Lynn Van Kaam

Email: abox61@r.postjobfree.com

Address:

City: Union City

State: CA

Zip: 94587

Country: USA

Phone: 623-***-****

Skill Level: Any

Salary Range:

Primary Skills/Experience:

Natural Foods department manager in a large retail grocery chain with a marketplace atmosphere for over 7 years. Was a store within a store. Very knowledgeable in regard to natural lifestyle, Having experience life as a vegetarian. Customer service skills with established relationships with many customers and have made myself available to new customers that are experience a life change in diet for the first time, displaying insight, patience and understanding. Have been an integral part of the Produce/Natural foods team.

Educational Background:

High School Dipolma from Middleboro High School, Middleboro MA 1/2001 to 6/1980 (art)

High School Dipolma from Natural Healing Institute of Naturopathy Inc., Middleboro MA 1/2001 to 10/2012

Job History / Details:

Career Overview

Natural Foods department manager in a large retail grocery chain with a marketplace atmosphere for over 7 years. Was a store within a store.

Very knowledgeable in regard to natural lifestyle, Having experience life as a vegetarian.

Customer service skills with established relationships with many customers and have made myself available to new customers that are experience a life change in diet for the first time, displaying insight, patience and understanding.

Have been an integral part of the Produce/Natural foods team.

Core Strengths

Produce knowledge

Natural foods specialist

Service-oriented

Effective trainer

Flexible schedule

Courteous and professional demeanor

Customer-focused

Listening skills

Floor set design and visual displays

Markdown/promotional procedures

Inventory control

Problem-solving skills

Trained in food safety guidelines

Top sales performer

Strong communication skills

Strong organizational skills

Social perceptiveness

Accomplishments

Opened 3 new Fry's Marketplace stores in Arizona and 2 Waldbaums Supermarket stores on Long Island, NY.

Set new bulk sets in 10 Fry's stores.

Part of a "training store" and helped train prospective managers on their way to becoming store assistant managers

Was a test department for integrating a vendor product (UNFI) into our computer ordering system.

Work Experience

January 2005 to September 2012

Fry's Marketplace Goodyear, Arizona

Natural Foods Manager

All aspects of managing department including: conditioning, cleaning, stocking, key retailing (organization of back stock), merchandising, ordering, checking in orders, inventory maintenance, short code maintenance, markdown procedures, announcements to engage the customers in regard to sales or new products, sampling, writing schedules, training, keeping books on sales and shrink, merchandising and building displays, maintaining a dairy, frozen, bulk and grocery natural foods section.

10/3/2012 12:00:00 AM

Educational Background

Middleboro High School Middleboro, Massachusetts

High School Diploma

Natural Healing Institute of Naturopathy Inc. Encinitas, CA

Enrolled in the Holistic Health Practitioner program.

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