Sales Manager
Resume:
CHRIS BARRY
**C Portland Street
Toronto, Ontario
**********@****.***
I am writing in regards to an
opportunity you may have available. I am a focused individual that is outgoing,
driven and passionate with over 12 years in retail management and sales
experience. I have B2B experience, years of sales building relationships,
and a professional mindset in building business revenues that have helped
grow businesses for many years.
Through my 7 years of store management experience, and 5+ years of District
Manager experience I have had a wealth of retail store sales success. As a
District Manager overseeing 12 locations in the GTA, I was #1 overall for
sales increases in Canada during my employment at Lids.
I have been involved with store profit and loss margins, net income of
company's growth opportunities, and analyzed day to day business operations
for multimillion dollar companies to ensure company opportunities were
maximized for many years.
I have worked specifically with vendors, building relationships within to
maximize company potentials, and to ensure professional report writing was
conducted regularly as a leader of many sale teams for over 10 years.
I would like the chance to meet with you at your earliest convenience to
discuss my resume, my qualifications, and to see if this could be an
opportunity that would be mutually beneficial.
Sincerely,
CHRIS BARRY
Enclosure
CHRIS BARRY 10C Portland Street, M5V 3N6 Toronto, Ontario
ca.linkedin.com/pub/chris-barry/81/919/403/
**********@****.*** 647-***-****
Experience
Urban Planet
2013- Present
General Manager
As the General Manager of the largest square footage Urban Planet clothing
store location I am responsible in overseeing all aspects of this large big
box retail location.
* With a team of 40 Sales Associates and Cashiers in our location, I
also manage a team of 7 managers including a Co-Manager, 5 Department
Managers, an Administrator and a Visual Merchandiser.
* Store location is a 25,000 square feet, with 5+ million dollars in
annual sales and has 80,000 units in our location.
* I am responsible for all aspect of the store sales, customer service,
store presentation, and ensuring all sales and operations are
maximized within our store.
TELUS
2012- 2013
District Sales Manager
As a District Manager I oversaw retail operations for the TELUS locations
in my region ensuring sales and client satisfaction is maximized.
* Work with Store Manager to focus on client relation building, sales of
mobile devices, and accessories and in ways to improve consumer sales
and increase company revenues.
* Focus on B2B sales by working with outside reps to cold call potential
new clients and go to meetings to bring more business to our
locations.
* Focus on building our client relations through customer service
training, monitor operations through visit checklists, and ensure
productively is optimized at locations through P & L review regularly.
* Hire teams, train on sales and client building relations, have daily
and weekly calls to monitor marketing approaches and needs, and
provide support to store teams to grow the business.
Lids, Greater Toronto Area, Ontario
2008- 2012 District Sales Manager
Directly responsible for overseeing all aspects of business for 12 Lids
Store locations in the Greater Toronto Area.
* Guide Store Managers in ways to improve store sales, perform company
statistics improvements, and maintain great loss prevention through
daily inventory counts while providing exceptional customer service.
* Responsible to conduct store audits quarterly, ensure store succession
planning is developed within the district, hold weekly conference
calls and conducting executive district tours on a regular
* As the #1 District Sales Manager for sales increases in Canada, I
constantly focused on sales improvement techniques through contests,
recognition awards, positive motivation, and pushing teams to hit the
next sales stride by getting outside their 4 walls to bring in more
business through techniques I would implement to make this American
company more well known in Canada.
Winners, London, Ontario
2007- 2008
Assistant Manager
Responsible for overseeing all operations with guidance and direction from
Store Manager for a 36,000 square foot, 11 million dollars annual sales
volume store with over 100 associates.
* As Manager on Duty I would be responsible for receiving truck shipment
of many skids of product each morning, ensuring all inventory was done
in 24 hours and merchandised appropriately in the 50 different
departments.
* Responsible to ensure departments were priced, sized accurately, hold
department associates accountable for the organization of their
respective areas each day.
* I attended many full day workshops, and also was the Chairman of the
Loss Prevention Committee where I conducted monthly meetings to
continuously improve the business.
Sport Mart, London, Ontario
2002- 2007 Store
Manager
Responsible for maximizing store sales, visual presentation, motivating and
performing written and verbal coaching done on team on weekly basis to
ensure sales and product knowledge progress is being met.
* Responsible for hiring, dismissing, training, scheduling,
communicating with buyers on daily basis to ensure inventory levels in
all 20 departments is appropriate for sales trends.
* Took the biggest department in the company of Footwear from 27th to
#1 in the company out of all 85 stores in Canada through dedicated
focus to sales improvement techniques I implemented.
* I had visited, conducted phone calls and presentations on maximizing
store sales, visual merchandising approaches, and product knowledge
meetings at other stores.
Jean Machine, London, Ontario
2000- 2002
Store Manager
A fashion clothing store that was ran under my supervision and guidance.
* Responsible for performing store sales increase, projecting sales
trends and scheduling appropriately for a team of 15 associates.
* Performed all hiring, dismissing, merchandising, receiving/shipping of
product, on a daily basis.
* Entered daily reports of sales, merchandise received, inventory levels
and order processing.
Education
Fanshawe College, London, Ontario
1998-2000
Business Purchasing Diploma- Specialized Courses Included:
* Operations Management I, II, Business Management
* Purchasing I, II, Business Marketing, Business Finance
* Computer Applications I, II, including Microsoft Word, Excel,
PowerPoint, Access
Owen Sound Collegiate and Vocational Institute, Owen Sound, Ontario
1997
Ontario Secondary School Diploma
Achievements
* Top 10 District Sales over last year out of all 70 districts in North
America in 2010 at Lids
* #1 District in Canada for Sales over last year in 2009 at Lids
. #1 District L.P. Improvement in Canada in 2009 at Lids
. #1 District Sales over last year out of all 70 districts in North
America in 2008 at Lids
. Received District Store of the year in 2006 at Sport Mart
. #1 Gross Profit Increase Store in Ontario in 2006 at Sport Mart
. Received District Store of the Year in 2005 at Sport Mart
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