I can turn to for further information and advice. This was extremely useful following the creation of my team in 2022 as it enabled me to gather open and honest feedback which meant we could ensure we delivered and exceeded the expected level of service. The creation of the People Operations team in 2021 led to bringing together three different ways of working and the processes that involves. My team's focus on continuous improvement has meant there has been a lot of change during the past year which has led to our service becoming more efficient and streamlined. The level of change within our team and Kingfisher as a whole has highlighted to me the importance of being flexible and open to new ideas. Since I have become People Ops Team Lead, I have been in many meetings where to fully understand the implications of decisions which need to be made, I have had to ask a lot of questions! I was originally concerned how this would look but now appreciate it is the only way I would understand the full picture and could make a fully informed decision. In addition to a strong network, the importance of a sense of humour should not be underestimated!! Having a laugh with my team and other colleagues has definitely helped us through some challenging times!