KUNTAL PATEL

**-** ******* ****

Fair Lawn, NJ **410

201-***-****

i67s7a@r.postjobfree.com

Objective:

Looking for a challenging position to utilize purchase knowledge to obtain the best quality product at competitive rates, thereby maximizing the profit of the firm.

Summary:

Over 10 years of experience in the Supermarket industry with specialization in purchasing of consumable and non-consumable Asian (Indian) commodities to setup and management of retail outlets. Experience in Bid Analysis, Contract Negotiation, Multi-Site Operations, Order and Requisition Placement, Order Expediting, Price Reductions, Budgeting and Sales Forecasting, Marketing and Promotions, Warehousing and Distribution, Staff Development, Training, and Management. Significant and remarkable managerial job exposure at eminent Grocery stores & Supermarkets

Skills: Self-motivated, highly trained individual with a strong interpersonal communication skills and having vast knowledge and expertise in the Asian commodity market

Purchasing: Extensive knowledge in buying and importing of commodities and goods from domestic and international market

Product Distribution: Coordinating with the local and overseas suppliers and shipping companies to import goods and delivered to the warehouses

Financial Management: Daily financial management, AP/AR, payroll, payroll tax liabilities, analyzing and projecting cash flow

Supervision: Vast knowledge of store management methods planning and implementation, regular inventory control & ordering of consumable goods.

Computers: Windows XP/Vista/7, Microsoft Office Suite.

Experience:

International Buyer/Manager Kaviya/Deluxe Subzi Market, Saddle Brook, NJ 12/2002-Present

• Researched, developed, and launched private label programs for both consumable & non-consumable goods. Increased sales and profits by offering vendors more cost effective products with higher profit margins.

• Evaluated proposals received from the Sellers and prepared purchase orders by verifying specifications and prices. Follow up of purchase orders, from their submittal to Management for approval up to transmittal to suppliers and acknowledgement of purchase order receipt by them.

• Follow up of discrepancy reports and unpaid suppliers' invoices; verified receipts of items by comparing items received to items ordered; resolved shipments in errors with suppliers, logistics and transport companies.

• Maintained an on-going inventory system on daily, weekly and monthly basis to ensure smooth flow of day to day operations and delivery schedule.

• Worked with the accounting departments to authorize payments for purchases by forwarding necessary documents.

• Travelled across the globe to various countries to meet the Vendors/Manufacturers and understand the developing trend and market for new and existing products.

• Conducted training sessions and mentored junior managers.

• Built and maintained strong relationships with local and international suppliers.

• Assisted the Senior Manager in office duties, preparing monthly reports and forwarding the same to the accounting department.

• Transmission, reception, and distribution of correspondence. Daily use of computer software (Word, Excel).

• Provided purchase planning and control information by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing data and trends.

• Updated job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities by attending workshops related to consumable and non-consumable commodities.

• Worked on a Special Project for one of the partner-associates on designing and printing of laminated polyester pouches (bags) in the overseas market and importing them for packing and distributing in North America. Managed the entire project leading a team of 8 members in the U.S. and India.

Store Manager

Successfully organized and operated Asian grocery stores. Formulated daily and weekly sales and activities reports using computer aided office tools. Coordinating day-to-day operations of the business from opening to the closing of the stores and carried out necessary measures for recruiting, training and coordinating of new store personnel. Worked on entire store merchandising, ordering and maintenance features along with necessary cash and inventory control. Planned and advertised several marketing events of new products. Organized and formulated the entire range of retail management liabilities. Managed cash control and switched consumer support criticisms.

QA Engineer/Analyst JPMorgan CHASE, NYC, NY. 02/2001–12/2002

Responsible for the testing, certification and support of all application packages created in-house & off the shelf using NAL and Microsoft Installer on Windows NT/2000/XP platform. Test all networked and locally installed application packages against a base workstation/laptop build to ensure that these installed packages function properly. Install, test, certify and support newer and upgraded core application component packages into the base workstation build. Tested firm developed software with the latest versions of Oracle, Visual Basic, Power Builder, and Crystal Reports. Created and restored Images using PQDI software.

Lead Hardware Associate MAIL.com, NYC, NY 12/1999 – 01/2001 Handling the day-to-day operations for the Production Data Center of the company in NYC. Involve in several Projects for the company’s hardware infrastructure. Trained and advised new hardware techs. Installed and configured SUN servers in a UNIX environment.

Consultant Chase Mellon Shareholder Services, NJ 05/1999 – 11/1999

Providing technical support to 150+ Customer Services Representative (CSR) in a Call Center operating on Windows environment, using Sybase, SQL and other servers applications for the floor making sure that they are functional. Particiapted in the on-going maintenance of the servers and worked with the Network Administrators to ensure that the servers were up and running all the time and that the Call Center was functioning all the time.

Consultant CHASE Manhattan Bank, NY 06/1998 – 05/1999

Using Novell Application Launcher, ZEN Works & SnAppshot 32 bit, integrated in-house and off the shelf applications to run on Windows NT Workstation 4.0 and Windows 95 from different platforms. Documented the procedures for Installation, Verification & Testing of the applications using Word 97. Responsible for workstation configuration and deployment of Business Applications. Integrated firm developed software with Oracle, Visual Basic, Power Builder, and Crystal Reports as middleware. Published training documents on the same for new team members.

Consultant NOVARTIS Pharmaceuticals, Summit, NJ 11/1997 - 05/1998

Installed & configured Windows NT 4.0 workstations (125+) with Service Pack 3, Office 97 & many other applications for Medical Education Dept. Configured and implemented Standard desktops and created Ghost Images for various departments build for automated rollouts and performed migration for workstations from Windows for Workgroups to Windows 95/NT workstations.

Consultant AEGIS Insurance, Jersey City, NJ 06/1997- 10/1997

Installed & configured Windows NT 4.0 on 150+ Desktops using Novell Intranet ware. Configured PCs for Remote Dial Ups clients/hosts and tested all applications. Installed and configured Windows. Installed, configured, tested and troubleshoot Antivirus software, Office ’97 for Windows operating systems.

Consultant AlliedSignal, Morristown, NJ 06/1995 - 05/1997

Providing technical support to the end-users to 4 different departments. Installed, configured and tested applications. Setting up a complete department on local networks under a single server and systematizing the usage of Office tools. Installing and configuring Network Cards on old/new desktops and set them to the network using Novell NetWare 4.1.

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