Ray Schwarz, Mba Email & Phone Number

New York City Metropolitan Area

Greater New York City Area

Greater New York City Area

Greater New York City Area

- Accountable for the daily operations of the Grocery, General Merchandise, Health & Beauty Care, Frozen, and Dairy Departments• People development/Diversity/Labor Relations issues• Inventory Management: accountable for 1.5M inventory with less then a .75% Shrink• Vendor Relations• Customer service• Sanitation/Safety• Merchandising/Dept. Presentation• Sales/Profit Performance• Payroll/Productivity• Administration

- Accountable for: Recruitment, maintaining diversity in the store, scheduling and conducting interviews; coordinating orientation, new hire and department specific training; following up on Associate development plan implementation and AMT progress; documenting Associate performance issues; attending or coordinating job fairs; analyzing store turnover figures and developing action plans with appropriate department; counseling and coaching Associates; resolving customer issues; responding to donation requests; attending and or coordinating local community events; and managing fund raising events and gift certificate programs• Opened (7) new stores as the Manager, Customer Service• Finding diverse candidates from community and within Stop & Shop to fill store’s hiring needs• Converted 5 store that acquired by Stop and Shop New York Metro, LLC• Overseeing Front-end operations, Cash Office, File Maintenance and insuring highest level of customer service

- Accountable for the daily operations of the General Merchandise, and Health & Beauty Care Departmen

East Setauket, New York

Varies Union jobs were held.ie: Cashier, Service Desk, Front-end Manager, Cash Office Manager, and Pharmacy Tech

Carlisle, Pennsylvania

- Business Subject Matter Expert- Supported Giant Carlisle, Stop & Shop New York Metro, Stop & Shop New England, and Giant Landover Divisions though out the next generation technology transition and implementation. • Company wide business support from both Ahold USA locations in Carlisle, PA and Quincy, MA • Conduct User Acceptance Testing of system functionality of releases of software on Toshiba ACE 4690, Toshiba Self-Checkouts, Fujistu Self-Checkouts, Scan-it!, Toshiba Fuel, Integrated Pharmacy Solution, eWic, and Card Manager• Business liaison for Point Of Sale related technologies with Internal Information Management and external vendor Information Management partners • Assisted in updating 48 company wide SOP’s directly affected by the next generation technology transition• Advocate and business liaison for all Ahold USA Divisions to streamline and simplify business practices • Created training material used during implantation within all Ahold USA Division reaching 760 stores; 75,000 associates• Created and successful conducted 40 of Ahold USA’s Train the Trainer sessions in all Divisions as the Lead Trainer: Training 960 Divisional Associates• Trained other support departments within Ahold USA ie: Senior Executives, Asset Protection, Retail Support Center, Pharmacy department, and Training & Development • Provided on-site field support and training within all of Ahold USA Divisions

Masters Of Business Administration, Management, 3.59

- Classes taken include Quantitative Methods in Business, Info Technologies for Managers, Legal Environment of Business, Labor Relations.

Bachelors Of Business Administration, Management, 3.01

Activities and Societies: Deans List- Minor in Aeronautics-Flight - Classes taken include Managerial Economics, Organizational Behavior.

Regents Diploma

Advance Placement Classes