Peter M. Email & Phone Number

Fort Worth, TX, US

Texas

• Responsible for showroom appearance of 130 stores including upholstery, electronics, appliances, computers, preleased furniture and accessories. Manage the appearance consistency of stores throughout 9 regions, execute.
• Train GMs on proper stock balancing and inventory levels
• Train Sales Staff for upkeep of the showroom, accurate pricing, product ordering and merchandising standards.
• Maintain and improve appearance of showroom per company philosophies.
• Assisting with new store openings, relocation/remodels, acquisitions, close/merge and training new GM’s in merchandising standards.
• Coordinate with Regional Managers to ensure proper stock balancing and inventory levels

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Contractor services, insurance restoration, roofing and design. Providing exceptional customer service that exceeds the industry standard.
• Have maintained steady growth year over year
• Recruit and hire Consultants
• Implement market strategies to acquire new clients
• Hiring specialized subcontractors if necessary
• Ensuring safety regulations are followed on site at all times

Carrollton, Texas

• Contractor services, insurance restoration and roofing
• Hiring specialized subcontractors if necessary
• Ensuring safety regulations are followed on site at all times
• Advising and educating clients
• Making sure the sites are secure
• Managing work teams, materials and equipment

Dallas Texas

• Responsibilities include visual floor set planning, mapping and implementation. As well as sales training, planning the utilization of resources to achieve sales goals, perform opening/closing procedures and provide.
• Execute daily visual and merchandising changes per business analysis.
• Direct the implementation of all floor set, signage, weekly markdowns and marketing collateral execution.
• Organize all signage, markdown collateral and visual supplies.
• Successfully recruit, train and coach visual specialists/associates.
• Implementation of aggressive sales strategies to accomplish sales goals.

Coppell, TX

• Work in Customer Solutions Department – the communication hub of The Container Store
• Started as a seasonal employee and moved into a fulltime position within a year and a half
• Use Cisco phone system
• Receive 30-60 calls daily and filter through 200-250 emails daily
• Design spaces by phone using a CAD like program
• Communicate daily via email and by phone with customers, vendors and other departments of TCS.

Ft. Worth TX

• Started as a 2nd Assistant and became a store manager within 6 months.
• Recruiting and hiring sales staff
• Training sales staff in Zumiez philosophies
• Successfully recruited and trained several employees that are currently in management
• Upkeep of Zumiez store presentation philosophies and techniques
• Sold over $150k two years consecutively

Ft. Worth TX

• Project managed events with a proven record of staying under budget and a team builder
• Innovator and developer of many programs to ensure numerical growth as well as the personal growth of customers
• All areas responsible for showed an average growth of 75% in attendance and 90% retention
• Instilled a strong customer service ethic to a volunteer team and paid work force (started with 4 ended with over 50 from ages 19-55)
• Recruited 90% of volunteer team as well as paid work force
• Developed follow up systems and surveys to insure customer satisfaction and retention

Dallas/Ft. Worth Texas

• Began as a designer covering a number of South Florida stores in 1997. After three triumphant years, merchandising the #1 store in the company was promoted to Regional Designer and transferred from Florida to Texas..
• Overall space planning for each store (smallest store was 32,000 sq. ft)
• Traveled both domestically and internationally as an integral member of the store opening operations panel
• Administered all aspects of accessory business including procurement
• Motivate and educate the sales force to sell the accessories - each store showed an increase average of 1% in annual accessory sales
• Amplified the trends to display the stores to produce all around sales and insured the stores maintain a fresh appealing look