National Brand Category ManagerFrozen Potatoes, Fruit, Pizza & Vegetables

Frozen Own Brands Categories- Entrees, Handhelds, Vegetables, PastaFrozen National Brand and Own Brands Categories- Potatoes, FruitRevised and restructured entire frozen vegetable portfolio resulting in a $1 million savings annually Identify unique, underdeveloped categories and emerging new productsResponsible for 11% of frozen department sales

Own Brands- Dairy/Frozen

Dairy/Frozen

-Accessories and Apparel Assistant Store Manager- Overseeing all softlines operations in a store yielding over $12 million dollars in sales.-Recognize, coach and provide meaningful feedback through active performance management to 3 direct report supervisory level employees and 75+ indirect reports. - Control and led all inventory price management - Responsible for assessing and allocating resources to support workload demands and business needs.- Up keeping a customer focused mentality among all associates- Demonstrate an understanding of upcoming business trends, customer demand and products in order to merchandise according to best practices.- Merchandising softlines apparel per upcoming projected trends-Recruiting, selecting, developing and retaining talented candidates

-Deliver timely and efficient customer service to all members by acting with a “customer comes first” attitude and fulfilling patron needs with a positive attitude-Managed multiple tables under intense situations while maintaining high customer service standards-Resolved any customer complaints by sufficiently listening to their issues and doing everything in my ability to rectify the situation-Built relationships with customers by positive interaction, keen memory skills, and always remembering individual preferences-Memorize current menu and daily specials in order to become an expert in all restaurant items, including alcoholic mixed drinks, beers on tap and other bar demands.

- Measured and established new KPI’s for liquid bulk carriers- Assisted in the integration of the largest acquisition in company history- Streamlined the Marine tendering process- Participated in 100M TL bid process and carrier review- C2T measurements- Spot Bid Requests- Analyzed and weeded out inefficient/inaccurate TL informationLead a team of interns in Peer Resource activities

Overall #2 Regional Intern in total additional revenue sales. Executed inside sales and successfully sold protection coverage to replace customer’s own policy. Supported marketing campaigns and promotional initiatives and maintained business relations. Worked closely with an array of retail, body shops, insurance companies, and dealership clients. Interpreted branch P&L statements, helped control costs, and maintained accurate documents.

Prospected initial business deals with Fortune 500 companiesProcessed licensing and production jobsUpdated prospective 1M client lists Salesforce.com implementation