01/07/2021
It is 15 years since I started my business ReNU Health Beauty Fitness and to mark the occasion I have been sharing a little about myself and my business journey .
Part 9
Shortly after I transferred to the Sam Jones Peterborough club, I was offered the position of Fitness Manager at LivingWell Premier Health Club in Werrington. (Now Bannatynes )
It was the first big corporate club to put roots in the city. This was the second time I had started a new job working from a portacabin on a building site and I was grateful for my previous experience of helping to manage the pre opening of a flagship club.
We sold over 3000 memberships prior to opening and it was my job to ensure they all knew how to use the gym on day one. It was a challenge, but proved possible.
In an early performance appraisal, the General Manager Chris Rushden stated “Claire’s desk belies her organisational abilities” which just about summed me up in one 😊
Two years on, I was promoted to General Manager. With 8 Heads Of Department , over 80 staff, and a flagship club with a challenging budget to meet. I found myself on a steep learning curve once again.
The Sensory Hair and Beauty department was responsible for a big chunk of overall budget and I learned a great deal about the hair and beauty business under the expert guidance of Louise Moore. This has been invaluable to me in more recent years .
We won several prestigious awards, including FLAME Club of the year and the Peterborough Evening Telegraph Business of the year . We also sponsored Peterborough United Football Club and Peterborough Sportswoman of the year .
These are a few press cuttings from that time .
Working for a large corporate company like Hilton has many advantages . The management, marketing, personnel and operational training I received opened a whole new set of boundaries for me and established a strong foundation for a window of opportunity that presented itself in 2006 …