Establish strong foundation for success by successfully leading NBA All Star Week planning and events. Demonstrate insightful leadership and enhance clarity of mission by actualizing each department’s vision. Contributed significantly to increased visibility and revenue by launching over 1.1M in limited release product; actions produced Nike Chicago’s most productive sales day and week. Leveraged experience and skill to exceed over $1M in sales and additional revenue by facilitating in-store events with outside vendors. Employed refined relationship-building skills and collaborative mindset to build enduring relationships with home office partners to grow the license business within the Chicago market.Contributions: ̈ Facilitated $1.1M+ in additional revenue during the Chicago Marathon by leveraging community partnerships and comprehensive industry knowledge. ̈ Developed new revenue avenues, including with the NFL and Women’s Training. ̈ Captured substantial gains in efficiency and productivity while operating Nike pop-up projects including Around Town: Chicago Bears and House of Go. ̈ Ensured flawless execution while spearheading large scale off-site events through oversight of all planning, staffing, and logistics. ̈ Provide insightful vision and guidance while planning, leading, and executing new store openings; develop new in-stock programs to create a consistent, premium customer experience. ̈ Shape a vibrant, productive environment by providing district-wide training in the areas of customer service, product, and sales. ̈ Streamlined processes and clarified expectations of shipping and logistics department by developing a dynamic team and implementing creative new systems.

Exhibited strong leadership and foresight to facilitate significant sales gains over previous year.Contributions: ̈ Demonstrated innovation and capacity to excel by achieving highest recorded Black Friday sales increase. ̈ Ensured appropriate product availability, increased brand awareness, and promoted brand loyalty by creating and enduring relationships with customers. ̈ Created energy and stability by advancing sales team’s development; promoted three store managers to district-level positions.

Effectively and consistently achieved personal and team sales goalsFocused on improving existing and future member experiences through enhancements and servicesUtilized Dynamics system to continually track and manage sales processes

Defined direction that catalyzed coordination by overseeing product placement and presentation; mitigated excessive loss and reduced inventory from 2.2 to .8.Contributions: ̈ Increased corporate visibility and stature by assisting brand marketing team in planning and executing the Zumiez “Couch Tour” Chicago Stop; honored to win Best Stop for the Chicago stop seven consecutive years. ̈ Demonstrated reliability and ingenuity by planning and implementing in-store signing opportunities for consumers with professional athletes. ̈ Affirmed capacity to excel through selection to open new markets in Ohio, Michigan, and St. Louis; created effective new opportunities for product placement. ̈ Exhibited superior attention to detail while managing and executing logistics for expo booth; demonstrated new season equipment.

Achieved product retention that met corporate’s .8 target goal by improving inventory management.Contributions: ̈ Maximized productivity and provided vital structure by creating and implementing improvements to return underperforming store to AA status; increased profitability and consistently outperformed store sales goals. ̈ Enhanced efficiency by tracking and improving employee productivity and effectiveness through design and implementation of innovative and engaging professional development opportunities.