Tara-Jeannine Hunt
Charlotte,NC
Summary
Exceptional retail management professional skilled in recruiting and developing high performing teams, establishing performance objectives and implementing strategies to meet organizational goals. Superior sales, marketing and communication skills. Highly-motivated person with a desire to take on new challenges.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Brand Manager/ Brand Ambassador
Stanton Optical
Charlotte, NC
01.2022 - Current
- Oversee the daily operation and management of the store to ensure it meets profitability and projections
- Foster a culture that embraces the company’s ICARE values
- Ensure the patients are receiving first class service while ensuring that we are following HIPPA guideline
- Attracting high performance talent and developing high performance teams
- Working on my ABO certification.
Store Manager
Harbor Freight Tools
Kannapolis, NC
04.2019 - 05.2021
- Oversee the daily operation and management of the store to ensure it meets profitability and projections
- Supervise, manage, train and develop subordinate managers and hourly store personnel in all areas and functions required to run the store efficiently and to the company’s standards
- Through the building of a high performance team achieved double digit comps and reduced shrink by 1% over LY.
Co Manager
Harris Teeter
Concord, NC
05.2016 - 07.2018
- Assist the Store Manager to manage the store as to maximize controllable profit and minimize expenses, while maintaining standards
- Controlling waste and maintaining strict food safety guidelines
- Ultimate responsibility of a retail store with sales over 400k per week, supervise 120+ associates in the store
- Responsibilities also include recruiting, training, and development of associates
- Planning, assigning and directing work all while maintaining service levels.
General Manager
Staples
, NC
12.2009 - 04.2016
- Supervise, train, recruit and develop subordinate managers and hourly store personnel in all areas and functions required to run the store efficiently and to the company’s standards
- Through effective account management oversee the daily operation and management of the store to ensure it meets profitability and projections
- Relationship building of our top 100 business customers and have increased our top line sales in the by 2% over last year by growing copy % print even though our traffic was down 5%.
General Manager
Party City
Greenbelt, MD
07.2007 - 12.2009
- Oversee the daily operation and management of the store to ensure it meets profitability and projections
- Supervise, manage, train and develop subordinate managers and hourly store personnel in all areas and functions required to run the store efficiently and to the company’s standards
- Through effective merchandising raised the average ticket by $1.50 when the customer count had been down by 40%.
General Manager
Petco Animal Supplies, Inc
Bowie, MD
01.2005 - 01.2007
- Oversee the daily operation and management of the store to ensure it meets profitability and projections
- Supervise, manage, train and develop subordinate managers and hourly store personnel in all areas and functions required to run the store efficiently and to the company’s standards
- Successfully, opened three new stores with the company and sent to underperforming stores to bring them up to standards and to increase the profitability
- Certified District Trainer.
Education
Liberal Arts
State University of New York
01.1993
General
Kimball Union Academy
01.1991
Skills
- Excellent customer service skills and interpersonal/communication skills
- Proficient use of entire Microsoft Suite
- Salesforce and Lead generation
- Extensive experience with Taleo, People Soft and Kronos
- Promotion development
- Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
- Product Launch
- Partnership building
- Performance monitoring
- Sales monitoring
- Internet and E-mail Marketing
- Event planning and execution
- Multi-million dollar P&L management
- Customer and vendor relations
- Recordkeeping compliance
- Staff supervision
- Project management
- Sales planning
- Operational management
- Safety protocol
Certification
National Registry of Food Safety Professionals; Certified Food Safety Manger (cert# 21241190)
Notary Public; Mecklenburg County; Commission Expires February 26,2025
Notary Sighing Agent; NC NNA
Timeline
Brand Manager/ Brand Ambassador
Stanton Optical
01.2022 - Current
Store Manager
Harbor Freight Tools
04.2019 - 05.2021
Co Manager
Harris Teeter
05.2016 - 07.2018
General Manager
Staples
12.2009 - 04.2016
General Manager
Party City
07.2007 - 12.2009
General Manager
Petco Animal Supplies, Inc
01.2005 - 01.2007
Liberal Arts
State University of New York
General
Kimball Union Academy
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