Sebastian Geraci
Brampton,Ontario
Summary
Highly organized and passionate Store Management Professional with 15+ years of experience in supervising store personnel, coordinating store events, and managing daily operations. I have a strong passion for leading colleagues to be successful and to serve our customers with the best customer experience as possible! I am a great team leader and am able to work in a fast paced environment with exceeding company goals and targets at all times. I believe I would be a great addition to any company and I look forward of having the opportunity to share my knowledge and experiences to grow within your great company.
Overview
2025
2025
years of professional experience
Work History
General Manager
Golf Town
01.2024 - Current
- Responsible for writing schedules for all staff
- Responsible for the day to day operation of the entire store
- Responsible for all aspects of health and safety (conducting store audits and hosting meetings)
- Responsible for all aspects of loss prevention (conducting monthly audits)
- Responsible for daily and weekly sales targets
- Responsible for ensuring we deliver on our shrink targets
- Responsible for ensuring we deliver on our weekly labour targets
- Responsible for daily customer conversion rates are met
- Responsible for ensuring weekly ad changes are completed (merchandising and signage)
- Responsible for ensuring monthly apparel table flips are completed to ensure we are keeping up with ad sales and seasonal changes
- Responsible for ensuring weekly changes are completed in footwear to reflect both ad changes and new products arriving
- Responsible for colleagues engagement and retention
- Responsible for all store new hires (conducting interviews and also on-boarding any new hires)
- Responsible to ensure all new products are displayed on the sales floor on a timely manner in all areas of the store (clubs, apparel, consumables, balls and footwear)
General Manager
Canadian Tire #175
03.2022 - 11.2023
- Company Overview: [Scarborough]
- Responsible for the day to day operation of the entire store service auto shop included
- Responsible for directing, leading and collaborating with my two store managers
- Responsible for achieving owners sales targets
- Responsible for achieving owners labour targets
- Responsible for achieving owners profit targets
- Responsible for achieving company Orr audits [operational retail ready]
- Responsible for delivering sales, labour and merchandising targets to department managers on a weekly basis
- Promoting great customer service throughout the store
- Working with various organizations such as the police and community services for jumpstart charity
- [Scarborough]
Store Manager
Zehrs #558
10.2016 - 10.2021
- Company Overview: (Bolton)
- Responsible for overseeing the district while covering for vacations
- Responsible for reporting our district financials during our banner pnl meeting to our group director and other district managers while covering for my Dm's vacations
- Part of the districts team that go and assist other stores for executive visits and also providing support to our identified struggling stores
- Executed group director visits throughout our district while covering for my Dm's vacations
- Appointed blue culture champion for the district
- Responsible for passing Lar audits
- Responsible for making sure we pass our company steritech audits
- Responsible for meeting company availability targets
- Responsible for maintaining company standards in store conditions
- Responsible for increasing tell it as it is survey scores
- Responsible for achieving a minimal score of 90% in mystery shop scores
- Responsible for maintaining health and safety standards within the store
- Responsible for maintaining food safety standards within the store
- Responsible for hitting labour targets
- Responsible for hitting company shrink targets
- Responsible for meeting company sales targets
- Responsible for meeting company ebit targets
- Became a big part of the community working with various groups but the biggest being the Caledon Opp and supporting them through multiple functions and events
- Set up a clean our local park for the store where all our department managers went to our local park here in Bolton and cleaned up all the garbage
- Became a lead for the district manager in multiple work streams to help support him in his many job tasks
- I am a part of every company annual meeting with all banners present where I am fortunate to present the annual awards to all the year's winners and I also always to do a little comedy roast during the awards for a few cheap laughs
- (Bolton)
Store Manager
Zehrs #505
- Company Overview: (Bradford)
- Was a huge part of the community and took part personally in many events and was able to elevate our store and banner in these events with a strong presents from the store events such as carrot fest and even more we were able to make Ribfest to bigger heights bringing in over 30,000 people once I took over
- Worked with city council for over a year and finally was able to get approved to get a local transit bus stop right in front of the store
- Was a spokesperson for the company for the Pan Am games where the touch came through Bradford and I spoke at the event with the touch in front of 8000
- (Bradford)
Assistant Store Manager
Loblaw Great Food
- Worked on a special project under a consulting company [Montana Vista] and reporting directly to Galen and the senior management team
- We were tasked with coming up with new ways to go to market with fresh and innovating ideas and new products
- Responsible for improving sales growth in the fresh departments through merchandizing product availability and coaching of staff
- Built personal relationships with customers through interactions such as helping them find product, asking them if there are any items we don't carry that they would want etc…
- Responsible for writing the schedule for the other two assistants in the store
- Responsible for coaching, mentoring, and working a long side all department managers to improve their own personal skill sets
- Responsible for developing and implementing plans to increase sales, customer counts, IPM, merchandising plans, and margins within the fresh departments
- Responsible for developing and implementing plans to decrease our shrink through reduction programs and merchandising plans
- Key member in helping the Montana Vista group help Loblaw grow in such departments as produce, bakery, seafood and meat
- Worked very closely with Montana Vista to develop a high level of customer service culture within our store and the Great Food banner
- Responsible for planning and executing a department manager meeting
- Review P and L statements to see the development and progress of all departments
- Review Labour Management reports and develop plans of action to increase and or meet labour targets
- Review ARCP reports and develop merchandising plans and order practices to decrease the amount of reductions in all fresh departments
- Responsible for set up and performing store inventories
- Responsible for reviewing transmittals on a weekly basis to ensure all departments were correctly charged by all vendors
- We worked under a special project that reported directly to Galen Weston and the executive board on new ways to improve the Market division and we were a big part of how 'Back to Best' came from
Education
Ontario Secondary School Diploma - six Ontario Academic Credits
Father Michael McGivney
Bachelor of business Management - Candidate
Ryerson Polytechnic University
Skills
- Strong leadership skills
- Excellent communication and public relations skills
- Ability to work in a high stressed environment
- A very quick learner to new material
- Work well in a team environment
- Ability to prioritize a heavy work load
Languages
Italian
Elementary
Extracurricular Activities
Active participant of the Ontario Ball Hockey Association Voted captain for all teams played for Captain of high school volleyball team for five consecutive years Appointed class representative in a Ryerson course
References
Available upon request
Timeline
General Manager
Golf Town
01.2024 - Current
General Manager
Canadian Tire #175
03.2022 - 11.2023
Store Manager
Zehrs #558
10.2016 - 10.2021
Ontario Secondary School Diploma - six Ontario Academic Credits
Father Michael McGivney
Bachelor of business Management - Candidate
Ryerson Polytechnic University
Store Manager
Zehrs #505
Assistant Store Manager
Loblaw Great Food
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