Daniel Duffy Email & Phone Number

Pa/Nj

Responsible for driving the execution of fresh operational programs in 75 Walmart locations with annual regional Fresh sales over $600M. Reponsibilities include P&L ownership, partnering with Online grocry teams, conducting store visits and program audits, collaborating with regional and market support teams, identifying concerns and areas of opportunity (food safety, compliance, waste reduction, supply chain process impact), and teaching and training store associates processes, programs, technologies, and procedures. • Accountable for analyzing and addressing the root cause of sales, waste, and shrink issues, and collaborating with store management, regional leadership, merchants, and replenishment to provide guidance, direction and training on solution and program improvements. • Responsible for hiring, training and development of Fresh Operations Market Manager team.

Washington Pa

Provided leadership to build and enhance a food culture and competency. Responsibilities included creating and developing the vision for the company’s prepared food, coffee, and fountain strategy while driving food as a major growth strategy for the organization. Responsible for developing short and long term strategic marketing and merchandising initiatives to achieve the company’s sales and margin objectives; including providing leadership to category management within this business area and for driving core aspects of Food Service and Beverages, utilizing analytics to measure success. Developed strategies and programs to drive sales and profit, and assisted in continuing to grow this critical area; this included responsibility for product offerings, supply chain management, new store planning and contuction, and continual development in operational procedures related to food service.

Allentown/Pittsburgh Pa

Responsible for Retail Sales, Marketing and Merchandising operations for company operated convenience store locations. Lehigh is a distributor of branded petroleum for motor vehicles in the United States with a network of almost 800 gas station locations in 12 states. Responsible for budget development, expense control and revenue generation for all retail offerings, including cigarettes/tobacco, beer and wine, general merchandise, seasonal, grocery, lottery, packaged beverage, snacks, lottery, food service, dispensed beverages, gift cards and ATM.

Pittsburgh Pa

Responsible for the Sports Nutrition P&L for the largest global specialty retailer of nutritional products; including vitamin, mineral, herbal and other specialty supplements and sports nutrition, diet and energy products. Responsible for Proprietary GNC Branded Sports and Thermogenics categories, Protein/Nutrition/Energy Bars, and Health Maintenance Equipment/Accessories.Core Competencies • Retail Merchandising, Sales, Marketing • eCommerce/Digital Marketing• New Product Development• Product Launch• Strategic Operations Management• Change Management • P&L Management• Team Building and Leadership

Pittsburgh, Pa

Responsible for P&L performance of Proprietary/Branded Food Service and Beverage platforms at GetGo from Giant Eagle and Giant Eagle Express, including retail and wholesale sales budgets and strategic and operational plan development. Proven ability to greatly increase sales and market penetration through team motivation and leadership at multiple locations, including management of budgets, forecasts, purchasing, and inventories. A "Crop to Cup" coffee professional.

Responsible for the development and execution of the sales and merchandising objectives of the Prepared Foods business plan. Directed the Regional Specialist Teams to achieve financial goals for the entire line of business.

Selected to support the implementation of corporate initiatives as the Retail Operations Liaison to various perishable businesses and systems throughout the company. Worked to cultivate a “Passion for Food” by developing and incorporating a system of continuous education and growth at store level in order to execute the corporate “Famous for Food” strategy.

Primary responsibilities included functioning as a liaison between Merchandising and Operations to ensure that both divisions’ goals and objectives were met, including customer requirements, pricing structures/strategies, budget development and implementation, competitive market opportunities, safety and sanitation, and maximization of sales and profits.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Business Administration Marketing/Management

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Foodservice Systems Administration/Management