Debra Conover

Experience

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  Carter's | OshKosh B'gosh

  Sept 1997 - Oct 2001

  Store Manager

  • Hire, train, and evaluate personnel in sales or marketing establishments, promoting or firing workers when appropriate.• Plan and direct staffing, training, and performance evaluations to develop and control sales and service programs.• Direct and supervise employees engaged in sales, inventory-taking, reconciling cash receipts, or in performing services for customers.• Plan and prepare work schedules and keep records of employees' work schedules and time cards.• Monitor sales activities to ensure that customers receive satisfactory service and quality goods.• Provide customer service by greeting and assisting customers, and responding to customer inquiries and complaints.• Instruct staff on how to handle difficult and complicated sales.• Assign employees to specific duties.• Enforce safety, health, and security rules.• Examine merchandise to ensure that it is correctly priced and displayed and that it functions as advertised.• Plan budgets and authorize payments and merchandise returns.• Perform work activities of subordinates, such as cleaning and organizing shelves and displays and selling merchandise.• Review inventory and sales records to prepare reports for management and budget departments.• Establish and implement policies, goals, objectives, and procedures for their department.• Confer with company officials to develop methods and procedures to increase sales, expand markets, and promote business.• Resolve customer complaints regarding sales and service.• Responsible for P&L of a $1.8 annual store. Show less

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  SHOE SHOW, INC.

  Oct 1999 - Feb 2015

  Inventory Auditor

  • Supported 70+ stores verifying and correcting sales and inventory documents.• Accessed accounting software to record, store and analyze information.• Check figures, postings, and documents for correct entry, mathematical accuracy, and proper codes.• Maintain and update inventory records, filing, mailing and database systems.• Completed scheduled audits for 300+ locations with efficient and accurate approach.• Analyzed audits to uncover and address inaccuracies.• Recorded information, shortages, and discrepancies to keep records current and accurate.• Performed data entry and completed proper paperwork.• Developed process to identify discrepancies. Show less

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  Right Click

  Feb 2013 - Jun 2013

  Intern

  • Analyze user needs and recommend appropriate hardware.• Select hardware and material, assuring compliance with specifications and product requirements.• Assemble and modify existing pieces of equipment to meet special needs.• Store, retrieve, and manipulate data for analysis of system capabilities and requirements.• Specify power supply requirements and configuration, drawing on system performance expectations and design specifications.• Provide training and support to users.• Answer user inquiries regarding computer software or hardware operation to resolve problems.• Enter commands and observe system functioning to verify correct operations and detect errors.• Install and perform minor repairs to hardware, software, or peripheral equipment, following design or installation specifications. Show less

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  3B Supply

  Jul 2015 - Oct 2023

  Purchasing Manager

  • Responsible for all purchasing for three locations.• Wrote standard operating procedures for department.• Used Acctivate and SAP to authorize and monitor purchase orders.• Sourced vendors, built relationships, and negotiated prices.• Solved diverse supply chain problems involving numerous sources, logistics, and scheduling factors.• Performed monthly reconciliation of purchase orders.• Generated reports, documents and analysis in Acctivate and Excel for senior management review.• Identified opportunities to reduce lead times and improve inventory management.• Monitored inventory levels and avoided shortages with timely replenishment of stock.• Collaborated with internal stakeholders to create timely and accurate purchase orders.• Identified and targeted critical procurement issues increasing savings. Show less