Beth Drason

District manager of eight stores throughout New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut.

Recruiting and hiring of teams, and training and developing to achieve sales goals.

Worked closely with Visual team and represented concepts in each store.

Created a customer focused atmosphere, while managing performance metrics, while adding product knowledge as a selling focus due to new designs, fabrics and the intro of the "skinny jean".

Regularly performed operational audits and insured compliance. Managed inventory control.

Left Lucky Brand due to inability to travel, had young twins.

District Manager of nine stores along the east coast.

Change in role including moving to outlet stores and a fast paced rollout of new stores

Consistently exceeded sales goals and was the only district above budget for several consecutive months.

Hired all new teams for new stores and interviewed every associate including sales in every store.

Coached stores to represent and educate the brand to the consumer.

Coached to performance metrics with conversion being key to the success in the district.

Insured adherence to operational standards, loss prevention, and worked with stores to creatively achieve visual merchandising concepts within stores.

Growth from nine to twenty one stores in less than two years in the region.

Left Michael Kors to pursue family goals.

In all positions, exceeded sales goals consistently, recruited and hired teams and coached and developed teams to meet sales goals through customer service, building relationships and performance metrics as top focuses

Managed the SOHO location for two years, growing the sales volume to over two million dollars annually

Promoted to re-open the 5th avenue Flagship. Recruited new team and continued to exceed sales goals. Built corporate relationships as a flagship store and performed above standard in operational areas, loss prevention and visual merchandising.

Promoted to District Manager, and managed ten stores, coaching teams to utilize proven procedures to achieve success in all areas including Hiring and sales management, customer service, operations, and visual merchandising.

Left COACH in June 2007 for a Regional Position at Michael Kors.