Store Manager
CurrentPlanned and prepared work schedules and assigned employees to specific duties. Hired, trained, and evaluated personnel in sales and marketing establishment. Conferred with company officials to develop methods and procedures to increase sales, expand markets, and promote business. Coordinated sales promotion activities and prepared merchandise displays and advertising copy. Assisted sales staff in completing complicated and difficult sales. Kept records pertaining to purchases, sales, and requisitions. Formulated pricing policies on merchandise according to requirements for profitability of store operations. Examined products purchased for resale and received for storage to determine condition of product and item. Inventoried stock and reorders when inventories drop to specified level.Examined merchandise to ensure that it is correctly priced, displays and functions as advertised. Listened to and resolved customer complaints regarding service, product, and personnel. Kept records of employees' work schedules and time cards. Directed and supervised employees engaged in sales, inventory-taking and reconciling cash receipts.*Reduced shrinkage and improved efficiency by motivating receiving staff to maintain more accurate records.*Completed all facets of retail store management including client relations, training, scheduling, visual merchandising, sales, marketing, inventory control, employee supervision, and acted as liaison between regional managers and other store locations.*Maintained responsibility for daily operations, banking, loss control, payroll, budgeting, hiring, and staff development for facility with more than $250,000 in inventory.*Conducted retail sales staff training sessions.*Trained and mentored employees in daily job responsibilities.*Enforced store and company standards, windows, displays, and fixtures.*Set responsibilities and goals for selling specialists.*Reviewed sales figures and prepared month, season, and year projections.