LARRY BAKER JR
Boston,MA
Summary
Charismatic sales professional with proven track record in hiring dynamic individuals, driving sales to exceed goals and promoting strong brand loyalty pursuing opportunity to employ sales strategies to bolster revenue and develop a "sticky" customer base.
Overview
2026
2026
years of professional experience
Work History
International Admission Officer
DeVry University
Retail Area Manager
Insa
Boston, MA
08.2022 - 10.2025
- Leveraged patient feedback and performed continuous process improvements to streamline day-to-day business operations and patient satisfaction.
- Built relationships with physicians to create steady referral pipeline.
- Observed each employee's individual strengths and initiated mentoring program to improve areas of weakness.
- Built positive and productive relationships with store and field leadership.
- Worked diligently to resolve unique and recurring complaints, promoting loyalty and enhancing operations.
- Met deadlines by proactively managing individual and team tasks and streamlining processes.
- Located, developed and promoted talented employees to cultivate collaborative and hardworking leadership team.
- Improved operational standards, personnel moves, and merchandising strategies.
- Recruited, interviewed, and hired talented individuals bringing dynamic sales expertise to organization.
- Conducted ongoing staff development to help employees achieve growth within job roles.
Director of Business Development
SPEKTRUM Health
Orlando, FL
11.2021 - 08.2022
- Identified and pursued valuable business opportunities to generate new company revenue and improve bottom line profit.
- Established, initiated and optimized business development strategies based on company targets, product specifications, market data and budget factors.
- Defined and integrated roles, responsibilities and processes for business team and data management organization.
- Coordinated innovative strategies to accomplish marketing objectives and boost long-term profitability.
- Developed short-term and long-term sales objectives and strategic plans to meet market needs.
- Enhanced marketing exposure through successful website content management and direct correspondence with potential clients.
- Developed comparison tables of products and services by researching product pricing, ratings and performance.
Store Manager of Operations
Curaleaf
10.2020 - 11.2021
- Performed patient assessments and contributed to development of interdisciplinary care plans.
- Leveraged patient feedback and performed continuous process improvements to streamline day-to-day business operations and patient satisfaction.
- Monitored number of patients and wait times to create efficient flow of patients from check-in to check-out.
- Oversaw day-to-day business and clinical activities by establishing goals, objectives, standards of performance and policies and procedures when managing 6 million dollar annual budget.
- Served instrumental role in organizational transformation and implementation and participated in 5 successful large-scale corporate restructurings.
- Increased profits by assessing effectiveness of our Drive Thru and Pick and Pack projects.
Store Co-Manager
Sephora Disney Springs
02.2019 - 10.2020
- Maintained team productivity and quality of service by establishing and maintaining clear benchmarks.
- Delivered positive results by controlling monthly operations budget and limiting financial discrepancies.
- Established and administered annual budget with effective controls to prevent overages, minimize burn rate and support sustainability objectives.
- Set, enforced and optimized internal policies to maintain efficiency and responsiveness to demands.
- Devised, deployed and monitored processes to boost long-term business success and increase profit levels By 17% over the previous year.
- Reduced company expenditures and met budget targets by closely monitoring, tracking and controlling expenses.
- Developed innovative marketing campaigns to increase engagement with target demographic and drive brand exposure.
- Developed value-added solutions and approaches by leveraging trends in customer marketplaces and industries.
- Identified, hired and trained highly-qualified staff by teaching best practices, procedures and sales strategies.
- Monitored customer buying trends, market conditions and competitor actions to adjust strategies and achieve sales goals.
- Oversaw and improved All services delivered over $1 million dollars per year through efficient coordination of daily operations.
- Met or surpassed business targets regularly through employee engagement and forward-thinking planning.
- Assessed job applications and made hiring recommendations to bring in top candidates for key vacancies.
Store Market Manager
LensCrafters
06.2017 - 02.2019
- Leveraged patient feedback and performed continuous process improvements to streamline day-to-day business operations and patient satisfaction.
- Built relationships with physicians to create steady referral pipeline.
- Observed each employee's individual strengths and initiated mentoring program to improve areas of weakness.
- Built positive and productive relationships with store and field leadership.
- Worked diligently to resolve unique and recurring complaints, promoting loyalty and enhancing operations.
- Met deadlines by proactively managing individual and team tasks and streamlining processes.
- Located, developed and promoted talented employees to cultivate collaborative and hardworking leadership team.
- Improved operational standards, personnel moves, and merchandising strategies.
- Recruited, interviewed, and hired talented individuals bringing dynamic sales expertise to organization.
- Conducted ongoing staff development to help employees achieve growth within job roles.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Business Administration And Management
DeVry University
Orlando, FlSkills
- Develop plan for sales strategy to ensure staff buy in and increase revenue
- Inventory management and rotation
- Increase sales through top notch customer service
- Day to day sales operations, POS, product placement, scheduling
- Sales
- Product and Service Sales
- Goals and Performance
- Operations
- Sales expertise
- Relationship building
- Strategic Planning
- Extensive personal network
Timeline
Retail Area Manager
Insa
08.2022 - 10.2025
Director of Business Development
SPEKTRUM Health
11.2021 - 08.2022
Store Manager of Operations
Curaleaf
10.2020 - 11.2021
Store Co-Manager
Sephora Disney Springs
02.2019 - 10.2020
Store Market Manager
LensCrafters
06.2017 - 02.2019
International Admission Officer
DeVry University
Bachelor of Science - Business Administration And Management
DeVry University