Chad Huggins Email & Phone Number

Florence, Sc

• Driving sales through customer service and report analysis• Developing payroll plans and monitoring payroll daily to ensure the plan is met• Ensuring the efficient day-to-day operation of the store• Upholding Company standards for merchandise presentation• Participating in the recruiting, interviewing and hiring for associates• Issuing appropriate counseling and disciplinary action to those associates who fail to meet our performance standards• Ensuring compliance to all guidelines involved with safety, loss prevention and cash handling procedures

Florence, Sc

• Participates in the development of short/long term goals and plans for work group• Insures that controls exist to monitor existing performance for all department assignments.• Communicates appropriately departmental performance• Consistently enforces all corporate/operational/departmental policies and values• Provides coaching and direction to all associates within department that promote continued improvement in performance.• Enforces all key performance indicators that measure productivity and quality standards associated with department functions and tasks.• Promotes team development and cohesive participation to achieve department/operational objectives within assigned areas.• Maintains individual and group reports/data that explain departmental and individual performance including attendance, work hours, productivity and support staffing models.• Recruits best possible candidates with skills and experience needed to support departmental functions.• Aligns staff resources and skills to support functions in department.• Provides appropriate incentives and rewards that promote excellence and achievement.• Participates in client meetings/updates and provide all necessary information within the time line agreed upon.• Maintains service levels for specific functions within span of control.• Challenges staff to improve/increase skills and operational knowledge.• Insures that controls exist to monitor changes in processes designed to address issues and highlight progress.• Promotes team development and cohesive participation to achieve. department/operational objectives that are within work groups.• Solicits and/or offers assistance to work groups outside of span of control.• Participates with analysis and resolution of operational problems.• Insures Account Executives are updated with any changes involving assigned client.

Florence, Sc

•Directly manages three department supervisors and 80 store employees.•Responsible for fiscal accountability of the income statement (including minimizing overhead costs, managing labor allocation and deployment, and positively growing market share and financial profit levers).•Controlling logistics, supply chain management/demand planning, and sales forecasting.•Managing human resource situations including: hiring, talent recruitment/retention, employee development, performance management, and turnover.•Merchandising excellence, overall store look and feel, and store functionality.• Selected as a Customer Solutions Manager Specialty Coach for the District.• Awarded the Best Buy Legacy Stock Award for the second time.

Florence,Sc

• Promoted from Area Manager to Zone Manager.• Selected as a District Digital Technology Manager Specialty Coach.• Awarded the Best Buy Legacy Stock Award• 1 of 13 employees enrolled into Harvest Leadership program.• Selected to serve on the company's Ethics Advisory Council.

Florence, Sc

• Promoted to Team PC Area Manager from Department Supervisor and now responsible for sales and services departments. • Won Top Gun District Contest (Ranked #1 in district of 13 stores over 6 month span).• Won Regional Achievers event (ranked #1 in region of 51 stores over 3 states).

Bachelor Of Business Administration (Bba), General Business

Diploma