Articulate Manager driven to succeed. Strategic planning and client relationship management expert. Manager with more than 10 years of experience planning, developing and implementing supply chain and inventory management. Experienced manager with excellent client and project management skills. Action-oriented with strong ability to communicate effectively with technology, executive, and business audiences. Leadership and People management skills by increasing productivity by 5% over the course of several months. Profit and Loss Management, decreased inventory shrinkage over a two year period from a .75 to .45. Business and Project Management, lead the annual event during slow economic times and was able to sustain sales by a .05% increase. Strategy and tactical development, lead several teams through daily, weekly, and monthly processes of moving freight from the back to the floor. Utilized social media to broadcast sales and products. Relationship management with stakeholders and vendors to work together for each agenda. Change Management, keeping up with KPI's, social media, and customer buy habits.

COMPANY	POSITION HELD	DATES WORKED
(Confidential)	Co Manager	9/2001 - Present
McDonalds	Assistant Manager	8/1997 - 5/2001

SCHOOL	MAJOR	YEAR	DEGREE
Montreat College	Leadership and Management	2011	Master Degree
University of Phoenix	Business	2009	Bachelor Degree
Northwest Arkansas Community College	Business	2006	Associate Degree
Gaston College	GED	1993	High School/GED Degree

TYPE	TITLE	URL	DESCRIPTION
Book	Who Moved My Cheese	media url	Great short read about change.
Book	Gung Ho	media url	About going in and changing a department at a time, and whole company.
Website	Dawn Long Linked In	media url	Linked In profile

Highlights:

Conducted analysis to address compliance which led to increased fresh area production. Promoted to manage business operations of $53 Million annual volume store; oversee compliance issues, labor relations for 50 employees and food safety training and compliance. Additional responsibilities include: scheduling, conducting evaluations, managing customer concerns and freight flow planning. Appointed by Store Manager to lead Event (day after Thanksgiving sale); drove .05% increase in 2009 over LY with $300,980 in single day sales. Maintained near equal sales results in 2010 despite poor national and local economic conditions. Drove 1% increase in overall store sales and 5% increase in Infant Department sales (2009-2010); championed initiative to bring in higher profit margin items and create key focus through strategic placement on end caps.

Companies I like:

Premium Retail Services, Acosta, Crossmark, Hallmark Cards, Advantage Sales and Marketing, Jack Link's Beef Jerky, Target, Kmart, Emerson, Mar's, Samsung Electronics America, Inc., Mizkan Group Company, Habor Freight, Maurice Sporting Goods, Mondelez, Hanes, Reynolds Consumer Products Inc, FlashBanc, General Mills Inc., Sarah Lee, McDonalds, Sonic Drive In, Firestone, Staples, Shell, BP, Kimberly Clark, Clorox, Hobby Lobby, Red Cross, Salvation Army, Wal-Mart Foundation, Larson Farm and Lawn Inc., Johnson and Johnson, Unilever, Star Kist, ConArga Foods, Annie's, Frito Lay, Lowe's, University of Phoenix, Best Buy,

Hiring
inventory management
coaching
supply chain management
leadership
ordering
visual merchandise
modulars
big box
strategic planning
change management
customer satisfaction
food safety
Microsoft office
Retail link
event planning
merchandising
change management
project planning
shrink reduction
Excel
Power Point
Word
Training
Retail Link
Profit and Loss
Change Management
Leadership
Self Motivated
Planner
Merchandising
Modular Resets
Customer Service

• Supply Chain
• retail link
• Inventory Management
• Operations manager
• profit and loss
• strategy and Tactical
• coaching
• relationship management
• team building
• visual merchandising
• big box retail
• performance indicators
• Analytical
• Buying
• Attention to Detail
• Competitive Analysis
• Communication
• Customer Relations
• Customer Focus
• Sales
• Category Management
• Inventory
• Inventory Control
• Management
• Leadership
• Plan O Grams
• Modulars
• Microsoft Office
• Excel
• V-look up
• Pivot Table
• Powerpoint
• Merchandise Presentation
• Merchandise Control
• Merchandising
• Payroll
• point of system sales
• Planning
• Event Planning
• Marketing
• Pricing
• Pricing Markdowns
• Replenishing
• Product Knowledge
• Product Rotation
• Problem Solving
• Sales Goals
• Team work
• Training
• Co Manager
• Facebook
• Linked In
• Trends
• Big Box
• Food
• Fresh
• Homelines
• Apparel
• Hardlines
• consumables
• Product Sourcing
• Business Planning
• Self Motivated
• Career Change
• Change Managment
• Project Manager
• Replishment Strategies
• Replishment Tactics
• Seasonal Strategies
• Internal Partners
• Forecast
• Develop data
• Analyze data
• Opportunity risks
• Category insights
• Retail Analyst
• Retail Operations Manager
• director of retail sales
• Leads team
• distribution channel
• trade shows
• Master's Degree
• Bachelors Degree
• Increased Revenue
• execution in retail development
• consumer trends
• outlook
• word
• SKU
• Strong verbal and written skills
• Master's in Leadership and Management
• Bentonville
• Rogers
• Arkansas
• Scorecards
• KPI's
• Key Performance Indicators

Promoted to manage business operations of $100 Million annual volume store; oversee compliance issues, labor relations for 200 employees. Additional responsibilities include: conducting evaluations, managing associate and customer concerns and freight flow planning. Selling skills and large product knowledge. Team member who works to deliver to my customers, use the competition to see what their customers buy. Analyze category assortments and build merchandise displays to increase sells and to show customer that we care different products. Lead several teams to increase sales which involves in ordering correct seasonal merchandise, order to keep in stock, and identify opportunities to develop lagging product sells. Monitored multiple databases to keep track of all company inventory