I manage a district of up to 50 lease spaces within Macy's and buybuyBaby. My area covers TX, OK, and AR. My responsibilities include, but not limited to: Building successful partnerships with management partners to increase sales and productivity.  Uphold visual and operational excellence within each leased location. Ensure all promotions, price changes and sign changes in the department are executed in a timely manner so that our sales and promotions are clearly and accurately communicated to our Mom2Be. Actively network, recruit and seek top talent for any part time opportunities within area. Actively build and maintain a pipeline of talent for bench and succession planning. Build relationships with professional network; internal partners in the Company and external partners in, leased locations, shopping center and other professional network contacts. Lead leased team in personal and professional development and identify potential for succession planning. Utilize Company tools, policies and procedures to ensure coaching and feedback is in line with the Company and position competencies. Build repeat business and maximize traffic by delivering an exceptional client experience. Maintain an in-depth knowledge of all merchandise within each leased location. Understand differences in assortments. Ensure that visual/marketing presentation is in compliance with both Company and leased partner standards. Communicate business opportunities, client feedback, and store needs to our corporate leased partner contacts. Oversee financial aspects of each leased location including payroll, effective scheduling analysis, budgets, expenses, and inventory.

Details of this position include, but are not limited to: Selecting and training a staff, developing and maintaining a weekly schedule for all staff members, receiving and processing new merchandise on a weekly basis, overseeing the security of the store along with its merchandise, ensuring that all displays are visually appealing and merchandised correctly, educating employees on proper etiquette and exceptional techniques for achieving sales goals and building a clientele portfolio, developing a staff that maintains first class customer service skills, conducting periodical performance evaluations, increasing stores sales volume, ordering of supplies, overseeing of daily register audits while also administering weekly store audits. Achievements IncludeDistrict TrainerAssisted DM in coordinating two successful store grand openings Successfully trained five new hire store managers for other stores within the district

1st Assistant Manager 12/00Co-Manager 5/2001Store Manager 11/2001-8/2001

Co-managed a 1.2 million dollar store.Frequently function as acting store manager as Dolly Rodela (DM) was overseeing other stores.Implemented training course for new recruits - speeding profitability.Was speedily promoted to a store manager after only six months in this position.

First career role in the Cato Corporation.Quickly learned the basic operations of the store. Completed Customer 101 training course taught by Terry Viands. Was speedily promoted to Co-Manager after only four months in this position.