Retail Manager Cover Letter

Roberta W. Burks
3922 Lake Road. Maple Shade, NJ 08052
Phone: 609-413-1094. Email:  robertaretail@hotmail.com

August 2, 2010

Mr. Gene L. Lee
Manager-HR
ABC Wholesale Corporation
700 W. El Camino Suite 100
Mountain View
California 90040
USA

Dear Mr. Lee

The retail management certification from one of the leading fashion and retail management schools of USA i.e. The Arts Institute, Phoenix coupled with 3+ years of an encompassing work experience of working as a retail manager at XYZ stores with global presence surely adds weight to my candidacy. The so far exciting journey has been a result of my outgoing, customer-service oriented approaches and customization of services in accordance with the local geography. In addition to it complete command over retail management information system also worked for me to minimize the operations cost plus expediting the customer services. It led to further expanding the goodwill of the XYZ stores apart from expanding number of customers’ base. Thus have been consistently achieving sales targets as per the pre-determined schedule without deviation so far which became feasible as a result of following of an exceptional set of retail management strategies.

Few other demonstrated retail manager strengths are as follows:

• Have been handling day-to-day retail manager roles and responsibilities perfectly thereby taking gamut of retail management process. It includes analyses of sales figures and forecasting future sales volumes to maximize profits to resolving health and safety, legal and security issues on the basis of its priority in the priority list.
• Keeping in view that fashion is perishable remain committed to selling off the stock in a particular season through implementing different action plans. Some activities directed towards same include liaising with local schools, newspapers and the community in general.
• In response to the growing tendency of seeing is believing and thus the growing relevance of good presentation remain in forefront in adopting different visual merchandising ideas creatively.
• Have played a key role in revising the opening hours of the store to make sure its phenomenal performance in the local market.
• Bearing in mind the importance of knowledge of current to prospective customers as much as a key to business competitive intelligence, have been pursuing to gather as much as relevant information possible. Furthermore monitoring of local competitors’ retail management roadmap has had also supported me in increasing our market share in the local market for the last two years in a row.

Thus the above mentioned illustrated retail management core skills are sure to be business-driving for ABC Wholesale Corporation. Thus I’ll be calling you next week to answer all your questions concerning my candidature apart from scheduling a meeting to additionally draw your kind attention to the congruity of your job requirements with my professional strengths. Of course, you may directly contact me anytime as per your suitability.

Sincerely
Roberta W. Burks