Nilasha Dodampege
Summary
Proactive and results-driven individual with a first-class degree in Marketing Management and hands-on experience in merchandising, operations, and client coordination. Adaptable professional with international exposure in the UK, demonstrating excellent time management, cross-functional teamwork, and people skills. Currently seeking a challenging role in merchandising or management to contribute effectively and grow within the industry.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Healthcare Support Worker – Trauma & Orthopaedic
NHS
Bristol, UK
04.2025 - 06.2025
- Working alongside a registered Nurse to provide essential nursing care for patients.
- Helping patients with daily living tasks, including hygiene & continence and helping with nutrition.
- Helping with mobility needs and providing pressure area care.
- Providing emotional support to patients and their families.
- Providing one to one observation for patients who present a high risk due to clinical condition.
- Ensuring that the ward environment is clean and safe preventing infection and falls.
- Taking and recording patients’ vital signs, identifying and escalating changes to a patient’s condition to the registered nurse.
- Maintaining care logs and other documents.
Trainee Senior Healthcare Support Worker – Trauma & Orthopaedic
NHS
Bristol, UK
01.2025 - 04.2025
- Working alongside a registered Nurse to provide essential nursing care for patients.
- Helping patients with daily living tasks, including hygiene & continence and helping with nutrition.
- Helping with mobility needs and providing pressure area care.
- Providing emotional support to patients and their families.
- Ensuring that the ward environment is clean and safe preventing infection and falls.
Assistant Technical Officer -Pharmacy Production
NHS
Bristol, UK
05.2024 - 01.2025
- Preparing liquids, ointments, creams and other non-sterile batches and extemporaneously prepared medicines.
- Preparing over-labelled, assembled and pack-down batches of pre-packed medicines.
- Preparing batches of capsules for clinical trial use.
- Transferring completed batches to quarantine store after check by supervisor.
- Releasing batches from quarantine to Central Pharmacy Stores following receipt of release note from QC.
- Performing additional daily jobs necessary for efficient functioning of the department.
- Transporting stock from Central Pharmacy Stores to Annex Store and to Production from Annex using safe manual handling techniques.
- Involving in stock checks done by the department every month.
Warehouse Operative – Picking & Packing
Sassy Wax shop
Bristol, UK
11.2023 - 04.2024
- Pick customer orders according to order lists or instructions.
- Perform quality control checks to ensure condition and accuracy of picked items.
- Pack orders in a neat and organized manner, ensuring products are protected during transit.
Warehouse Operative
Amazon
Bristol, UK
07.2023 - 10.2023
- Conducted quality checks on incoming shipments to verify product specifications.
- Ensured compliance with safety regulations, contributing to a safe working environment.
- Optimized storage solutions, creatively utilizing space for easy access to popular items.
- Pick customer orders according to order lists or instructions.
- Perform quality control checks to ensure condition and accuracy of picked items.
- Pack orders in a neat and organized manner, ensuring products are protected during transit.
Management Trainee - Merchandising
Norlanka Manufacturing Colombo Limited
Colombo, Sri Lanka
06.2022 - 11.2022
- Mediated between suppliers and the factories and ensured a smooth running of the production.
- Followed up the T&A and could keep all in the process on track.
- Followed up the sampling process with the garment tech and minimized errors in samples.
- Kept the manager and the merchandiser updated daily on the current situation of the production and the material needs, so ensured there were no delays.
- Tracked all the shipped materials and the final goods to ensure they were on time.
- Liaised with managers, supervisors and other senior staff, communicating clearly and concisely.
- Gained skills, knowledge and experience working across various departments including production, marketing and operations.
- Assisted with day-to-day operations and completed assigned management tasks.
- Evaluated business processes to identify and recommend areas for improvement.
- Executed tasks across departments, gaining practical experience in diverse operational functions.
Management Trainee - Merchandising
Norlanka Manufacturing Colombo Limited
Colombo, Sri Lanka
06.2022 - 11.2022
- Mediated between suppliers and the factories and ensured a smooth running of the production.
- Followed up the T&A and could keep all in the process on track.
- Followed up the sampling process with the garment tech and minimized errors in samples.
- Kept the manager and the merchandiser updated daily on the current situation of the production and the material needs, so ensured there were no delays.
- Tracked all the shipped materials and the final goods to ensure they were on time.
- Liaised with managers, supervisors and other senior staff, communicating clearly and concisely.
- Gained skills, knowledge and experience working across various departments including production, marketing and operations.
- Assisted with day-to-day operations and completed assigned management tasks.
- Evaluated business processes to identify and recommend areas for improvement.
- Executed tasks across departments, gaining practical experience in diverse operational functions.
Intern
The Nielsen Company Lanka (Pvt) Ltd/ CI CS
Colombo, Sri Lanka
04.2021 - 02.2022
- Demonstrated critical time management and organisational skills to balance studies alongside paid work.
- Used problem-solving skills to resolve challenges and prioritise workload.
- Exceeded expectations and demonstrated potential for future success.
- Participated in staff meetings to discuss latest developments.
- Worked productively with team members to achieve common goals.
- Shadowed senior team members to develop practical knowledge and gain critical industry-specific skills.
- Used strong work ethic to meet stringent deadlines.
- Showed initiative and willingness to take on new challenges.
- Managed time effectively to meet deadlines.
- Communicated ideas and information clearly and concisely, both verbally and in writing.
- Established and nurtured positive professional relationships within working environments.
- Adapted to new situations and learned new skills quickly. Participated in training and seminars to enhance skills and promote growth.
- Conducted research and analysis to support team with project preparation.
Education
BSc. Special (Hons) - Marketing Management
University of Sri Jayewardenepura
Colombo04.2022
Skills
- Effective persuasion techniques
- Effective planning and organization
- Collaborative team member
- Team bonding
- Prioritization and scheduling
- Strategic goal setting
- Optimized resource utilization
- Team leadership
- Database administration
- Delivering impactful presentations
- Efficient data entry
- Cross-departmental communication
- Inventory management
- Administrative support
- Vendor communication proficiency
- Proficient in Word
- Advanced Excel proficiency
- Presentation design
- Email management
Languages
English
Tamil
Awards
Awarded SLIM Gold Award for the highest GPA in the department.
References
References available upon request
Timeline
Senior Healthcare Support Worker – Trauma & Orthopaedic
NHS
04.2025 - 06.2025
Trainee Senior Healthcare Support Worker – Trauma & Orthopaedic
NHS
01.2025 - 04.2025
Assistant Technical Officer -Pharmacy Production
NHS
05.2024 - 01.2025
Warehouse Operative – Picking & Packing
Sassy Wax shop
11.2023 - 04.2024
Warehouse Operative
Amazon
07.2023 - 10.2023
Management Trainee - Merchandising
Norlanka Manufacturing Colombo Limited
06.2022 - 11.2022
Management Trainee - Merchandising
Norlanka Manufacturing Colombo Limited
06.2022 - 11.2022
Intern
The Nielsen Company Lanka (Pvt) Ltd/ CI CS
04.2021 - 02.2022
BSc. Special (Hons) - Marketing Management
University of Sri Jayewardenepura