Tony Bauguess
Objective
**** ******** **., ********, **. 90712
310-***-**** • ****.********@*****.***
To continue my career with an organization that will utilize my Management, Supervision and Administrative skills to benefit mutual growth and success.
Key Qualifications
Manager with more than 30 years of proven success growing a business, reducing expenses, increasing profits, and providing strategic assistance to other areas within the company to develop a cohesively managed business. Industry experience includes a talent for hiring and recruiting, directing and supervising employees, training and coaching, front and back-end processes, and a passion for great customer service.
Work Experience
Assistant Store Manager / Specialty Aug 2017 – June 2022
Lowes Home Improvement
Accountable for achieving sales and margin goals while driving operational efficiencies and maximizing overall customer satisfaction with the Lowe’s in store experience
Anticipate customer flow and work demand and redirecting efforts and schedules to ensure proper coverage when and where needed
Plan for spikes in sales and ensuring the store has the in-stock position to support the demand
Collaborates with Specialty Sales Staff, Product Vendors, 3rd Party Installation team, and Delivery Teams to ensure that the In-Home customer experience is up to Lowe’s Scope of work standards and that the customer is 100% satisfied.
Assistant Manager Operations/ Sales Aug 2011 – July 2017
Best Buy
Lead Team development towards desired goals. Proven record of developing employees into higher level positions, up to and including General Manager level.
Trained teams to provide consistently excellent merchandising brand standards in high profile stores.
Lead sales team to accomplish revenue goals exceeding $31M while impacting YOY comp by 500 BPS for FY15 and FY16
Provided supervisor leadership in support of executing company strategies involving metric analyzing, performance planning, and coaching to each employee for alignment.
Consistently delivered under budget shrink results. Shrink savings added $68k to store NOP for FY 2016
General Manager June 1999 – Aug 2011
Best Buy
Responsible for all aspects of the P&L from stores with revenues of $42 million to $65 million
Created an atmosphere that gave all employees the tools and knowledge to provide our customers with an extraordinary shopping experience
Consistently exceeded company expectations on NOP and SG&A metrics as well as employee metrics
(turnover and viewpoint survey)
District Services Manager Mar .2001 – June 2002
Best Buy, District 64
Responsible for driving the profitability and customer experience at 10 Best Buy stores through services
Helped with the successful roll out of the Geek Squad in the Los Angeles Market
Ended #1 in the company in Service metrics for fiscal 2001