Anthony Ramirez
Downey
Summary
An experienced and invested leader seeking a position that values interpersonal skills and strong talent assessment.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
Work History
ASSISTANT STORE MANAGER
SEPHORA, THE GROVE
06.2022 - Current
- Assist in leading, coaching, and developing a strong team of 80+ beauty advisors to engage, teach, and sell to deliver strong financial results of $26.5M in sales in 2023
- Lead store hiring events, attracting 100+ candidates per session, acting as a district liaison to assist in staffing 11 additional Sephora stores in the Los Angeles area
- Assist in leading a team of 80+ beauty advisors through a paradigm shift of behaviors in order to create behaviors that live to achieve strong KPI/store objectives. Modeling and coaching the way to achieve strong results
- Oversee store brand partnerships and events, working with brand executives to coordinate, plan, and execute in- store events and founder personal appearances. Building strong relationships and assisting in delivering 700+ store events, resulting in $1.4M in store sales
- Conduct performance reviews throughout a team of 15-20 direct reports, managing employee development and providing ongoing feedback
- Assist in maintaining inventory and operational excellence through oversight of store operations
- Assist in ensuring shrink is minimized through accurate and consistent reporting, resulting in additional headcount of in-store loss prevention investigator
CO GENERAL MANAGER
ULTA BEAUTY
08.2021 - 05.2022
- Achieve store budget and goals, and positive comparative (year-over-year results)
- Own and react to guest experience and loyalty program-related visit results
- Analyze reporting to develop and implement growth strategies
- Create synergy between retail and salon operations
- Attract, hire, retain and development of top talent utilizing LinkedIn/ICIMS
- Participate in succession planning
- Conduct all new hire onboarding and orientations
- Performance management of peer leadership as well as associate performance
- Write and deliver performance reviews, calculating annual merit compensation
- Operational compliance, training, licensing, and local regulations throughout Covid
- Loss prevention and inventory management, ensuring weekly cycle counts
- Strong vendor partnerships in planning monthly corporate events to drive sales initiatives.
HUMAN RESOURCE EXECUTIVE TEAM LEADER & DISTRICT SUPPORT LEADER
TARGET
01.2015 - 01.2019
- Utilize annual engagement surveys to create action plans that advise our executive team on ways to sustain improvement
- Partner with Store Director and District Business Partner to determine store priorities and align the executive team on financial goals
- Analyze store metrics to manage payroll and performance management
- Foster an adaptive culture by leading the team through a paradigm shift
- Served as acting store manager on a rotating basis, opening and closing the store, planning out daily routines and ensuring optimal execution
- Plan quarterly staffing goals based upon prior applicant flow, hiring history and payroll forecast reports
- Assess leadership movement based upon succession planning and staffing needs.
OPERATIONS TEAM LEADER
TARGET
01.1999 - 02.2017
- Minimize markdown liability through timely planning and execution of store visuals
- Execute weekly schedules to support workload execution and promote a guest centric culture
- Maintain sales floor brand by following up with store teams
- Drive shortage culture through partnerships with assets protection leaders
- Promote a performance management culture by holding team members accountable when expectations were not fulfilled.
HUMAN RESOURCE TEAM LEADER
TARGET
07.2010 - 01.2015
- Emphasis on talent acquisition for a $100M+ store
- Assess engagement by hosting one-on-one chat sessions and utilizing results from conversations to course correct where necessary
- Plan and execute mass hiring event for new format store in Downtown Los Angeles
- Manage four direct human resource team members which included distributing workload and performance management
- Fostered a storewide learning culture of effective scheduling by leveraging and developing HR team to provide continuous support and feedback.
Education
DIPLOMA -
SAN GABRIEL HIGH SCHOOL
01.1997
Skills
- Deliver clear and concise messages
- Active listener
- Motivate the team by assessing needs
- Act as a consultant to immediate and district peers
- Exemplify strong emotional intelligence
- Approachable and resilient
Timeline
ASSISTANT STORE MANAGER
SEPHORA, THE GROVE
06.2022 - Current
CO GENERAL MANAGER
ULTA BEAUTY
08.2021 - 05.2022
HUMAN RESOURCE EXECUTIVE TEAM LEADER & DISTRICT SUPPORT LEADER
TARGET
01.2015 - 01.2019
HUMAN RESOURCE TEAM LEADER
TARGET
07.2010 - 01.2015
OPERATIONS TEAM LEADER
TARGET
01.1999 - 02.2017
DIPLOMA -
SAN GABRIEL HIGH SCHOOL
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