Zakary Potter
Bloomington
Summary
Dynamic sales professional with a proven track record at My Toy Chest, excelling in relationship building and inventory management. Adept at achieving sales targets and enhancing efficiency, I leverage strong communication skills to deliver effective sales presentations and foster brand loyalty. Committed to driving performance and exceeding customer expectations.
Experienced with sales team leadership, customer relationship management, and strategic planning. Utilizes sales strategies to drive revenue growth and improve client satisfaction. Track record of effective communication and team collaboration, ensuring consistent achievement of sales goals.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Assistant Sales Manager
My Toy Chest
11.2024 - Current
- Organized racks and shelves to maintain store visual appeal, engage customers, and promote specific merchandise.
- Handled cash transactions efficiently while adhering to company cash handling policies, ensuring accuracy in all financial exchanges.
- Built relationships with customers to encourage repeat business.
- Managed returns, exchanges and refunds in accordance with store policy.
- Duties include, visual merchandiser, sales associate, keyholder, store opener and closer, re-stocker, experience in theft prevention.
- Providing assistance, recommendations, and knowledge of various products and services, varying in trending and older style products.
- Communication skills, including sales skills, engaging in employer-customer relationships to better sales, interest, and brand loyalty.
- Restocking of products, beverages, and consumables daily.
- Experience often running the store single-handedly.
- Knowledge of register.
- Experience collecting daily earnings.
- Up keeping all daily cleaning routines.
- Listing and labeling prices of products.
Fulfillment /General Merchandising Expert
Super Target
10.2021 - 08.2024
- Self-motivated, with a strong sense of personal responsibility.
- Worked effectively in fast-paced environments.
- Skilled at working independently and collaboratively in a team environment.
- Proven ability to learn quickly and adapt to new situations.
- Fulfillment: Working as accurate and as quick as possible to accomplish orders for store pickup, and online orders, while being on a set amount of time to complete the order(s).
- When no fulfillment team lead was present, as a senior fulfillment member I would have to sometimes have to take charge, coordinating and managing the workload and orders with other team members to meet early morning goals, setting appropriate break times in addition.
- Coordination with a team in a timely manner to find and locate an item(s).
- Labeling, then separating and assigning products to individual bags and stowing in specific set locations, additional items include chemical-based products, bulky items, food, and temperature specific items while under time-based goals.
- Occasionally, if the store was shorthanded or was in need of help I filled in the role of a general merchandising expert, this would include pushing products from the receiving department and pushing those products to the floor, if there was too much product for the floor location, I would have to backstock, and breaking down the boxes afterwards and discarding the cardboard into the baler.
- Other roles would include zoning aisles and making sure products are presentable for guests.
- On occasion I would fill in for the grocery merchandising team pushing usually non-perishable products to the floor, backstock, push priorities, and zone products similar to general merchandising.
- Experience swiftly scanning, packing, and labeling online orders to be shipped.
- Experience being on my feet most of the day quickly moving, while also being able to lift and bend to pick up heavy items 45 pounds plus.
Loader/Gardner Associate
Pike Nurseries
07.2020 - 01.2021
- Loaded and unloaded pallets quickly and safely, managing work load priorities.
- Contributed to overall warehouse operations by assisting with various tasks as needed, fostering a collaborative work environment.
- Maintained a safe work environment with proper handling techniques and adherence to safety protocols.
- Lifted and slid ceramic pots, bags of mulch and stone, trees, and plants weighing up to 100+ pounds, with experience of dollies, and pallet jacks to transport items.
- Coordinated with my coworkers to water various different plants multiple times a day while also tending the need of the various types of plants each day.
- Experience working inside and outside in hot and humid weather ranging 100+ degrees.
- Experienced multiple job roles, such as sales associate, loader, cashier, gardener, assisting in presentation displays.
Education
No Degree - Business Management
Illinois State University
Normal, IL08-2028
No Degree - Business Management
Lanier Technical College
Gainesville, GA06-2025
High School Diploma -
Cambridge High School
Milton, GA05-2019
Skills
- Goals and performance
- Team building and development
- Sales metrics evaluation
- Achieving sales targets
- Inventory management expertise
- Relationship building and management
- Efficiency enhancement
- Effective sales presentations
Accomplishments
- Fastest employee to be promoted twice with six months.
- Highest selling store employee.
Languages
English
Native or Bilingual
Interests
- Enjoy participating in walking for overall physical and mental well-being
- World History
- Rare currency
- Volunteer Work
Timeline
Assistant Sales Manager
My Toy Chest
11.2024 - Current
Fulfillment /General Merchandising Expert
Super Target
10.2021 - 08.2024
Loader/Gardner Associate
Pike Nurseries
07.2020 - 01.2021
No Degree - Business Management
Illinois State University
No Degree - Business Management
Lanier Technical College
High School Diploma -
Cambridge High School
My Toy Chest - Fastest multi-promoted employee
- Consistent attention to detail
- Driven to improving stores sales, and consumer satisfaction.
- Goes above and beyond to make sure customers leave with a smile
- Highest selling sales associate in the shortest amount of time.
- Positive reviews written because of the experience they received why while helped at My Toy Chest.
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