Jared Nau
Smithtown
Summary
Operations and customer-focused Retail Manager with 7+ years of experience leading teams, managing inventory, analyzing sales trends, improving store efficiency, and coordinating vendor relationships. Highly adaptable to different roles with a strong ability to oversee end-to-end daily operations, optimize workflow, and drive sales results. Holds a Business Management degree and has proven leadership in high-traffic environments, providing customers with excellent service. Seeking to transition into an advisory or operations-focused role where strong organizational and leadership skills can support business efficiency, while improving and growing within the role and the company.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Assistant Retail Store Manager
Kings Park Hardware/Doitbestcorp
Kings Park
04.2024 - Current
- Managed daily store operations and ensured all daily tasks are completed
- Perform purchase orders for regular store inventory, as well as dealing with vendors dealing with these certain orders
- Developed and implemented promotional strategies to boost product visibility
- Oversaw inventory management and maintained optimal stock levels to ensure purchase orders were neither to minimal or excessive
- Analyzed sales data to identify trends that put the store in a position to take advantage of seasonal shocks in products.
- Supervised daily operations of the retail store, including staff scheduling, inventory management and assuring excellent customer service
- Coordinated property maintenance and repairs with contractors and vendors, ensuring the store remains in excellent condition for customer experience
- Managed staff to complete tasks needed to ensure our store runs efficiently, including paperwork, calling customers
- Touching base with vendors and suppliers to ensure our shelves will be stocked and inventory remains correct
- Deal with high volume customers and perform accounts payable, and generating statements
Retail Sales Associate
Kings Park Hardware/Doitbestcorp
Kings Park
05.2018 - 02.2024
- Understood from the beginning the importance of customer service ensuring problems at hand were solved
- Worked on the floor helping with daily operations and tasks to maintain workflow
- Worked to accept weekly truck deliveries restocking empty shelves
- Learned to sell low-high ticket items to motivated and unmotivated customers
Education
Bachelor of Science - Business Management With Economics Minor
SUNY, Farmingdale
Farmingdale, NY01-2025
Skills
- Customer Service
- Sales forecasting
- Property Maintenance
- Real estate law
- Inventory Management
- Promotional Strategies
- Sales
- Financial Analysis
- Workflow Optimization
- Training and team development
- Proficient with Gen-AI
- ADP
- Microsoft Office
Certification
- Licensed Real Estate Salesperson in New York
Accomplishments
- Worked up from cashier and sales associate to manager responsibilities in the same retail store location over several years while studying in college.
- Have done extensive equity analysis of companies in the tech space for over 6 years.
- Have grown brokerage portfolios over hundreds of percent gains for over 6 years through equity trading.
- Have scaled Shopify businesses to 10k+ months in sales through Q4
- Completed and passed Real estate salesperson requirements for certification.
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Assistant Retail Store Manager
Kings Park Hardware/Doitbestcorp
04.2024 - Current
Retail Sales Associate
Kings Park Hardware/Doitbestcorp
05.2018 - 02.2024
Bachelor of Science - Business Management With Economics Minor
SUNY, Farmingdale