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Atlanta, Ga, Us

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

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Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Greater Atlanta Area

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Atlanta, Georgia

• Oversee all team members in specialty sales departments at a multi-unit store that generates $39M annually. Leading the team through their day to day operations while elevating guest experience in both beauty and electronics.• Recruit, hire and train experts in specialty sales areas by actively recruiting top talent with relevant retail experience to ensure departments are staffed with team members who are passionate about beauty and electronics. .• Responsible for weekly scheduling of team members in specialty sales areas ensuring departments are scheduled with coverage that reflects peak sales times while considering day to day operations. • Support the entire store through day to day operations based on the needs of the business by responding to hourly sales, team member and guest incidents, tracking of daily attendance, supporting peers, managing workload completion, and stores performance metrics.• Actively participate in the performance management process including coaching, providing meaningful feedback, delivering oral and written counseling’s and corrective action, and annual performance reviews.

Fultondale, Alabama

•Lead day to day operations of a $22M multi-unit business and serve as a member of a select key holder leadership group.•Oversee all sales floor departments of the store and the team members who work within each department. Including; softlines, hardlines and grocery. Leading the team to execute daily operations including completion of company visual merchandise and pricing strategies. •Perform “leader on duty” responsibilities; respond to hourly sales, guest traffic, service metrics, team and guest safety incidents, payroll and key operations.•Play a key role in stores recruiting, hiring, training, and retaining of team members across all departments of the store throughout the hiring cycle. • Actively participate in the performance management process including coaching, providing meaningful feedback, delivering oral and written counseling and corrective action, and annual performance reviews.

Birmingham, Alabama

• Lead a team of 5-10 team members executing store merchandise transitions through strategic planning and execution, achieving green transition set on time metrics for the entire year.•Lead a team of 2-6 pricing team members executing company pricing strategies, achieving green price accuracy metrics for the entire year.• Assessed and developed talent promoting 5 team members into next level roles, including a backfill for my position, allowing me to own my personal development and move into a new role.•Total Store Sales Comp of 12.77% - #2 in G394 for 2017.

Birmingham, Alabama Area

• Lead front of store team of 5 leaders and 35 team members through daily operations including cash office operations, store register/check out experience, and service desk experience. • Hire, trained and retained new team members on the front end.• Reduced store's shortage by fostering a shortage culture across the front end team, reducing unidentified sales significantly for the entire year.

Birmingham, Alabama

•Oversee all clothing departments within the store, leading 10-12 team members to execute daily store functions and provide a great guest experience.•Plan and executed company visual merchandising strategies to drive sales in all clothing areas.•Provided store specific climate feedback allowing the store to receive increased accuracy of assortments based on guest needs through the season.•District trainer for softlines team leaders in D340.•Awarded D340 MVP for 2014 during stores annual business review.

Master Of Arts - Ma, Applied Sociology

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Sociology With A Concentration In Social Psychology, Spanish Minor