Stephen Brown

Highly motivated professional Owner with 30 years entrepreneurial and management experience. Skillfully creates and maintains professional and loyal relationships with co-workers, staff and clients while managing administrative and sales employees. Comfortable working independently as manager and leader and as collaborative team member. Applies business acumen and experience and exercises decisive judgment to meet and exceed organizational goals. Highly motivated professional focused on maximizing resource utilization to support scalable operations and increase bottom-line profitability. Organized and systematic with natural relationship-building and leadership talents. Results-oriented Store Manager bringing expertise in accounting, supply chain management and marketing. Successful at overseeing all areas of daily operations and making effective policy decisions to positively impact business direction and bottom line profits. Customer-oriented Store Manager offering over 30 years of experience in retail operations, sales and service team leadership and profitability strategies. Organized and skilled at prioritizing daily tasks and following through to achieve performance and productivity goals. Recruits, trains, develops and manages team of store associates and assistant managers.

• At Tractor Supply Co. We received the highest score in the history of an Alabama store on our enteral audit 98%. The store was training hub for our district for five consecutive years. Our store exceeded profit plan every year, for twelve straight years. We received the coveted award of store of the year six times in twelve years. We were top sellers in outdoor power equipment eight consecutive years. During all of these accomplishments we maintained an 80 % customer loyalty score and kept shrink under 1% yearly. We also maintained a Bt or higher store grade yearly.