Tammi J. Leary has over 20 years of experience in retail management. She has held various leadership roles such as General Retail Manager at Petco from 2006 to present, where she oversees store operations and ensures animal care is a top priority. Prior to Petco, she was an Operations Manager at Petsmart from 2005-2006 and Store Manager at Pet Supplies Plus from 2002-2005. Leary has extensive skills in areas such as inventory management, training employees, meeting sales goals, and providing excellent customer service. She holds several certifications and has a high school diploma from Shaw High School in 1990.

1. Tammi J. Leary
5777 Carlew Street NW
North Canton, Ohio 44720
Email: tamaralegere@gmail.com
Phone: (330) 801-0954
Retail Manager with over twenty years hands on retail experience. Proven initiator and strategic
thinker with effective leadership, analytical, organizational, and communication skills while
exercising exceptional judgment and having the ability to work independently.
A well-organized dependable professional who takes pride in her work.
--Ability to work in a fast-paced, multi-tasking environment while effectively providing support
and partnership for all levels of the business. Working extensively with MS Word, Excel,
Outlook and PowerPoint to prepare correspondence, maintain databases, and compile reports
--Skilled in all aspects of office procedures including payroll processing, account management,
and inventory management systems.
Petco 2006 – present
General Retail Manager
Managing store and associates, ensuring animal care is top priority along with educating all team
members to do the same.
Properly utilizing time, assets, and people to obtain budgeted goals and to ensure that all
associates are trained and informed so as to work toward said goals.
Training and hiring of all general managers, assistant managers, department managers, and all
grooming team members.
Back up District Leader for the district
Worked closely with the district manager and human resources on succession planning and
recruiting within the district.
Recruiting talent within our district and placing that talent in stores. Hired, trained and coach
associates in all departments for the entire district to District Manager level
Overseeing operations of the entire store including four different animal departments; hiring and
Training all associates for location and for other stores; cash office duties; scheduling for sales
floor and the grooming department; overseeing grooming salon and canine training. Sales
exceeded 75% increase. Responsible for shrink results which included moving from the highest
shrink in the district at –4.0% to one of the lowest at -1.2% when transfer to Strongsville took
place. Strong inventory controls and consistently work with freight, planagrams and inventory.
MPT leader-Merchandise Product Team (2009-present)
Leader of 3 MPT’s in the Cleveland, Kent, and Wooster markets. Job consisting of implementing
all planograms in the above stores in a timely manner. MPT’s reported directly to me
communicate me to provide updates with progress in their stores to ensure accuracy and

2. Petsmart
Operations Manager 2005-2006
In my position as an Operations manager the following employees report directly to me:
Presentation Manager, Cashiers, Pet Products Manager, Equine manager, Pet Products
Associates, and Equine Associates.
Accountabilities: Achieve expected results; Unleashed hiring process; Associate learning and
development; Developing my team; Associate paperwork; Front end operations; Weekly payroll;
Store supply management to include POG racks, fixtures, etc; Event coordinator.
Presentations (Petsmart) 2005-2006
The reason for doing presentation as an operations manager was to have a feel for the position
for when another employee would be able to do it and also to train them the correct way.
Accountabilities: To achieve expected results; W.I.S.E program, (flowing of merchandise cycle
of stock); Process defectives; Planograms; Off shelf displays; Price integrity; Monthly sign
package; Monthly planner execution.
Pet Supplies Plus, 2002-2005
Store Manager
Overall store payroll, budget, deposits, sales of animals, birds, reptiles, fish. Having knowledge
of animals and helping the customers with the set up and care of their animals. Driving sales to
exceed sales goals.
Making store signs, special orders for customers, product ordering from several vendors.
-While managing staff, cut absenteeism 20% and reduced employee turnover 30%
-Gave weekly motivational lectures to staff, which resulted in a 20 percent increase in sales;
wrote training presentation materials, and routinely trained new recruits in district
Marc’s (Marc Glassman, Inc). 1994-2002
Operations Manager
Manager that was responsible for financial operations for the payroll budget, including hiring,
training and proper staffing levels. Oversaw cash controls, and Customer Service.and
hourly Supervisors
My responsibilities included supervision of all check-out registers, ensuring proper change, price
checks, merchandise stocking, store cleanliness, and security.
Inventory controls, ensuring critical out of stock on critical items were identified and
replenished. This was accomplished by direct correspondence with the Store Manager,
Warehouse Manager and sales associates.
My duties also consisted verifying correct and non-fraudulent register sales, vendor check-in,
merchandise stocking, and outstanding customer service.
EDUCATION
Shaw High School, Mobile, AL 1990 GPA: 3.5
Forklift Certified
Nutrition Certified ABC certified A=Associate B=Basic C=Certified
Avian certified