Thomas Wehmeier
Garden City
Summary
Highly-motivated employee with desire to take on new challenges. Strong work ethic, adaptability, and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Neighborhood Expert
Applebee's Grill + Bar
Garden City
04.2025 - Current
- Set the tone for guest experience with a fast greeting.
- Take accurate beverage and food orders and enter them into POS.
- Prepare beverages and deliver them in a timely manner.
- Run accurate food orders to tables and follow up with any needs.
- Train new servers and bartenders.
- Maintain cleanliness standards within the assigned restaurant section and bar.
- Provide appropriate “up sale” options for guests.
- Side work including: rolling silverware, ice replenishment, wipe down expo area, stock beer and liquor, prep bar garnish bins and mixers as per pull list.
General Manager
Ulta Cosmetics
Garden City
07.2024 - 04.2025
- Perform daily operations including register open with cash safe audit, stocking all out of stock product, stocking and cleaning testers in all departments.
- Closing procedures to include pulling registers with a secondary cash safe audit, prepare deposit with accurate log information.
- Forecast sales based on the last fiscal year and rolling six weeks of results.
- Create a master schedule for all management, task workers for new launches, beauty advisors for sales floor coverage, and salon professionals, all within the allotted payroll hours given projected sales.
- Weekly profit/loss audit based on theft, operational errors, sales growth, new client captures, recalls, shipment overages/shortages, supply ordering and brand launches.
- Scheduling third party merchandisers for new store layouts that corporate allocated for out of store labor.
- Hazmat audit compliance and scheduling pick ups based on storage and safety regulations.
- Hiring and interviewing potential talent for all levels within the store organization.
- Coach team on sales and guest interaction with product knowledge for a holistic experience.
- Assist Operations with mapping new weekly layouts to drive sales and comply with corporate and state regulations.
- Assist Experience manager in state board audits of salon.
- Educating team members on guest loyalty capture including credit card acquisitions to maintain a daily 3% credit acquisition and 98% loyalty card usage.
- Weekly touch bases with district salon educators for salon professional training and capability pricing based on level of experience perceived.
- Host team meeting to align on goals while providing feedback and one-on-one reviews.
Experience Manager
Ulta Cosmetics
Garden City
05.2024 - 07.2024
- Assist with daily opening and closing procedures by auditing cash safe, and registers.
- Clean and stock testers primarily located in Prestige Cosmetics brands.
- Create supply order for testers and applicators.
- Audit and order salon supplies for needs based on level and upcoming appointments, along as out of date product.
- Assist salon professionals with cleaning to maintain state laws for audits.
- Assist salon professionals with color creation and time management.
- Book guest appointments for the salon while asking questions to ensure the correct timing and service is available upon request.
- Assist the General Manager in interviewing all potential prestige beauty advisors, lead cashiers, and salon professionals to ensure aptitude and culture compatibility.
- Maintain all fragrance cases and testers.
- Assist guests with color matching product for their needs.
- Educating myself and team members on brands and products to ensure high sales and guest satisfaction.
- Hosting monthly brand launches for guests to experience the newest product from viral brands.
- Coaching team on loyalty and credit acquisitions.
- Partnering with Operations to ensure product with high demand is in prime locations.
Merchandise Manager
Old Navy
Garden City
06.2021 - 05.2024
- Performing opening and closing procedures including cash safe audits and starting/closing registers.
- Participating in asset protection through customer service and reporting.
- Auditing monthly master visual book for local store architecture and sales based merchandising needs.
- Weekly sales audits for top skus in all departments to understand customer shopping habits to create compelling visuals for additional unit sales.
- Daily merchandise flexing to fill any holes created by sell through.
- Mapping potential product and display moves for approval from regional visual leaders.
- Upon creating specialty displays; taking overview photos with detailed notes that included sales numbers for publish in regional visual book for “flex stores” to increase their sales.
- Traveling the Midwest Region as a visual expert in the womens division for store openings and new manager training exercises.
- Educating team on fabrications, fits, styling, and pricing of all units.
- Auditing signage for promotional campaigns.
- Auditing prices and marketing to ensure cost transparency to customers.
- Assist in audits conducted by the Kansas Department of Weights and Measures for pricing.
- Biweekly shipment audit with Shipment Leads to know what is coming in, where it needs to go, or if it needs held in the back room for a future “street date”.
- Pulling any recalls dictated by corporate.
- Coaching team on loyalty and credit acquisitions to maintain a 5% credit and 100% loyalty metric.
- Assist with fitting rooms; customer check ins and cleaning behind them.
- One-on-one touch bases with Kids Department Manager to ensure seamless monthly visual moves and restocking requirements.
- Run store in the absence of the General Manager by directing team to the sales plan.
- Weekly touch bases with District Manager to ensure visual compliance and and travel assignments.
Assistant Manager, Merchandising
Aeropostale
Wichita
07.2020 - 05.2021
- Opening and Closing procedures, including cash safe audit and register balances.
- Adjusting sales forecast to current trends.
- Placing team members in appropriate zones based on traffic and forecasted sales.
- Conducting interviews for Brand Ambassadors.
- Running the salesfloor alone for the first three hours of business.
- Mapping product placement and conducting the moves without a merchandising team on a monthly basis.
- Educating team on fabrication and fits of product.
- Ensuring Health Compliance.
- Accepting, auditing, and processing shipment twice weekly.
- Assist guests in locating items they request and introducing them to new product.
- Audit marketing and signage for weekly campaigns.
- Cashiering as needed to help line management.
- Greet guests upon entering the threshold of the store.
Assistant Manager
American Eagle Outfitters, Inc
Wichita
02.2016 - 01.2020
- Performing opening and closing procedures including cash safe audit and register balances.
- Rotating departments of responsibilities: sales and merchandising on a three month switch off.
- Educating team on loyalty acquisitions and usage with rewards program.
- Educating team and performing credit card acquisitions to maintain a 3% standard.
- Greeting all guests upon entering threshold of store.
- Providing guest service through open ended questions and directing them to needs while introducing them to other options.
- Lead Asset Protection by understanding warning signs of shoplifters and ORC incidents.
- Filing paperwork with local law enforcement and corporate for losses.
- Reviewing monthly visual books and mapping based on unique local architecture.
- Executing monthly floorset moves and leading a team to complete before tight deadlines.
- Recruiting and interviewing potential talent.
- Processing shipment twice weekly with direct to floor directives and “street date” holds.
- Fulfilling online purchases.
- Filing all shipment and merchandising paperwork.
- Maintaining payroll through accurate cuts based on current vs forecasted sales.
Education
Independence High School
Independence, KSAssociate of Science - Biology
Independence Community College
Independence, KSSome College (No Degree) - Anthropology
Wichita State University
Wichita, KSSkills
- Guest Experience
- Point of sale
- Food Safety
- Sales Forecasting
- Leadership Skills
- Scheduling
- Coaching for Success
Timeline
Neighborhood Expert
Applebee's Grill + Bar
04.2025 - Current
General Manager
Ulta Cosmetics
07.2024 - 04.2025
Experience Manager
Ulta Cosmetics
05.2024 - 07.2024
Merchandise Manager
Old Navy
06.2021 - 05.2024
Assistant Manager, Merchandising
Aeropostale
07.2020 - 05.2021
Assistant Manager
American Eagle Outfitters, Inc
02.2016 - 01.2020
Independence High School
Associate of Science - Biology
Independence Community College
Some College (No Degree) - Anthropology
Wichita State University