Sam Hockham
Group Digital Programme Manager at Kingfisher plc
Eastleigh, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Hockham is a strategic digital programme leader with 11 years’ experience driving retail transformation and new-format rollouts, now leading group digital programmes at Kingfisher plc. He combines commercial focus and hands-on project delivery from his progression through B&Q—where he defined small-store formats, led range-change programmes, and stepped into senior cover—to shape profitable, scalable retail concepts. Known for stakeholder-savvy matrix leadership and improving processes to save time, cost and quality, he consistently delivers multi-site blueprints and agile change. Based in Eastleigh, Sam blends a background in business and marketing with frontline retail management experience, giving him rare empathy for store-level operations alongside strategic programme execution. Notably, he has a track record of award-winning performance and occasional role-cover at higher levels, showing readiness to scale responsibility quickly.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Business and Management With Marketing, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Business and Management With Marketing at University of Wales, CardiffGCSES, GCSES at Thornden SchoolApplied Business, General Studies, Physical Education, Product Design, Health and Physical Education/Fitness, Applied Business, General Studies, Physical Education, Product Design, Health and Physical Education/Fitness at Peter Symonds College
Github Skills (40)
game-dev10
imgui10
sound-effects10
rust10
hashmap9
audio-playback9
glium9
sequencing9
audio9
synth8
game-development8
sentiment8
persistence8
bioinformatics8
game-engine8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
shockham/infuse
Jun 2019 - Jun 2020
Contributions:31 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
shockham/impose
Aug 2017 - Nov 2019
Minimalist audio lib
Contributions:20 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
audio
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