Thomas Clark
Spring, Texas 77379
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Objective: To obtain a district management position with an organization allowing for the opportunity to develop employees for career advancement while contributing towards company goals and growth.
Professional Offering an outstanding record of contribution and professional development in Profile: successful long-term employment, which has provided strong skills in management, retail operational goals and extensive communicational skills to develop strong teams in order to meet company objectives. A self-motivated individual, who is highly organized while offering an emphasis on quality control. Specialized * Budget Performance Factors * Inventory Control Skills: * Communicating Corporate Guidelines * Processing of Payroll
* Facilitating Training Guidelines * District Training Manager
* Teamwork Development * Operational Accounting
* Manpower Planning * Loss Prevention
Professional
History:
CVS Health
Houston, Texas
District Training Manager(10/06 – Current)
Utilize 15 years of CVS experience and 25 years of retail management to drive future CVS programs.
• Have worked within multiple districts for new manager development. Developing skills on reading and using CVS reporting in order to drive store results.
• Took on district role in rolling out new Merchandising guidelines, Inventory processes, District trainer on new hires, development with all managers on operational reporting and productivity.
• Successfully worked with over 10 SMIT to promotion of Store Manager. Continued their development until they were set up for success.
• Currently running high performing Ship From Store CVS store. Continually giving feedback on processes to allow for glitches to be fixed.
Aldi Foods Inc.
Tully, New York
Store Manager (4/98 - 4/06)
Responsibilities included overseeing operations to maximize sales and to minimize losses. Effectively direct a team to efficiently improve productivity with each associate.
• Open 4 stores in 8 years while perfecting a system that has become a divisional standard.
• Develop teams to overcome challenges in difficult markets.
• All stores in top 5 out of 70 in all financial categories
• 30% inventory loss, 5-20% sales increases.
• Sales volume from 8-14 million a year.
• Develop and managed 15-50 associates.
Fay’s Drugs
Buffalo, New York
Store Manager (2/94 - 9/97)
To direct a staff consisting of 5-10 department managers to achieve inter- departmental goals, while maintaining total operation of store sales.
• Achieved .55% inventory loss
• Sales increases of 3-7% year on year.
• Developed a team that produced operational goals.
• Implemented first store to go to 24 hr operations putting in place an operational guide for other stores to follow.
• Perfect operational needs such as schedule writing, budget projections, inventory replenishment, and sales advertisement preparation.
Rite Aid Corp.
Buffalo, New York
District Manager (6/91 - 2/94)
Effectively managed 15-20 stores with 200-250 associates. To continuously work with outside vendors to achieve lowest possible cost in order to maximize profits. Effectively control losses with extensive communication with loss prevention.
• Opening of 3 new stores and relocating 4 existing
• Top 10 District Manager 2 years in a row. Achieving goals in Inventory loss, Sales gains of 5-15% or more, profit and loss.
• Develop a team of managers that can adapt to situations and rely on the training to develop a staff to run a profitable unit.
• Maintain communications from corporate to store in order for proper procedures to be put in place and maximize quick results.
• Implement budgets, sales goals, and profit and loss. Store Manager (7/87-6/91)
Successfully take over under-achieving stores and properly staff them with qualified candidates. The result was getting the store in a position for a new manager to succeed.
• Oversee operations to reach goals of 3-5% sales increases. Inventory loss of .75-1.0%,
• Sales volume ranging from 6-10 million yearly. Employing 15-25 employees.
• Training manager
• Organize daily routine for staff in order to reach goals.
• Write schedule to meet weekly budget.
Education: Western International University – Phoenix, Arizona Associates Degree in Business Management 3.54 GPA
References: Available upon request.