Steve Debber Email & Phone Number

Jonesboro, AR, US

Jonesboro, Arkansas Area

Fresno, California Area

• Responsible for store operations and revenue growth for California, Hawaii and Arizona.
• Staffed and trained new specialists, engaged with existing and future clients, and created a member first culture.
• Responsible for labor and expenses; monitored inventory and unit integrity.
• Partnered with Sam’s Health & Wellness Team to enhance customer experience throughout the store.
• Created and developed advanced training for Hearing Apprentices to obtain licensure, then adopted by other areas.

• Led Soft-lines departments in all Kmart units in the United States, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Hawaii, and Guam with a focus on maximizing sales and equalizing inventories.
• Facilitated interaction between departments (E-Commerce, Buying, Marketing, Sales, Inventory Management, Logistics and Operations) to support Soft-lines department initiatives.
• Reduced Soft-lines inventory while increasing assortment increasing customer service scores.
• Developed workshops for on hands training, improving CSAT scores significantly.
• Created web-based training for apparel standards and merchandise displays.

• Promoted to comprehensive management of multi-billion dollar revenue region for Sears Holdings Corporation.
• Drove operational excellence for 122 retail units, while leading 13 District Managers, 400 salaried management and over 12K associates.
• Developed customer centric, hands on web-based training curriculum for merchandising expertise, reducing turnover.
• Directed Sales in Store and E-Commerce while Leading Corporate Programs, P&L, Human Resources, Financial Planning, Shrink Management, Restaurant and Pharmacy Operations.
• Created labor forecasting that achieved improvements in the P&L, and performed monthly deep dive analysis and which increased EBITDA significantly.
• Directed E-Commerce in one of the first regional Locations. Achieved double digit sales growth through managed performance.

• Directed sales, contribution margin, in-stock and inventory turnover for highest volume / profitability Region at Sears Holding Corporation with 84 retail units.
• Improved inventory turnover significantly, focusing on highest risk merchandise, improved processes and SKU rationalization.
• Built merchandise flow and climatic tiers for the Merchant Group, which improved overall profitability considerably.
• Spearheaded productive centralized seasonal assortments through coordination with corporate/field personnel resulting in improved sell-throughs and profitability.
• Increased sales notably by creating neighborhood merchandising and marketing; assortments were fine tuned to react to the local customer metrics.
• Launched well-received and efficient Geo-Demographic programs addressing demands of specialized markets resulting in an increase in transactions and gross margins dramatically.

• District Manager for 12 stores and multi-millions in annual sales including Super Centers (grocery stores) and traditional Kmart hard-lines and soft-line formats. (4 years)
• Led two regions SHC simultaneously, ending the year 1st and 2nd in sales and profit.
• Responsible for 40 states in various positions over the course of my Kmart career.
• On-boarded new Senior Executives to Kmart Corporation, including 2 CEOs and 12 EVPs and top merchants.
• Developed training programs for Store Manager Training Academy.
• Facilitated business development and shrink through a daily and monthly focus to improve year over year shrink.