Commodity buyer: Pork, Boxed Beef, Oil. Monitored and analyzed market trends and conditions to determine purchasing strategies.Negotiated pricing and promotional opportunities. Forecast orders balancing purchases and receiving with sales; maintaining and controlling inventory levels.

Responsible for purchasing various product lines for the grocery chain including bottled water, sugar, flour, rice, oil and other dry grocery items. Solicited deals from vendor for ads, and promotions; communicated this info to market. Controlled inventory dollar investment.

Responsible for purchasing variosus broadline foodservice product lines including commodities: oil, sugar.

Buyer of various foodservice product lines including seafood, frozen foods, paper goods and other disposables.

Bid on foodservice contract accounts such as schools and other government agencies; liaison between customer, vendor and divisions making sure customer needs were met.

• Responsible for all aspects of retail management, and operations: sales, customer service, profit and loss, hiring, training, supervision, terminations, inventory control, and merchandising