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Heather Kardell

Anaheim Hills

Summary

Accomplished Store Manager with a proven track record, enhancing brand visibility and customer experience through strategic leadership and operational excellence. Expert in store operations and customer service management, with a knack for fostering team leadership and coaching. Demonstrated success in improving service quality and executing effective training programs. Creating and maintaining a customer comes first culture, by viewing everything from the lens of the guest.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work History

Store Manager

Tommy Bahama
05.2022 - 01.2025

Maintained excellent customer experience. Ensure training completion and comprehension. Follow up on utilization throughout guest experience.

Enhanced brand visibility through exemplary leadership and consistency. maintaining person discipline to ensure leadership through personal behaviors, leading by example. Communicating clear goals and testing for understanding to ensure comprehension and attainment of goals.

Executed operational tasks promptly with precision. Setting clear expectations and goals to ensure accurate execution. Strategic planning.

Developed a setting focused on superior service quality and positive team dynamics. Identifying opportunities for improved performance and creating a plan for improvement. Role playing and coaching with consistency.

Store Manager

Therabody
03.2022 - 05.2022

Implemented effective onboarding processes specifically for medical-grade product handling. Test for comprehension for improved guest trust.

Created partnerships with fitness industry for integrated sales opportunities. connect with business withing community with shared guest profile. offer demonstrations in outside settings

Initiated opening procedures for retail location.

Assistant Manager

Tommy Bahama
06.2021 - 03.2022
  • Supervised day-to-day operations to meet performance, quality and service expectations. Focus on creating a strong leadership presence and coaching on the sales floor. Developing an exceptional guest experience through encouraging clientele lists and follow up with the guest through phone calls and mailed notes.
  • Maintained a clean, safe, and organized store environment to enhance the customer experience. Ensuring completion of daily task lists to create and maintain an overall exceptional environment, ensuring details are attended to.
  • Developed strong working relationships with staff, fostering a positive work environment.

Store Manager

Hope and Henry
08.2019 - 03.2020

Established physical retail location for an e-commerce brand. Hire, set up, train and open 2 stores in which only 3 other locations existed. No policies and procedures existed, created an environment with focus and organization by behaving and communication with intentions and a developing plan and strategy.

Managed recruitment and training of new employees. Utilization description online to train features and benefits. Supervised the viewing of "The True Cost", and ensure we communicated the values of the documentary

Leveraged brand recognition by fostering strategic partnerships. Partnered with "mom" and "parent" oriented community activities and influencers.

Work with a team to create an engaging brand store environment.

Organized operational infrastructure to launch an additional store effectively.

Store Manager

Gymboree
02.2014 - 04.2019

Implemented enhancements in underperforming store to boost results. a and a Acting District Manager for 6 months. The role was taken immediately following a bankruptcy, and rebranding on all levels was occurring.

Spearheaded development and implementation of district-wide training calls. As a store manager I was the training and development leader for the district. I creating training calls specific to topics the District Manager and I viewed as area of opportunity in development of teams across the district.

Monitored store operations for pilot projects. While acting as District Manager, The district was part of a 3 district pilot program. The program focused on guest experience, staff development and in store visuals.

Education

Communications

CSULB
Long Beach, CA

Skills

  • Problem-solving
  • Customer relations
  • Multitasking and organization
  • Store operations
  • Customer service management
  • Training and mentoring
  • Team leadership
  • Team leadership and coaching
  • Store merchandising
  • Retail inventory management
  • Shift scheduling
  • Goals and performance
  • Team motivation
  • Recruiting and hiring
  • Operations management

Timeline

Store Manager

Tommy Bahama
05.2022 - 01.2025

Store Manager

Therabody
03.2022 - 05.2022

Assistant Manager

Tommy Bahama
06.2021 - 03.2022

Store Manager

Hope and Henry
08.2019 - 03.2020

Store Manager

Gymboree
02.2014 - 04.2019

Communications

CSULB
Heather Kardell