Retail Manager Resume Example (2026 Guide)
Retail Manager resume example
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Patrick Underwood
[email protected] • (555) 015-8826 • Columbus, OH • linkedin.com/in/patrickunderwood
Professional Summary
Retail Store Manager with 16 years of store leadership in big-box home improvement, general merchandise and sporting goods retail, the last six running a $31M store. Leads 115 associates, three assistant store managers and six department managers, owns the store P&L, labor plan and inventory results, and finished 2025 at 106% of sales plan with shrink at 1.1% of sales against a 1.8% company average. Turned around an underperforming store by fixing staffing, in-stock rates and service standards before adding new programs. Develops leaders from within, with eight associates promoted to supervisor or assistant manager since 2020.
Core Skills
- Store Operations: Multi-department store management, opening and closing procedures, buy online pick up in store (BOPIS), visual merchandising, planogram compliance, loss prevention
- Financial Management: P&L ownership, sales planning, labor budgeting, payroll control, margin and markdown management, operating expense control
- Inventory & Shrink: Inventory management, cycle counts, annual physical inventory, shrink reduction, receiving and backroom standards, in-stock reporting
- People Leadership: Hiring, onboarding, scheduling, coaching, performance reviews, succession planning, associate engagement, seasonal staffing
- Customer Experience: Net Promoter Score (NPS), service standards, complaint resolution, pro and contractor programs, loyalty sign-ups
- Systems: UKG (Kronos) workforce scheduling, Oracle Retail, point-of-sale systems, Power BI store dashboards, Microsoft Excel
Education & Certification
- Specialization in Operations Management; coursework in Retail Management, Supply Chain, Managerial Accounting and Organizational Behavior.
- Covers retail shrink, investigations, safety and loss prevention program management.
Work Experience
Store ManagerMay 2020 – PresentPrairie Ridge Home Center, Columbus, OH
- Grew annual store sales from $26.4M to $31.2M in five years, finishing 2025 at 106% of plan, by rebuilding the pro desk and contractor program that now drives 28% of sales.
- Reduced shrink from 2.4% to 1.1% of sales by moving high-theft items to locked fixtures, auditing receiving daily and training associates on loss prevention routines with the district LP manager.
- Own the store P&L and a $3.9M annual payroll budget, building weekly schedules in UKG to sales forecasts and closing labor within 1% of plan in 17 of the last 20 quarters.
- Raised the in-stock rate from 93% to 98% by giving each department manager cycle count ownership and resetting replenishment minimums for the top 1,500 SKUs with the regional inventory team.
- Improved store NPS from 41 to 63 by staffing aisles to peak traffic, coaching associates on a five-step service standard and calling back every detractor within 48 hours.
- Lead six department managers and three assistant store managers through weekly business reviews against sales, margin, labor and shrink targets.
- Promoted eight associates to supervisor or assistant manager since 2020 through development plans built with each manager, with no first-year management turnover in 2025.
- Launched buy online, pick up in store in 2021 and grew it to 1,800 orders a month with a 96% on-time pickup rate by dedicating a team and a backroom staging zone.
Store ManagerMarch 2016 – April 2020Greenfield Market Goods, Dayton, OH
- Moved a store ranked 38th of 42 in the region to 9th by 2019, growing sales 14% to $12.6M by fixing in-stock gaps, hiring a full management team and resetting the sales floor.
- Cut annual associate turnover from 78% to 46% for a team of 48 by moving to schedules posted two weeks out, structured onboarding and monthly one-on-ones.
- Lowered shrink from 3.1% to 1.7% of sales by adding high-risk item audits, receiving checks and refund controls at the registers.
- Held payroll at 9.8% of sales against a 10.5% target while extending weekend hours, by scheduling to hourly traffic counts.
- Scored 98% on the 2019 company operations audit and passed every annual physical inventory and safety audit during the four years.
Assistant Store ManagerJuly 2010 – February 2016Fairway Sporting Goods, Columbus, OH
- Ran the hardlines and footwear departments with $5M in combined annual sales, meeting or beating department plan in five of six years.
- Built weekly schedules for 35 associates and ran opening and closing procedures, cash handling and bank deposits as manager on duty.
- Led three annual physical inventories with variance under 0.5% by preparing counts, backroom standards and recount procedures in advance.
- Hired and trained 40 seasonal associates for each holiday season, keeping checkout wait times under five minutes on peak days.
- Completed the company’s management trainee program in 2010 and was chosen in 2014 to host training for new assistant managers in the district.
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Tailor my resumeWhy This Resume Works
- The summary gives store size in dollars and people ($31M, 115 associates, six department managers) and the two results a district manager checks first: sales against plan and shrink.
- Shrink appears as a rate with a baseline in both store manager roles ("from 2.4% to 1.1% of sales", "from 3.1% to 1.7%"), showing the result was repeated, not a one-off.
- P&L and labor ownership are explicit, with the payroll budget size and how closely it was held, matching the "P&L" and "scheduling" keywords in retail manager postings.
- The Greenfield Market Goods turnaround ("ranked 38th of 42 in the region to 9th") is a concrete story a hiring manager can ask about in an interview.
- People development is measured, with eight associates promoted since 2020, which is what multi-unit leaders hire store managers to do.
Common Resume Mistakes
- No sales or shrink metrics.
- Missing P&L or team keywords.
- Generic "managed store" without scale.
Keywords Recruiters Look For
- Retail
- Store management
- Sales
- P&L
- Scheduling
- Inventory
- Team
- Shrink
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