Store Director - AT Home Store Group - Ledgewood NJ
(2021-11)
- Successfully opened a new 90,000 sq ft location from the ground up
- Staffed the entire store of a team of 50 people before store build out
- Able to maintain an A rated score on monthly Audits conducted by DM
- Achieved and surpassed first quarter sales budget
- Supported other new store openings with support staff and including myself to train new stores, was able to promote some of my staff entirely to hire positions within only 5 people turned over since grand opening
- Currently sit at #2 in the company for year to date in perks (reward program) at a%252 comp over budget
- Currently ranked #1 in customer engagement in the company
Store Manager - Total Wine & More - Riveredge NJ
(2019-06 - 2021-11)
- Day to Day operations of a high volume 40,000 sq ft building with annual sales of 54 M
- Driving a team of 60 plus team members, digital team, shipping team and local delivery team of 3 Vans
- 4th most profitable store in the chain
- #1 in the chain on winery direct sales
- Ordered New and exciting high end Highly allocated products for the NJ Market
- Was the NJ Market Captain to do barrel select programs whiskey and tequila with allocated items
Store Manager - Ocean State Job Lots - South Plainfield NJ
(2018-06 - 2019-06)
- Took Store over in July of 2018 took it from a negative comp store of 8.3% to a positive comp of 2.5% for fiscal year 2018
- Won 3 out of 4 categories in the Holiday contest for best UPT increase, best Basket increase and sales comp to the previous year
- Successful at getting into the top 50 club in KPI's and maintain it
- Became the regional show case store for hiring, Training and interviewing for the Launch of the PA Market
- Reduced overall shrink from 4.5% to 1.1%
Store Team Leader/New store Planning - Olie's Bargain outlet - Columbia TN
(2017-05 - 2018-05)
- Opened New markets in Northern Mississippi and Arkansas
- Team performed all recruiting all the way up to grand opening and over see the New store set up crew
- Ran the store in Columbia TN that when taken over was a problem store
- Within the first 7 months turned the store around where it was hitting its kpi's and took the store from a negative 18.5% comp to missing the year by .05% comp
- Reduced the shrink from 2.8% to a 1.3% shrink
- Customer service KPI moved up from 173 place in the company to 43 in the company
District Manager - Party City Holdings LLC - Tampa bay / Orlando FL Market
(2007-06 - 2017-05)
- Lead 15 to 21 stores across the Tampa bay / Orlando Fl Market exceeding 90M in annual sales
- Responsibilities included Driving Financial accountability, operation excellence, next level development, a full P&L responsibility driving team results and Kpi's
- Had a consistent low shrink Number in the .8's for the last 5 years running
- Responsible for find Temp Halloween locations and over see them from build up to tear down
Regional Training Manager - Bed Bath & Beyond
(2000-12 - 2007-06)
- Trained All New store and Assistant Mangers for the NJ/NY area
- As being the Store Manager of Store 1 the company had a program where trained all Corporate staff before they reported to their job function in the home office
- Was the concept store for New lay outs, new products, New fixture equipment and the test store for fine china
- Saw a great deal of visitors from Home office on a regular basis from as high up as the board of directors
