Maria Johnston Email & Phone Number

Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States

Responsibilities include imputing data, starting applications, requesting documents, obtaining validations, answering phones, scanning documents, assisting with social media and computer questions, and more.

Chattanooga, Tennessee

Responsibilities include: Sales, measuring customers for proper fit, stock, inventory, customer orders, making schedules, merchandising, training new hires, sale changes, signage, gathering training forms for district manager, and providing outstanding customer service.

Chattanooga, Tennessee Area

Responsibilities include: sales, credit card payments, soliciting credit applications, measuring customers for a perfect fit bra, stock, customer service, customer orders, and provide outstanding customer service.

Responsibilities included: opening and closing the store, sales, setting sales goals for each employee, preparing deposits, ordering stock, covering breaks, preparing drinks in cafe, inventory, receiving shipment, returns, customer service, checking sales hourly and reporting to DM, assit store manager with events such as book signings, merchandising tables and end caps per plan o gram. As Co-Manager I was responsible for the Kids Specialist, Magazine Specialist, and Key Six Specialist which means keeping up with each one's progress in weekly tasks.

Began as key holder and was promoted within two months to assistant manager and promoted to store manager in March of 2011. Responsibilities included: opening and closing the store, sales, soliciting credit applications, cleaning store, testing pool water, diagnosing pool issues, helping new pool owners get started, put away new stock, print and change sale signs. As store manager I was also responsible for making schedules, opening commercial accounts, calling and visiting commercial accounts monthly, merchandising the store, training all employees, keeping up to date on new pool trends, setting sales goals for each employee, ordering stock, weekly conference calls with district manager, inventory discrepancies, prepared all RTV's, weekly inventory spot counts, ensuring all sale signs were current and clearance items were moved to new area, resolving any customer problems. Achievements: In less than a year as store manager I was able to bring sales up 58% from the prior year, obtain several new commercial properties, met and exceeded sales goal for commercial business.

Dalton, Ga

Make scheduals, sort sale signs by department, change sale signs, put away stock, help cover departments, help with displays, markdown merchandise and move to clearance area, help with inventory

Began as a sales person with Proffitt's department store which merged with Belk department store. Responsibilities included: sales, credit card payments, soliciting credit applications, and provide outstanding customer service. Was considered to be a personal shopper for my customers. Personally selected merchandise from all departments to fulfill customer requests. Trained new sales associates. Set up pre sale events by reserving customer merchandise for the special sale events. All items requested by customers, had to be listed by item, along with payment information. Also called customers to remind them to pick up their merchandise. Made schedules for pricing team and trained new members to the team. Achievements: Met and exceeded pre sale goals. Exceeded personal sales goals. Pricing team leader. Also assisted with major floor moves, merchandising, stocking, and seasonal markdowns, Set up new sales, put up correct signs, and removed all signs. Also created new signs when needed and made signs on the computer, using excel computer program. Also used email to access in-store information and word program to make signs. Processed mark out of stocks and prepared merchandise to return to vendor.

Responsible for opening and closing the store daily. Prepare daily cash deposits, ordered stock, processed faxed orders for delivery. Responsible for general appearance of store and provided outstanding customer service. Trained new employees how to prepare food, calibrate temperatures, how rotate merchandise, and assist customers.

High School Diploma

Basic computer class to learn computer fundamentals, to include word, excel, and access. Also took a web design class to learn basic html.

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