Harry Ryan Email & Phone Number

Sacramento, Ca, Us

Goodlettsville, Tn, Us

Leading stores in Northern California in all aspects of business starting with driving sales and profits through exceptional customer satisfaction, motivated teams, cost controls through fiscal responsibility and flawless execution. We achieve this by recruiting and developing top talent that has a passion for growth and success through hard work and compassion for the community and team members

Secaucus, Nj, Us

Joined The Vitamin Shoppe to work with people who really care about the guests that they serve and the communities that they are currently in. I was asked to lead the Central Texas District from Ft. Hood / Waco to the border. I ensure that all stores consistently execute all operational functions to company standards, including our Connections and engagement, to our customers, and all four Critical Success Factors that deliver The Vitamin Shoppe vision and mission statement.

Woodcliff Lake, Nj, Us

Asked to join Party City to help facilitate the turn around of the Bay area through recruiting, team building and development. Relocated from the East Coast to elevate the California locations to the company standards and drive sales to achieve the sales and profit goals set. • Lead stores in the San Jose and Bay areas of Northern Ca, from one of the bottom performing Districts to a top five in the company by the end of year one. • First year leadership elevated to the #3 District during the all important Halloween sales period. • Closed two under performing stores and opened two newer prototype stores during two year tenure plus real estate exploration for future sites

Coraopolis, Pa, Us

Joined Dick’s Sporting Goods to become part of a dynamic world class growing company. My retail experience in start-ups and high growth companies coupled with my successes in driving sales and profits through key performance indicators were the correct fit with Dick’s Sporting Goods.• Responsible for the eight stores Metro, NY District. One of the top performing Districts in sales, profits and overall store metric performance in the company. • Upgraded the stores talent level through aggressive recruiting, extensive development and the complete re-organization of store staff’s at all levels. • Developed a talented team through consistent direction working with each store and strong communication skills. • Created a “Best Practices” weekly business recap of competitors to solicit information from the stores weekly and heighten their Business Acumen. Stores had to analyze trends and focus on the day to day business to garner information from customers and front line associates.

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Recruited by Circuit City to be part of the Innovation / New Concepts Team. Led stores in two markets to implement, measure, iterate and make decisions on all tests and new business ideas before bringing the successes to the rest of the company.• Facilitated conference calls and meetings for the Innovation Teams and Field Teams to coordinate the implementation of tests, iterations of new ideas and analyze all metrics associated with initiative.• Responsible for coordinating and synthesizing Key Performance Indicators, learning and insights on a weekly basis from all initiatives to formulate a weekly scorecard to review with the Executive Committee. • Involved in recruiting, interviewing and selecting of all field teams for the "New Generation” stores in both Boston and Miami markets in order to elevate the talent in store operations.

Parsippany, New Jersey, Us

Selected as an original team member to create, develop and bring to life all of the aspects of a new concept for the Toys R Us company. Responsible for all aspects of the project including budgets, store planning, standards, SOP’s, human resources, communications, store systems, guest satisfaction programs and loss prevention.• Coordinated transition project plan to convert existing Toy stores as new Geoffrey concept.• Evaluated all existing field personnel, structured new staffing models and succession planning, core competencies, and partnered in the orientation and training processes.• Worked with outside third party partners to implement complimentary third party new businesses into operational structure of the stores to maximize profit performance.• Led development and communicated all merchandising standards, business policies, operational processes, best practices, and SOP’s.

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Instrumental in the start-up, growth and current success of the juvenile division following merger with leading juvenile retailer Baby Superstore. Challenged with spearheading critical transition period and leading growth nationally. Responsible for all retail operations including development of budgets, SOP's, processes, merchandising standards and P&L accountability.• Helped to create and lead Babies R Us operations organization from first store to 161 stores with revenue exceeding $1.5 billion and profits of $150 million.• Provided leadership to Babies R Us functional operations areas, including labor planning, new store teams, guest satisfaction, communications, store systems and all special projects.• Responsible for labor planning, new business development, and yearly budgeting and expenses plans for entire company• Chaired weekly Babies R Us Operations meetings while being a member of the Executive Staff, Prototype and Inventory Committees.• Headed the development, partnering with a third party, to roll out an inventory ordering program. This increased furniture sales double digits while reducing unproductive inventory levels in all stores.