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Responsible for ensuring the efficiency and organization of the frozen foods department including ordering inventory, pulling outdated product, assessing merchandise placement, stocking frozen freezers and coolers, and implementing ways to increase sales and company profit.• Provide excellent customer service, maintain a clean, safe, and well-run department, and assist store management in other areas when called on.

Cross functional team member who provided spot-on merchandising insights to procurement and DSD buying staff enabling accurate planning and implementation of product placement. Developed and maintained accurate planograms across all product categories including edible and non-edible grocery, frozen, refrigerated, HABA, wine and spirits for 118+ company stores. Utilized space planning, store planning and database software.• Ensured sales, margin, performance, and labor efficiencies of planograms were optimized through knowledge of product assortment, analytics, merchandising and most effective visual display standards.• Supplied directives to vendors, internal stakeholders, and third-party teams on store resets, remodels, and new store openings. Maximized sales by minimizing customer shopping disruption with a speed to shelf emphasis.

Ownership of the entire beer and wine department sales results including implementing and maintaining corporate driven schematics, inventory management, supervising resets, merchandising, display building and overall department appearance.• Continuously built a customer base and loyalty that led to an average of 7% increase in weekly sales and over a 20% gain during semi-annual wine promotions.• Recognized as customer service associate of the month March 2009. Performed additional grocery department duties including cashiering, perimeter area stocking and appearance, vendor relations and loss prevention.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Organizational Communication, General

Bachelor Of Arts, Organizational Communications