Now covering the central region of the United States

● Identifying where improvements can be made and developing sales plans and strategies to achieve sales goals with the retailer both on Kosher and Beyond side. ● Monitoring the market, competitor products, activities and providing detailed sales forecasting, images and price checks to the retailers during key Kosher holidays. ● Working with the marketing department to design custom presentations for retailers (conventional, c-store and natural) and created customized POG’s for the retailer following their needs. ● Working with supply chain and retailers to communicate any issues or changes that need to be made for products due to supply issue.

● Utilize the Flex 2 network to reduce Shrink and travel time from DC to Stores while increase sale units and inventory turns by creating a tiered assortment within stores. ● Communicate with cross functional teams to oversee logistics and supply chain, purchase allocations, and execution at our retail locations● Collaborate with vendors, such as Pepsi, Coca-Cola, DPSG, to create optimal assortments and increasing sales through new innovation and display opportunities.

● Developed and lead global sourcing strategy to deliver optimal level of service and results through planning, business need, industry assessment, strategy definition, execution, supplier selection, transactional planning and contracting that increased sales to 7% year-over-year.● Align with senior leaders and business partners to develop short-term and long-term category objectives and pipeline opportunities, while offering solutions and optimal solutions to achieve business goals for the $100M household category and increasing margin by 5%.● Negotiating with Vendors and Cross- functional teams to grow sales and margin with assortment and innovation items. ● Implemented special purchases of off-priced merchandise designed to drive quick sales turn (estimated around $1M annually) and high margin impact (keeping margins around 30%). ● Manage supplier relationships and execute supplier performance management techniques in accordance with standards and guidelines and in collaboration with business partners- Currently working with 70 suppliers ● Spearheaded the creation of Own Brand Product that meets business and consumer needs while supporting that brand’s short- and long-term strategies across the spectrum of innovation (including new products, renovation, new packaging, and commercial innovation) - Impact is 1M+ to sales. ● Communicate with cross functional teams to oversee logistics and supply chain, purchase allocations, and execution at our retail locations● Managed many projects with the overall responsibility for the successful initiation, planning, design, execution, monitoring, controlling and closure of a project. ● Work with Legal team and vendors to follow EPA and Prop 65 registration to ensure all products are within guidelines.

● Partnered with key vendors, such as Clorox and Procter & Gamble, to revitalized marketing strategy to boost sales (89K), margin (3%) and customer basket size. ● Collaborated with vendors such as P&G, SC Johnson and Reckitt, to create a dynamic Holiday Air care program that did $3M in sales with an 85% sell-thru. ● Collaborated with cross-functional teams for execution of Marketing Strategies to maximize sales and profitability for both brick and mortar and online formats. ● Analyzed past buying trends, sales records, price, and quantity of merchandise to determine buying needs and maximize the sales and profits for advertised or Holiday items ● Communicated all pertinent information, including merchandising plans, ad plans, price changes, projections, etc., to the stores, operations team, vendors, and support departments.● Work in partnership with inventory to discuss buying needs, forecasting and display needs for items on display within store. ● Perform technical and mechanical aspects of the buyer role such as: ability to achieve sales, gross margin, inventory and turnover of product. Also, works closely with product selection, assortment planning, vendor communication, and marketing to ensure growth in category.

● Managed a project of a “Good, Better, Best assortment’ that included stores clustering (Affluent, Hispanic and College-town) and collaborating with vendors on assortment for clusters and introducing innovation items to increase sales. ● Negotiated with new vendors on product assortment, logistics and cost to give store clusters innovative products to increase sales. ● Partnered with Pepsi-co/Frito Lay to create a vibrant Halloween display in advertisement and store to attract members and increase sales. ● Perform technical and mechanical aspects of the buyer role such as: ability to achieve sales, gross margin, inventory and turnover of product. Also, works closely with product selection, assortment planning, vendor communication, and marketing to ensure growth in category.

● Developed and administered a fiscal plan to affectively meet customer requirements while simultaneously controlling expenses; identified operational needs on a daily basis; assigning work to associates and ensuring completion● Mentored a team of 15 associates to increase efficiencies of daily tasks and facilitated job performance reviews to lead the team to optimization of work. ● Maximized the sales and profits +20% over YOY (36M annually) in fresh and non-perishable departments through improved quality/freshness standards● Produced a communication calendar for ordering dates that decreased missed orders (no misses in 36 consecutive weeks) and was launched as a district wide communication plan.

• Responsible for ordering and receiving product, with also successfully merchandising product that is eye catching for the customer as well as increasing sales. • Make the mechanizing decisions based on the needs of our customer and also on the demographic area of the store. • Supervise all department personnel and make sure that the customers’ needs are being met promptly. • Review and analyzing monthly and daily reports, to be sure that we are increasing our sales and controlling our inventory levels. • In the absence of a Store Director or Co-Manager, I perform the functions of the Store Director such as; assisting with customers when they have positive or negative feedback, managing the whole store, and making sure that all employees are interacting with customers.

• Effectively managed a team of twelve associates by delegating tasks that appropriately highlighted each individual’s strength. • Order and correctly merchandise product with the purpose of increasing sales and earnings. • Effectively organize a department, so that it was efficient for customers, as well as the employees. • Prepare a weekly schedule that adequately covered the service needed, with also adhering to weekly sales and payroll budgets.

After the completion of college, I was able to work full time as Trainee, and fully experience the overall operations of retail. In the first year of being a trainee I worked closely with the department managers to learn the performance standards within the department. I was taught how to order product and maintain inventory levels by correctly stocking, and rotating product. I was also taught how to check invoices of delivered product, and keep record of them in an excel spreadsheet where they were to be used to keep daily bookwork. I was also taught how to correctly run a register and learn the correct measures of opening and closing a resister. This also gave me a great opportunity to work closely with the customers, and talk to them one on one. I also learned how to open and close the book keeping room, and what happened daily with cash that went through the store. Through out my training I was able work with managers to learn leadership skills, and I also took company provided classes on leadership skills and delegation. After the first year, I was then able to move on to be a Chef’s Kitchen Manager.

Provide courteous customer service; cut, weigh, wrap and price Deli products for sale; prepare, process and bake items for sale; clean and sanitize work area; receive products; prepare and complete documentation of expirations.

• As a summer intern I was able to work closely with my Store Director to have an opportunity to experience every facet of what it takes to operate a first class retail operation. In my ten-week internship, I also assisted in every department along with the department head to understand the daily operations and developing as well as implementing strategies to achieve maximized sale and earnings. • I was able to learn inventory control and marketing skills which are a daily issues in retail operation. I was able to gain practical experience while training with a variety of managers. In addition, with my daily interaction with customers and the stores associates; I was provided a distinctive opportunity experience to develop effective communication and leadership skills.• I participated in a group project with three other interns, in which we were assigned to investigate how we could increase sales in organic food. Because organic food was just becoming popular, we wanted to see how we could attract a customer into Jewel-Osco, and make it their specialty food store. Our group created surveys and asked customers a series of questions about what they look for when purchasing specialty food. From the data, we thought of ways that we could keep a shopper coming to Jewel for their specialty food such as; an organic rewards cards, streamlining specialty foods in with regular retail items. Our presentation was presented at the end of the ten-week internship to all of the Store Directors and the Store Support Team. • After my ten-week internship I was reviewed by my store director as an exceptional intern, with outstanding skills in leadership and customer service, and was recommended to the Store Management Trainee Program after the graduation of college.