Tracks alignment with company plan and ensures realignment to meet company goalsTrains Grocery/Fresh analysts on Power BI upon hiring to create ad-hoc reports/visualizationsBuilds Excel databases to best analyze cost, margins and licensee/owner group involvementForecasts sales trends of seasonal produce commodities while gaining an understanding of customers’ future needsRebuilt the produce item mapping to clean up unknown sales occurring at the corporate store; enabling the stores to have a 2% reduction in corporate shrink the first month upon completion – “Project Fresh Produce”Collaborates with past VP consultant overseeing the produce merchandising and supply chain teamActively pursues produce ad deals to best impact growth of sales/relationship with the licensed owner

Created a brand new function of the business Retail Management Trainee- Compliance Department.Drives the development of our Customer Perception Audit through the eyes of a customer.Shows robust reporting of stores scores utilizing Tableau and Excel.Creates PowerPoint Presentations weekly for the Executive Staff Meeting.Leads Bi-Weekly meetings presented to the operations team giving an unbiased view of operational standards.The Retail Management Trainee (RMT) Program is designed to recruit and develop future leaders of the business. Directs and trains a team of 12 RMTs that audit collectively all +1200 of our stores.Meets and trains the Licensed Directors on the grading of the Customer Perception Audit.Designed teams database on Excel to track progress of store conditions and team’s performances.Continually speaks with Recruitment team to interview and hire current team.Collaborates with the L&D team during our 2 week training of new recruits at the corporate office.Drives passion to give our customers a dignified experience at all of our locations.

I support three category managers in regards to their bid process for part of the companies 1400+ private label items. My daily roles are but are not limited to analyzing sales to help achieve better future forecasts, complements the category managers while pursuing better costs during bids, special buy ads, bonus buys and everyday item sales. I developed Save-A-Lot's newest DSD form that our corporate stores use for our vendors to improve accuracy of pricing/data integrity at our corporate and store level. Private Label Assessment Group- analyzed all of our private label items to any comparable private label competitors' items regarding to the pricing, packaging and sensory fields.

Trained employees daily responsibilities categorized into seven main categories: customer satisfaction, scanning product, cash/inventory controls, professionalism, maintaining displays, cleaning and stocking productOpens and closes the store to standard while meeting productivity goalsSet all Special Buy and new everyday items to divisional standardsProficient in writing all orders including perishables and ensures proper stock levelsManages stores inventory using both the perpetual and periodic inventory systemsLeads quarterly inventory, bi-monthly perishable inventory and partial inventories on different products roughly three times a week in order to upkeep the CGOS ordering unitWrites employee schedules and sales budget independentlyInitiates and manages operational programs designed to improve store conditions and expense controlHandles electric and lift jack training with new associatesMotivate staff through all shifts to receive the best daily productivity possible

Increased bar sales ranging $500 to $1000 per week by training bartenders/servers suggestive selling methods and gaining repeating customersOrdered entire restaurant's alcoholic/nonalcoholic inventory while decreasing shrink weeklyDeveloped staffs' knowledge of food cost, pin pointing losses and reducing them to a minimum

Trained along side with the lead consultant to learn Sprint's computer system Lead in sales with communication background after training, top ten of entire St. Louis region within the first month.

Five-phase leadership program designed to grow participates into established District Managers.Train in every retail store's positions learning their responsibilities/duties in day-to-day tasks.Lead store resets in St. Louis and Kansas City from older to newer styles shelving and placement of items.