
Highly motivated and driven manager with over 30 years of experience. Successful at implementing strategic approaches to drive profitability and sales. Recognized for performance excellence in operations, customer care, inventory management and merchandising. Strong ability to drive profits, control costs and achieve continuous process improvements. Successful and motivating, training and developing team members.
Assistant General Manager in charge of store operations and merchandising. Maintained a Federal Firearms license and oversaw FDIC compliance in credit card operations. Responsible for all aspects of P&L in order to deliver total store profitability. Responsible for Omni chanel fulfillment including in-store and curb-side fulfillment.
Managed all operations of firearms, gun library, hunting, shooting and archery. Managed powersports operations including boat and atv sales and service. Responsible for merchandise presentation, space planning and inventory management in these departments. Managed staffing and scheduling to provide excellent guest experience. Assisted in sales budgeting and payroll management. Maintained a federal firearms license in accordance with all federal firearms regulations.
Managed all operations of footwear, camping, bargain cave, casual clothing, camo clothing, gifts and general store. Responsible for merchandise presentation, visual merchandising, space planning, inventory management and pricing. Managed staffing and scheduling to meeting payroll budgets. Assisted in building sales and payroll budgets.
Served as customer experience manager from 6/11-11/11 and department manager for footwear, camping and bargain cave from 11/11-10/12. Managed day to day operations of these departments. Responsible for executing merchandise sets and execution of budgeted sales plan. Responsible for front end operations of cash lanes, customer service and cash office to provide an exceptional customer experience.
General Manager of 3 locations Ward Parkway Center, Metro North Mall and St. Joseph. Managed all aspects of daily operations of these stores. This included sales and payroll budgeting and P&L management to ensure profitability. Other duties included floor planning and inventory management, all aspects of human resources including hiring and disciplinary actions, community involvement and partnerships and served as the training store for the district. Was awarded General Manager of the year in 2000 and 2007.