Dave Brewer Email & Phone Number

Chesapeake, Virginia, Us

Strategic HR Business Partner for three operational zones, +3,500 store locations, with over 25,000 employees, and leading a team of 14 HR Regional Human Resource Managers. Leading HR strategy and execution for all aspects of HR including succession planning, performance management, total rewards/compensation, associate relations, workforce stabilization, advice and counsel, communications, and new company initiatives.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Own overall management and performance of day to day Store Operations for enterprise wide 300 stores while leading an operations corporate team of 7 Directors and +30 Managers / Analysts. Responsible for store payroll budgeting and management; Workforce Management; Task Management, gatekeeping and communications; store weekly/monthly priorities; and store service culture, expectations, and service training initiatives.Managed corporate and field teams to drive core operational processes and procedures within stores to ensure consistency of execution. Leveraged key corporate partnerships to improve operational efficiencies to lower operational costs to the bottom line.• Created, hired, and trained new store operations field leadership and execution teams (two directors and ten regional managers.)

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Responsible for leading all Omnichannel store operations and initiatives that contributed enterprise-wide +4% COMP impact on stores. Owned operations for store enablement of store-facing technology, digital sales from stores, store fulfillment (ship-from-store), and building out customer sales demand in omnichannel world. Cross Functional leader of multi-year project to bring updated technology to stores; including POS, mobile devices, and traffic counters. Consistently collaborated with company leadership (including CEO, CFO, COO) on strategic performance, direction, and long-term planning of store facing Omnichannel programs.• Developed, planned, budgeted, and managed company’s in-store digital sales program delivering over $80,000,000 in annual sales.• Owned and managed store operations for eCommerce store fulfillment, a network of +60 store locations delivering over +$70,000,000 in eCommerce fulfillment sales.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Multi-unit responsibility of 10 locations with revenues of +$200M in the Atlanta Georgia market. Led a team of highly motivated General Managers with P&L responsibility in addition to owning Sales Growth, Store Operations, Merchandising, Talent Development and Planning, Team Engagement, and Customer Experience.Laser focus and consistency on weekly disciplines with driving teams on execution of weekly priorities, merchandising initiatives and setups, and delivering sales, credit, and customer engagement objectives.• Three consecutive years of achieving sales plan, YoY growth, and Regional Vice President of the year in 2011.• Developed and led enterprise-wide holiday “Last 10 Days” strategy and execution playbook for all company stores to support final drive for Christmas sales.• Customer Acquisition: Developed and led operational strategies and enterprise performance of email customer acquisition at store level driving over 3000 bps improvement and delivering future growth for Omnichannel.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Collaborate for driving P&L responsibility for women’s/men’s apparel, shoes, accessories, and home representing $500,000,000 in sales across over 100 locations. Developed strategic partnership with merchant teams to better support the stores through focus on merchandise direction and execution. Traveled stores to drive accountability of merchandising initiatives and sales performance while analyzing performance of top/bottom regions/stores and product offerings.• Developed and executed new Black Friday shoe merchandising processes that delivered significant multi-million-dollar sales impact with high double digit COMP increases for the key Thanksgiving promotions.• Developed multiple training programs including widely successful Business Analysis class for Store Management and for enterprise wide store engagement, an Employee of the Month program.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Responsible for integration of acquired Parisian department stores into Belk department stores; With focus on Store Operations and Merchandising. Collaborated with key corporate partners for store makeover of Belk brand with new fixtures and new product assortments. Coordinated with merchants, real estate, and construction for implementing new home stores/business within Parisian. Responsible for liquidation of underperforming locations.

Various position, including:STORE MANAGER, HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGER, SALES MANAGER.