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 (60)
sound-effects10
wasapi9
ogg-vorbis9
id39
hashmap9
imgui9
wav9
glium9
alsa9
pulseaudio9
audio9
egui9
id3v29
pitch-detection9
rust9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
shockham/glium_text
Dec 2015 - May 2020
Text rendering with glium
Contributions:2 PRs, 24 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 5 months
renderingtext-renderingglium
nhs-nobleep/api
May 2016 - Mar 2021
api for no bleep
Contributions:3 PRs, 20 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 11 months
apibleep
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