Responsible for the timely replenishment of inventory across a variety of categories including Center of the Plate, Frozen Foods, Grocery, Non-Foods as well as some Dairy and Organic lines. Continuously analyze forecasts and demands of over 2,000 items to develop most cost effective purchase orders. Manages $3.5 million of daily inventory while sustaining a year-to-date service level of 99.70%, representing yearly sales of $47 million. Equitably supports a large range of customers such as National Accounts, Regional restaurant groups, schools, senior feeding sites, detention centers and street business. --Troubleshoot and assist the operations team, accounts payable and schedulers with issues that arise with delivery times, incorrect products in warehouse, returns, invoices, credits and product disposal.--Coordinates with company Logistics Coordinators in order to optimize logistics and maximize freight savings from Ben E. Keith managed loads. Construct full truckloads of goods with products from multiple vendors while accounting for weight, cube and pallet composition with varying lead times. --Support sales team with special order requests, item and vendor research, drop shipments, new item requests and order fulfillment.

Managed the development and negotiation of subcontracts and purchase orders across various business groups. Assisted Project Managers and Accountants with subcontractor issues including payments, invoices, change orders and pre-qualifications. Maintained the procurement SharePoint site of historical and current data for all purchasing activities in assigned organizations.-- Key player in the development, launch and training of a new procurement system.-- Negotiated and issued subcontracts and awards for a large volume of firms supporting hundreds of projects across civil engineering, architecture, environmental services, commercial/retail, solid/water waste resources, advanced communication systems and the oil/gas program. Customers included private, municipal and federal entities.-- Monitored and produced accurate audit records to ensure compliance with Federal and company policies.

Served as right-hand person to the CFO, controllers and accounting team of 18 overseeing various initiatives. Managed reporting and file organization. Served as special project coordinator pulling large volumes of records from storage for DCAA audits, organizing the department holiday party and assisting with charity events.-- Demonstrated utmost professionalism in dealing with high-level executives and senior business professionals. -- Streamlined and simplified the filing and archiving logs; developed numbering systems to quickly find documents.-- Proactively learned account payable functions to serve as department back up; managed invoices, weekly reporting and checks as needed; additionally performed administrative duties for the department.-- Assisted in accounts receivable collections; completed monthly bank reconciliations and processed general ledger data.

Provided superior-level support to office of 23. Developed and maintained organizational charts, special projects and social events. Served as front desk receptionist, managed supplies and handled various administrative tasks as needed. -- Developed training manuals, guides and reference documents for job performance.-- Maintained high degree of organization in fast-paced environment; ability to quickly respond to problems and requests.

Acted as first point of contact for the Los Angeles Area Managing Partner, interacting with corporate staff and CFOs applying for positions. Relied upon for weekly agendas, attendance rolls and contact updates.-- Assembled and created all monthly expense reports.-- Organized and pre-screened incoming CFO resumes.-- Coordinated upload to online system of all contact databases for LA office.