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Charlotte Hayes
Retail Operations Manager with experience in store performance, inventory accuracy, and customer service. Practical work includes Store operations, Inventory control, Visual merchandising, POS reporting.
Experience
AT&T
Abilene, Texas · United States
Retail Operations Manager
Mar 2022 - now
- Reviewed sales by shift and product category, then used coaching observations to distinguish product-knowledge gaps from low footfall; assigned practice scenarios rather than identical targets to every associate.
- Created training for opening, returns, and customer escalations; demonstrated shift leadership by checking handover notes and observing whether new associates could complete each procedure without prompting.
- Compared sales and stock availability by shift, coached associates on observed customer conversations, and reconciled cash and stock exceptions before the daily close.
- Managed the weekly store-opening checklist using register and inventory exceptions, reducing missing price labels from 23 to 5 in the follow-up merchandising audit.
- Built sales coaching cards from observed customer conversations and tested them in shift training, enabling new associates to explain plan exclusions before checkout.
Nordstrom
Seattle · United States
Retail Operations Manager
Jan 2019 - Feb 2022
- Rewrote opening and closing checklists for 3 shifts. Kept the improvement stable through the follow-up review.
- Investigated a stock discrepancy using sales, return and delivery records, corrected the count with a supervisor, and checked replenishment so the adjustment did not create a second shortage.
- Checked a promotion change against till prices and shelf labels before opening, corrected conflicting prices with the supervisor, and briefed the team on the approved response to customer queries.
Selected project
Retail Operations — independent case study
Project owner
Feb 2024 - Jun 2024
- Introduced cycle counts for high-variance categories twice each week
- Created synthetic sales, returns and stock records for a store shift, reconciled the closing balance, and separated a receiving error from a genuine replenishment need before drafting the next order.
- Prepared a shift guide with a return exception, cash discrepancy and customer escalation; checked that each scenario identified the permitted staff action and the point requiring supervisor approval.
- Owned the mock store audit using pricing and stock scenarios, resolved an incorrect shelf label and completed a shift-opening checklist with explicit service checks.
Education
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington · United States
B.S. Business Administration
Sep 2013 - Jun 2017
Relevant coursework: Financial accounting, statistics, operations management, organizational behavior
Skills
Role expertise
Store operations · Inventory control · Visual merchandising · POS reporting · Shift leadership · Customer recovery
Publications
- Published a personal retail practice note using the mock-store findings, explaining merchandising choices, customer explanations and the evidence needed before changing a sales routine.


