Tara Ceccanti
Palm City,FL
Summary
Knowledgeable Retail Operations Manager with proven track record in overseeing multiple locations and driving operational excellence. Successfully managed teams to improve customer satisfaction and streamline processes. Demonstrated leadership and strategic planning skills to achieve business goals and foster team collaboration.
Professional manager with strong focus on team collaboration and achieving results. Proven ability to lead and develop teams, adapt to changing needs, and drive operational success. Skilled in strategic planning, performance management, and relationship building. Reliable and consistently deliver on organizational goals.
Experienced with multi-site management, team leadership, and operational optimization. Utilizes strategic planning to drive efficiency and enhance customer satisfaction. Track record of fostering team collaboration and achieving business goals.
Overview
30
30
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
District Manager
Advantage Solutions
09.2023 - Current
- Successfully maintains one of the highest execution rate of events in Eastern division
- Trains and work with staff to maintain high quality events
- Maintains professional and successful relationships with store managers
- Collaborates with senior leadership team, schedulers to achieve high quality events.
Peer Trainer
Advantage Solutions
03.2012 - 08.2023
- Train new RSR’s in convenient store services
- Train new RSR’s on I-pad with necessary work applications
- Plan route schedule for own territory
- Service stores in own territory when not training
- Inform store owners of missing bestselling items and get ordered for store
- Inform stores of any upcoming promotions
- Increase confectionary sales in assigned stores
Market Manager
TNG Retail Services
10.2012 - 02.2021
- Merchandising high volume retailers
- P & L budgets
- Team Leader of high end projects from special clients
- Store relations
- Promotional set ups
- New store set ups and resets in existing stores
- Training and motivating of employees
- Ensuring all scheduled weekly store visits and projects were completed in a timely manner
- Territory started in West Palm Beach to Key West
Merchandise Manager
Petco
05.1995 - 03.1999
- MOD when store manager was out
- Ensuring stores POG was set correctly for all departments
- Ensured all necessary prices changes were made
- Checked in new delivery shipments
- Training of new employees
- Completed all opening and closing duties of store, including nightly bank deposits
- Ensured customer satisfaction
Education
College - Nursing
Roberts Weslyn
Rochester, NY06.1994
Skills
- Account Management
- Merchandising
- Retail Management
- Management
- Business Development
- Microsoft Office (7 years)
- Microsoft Word (7 years)
- Microsoft Outlook (7 years)
- Microsoft Excel (7 years)
- Computer literacy
- Planograms
- Recruiting
- Operations Management
- Salesforce
- Leadership skills
- Recruiting and hiring
- Strategic planning
- Customer service
- Training and coaching
- Attention to detail
- Goal setting and performance metrics
- Customer relations
- Team development
- Decision-making
- Interpersonal communication
- Operations improvements
- Team leadership
- Conflict management
- Leadership development
- Policies and procedures
- Workforce development
- Operations oversight
- Human resource management
- Staffing oversight
- Compliance monitoring
- Policy enforcement
- Territory management
Certification
- Certified- Food Manager Certification, Advantage Solutions
Timeline
District Manager
Advantage Solutions
09.2023 - Current
Market Manager
TNG Retail Services
10.2012 - 02.2021
Peer Trainer
Advantage Solutions
03.2012 - 08.2023
Merchandise Manager
Petco
05.1995 - 03.1999
College - Nursing
Roberts Weslyn
Assessments
- Management & leadership skills: Planning & execution — Familiar February 2021
- Planning and managing resources to accomplish organizational goals
- Full results: Familiar
- Indeed Assessments provides skills tests that are not indicative of a license or certification, or continued development in any professional field.
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