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•Manage key operational functions including sales, in-store promotions, merchandising displays, and shrink.•Plan and forecast inventory based upon consumer preferences and seasonal variations in order to maximize revenues.•Manage perishables department with responsibility for sales, team coaching, budget management, and bottom-line P&L.•Establish goals and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) using analytics to take a proactive versus reactive response to problems and opportunities, and as a baseline for continuous improvement.•Streamline and re-engineer workflows and processes to address lean and efficient staffing.•Focus efforts on a positive customer experience to build loyalty and to leverage relationships in order to maintain steady revenue growth.•Serve as Member of SAAT Audit Team to visit and guide other stores.•Serve as Safety Coordinator and Shrink Captain.•Consistently increased sales revenue over goals, reduced costs and improved margins.

•Sourced-out vendors to obtain competitive pricing.•Established vendor metrics, Best Practices and standards of excellence.•Work with warehousing and inventories to ensure that purchasing supported replenishment levels.•Established strategies to increase stock availability for high demand items and reduced inventory for less popular items.•Developed strategic partnerships with seventeen vendors to achieve win/win outcomes.•Pursued government and state bids and won large contracts.•Joined buying groups to increase leverage from bulk purchases.