Raina Ridgwayin Remembrance

About Raina Ridgwayin Remembrance

Recruit, hire, and train Leaders on all aspects of the business. • Identified talent within and implemented training plans to create bench strength for the District. • Exceeded budget goals while maintaining control of expenses. • Focused on Gross Margin improvement through merchandising, effective markdown implementation, and selling skills of sales team. • Effectively scheduled up to 250 employees on a weekly basis, had the additional responsibility of being district Labor Expert on 2 separate occasions. • Led and developed up to 18 managers at a time with over 10 managers promoted to General Managers in the region. • Led 3 company store restructuring efforts, I have been involved in defining job titles and staff roles for the new structures. My store has been a place where we have tried new roles out and given feedback to shape the structure roll out on a larger scale. • Planned monthly traffic driving events for Westside District to drive sales and increase Clientele Lists. • Facilitated Styling Workshops in partnership with District Visual Mgr for stores in the LA Region. • Utilized strong operational skills to ensure Operational Audit Compliance in all locations. • Ability to put effective systems in place around operations, replenishment, scheduling, training, and traffic driving. • Experience in working in and managing multiple business across the Gap Brand including Adult, Body, Kids, baby and Maternity all in one location. • Highly solution oriented and have been praised on performance reviews for my intellectual horsepower. • Planned and led corporate visits with a high level of comfort around upper management. • Effective delegation skills with the belief that it is most effective to work as a team and delegation can be a great way to develop people.

Experience

1. General Manager

   PetSmart

   Mar 2014 — Present

Education

• UC Riverside

  Bachelor's degree, Philosophy

  1996 — 2000

Skills

• Team Leadership
• Business Operations
• Training
• Pos
• Visual Merchandising
• Microsoft Word
• Performance Management
• Inventory
• Store Management
• Stock Management
• Inventory Management
• Income Statement
• Forecasting
• Teamwork
• Window Displays
• Styling
• Marketing
• Fashion
• Management
• Planograms
• Interviews
• Loss Prevention
• Recruiting
• Profit
• Customer Satisfaction
• Time Management
• Multi-Unit Management
• Inventory Control
• Microsoft Excel
• Merchandising
• Trend
• Store Operations
• New Hire Training
• Event Planning
• Sales
• People Development
• Succession Planning
• Apparel
• Big Box
• Shrinkage