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Austin, Tx, Us

Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

Austin, Texas Area

The leading Global grocery store chain that is purpose-driven to set the standards of excellence for food retailing. A truly dynamic leader in the quality food Business. Manage all day to day functions for volume in excess of 50 million with venues including, bar/restaurant, multiple large prepared food venues, catering, full meat and seafood markets, to general produce and grocery. Direct supervision and leadership for 8 team Leaders and 450 associates.

Austin, Texas Area

Wimberley Glassworks is a Custom Commercial Blown Glass Lighting Installations and Art Glass design company with works all across the US and Canada. Our professional team of Artists and Designers can engineer pieces to your exact specifications or create a completely customized proposal that will be both open minded and creative. The appeal of Art Glass lighting isn't just visually based, our craft transcends most conventional and mass produced options by using Artist based custom blown glass one piece at a time. As Director of Operations I oversee all the day to day structure of sales, production, planning, project negotiations, buying, staff development, social media, ad budgets, and Human resources.

Grew within Nine West organization over nearly a decade, earning promotions and growing responsibility by proving consistent fiscal results while propelling employees into leaders.Partner in Top Level Executive Management Team that set agenda, focus and structure for the Nine West / Jones Apparel Group in North America. Directed 142 stores, 9 Districts in 13 States doing $78 million in annual revenue. Functional areas involved correct product assortment and SKU level for each individual market, talent acquisition, coaching, training and development, motivating volume growth and market share, merchandising, succession planning and strategic planning for future seasons. • Ran top-performing region in company in all areas of accountability 4 years; managed 35% of stores in United States; supervised 9 District Sales Managers, 1200 associates in 13 states • Lowered annual associate turnover rates to 56% – 68% when all Retail was running well over 110%; region performed best in company each year under my direction• Designed and implemented new company-wide roll out of brands associate selling program – S.T.A.R.R. Smile, Talk, Access, Respond, Results; co-authored program design and implementation process to field associates• Oversaw 8 distinct retail concepts in 2 sales venues, mall and outlet, across 13 states• Established best shrink control results in company YOY to maintain .05%; resulted in more profitable stores and region

Texas

Held full Sales and P&L accountability for 22 stores in the South Texas/Border and Houston Markets. Drove volume in all stores by creating highly motivated, educated and excited sales teams. Held full accountability for all coaching, training and development of all associates.● Created successful sales turnaround in struggling Houston and South Texas markets by building team unity and moral in 22 stores for 132 associates; increased training, coaching, selling skills, increased product knowledge and customer engagement skills● Rebuilt underperforming management team to one of top performing districts in company within Y1 and maintained sales increases over 28% the remaining 4 years

* Produced a 25% sales gain, and $1million increase in planned volume for two years.* #1 in company for Manager Sales Productivity, Assistant Manager Productivity improvement, and Selling Cost Reduction of 1.9%.* Achieved 9% profit for 28 stores of over $5 million to bottom line.* Achieved 90% liquidation in old goods.Direct P&L accountability for each store in the district. Managed 2 different markets - Ohio - WV / South TexasAdvanced to higher levels of responsibility, larger territories, and higher revenue operations with personnel duties of 47 seperate operations in 4 states.

Course Work In General Business / Marketing

Completed all but two semesters toward a B.B.A. in Marketing.

Associate Of Arts (A.A.), Business/Commerce, General