Cliff Burns Email & Phone Number

My goal is a position that utilizes my experiences in great food and in sales. Put my high energy, broad abilities, and tremendous work ethic to work for you. Seeking a position that utilizes my experience in Sales, Food, or Warehousing. Ability to connect with people of all backgrounds, bright, diligent, resourceful, and innovative. Proven sales skills, a loyal team player who also is effective working independently. Innately curious, unerringly positive, thoughtful, flexible with a passion for learning. Demonstrated skills in sales, sales management, leadership, and client satisfaction. An enthusiastic asset to your organization, innovative and resourceful.

Leading food manufacturer, location manufacturing frozen hors d'oeuvres of great culinary breadth and quality; team environment, applying math and science to combining the highest quality ingredients, utilizing my high energy level as I interacted with various functions, customers, ingredient sales reps, and continually learning additional culinary skills in a broad range of ethnic offerings. My willingness to learn and passion for food were the keys to my success. Position eliminated in the sale of the business. I love food and the culinary experience, and reveled in developing new products that were creative palate-pleasers. I understand the interplay of flavor, aroma, and texture, and the balance with ethnicity presented with wholesome ingredients. My creativity enabled me to research and develop several new products for launch. This position applied my math abilities, and enhanced my computer skills. My responsibilities included maintaining the Test Kitchen inventory, cooking Daily Product Review, preparing custom hors d'oeuvres samples, communicating with customers regarding their samples, utilizing ingredient specification database (Viper), utilizing the ERP system (BPCS), and using Excel regularly. I interacted with corporate chefs, customers, executives, distributors, ingredient sales reps, all levels of the local factory, and representatives of the various functions within Heinz, including Marketing, Sales, R&D, and Quality.My Microsoft Office skills are quite good, and I've learned Adobe, databases, and ERP programs readily.

Top Salesman with excellent interpersonal skills. Managed multiple locations. Professional progression from Warehouseman, to Warehouse Management, and to Sales.This position ended with the downturn in the housing industry. My positive approach to challenges was the key to advancement and success. I have excellent math skills which were an asset in this business that is so dependent on square footage. More importantly, I honed the art of closing the deal, based upon “the anatomy of the sale”. I maintained professional relationships with other flooring companies and flooring vendors. I made lifelong friends with many customers by providing superior service. As business declined, I assisted the owner in the close of several retail stores and the relocation of the inventory. Managed Tennessee store location one week per month. Maintenance of the physical locations, scheduling of staff, scheduling deliveries, making deliveries, interactions with installers and customers, interaction with customer service and with accounting.

Management of warehouse serving all stores, managed staff of warehousemen, inventory control and adjustment, scheduled deliveries, scheduled pickups, worked with all levels of employees, from executives to janitorial and truck maintenance.

Management of a tile warehouse. Worked closely with sales managers and installers. Shipping, receiving, inventory control, management of staff, scheduled and provided deliveries to stores.

pickups for installers and customers, loaded installers, received inventory, sanitation of warehouse.

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bachelor's classes in business adminstration

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