Gene Maynard Ii Email & Phone Number

Columbus, Ohio, United States

Responsibilities• Prepare and manage yearly, seasonal, monthly, and weekly labor budgets, forecasts, allocation, and wage rate models for Lane Bryant and Catherines• Provide strong point of view to senior leadership regarding store based initiatives, labor testing opportunities, and provide relevant data and analysis to guide executive decision-making• Lead cross-functional Workload Council to guide and coach business partners on the cost and ideal timing of workload• Develop tools to help the field manage store census and wage• Develop and execute labor related projects and initiatives• Monitor cross departmental processes with relation to labor• Develop and implement labor strategies• Drive financial and customer metrics through accurate execution of processes, allocation, scheduling support, analysis, reporting, SOPs, and education• Design best practices to increase efficiency and gain maximum productivity• Assist and/or lead time standards/work sampling studies• Subject matter expert in Matrix Retail, labor model, and workload-related issues• Develop and maintain cross-brand partnerships in order to maximize successes and identify potential opportunities to grow the business• Solicit feedback on payroll allocation, impact and opportunity

San Francisco Bay Area (Remote)

Responsibilities• Labor budgets, forecasts, and allocation for North America• Develop and execute labor related projects and initiatives• Monitor cross departmental processes with relation to labor• Develop and implement labor strategies• Drive financial and customer metrics through accurate execution of processes, allocation, scheduling support, analysis, reporting, and education• Design best practices to increase efficiency and gain maximum productivity• Assist and/or lead time standards/work sampling studies• Subject matter expert in the Workbrain, labor model, and workload-related issues• Provide strong point of view regarding store based initiatives and provide relevant data and analysis to guide executive decision-making• Lead cross-functional Workload Council to guide and coach business partners on the cost and ideal timing of workload• Solicit feedback on payroll allocation, impact and opportunity• Maintain and develop strong partnerships across Gap Inc. Brands and functional areas Key Accomplishments• Redesigned and rebuilt a Dashboard, which reduced load time from 10-15 hours to 30 minutes, as well as provided same day data rather than the previous month. It has drastically reduced editing time in some stores by up to 75%, and has improved the scheduling process.• Developed and implemented a labor model enhancement, leading to better control over forecasting and allocation, reducing the allocation process by a few hours each week for Finance/Labor teams, while enabling the stores to better manage their payroll.• Restructured and developed the LME Program, with a focus on labor strategies, forecasting, and onboarding, which has facilitated the adoption of new inter-departmental tools, resources, and scheduling methods.• Developed Training Videos that explain the system concepts which has significantly increased labor control, helped to produce consistent quality schedules, and has decreased editing time.

Jeffersonville, Oh

Key Accomplishments• Created a series of Excel Dashboards that allowed the District to analyze their stores on a perpetual basis, which saved management time, provided better sales forecasting data, and increased their effectiveness. Some of these were adopted by the entire Division.• Labor Management Expert: developed the Daily View editing capabilities within Workbrain which was a more intuitive and accurate method of producing quality schedules. These methods were shared across all brands.• Utilized by Store Operations and IT in order to troubleshoot the Workbrain system: Identified “Phantom Shifts” and worked out a solution and training for HQ; helped identify why people become “trapped” in PM; identified issues with “Transitions”; worked with the #1 Gap Outlet location on scheduling speed and accuracy as well as eliminating “pink shift” errors.• Recognized for providing support for my district and all brands with innovative ways to hire and communicate open positions

Columbus, Ohio Area

Was recruited by the company to take over one of two Columbus locations, but the Toys R Us parent brand decide to close all Kids R Us locations a month after accepting the position.Responsibilities• Sales generation, operations, merchandising, human resources, profit analysis, Company procedural compliance, and innovation.

Columbus, Ohio Area

Responsibilities and Key Accomplishments• Sales generation, operations, merchandising, personnel functions, profit analysis, and Company procedural compliance.• Labor Management Expert• Streamlined supply ordering process reducing preparation time by 50% and cost by 48%• Facilitated training of on-line business which enabled the 6004 to rise from 120th to 54th in the company.

Benin, West Africa

Key Accomplishments• Developed a hammock making business that involved multiple villages and groupements.• Invented a machine that could spin multiple cotton threads into rope, cutting the manufacturing time of 25 meters from 8 hours with 3 people to 2 minutes with 2 people.• Trained village farmers and merchants on basic accounting systems, cost analysis, market studies, and basic health issues in the villages• Convinced CBDIBA, a local savings and loan NGO, to provide its groupements with basic calculators in order to aid in their independence

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Sales generation, operations, merchandising, personnel functions, and Company procedural compliance.

Accounting

Continuing education

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Political Science

Political Science And Spanish

Activities and Societies: National Judo Team - short-term member while in countryStudy Abroad Program - Took Political Science courses.