Gabe Munro

Current

• Planning & Allocation Analyst at Ultimate Electronics

Past

• Regional Operations & Communications Manager at Ultimate Electronics
• Sales/General Manager at OfficeMax
• Credit Manager at Ultimate Electronics

• Operations Analyst at Ultimate Electronics
• Operations Manager at Ultimate Electronics
• New Market Recruiter at Ultimate Electronics

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Education

• University of Minnesota

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Industry

Retail

Gabe Munro’s Summary

Planning and Allocation Analyst on the merchandising team for Ultimate Electronics, a regional consumer electronics, billiards, and major appliance retailer.

Previous experience includes business process creation, analysis and development, loss prevention, training, along with many other multi-unit retail sales/operations responsibilites, retail sales management, retail operations management, credit and sales audit management, and operations analyst roles.

Gabe Munro’s Specialties:

Portal / intranet / content management, HTML, communication, business process documentation and development, operations management, loss prevention, sales management

Gabe Munro’s Experience

• Planning & Allocation Analyst

  Ultimate Electronics

  (Public Company; ULTE; Consumer Electronics industry)

  September 2008 — Present (11 months)

  - Responsible for procurement of inventory for appliance and home recreation categories.
  - Collaborated with marketing and other merchants on marketing initiatives
  - Facilitated special orders from field sales partners
  - Collaborated on launch planning for the category in new and retrofitted stores

• Regional Operations & Communications Manager

  Ultimate Electronics

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ULTE; Consumer Electronics industry)

  February 2007 — September 2008 (1 year 8 months)

  • Manage operations for thirteen stores in the Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Kansas markets
  • Manage communication from corporate HQ to the entire chain
  • Partner with all departments in coordinating and rolling out projects to the field
  • Responsible for redesign, development and maintenance of intranet portal
  • Create new and maintain existing documented standard operating procedures

• Sales/General Manager

  OfficeMax

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; OMX; Retail industry)

  June 2005 — February 2007 (1 year 9 months)

  • Managed day to day operations of my store, including scheduling, P&L management, driving sales, managing logistics and merchandising, etc.
  • Develop sales culture in store through attachment sales and loyalty program growth
  • Recruit, hire, and train for all support roles in the store

• Credit Manager

  Ultimate Electronics

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ULTEQ; Consumer Electronics industry)

  December 2004 — April 2005 (5 months)

  • Directly supervised payment platforms, private lable credit card process & procedures, Credit and Sales Audit teams, and cash shrink reporting
  • Helped control and reduce bad debt and credit card charge backs
  • Managed cash desk operations for 65 stores

• Operations Analyst

  Ultimate Electronics

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ULTEQ; Consumer Electronics industry)

  April 2004 — December 2004 (9 months)

  • Developed, maintained, and improved documented standard operating procedures and processes for our 65 retail locations
  • Improved cash shrink feedback to the stores from Sales Audit team
  • Recovered $1.4 million in lost cash from POS system conversion

• Operations Manager

  Ultimate Electronics

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ULTEQ; Consumer Electronics industry)

  June 2002 — April 2004 (1 year 11 months)

  • In charge of inventory control, cash management, and managing shrink
  • Maintained total cash and inventory shrink of .019%
  • Direct supervisor of CSR and Warehouse Managers

• New Market Recruiter

  Ultimate Electronics

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; UlteQ; Consumer Electronics industry)

  May 2002 — July 2002 (3 months)

  • Helped recruit personnel to staff 600 positions in twelve stores in new DFW and Austin markets
  • Screened and interviewed applicants for all positions
  • Extended job offers and processed/audited new-hire paperwork

Gabe Munro’s Education

• University of Minnesota

  Finance August 2001 — May 2002

Additional Information

Gabe Munro’s Interests:

technology, web design, leadership development, wine, cooking, cars, high end home theater, independent films, foreign films, and the occasional summer blockbuster

Gabe Munro’s Groups:

•    Retail Management
•    Retail Industry Professionals Group
•    Buyers-Worldexcellence in procurement connect, share, trends, best practices 4000+

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