Patrick Corwin

• Responsible for the daily operations of 12 high producing retail stores, with a combined annual sales volume of $150 million.

• Monitor weekly freight flow averaging 250,000 units and total inventory of 700,000 units ($6M).

• Responsible for driving Profitable Sales. Proficient in managing business operations with strategic and creative planning to maximize customer traffic and realize desired growth and profitability objectives.

• Lead and advise a team of 43 exempt and 700+ non-exempt team members.

• Recruit, hire, mentor and develop emerging leaders and managers to cultivate a successful and collaborative leadership team to support the needs of the business. This included the promotion of 2 Assistant Managers to Store Managers LY.

• Drive company initiatives and empower associates to embody our company culture of inclusion throughout the organization by facilitating workshops such as Inclusion and Diversity, Unconscious Bias, De-escalation, and Imminent Threat.

• Work collaboratively with Loss Prevention to decrease shrink and increase loss and safety awareness.

• Actively involved in supporting our community through Special Olympics Virginia by volunteering and sponsoring their annual Polar Plunge for the last 12 years.

Managed 6 different stores in Tidewater, Virginia, to include 1 store in Metro DC. Sales volume ranged from $5 - $28 million, with between 45 – 140 non-exempt associates and 3-6 exempt managers from store to store.

• Responsible for and participated in the opening of 8 new stores, to include fixture set-up, merchandise presentation, recruiting and mass-hiring, training, advertising/media, compliance, quality, and revenue maximization.

• Drove sales through operational excellence; freight flow productivity, maintaining inventory levels and visual presentation while showing value and brand.

• Created an environment that executed exceptional Customer Experiences by acknowledging every customer, leveraging Name Engagement, and taking initiative in offering help by anticipating customers' needs.

• Achieved President's Club Status; 1 in only 25 stores in the company (2200+ stores).

• Drove a high-performance and continuous development culture that met the short and long-term needs of the organization. Promoted numerous assistant managers to store managers and coordinators to assistant managers.

• Supported the region as the Regional TJX Rewards Credit Card Champion, as well as the Regional Kronos Champion. (The region is made up of 11 districts, 140 stores in 5 states).

• Co-Managed the District Training store. Responsible for the merchandise training of new managers to the district.

• Responsible for the effective scheduling and payroll for 64 associates, to include the new managers in training.

• Managed the entire onboarding process for all new associates. Creating job requisitions, conducted interviews, validated work history, offering positions, orientations and setting up training schedules.

• Studied operating statements to identify opportunities and create strategies for business trends, sales, labor, profitability, inventory, expense controls and shrinkage.