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• Led and guided students through admissions process with one-on-one follow up to ensure successful completion of the enrollment process.• Designed, developed and implemented college recruitment strategies to achieve enrollment goals.• Completed Ready Now 2015 program to further develop, build and strengthen leadership skills.• Mentored colleagues across various departments to instill best practices executed during student interview.• Served as System Champion/Training Coordinator by providing systems training and communicated technology system updates and enhancements to 33+ colleagues.• Held End User Tester and Trainer position for Salesforce updates, inContact Connector and Technical Independence Champion.• Developed, delivered and trained newly licensed Tennessee Admissions representatives on admissions policies and Salesforce System identification requirements RN-BSN and RN-BSN to MSN bridge programs.• Key Achievements:• Global recipient of the 2017 Ron Taylor Award - Director nominated award recognizing diligence in “Going the Extra Mile:” “Completing a Project or Task with Excellent Quality and Creativity;” “Inspired Service that goes Above and Beyond;” and Outstanding Teamwork.”• Director nominated 2015 global TEACH recipient recognizing team and department impact in areas of leadership, new colleague training, mentoring, accountability, fostering collaboration, relationship building, excellence.

• Managed an annual budget of~$330,000 to maintain daily operations and plan for future projects • Actively pursued bids to plan for cost efficiency and quality work

• Managed total store operations to provide excellent customer service, improve sales trends, optimize inventory reduction, control labor, reduce shrinkage and improve gross profit margin.• Supervised a team of 16 sales associates to drive conversion rates and average tickets with 2nd region ranking.• Analyzed sales and market trends to assess product sales by measuring sales improvements or declines based on product placement or pricing.• Developed annual inventory strategy incorporating floor plans, associate scheduling assignments and auditing of high-risk inventory.• Collaborated, developed and completed promotional and seasonal floor plan transitions over eight times a year.• Created, directed, and executed weekly freight shipments ensuring best sellers, new arrivals and seasonal products were displayed efficiently. • Led sales training and home decorating workshops to educate sales team on relationship building, upselling and designing whole room transformations.

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