Michael Grodecki Email & Phone Number

Middletown, New York, United States

Yonkers, NY

• Responsible for the total Leadership and performance of a Babies R Us Store.
• Employee staffing, Training and Development.
• Meeting and exceeding monthly and yearly sales budgets. 2.8% in 2015, 1.1% 2016
• Managing expenses utilizing P&L to achieve yearly Profit in my location.
• Driving Customer Service scores with YOY increases of 2-4% during 14, 15, 16, 17
• Driving YOY growth of our operational metrics consisting of rewards program, credit & warrantees.

North Bergen, NJ

• Continued to provide leadership through the close down of this location as we had remodeled 2 surrounding stores.
• Successfully kept Leadership and Core team to stay on with us through planned closing while meeting weekly labor builds.
• Met all sales/profit and operational standards through closing. Recognized regionally for achieving 204% of our credit goal in November.
• Worked with surrounding Store Managers to ensure every employee who wanted to relocate to a local store was placed.
• Successfully made time frame on closing process and finished process 2 days ahead of time.

Secaucus, NJ

• High Volume Prototype Flagship location that achieved Sales plan and Profit.
• Chosen due to our detail in execution on being an early reset location. During this time we would process resets ahead of entire chain. Friday I would walk our corporate team of Merchandisers, Buyers and Leadership.

Secaucus, NJ

• For the majority of my time in role I had stretch assignments where I created a schedule for the whole store, planned out all store weekly projects while running my segment of the store effectively.
• During my time in this location I helped to increase our top line sales and profit over goal. This was done by promoting creative selling ideas and presentations, significant reduction in workers comp/General liability.

Poughkeepsie, NY

While in Poughkeepsie I was able to make a difference on both the Merchandising standards and all around Logistics processes. When I first arrived team was unable to process deliveries timely and Merchandise resets were not completed on time. Much of the improvement was more due to teams morale and confidence in direction that had been given. Through.

Yorktown, NY

During my first year in Yorktown I was responsible for all Operations/Logistics including merchandising presentation on the sales floor. My second year I was co-lead of a company Prototype remodel eventually taking over as lead. I was responsible for daily communication with our corporate partners to ensure time lines were made as well as providing.

Middletown, NY

Started as a seasonal team member and was asked to stay after being Seasonal. While at this location I worked in every full-time specialty position in the store. After showing my growth I was promoted to a department Manager and rotated through each Department.