Sandy Beeson

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About Sandy Beeson

I am a goal oriented, high energy, and collaborative retail executive with in home selling, specialty store, mass merchandise, and department store background. I specialized in process improvement, people development and operational excellence.>5 years of Design and Sales Director experience for start-up company, Art of Drawers. Built team of designers, developed core team at corporate, and led double to triple digit sales gains year over year during the difficult pandemic years. As company achieved record sales metrics in 2022 and decided to franchise in fall of 2023, I stepped away from the corporate role to focus on designing.>15 years of multi store management with proven track record of success in: driving sales through market analysis and execution of business strategies, managing expenses to deliver on profitability, growing Omni channel processes to deliver nearly 20% of incremental sales volume for enterprise, and implementing asset protection strategies to reduce inventory shortage to below corporate goal. I have opened over 100 stores in multiple states including Puerto Rico, delivering profitable market expansion for company from first year. I sourced and hired store leaders that grew to be District Managers themselves, promoting over 40 managers to higher level executive positions. I held a corporate position between District and Regional Manager level in Central Operations, developing company best practices and procedures to assist an organization in rapid growth mode. I develop partnerships across divisions and functions that enhance speed and quality of deliverables. Led stores in the test market for prototypical devices and functions for Macy's Technology, providing quality feedback to software engineers on end user needs and interfaces as well as hardware selection for potential new devices to use in stores. This technical savviness led to "System Ownership" of a specific sales driving IT process and the supporting equipment for the division. Responsible for system adoption of end users in stores- Drive profitable sales, as high as 60% comp, with eye to maintaining gross margin. Peak volume of $440MM- Managed a $61MM expense budget including payroll for more than 1,600 employees- Delivered incremental enterprise sales through fulfilling dotcom orders of $63MM annually- Managed over 2.4 million square feet of facility, with up to $6MM of capital construction projects annually.