Genral and Operations Manager

Timothy P. Godlew ***–***-****

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SUMMARY

OPERATIONS AND GENERAL MANAGER

Professional General and Operations Manager with extensive Multi-site, Operations and Logistics experience; University of Michigan Undergraduate degrees as well as Legal and MBA coursework, possessing the proven ability to effectively lead business to consistent and measureable success.

SIGNATURE STRENGTHS

Business/Operations

Multi-Site Management

Full P & L Responsibility

Logistics and Shipping

Contract Negotiation

Vendor Relations and 3rd Party Management

Procurement/Purchasing

Import/Export Regulations (ICC, Customs, UCC)

OSHA and Safety Compliance

Managing People:

Performance Management

Change Management

Building Productive and Cohesive Teams

Staff Training, Development, and Advancement

Collective Bargaining Experience

Arbitration Administration

Human Resource Initiatives

Community Outreach Initiatives

WORK EXPERIENCE & SELECTED HIGHLIGHTS

STAPLES, INC

E. Longmeadow, MA 2013-Current (2yrs)

Operations Manager

Operations Management role that shares responsible for all aspects of store performance, associate hiring and development, performance management, sales, company initiatives, audits, process integrity, P&L and inventory management. Project lead on Store upgrades in IT and Merchandise reflow initiatives.

THE HOME DEPOT, Chicopee, MA 1994-2012 (17yrs)

Operations Manager (OASM)

Consistently delivered improvement on all KPI of business unit, including leveraging $32 million in revenues into a Store Controllable Operating Profit of 13%, or $640,000 better than plan.

Effectively controlled purchasing of 9 million in inventory, while meeting seasonal adjustments and driving sales to reduce inactive, clearance and low velocity product. Delivered 32.3% Gross Margin on a plan of 29.5% through ordering controls and fostering a creative sales environment.

Drove attainment of business unit’s metric, including, ROI, Turns, and Initial Purchase Margin.

Created, and managed a community centered annual event engaging participants and benefiting charitable causes that changed community’s previously hostile perception of business to embracing enterprise and facilitated steady annual growth in transaction count and gross revenues.

Hired, trained, and developed individuals focused on advancement potential through effective performance management.

Promoted multiple direct reports, and positioned other employees for promotion.

Functioned as General Manager on two occasions, for 5 months and for 2 months, while the position was vacant receiving recognition for outstanding performance.

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UNITED VAN LINES Windsor Locks, CT 1991-1994 (3yrs)

General Manager/Operations Manager

Functioned as GM of one location and Operations Manager for all 4 locations of the Company while reporting directly to the CFO and CEO.

Spearheaded redirection of labor force from salary based, to Independent Contractors, transforming fixed costs to variable costs anchored to available revenues.

Revamped the salary structure by negotiating individual contracts, mixing commissions, and draw against commission, resulting in improved financial performance.

Restructured advertising budget, after careful review of market penetration. Focused efforts in geographic segments most likely to legitimately generate potential business, and culling areas that had a historically poor performance record.

Uncovered, investigated and identified and, in partnership with the CFO, terminated the occurrence of felonious financial activity being perpetrated by a contractor. Notified the proper authorities, and salvaged the Company’s image, and averted potential involvement by the Legal Branch of the ICC, IRS, and State DOR. Closed loophole that allowed this to happen, and trained other Managers to recognize and interdict.

NORTH AMERICAN VAN LINES, Boston, MA 1989-1991 (2yrs)

General Manager

Took control of a failing division of a business with overall Gross revenues of $28 million with 80 Permanent, and 350 Part Time employees. Controlled an operating budget of $6.4 million or 23% of the overall company budget with full P&L accountability as well as seven direct reports and twenty regular staff.

Split the Business Unit into two entities and successfully negotiated collective bargaining concessions from the Union, and created a new business entity with no collective bargaining elements.

Positively impacted a crippling Comp Mod, moving it from 1.45 to an aggregate of .98, resulting in real savings to the overall transaction costs of over 40%.

Renegotiated old, and negotiated new, capital expenditure contracts with vendors and suppliers to bring the business units outlay down an average of 8% thus positively impacting the operating profit by developing relationships with Civic Leaders, Bank Administrators. Thus greatly improving financial position through rate reductions, capital reassessments, cascading effect in tax burden reduction, and improved access to borrowing at more favorable rates.

AFFILIATIONS

University of Michigan Alumni Association

EDUCATION

University of Michigan-Bachelor’s Degree

Detroit College of Law-Graduate Studies

University of Detroit-Graduate Business Studies

Computer Skills: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Great Plains, Ariba, Access, SAP

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