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Angela Lopez

Doral,Florida

Summary

High-caliber and performance-oriented business operations leader offering a proven track record in driving the ideation, design, and execution of multipronged operational strategies that consistently eliminate redundant business process systems to ultimately drive sales growth and improve bottom-line profits. A strategic people manager spearheads new and existing customer/stakeholder relationships while pivoting increased employee productivity levels to actualize business objectives and performance goals. Consistently commended for an innate ability to ignite improved process capabilities and catalyze immediate positive change by deploying operational rigor and consensus-driven communication among teams. Successfully maintained a progressive increase in annual revenue YOY from $24M to $34M within 2 years. Recognized as a key driver of change who effectively trains high-performance teams that craft compelling sales experiences to strengthen customer loyalty and ensure overall business growth successfully.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience

Work History

General Manager

CH Carolina Herrera
08.2024 - Current

⁠Lead all store operations, delivering key sales targets and ensuring maintenance of qualitative objectives set for the boutique.
•⁠ ⁠Achieve and exceed all qualitative and quantitative (KPI) targets for the store as defined by the company.
•⁠ ⁠Ensure all procedures and processes are correctly implemented and maintain exceptional customer service standards.
•⁠ ⁠Foster excellent relationships with clients and manage client book maintenance.
•⁠ ⁠Oversee stock control, daily reports, and staff training and development to maximize sales effectiveness.
•⁠ ⁠Act as the principal contact point between the customer and the company, improving processes and services.
•⁠ ⁠Manage visual merchandising standards and inventory management to optimize store performance.

Store Director

J.Crew Factory
09.2023 - 07.2024

•⁠ ⁠Led a team to drive business performance across all aspects of the store, ensuring a meaningful connection to the brand while maximizing profitability.
•⁠ ⁠Created exceptional customer experiences through personalized service standards and proactive engagement, effectively resolving customer concerns.
•⁠ ⁠Managed store operations, systems, and technology, ensuring operational excellence and efficiency.
•⁠ ⁠Recruited, trained, and developed a high-performing team to deliver outstanding service and meet community needs.
•⁠ ⁠Partnered with the District Manager to foster a collaborative work environment and meet sales goals, while providing feedback to influence product assortment and visual merchandising.

Store Director

ZARA USA
01.2017 - 09.2022
  • Promoted to senior position based on exceptional performance with previous roles to champion a multipronged approach towards improved sales delivery, streamlined merchandise operations, and progressive workforce/team efficiency.
  • Play a key role in driving overall sales/revenue vision in collaboration with multiple teams to attain operational success ultimately.
  • Helm assigned responsibility of managing the largest high-volume store in Florida, providing high-impact operational oversight for 3 departments, 12 managers, and 120 employees.
  • Coalesce efforts to consistently maintain a progressive increase in overall annual revenue YOY from $24M to $34M within 2 years.
  • Pioneer the proper implementation of multiple sales optimization initiatives, which included the performance of trend forecasting for product managers on sales data statistics, product performance, and blocking of merchandise.
  • Collaborate extensively with the visual merchandising team, effectively driving the product roadmap by tracking daily sales objectives, which consistently ensured the alignment of sales increments with merchandise levels.
  • Champion the integration of top-tier product placement strategies, which included the utilization of a carefully curated productivity formula that allowed the timely processing of about 35K units of merchandise weekly.
  • Mastermind, develop, and maintain clear communication pipelines with multiple teams, including the product department, for the provision of feedback on product collections, best-sellers, and non-selling items.

General Manager

ZARA USA
01.2011 - 01.2017
  • Epitomized a proven track record of excellence to successfully drive repeated business growth YOY amidst the coordination of outline operations, implementation of strategic vision, and long-range planning.
  • Laid the groundwork for the development of a new flagship store location, impacting a strong driving force behind the successful hiring and training of an efficient team responsible for exceeding the first’s year budget by 13%.
  • Handled the coordination of operational deliverables across the 3 unique departments, effectively developing supervisory managers via increased accountability and constructive feedback that helped drive store-wide efficiency.
  • Handled trend forecasting requirements for product managers while managing the reorganization of the sales floor to meet company demands via the implementation of all merchandising standards and rotation of products based on sales.
  • Propelled revolutionary advances in-store operational capabilities through the performance of inventory analysis for all departments, successfully ensuring the highest level of accuracy and shrinkage objective of 0.1%.

Support Manager

ZARA USA
01.2013 - 01.2016
  • Onboarded a new role within this luxury retailer brand with a specific focus on driving increased business success via the optimization of operational strategies and improved workforce productivity across several regions in the United States.
  • Consistently traveled to different regions within the USA, providing strategic oversight and support on the training of 6 General Managers, 5 Assistant Managers to ultimately achieve merchandise operational objectives and sales growth.
  • Leveraged extensive management experience within the previous role to effectively support employees with complex problems while architecting and implementing training programs that maximized overall team performance.
  • Handled the opening and closure of the store location amidst the monitoring of shift changes, which helped retail effective operations strategies and maximize business success.

Assistant Manager

ZARA USA
01.2008 - 01.2011
  • Coalesced efforts with the General Manager across daily operations and general services to ensure full compliance to company policies while fostering an inclusive and positive work environment.
  • Provided hands-on assistance to customers, accurately assessing needs and maintaining current knowledge of consumer preferences while providing weekly work schedules to employees for the accommodation of business demands.
  • Earned the privilege of supervising and evaluating a 90-person staff that included other assistant managers, which enabled them to improve their skills, achieve daily objectives, and attain career advancement.
  • Played an instrumental role in the accomplishment of business objectives and attainment of sales goals as the driving force between staff motivation and effective promotion of target products.
  • Significantly enhanced quality outcomes and turned around poor performance by managing the assessment of job applications and providing hiring recommendations that helped recruit top candidates for critical vacancies.

Education

Bachelors of Arts (B.A.) - Fashion Merchandising

MIAMI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF ART AND DESIGN
Miami, FL

Skills

  • Business Growth
  • High-Volume Sales
  • Store Operations
  • Omni-Channel Sales
  • Strategic Partnerships
  • Personnel Management
  • Employee Training & Development
  • Strategy Adoption
  • Key Performance Indicators
  • Trend Forecasting
  • Operational Effectiveness
  • Performance Optimization & Assessments
  • Customer Relationship Management
  • Loss prevention
  • Employee scheduling
  • Time management
  • Team player
  • Operations management
  • Leadership and team building

Languages

English
Full Professional
Spanish
Native or Bilingual

Timeline

General Manager

CH Carolina Herrera
08.2024 - Current

Store Director

J.Crew Factory
09.2023 - 07.2024

Store Director

ZARA USA
01.2017 - 09.2022

Support Manager

ZARA USA
01.2013 - 01.2016

General Manager

ZARA USA
01.2011 - 01.2017

Assistant Manager

ZARA USA
01.2008 - 01.2011

Bachelors of Arts (B.A.) - Fashion Merchandising

MIAMI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF ART AND DESIGN