Emre Duru is a performance-driven, strategic, and process-focused Retail Operations Management Executive, showcasing comprehensive retail operations experience and exposure across the U.S., Russian, Eastern Europe, Middle East, and Gulf regions. He offers 20+ years of transferable experience in leading integrated retail strategy to deliver an exceptional consumer experience while refining, driving, and measuring store KPIs to ensure high-quality performance and operational excellence. He maintains oversight for $MM retail operating budgets based on executive direction while identifying lucrative opportunities to maximize sales, traffic flow, and floor coverage through effective scheduling and reporting activities. He turns around, revamps, and transforms end-to-end organization processes and retail operations within the U.S. based on capabilities, strengths, and weaknesses while formulating robust action plans to produce business growth and expansion on a year-over-year basis.During an accomplished career of continuous growth and success, Emre acquired depth and breadth of international experience within retail business operations across various cultures and countries to achieve elite service standards while driving customer experience, satisfaction, and success using advanced product knowledge to propel sales volume growth. He showcases advanced transformational leadership capabilities to turn around and revamp underperforming operations by revitalizing systems, functions, and processes, involving driving revenue growth and profitability on a year-over-year basis from 12% net loss to 12% profit (24%+) (U.S. Polo Association). His main achievements include exceeding revenue objectives for 115 mono-brand stores in 15+ countries while driving brand’s presence across Eastern Europe, Russia, CIS, and MEA countries (Geox Spa Italy)Through dedication towards promoting a culture of collaboration, Emre empowers and motivates diverse teams towards driving development and deployment of holistic and best-in-class global strategy across multi-functional business operations and activities. He steered end-to-end activities of 19 retail locations for a premium menswear company while turning around underperforming business operations from $4.5M in losses to generate $MM profitability on a yearly basis. Leverage and unleash advanced analytics tools to drive real frontline differentiation through capturing disparate data sources, generating relevant insights, and deriving rich fact-sets to facilitate business decisions across key retail business processes.