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DUTIES:Drives Business Results• Drives productivity of team to achieve store financial, revenue and expense targets.• Leads implementation of product placement, marketing and promotional strategies.• Ensures team executes operational excellence by engaging customers through in service mindset.• Works with team to measure the success of brand initiatives, in-store trends and market insights. Ambassador for the Store and Brand• Represents our brand within their market, understanding our competitors as well as driving excellent tenant and community relationships.• Promotes store involvement in Community in Action programs.• Upholds a high-quality store experience for the external and internal customer.• Builds effective relationships with cross-divisional and store-center partners.Inspires Team• Attracts and selects high potential talent; assesses for skill and cultural fit.. • Accountable for team performance through consistent coaching and feedback. • Creates development plans that support performance needs and career growth for self and direct reports.Ensures Compliance• Holds store team and self accountable to all Gap Inc. standards of performance.• Leads efforts to reduce in-store shrink activity through education, awareness and compliance.• Ensures compliance to all Federal, Provincial, State, and Gap Inc. employment requirements. ACHIEVEMENTS:•Community Service Leader: Ensures quarterly team activities with local charities like Bluffton Self Help and the Boys & Girls Club.•Improved the Employee Engagement Score from a 69% to 92% in less than a year.•Promoted 3 brand ambassadors from sales associate to leadership roles.•One of the top ten stores in the east region during the holiday sweater selling competition (despite being a hot weather market)•Improved customer service selling behaviors to achieve an "Above Target" Customer Experience Survey rating.

Duties:•Drives productivity of the team to uphold high standards serving the marines and their families.•Maximizes profitability by controlling supply and vendor ordering expenses to ensure maximum contribution to marine corps community programs.•Interviews candidates and partners with HR to hire to seamlessly support the needs of the business.•Ensures all direct reports complete the necessary MCCS training modules around safety and first class customers service.•Holds management team accountable to ensure OSHA safety standards are consistently met.•Forecasts business and completes management and sales associate schedule two weeks out to meet the demands of the traffic and ensure work/life balance for MCCS employees.•Partners with vendors to explore new products desired by the marines and appropriately stock product.•Continually monitors gas sales and follows up with management team to promote safety and minimize shrink.

Duties:• Works with the General Manager to implement new corporate strategies, uphold store standards, improve operations, and boost profitability.• Maximizes profit by limiting controllable expenses and managing labor daily.• Conducts weekly touch-bases with direct report (the stock supervisor) to provide performance feedback and guide her development.• Provides a joyful experience for our customers.• Interviews candidates and partnered with the General Manager to hire for brand ambassador.• Facilitates on-boarding for new hires and monitored training hours.• Delegates tasks while ensuring associates followed customer first, then team, then task.• Creates a compelling presentation for the customer by executing visuals to an exceptional standard, planning new flow per the corporate Visual Presentation Guide, and flexing based on the Gap Inc. filters.Key Achievements:• Facilitated the customer enthusiast test period and final program at our store.• Supported the creation of a “Surprise & Delight” culture at 6275 by designing associate name signs for the fitting room; personalizing the shopping experience for the customer. These signs are now being tested in the district.• Recognized key talent to develop within the leadership pipeline.• Merchandised with accessories placement and visuals in mind to deliver a December year to date gross margin .6% above the district.• Trained 3 district peers on merchandising fundamentals, planning flow, and flexing decisions as part of their onboarding experience.• Promoted community service by organizing Toys-for-Tots holiday drive.

Bra Specialist for Gap Body in historic Savannah, GA. Transferred to Hilton Head Island, SC in 2008 to be a sales associate at the Banana Republic Factory Store. Job duties include offering customer service and selling the brand card while working as cashier, fitting room attendant, and on sales floor recovery. Skills also include stock replenishment, shipment processes, mark downs, in-store promotional changes, executing window visuals, and training new associates.

Primary duties are laying out various signs, business cards, designing vehicle wraps, and creating logos for clients. Range is everything from large building-face channel letters and sandblasted signs to small bandit signs and even name badges. Skills include some experience with the application and installation of our projects. Proficient in Flexi 7 and preparing files for large and small scale printing processes.

Duties include creating web and print graphic layouts for a company that specializes in business consulting, ethnic marketing, and corporate training. Designing marketing materials like training book covers, brochures, and mailers for AABE Day. Experience also includes updating their website; making it more efficient, interactive, and adding flash elements to more engaging pages.