Vicente Louie Granillo is seeking a high-growth position in visual merchandising and buying. He has over 10 years of retail experience including roles as Assistant Manager at Levi Strauss & Co and Store Manager at Tilly's, where he exceeded sales goals and led initiatives to improve customer experience. Granillo demonstrates strong leadership, visual merchandising, and inventory analysis skills.

1. Vicente Louie Granillo
1213 W Delaware St
Tucson,AZ 85745
520-603-7607
Vicengranil@aol.com
PROFILE
To obtain a high-growth position in visual merchandising and gain buying experience
utilizing my retail trend knowledge and leadership skills.
EXPERIENCE
Assistant Manager, Levi Strauss & Co; Tucson, AZ — August 2013- Present
• Leads the store as Visual Manager. Supervises once a month product moves,
replenishment, standards, and window directions.
• Analyzes store inventory levels weekly, including Top 20 sellers and sale sell through,
in order to capture trends in consumer purchases and communicate any inventory
opportunities to District Manager.
• Supports Store Manager in driving sales by developing store initiatives to drive
business key performance indicators.
• Success in increasing Conversion for two consecutive years while against a trend of
double digit traffic decrease.
• Leads stylists through company initiatives with a focus on brand and product
knowledge. Emphasis on expanding customer service through company history.
Store Manager, Tilly's; Oro Valley, AZ — May 2009 - August 2013
•Develop and motivate staff in a $1.25 million store to provide superior level of
customer service that will maximize sales and profits.
•Overlook hiring, training and development for new sales associates.
•Create weekly management and associate schedules from approved payroll matrix
based on financials and traffic trends for the week.
•Meet and exceeding aggressive sales goals in monthly and quarterly projections.
•Lead store meetings with staff educating on customer service and sales driving by
developing behaviors and selling techniques that are on brand.
•Ranked top 5 in company in shrinkage percent for 2012.
•District leader in Customer Experience for 2011, including 3 months ranking top 5 in
the company.

2. Assistant Manager, Pacific Sunwear; Tucson, AZ — 2008-2009
• Created weekly associate schedules.
• Successfully trained and developed peak season sales staff.
• Met time sensitive deadlines to roll out new merchandise .
• Delegated and planned store markdowns, visual updates, and transfers.
• Executed new visual merchandising through mannequins and window displays.
Gap Inc; Tucson, AZ — 2004-2008
Assistant Manager ( June 2006 - May 2008)
• Managed visual merchandising team for both the men’s and women’s department.
• Leader in sales driving for all departments.
• Oversaw opening and closing procedures for registers and handled deposit money.
Key Holder (November 2005-June 2006)
• Managed sales associates and handled customer service issues.
• Assisted managers with training and developing opportunities.
• Completed Manager In Training booklets to prepare for the Assistant Manager
position.
• Performed as the Men’s Merchandiser and executed store visual updates including
window changes and seasonal assortment plans.
EDUCATION
Tucson Magnet High School; Graduated 2003
SKILLS
• Visual Merchandising, including layout new product lines,
supervising visual and stock teams, and expanding visual
direction to the specific store needs.
• Managing payroll based on sales % and a matrix
Proficient with:
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft Power Point