Mary Mebus
Dallas,TX
Summary
Accomplished and top-performing professional with substantial experience overseeing multi-store operations and personnel to achieve targets with keen focus on advancing corporate strategic mission and vision.
Track record of success in multi-store management within both big-box and specialty retail environments. Collaborative leadership style; expert at recruiting, directing, and influencing teams to ensure high-performance levels. Proven history of driving sales growth, optimizing payroll, maximizing gross margins, and surpassing KPIs. Skilled in overseeing payroll, scheduling, and P&L maintenance, with commitment to operational excellence. Articulate communicator continually focused on building and nurturing professional relationships at all levels. Outgoing personality coupled with commitment to fostering positive and productive work environment.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
Work History
Regional Manager
Jackson Vaughn
02.2025 - Current
- Led regional teams to achieve sales goals and enhance service experience. Year to date sales up 28% over LY.
- Developed strategic plans to optimize resource allocation across multiple locations.
- Mentored staff on best practices, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
- Analyzed market trends to drive competitive strategies and increase market share.
- Enhanced team performance by providing regular coaching, training, and performance feedback to staff members.
- Collaborated with executive leadership to establish long-term objectives, drive growth initiatives, and align regional efforts with corporate goals.
- Promoted a culture of continuous improvement through ongoing process reviews, employee engagement initiatives, and open channels of communication.
- Supervised various locations, enforcing high-quality standards of operation.
- Established team priorities, maintained schedules and monitored performance.
- Cultivated positive rapport with fellow employees to boost company morale and promote employee retention.
- Identified and communicated customer needs to supply chain capacity and quality teams.
- Developed store visit checklist.
- Gross profit up 19% during tenure.
General Manager
Barnes & Noble Education, Southern Methodist University
05.2004 - 09.2024
- Oversee budget implementations, conduct employee reviews, facilitate training, manage schedules, and skillfully handle contract negotiations.
- Build and sustain robust professional relationships with customers, home office partners, campus partners, vendors, and store staff. Ensure high levels of performance by providing effective supervision and mentorship to team of up to 50 employees.
- Distinguished as Regional Visual Lead for portfolio encompassing over 30 stores, while ensuring appealing brand image.
- Elevated operational efficiency and productivity by managing budgets, accounts, costs and maintaining margin of over 41%.
- Successfully directed end-to-end aspects of $9M store, showcasing strong leadership and strategic decision-making.
- Spearheaded payroll and consistently maintained payroll below 7%, while demonstrating adept financial oversight.
- Led comprehensive human resources functions, including hiring, scheduling, training, and payroll oversight.
- Accomplished remarkable increase in clothing sales from $800k to over $3M during my tenure.
- Achieved substantial accomplishment by quadrupling general merchandise sales during my tenure.
- Contributed to successful opening of over 10 new stores during my tenure.
District Manager
Sur La Table
03.2003 - 05.2004
- Fostered continuous growth and skill enhancement within leadership team through implementation of annual regional store manager training and development sessions. Cultivated collaborative and hardworking leadership team by identifying, developing, and promoting talented employees. Fostered positive and productive relationships with store and field leadership. Boosted sales by optimizing in-store merchandising and monitoring inventory availability. Set benchmark for best practices in sales/customer service.
- Enforced high-quality standards of operation and attained sales figures of $18M by leading operations across 13 locations.
- Attained 3% increase in overall regional sales, showcasing strategic and impactful approach to business development.
- Directed successful launch of new store in downtown Chicago, while showcasing effective leadership and management skills.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Business Management
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZSkills
- Multi-Store Management
- Strategic Planning & Execution
- Employee Development & Training
- Payroll Processing & Optimization
- Business/Revenue Growth
- Team Leadership & Supervision
- Sales Generation & Optimization
- Inventory Control & Management
- Gross Margin Maximization
- Strategic Decision-Making
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Visual Merchandising
- Retail Operations Oversight
- Leadership skills
- Customer service
Websites, Portfolios, Profiles
LinkedIn Profile
Timeline
Regional Manager
Jackson Vaughn
02.2025 - Current
General Manager
Barnes & Noble Education, Southern Methodist University
05.2004 - 09.2024
District Manager
Sur La Table
03.2003 - 05.2004
Bachelor of Science - Business Management
Arizona State University