Manager Sales

Caroline Ereshkin

** ************ **. 631-***-****

Northport, NY 11768 abm27x@r.postjobfree.com

PROFILE

• Sound negotiating and sourcing skills.

• Solid understanding of marketing, merchandising and customer service

• Responsible for retail store with approximately 40 million in gross sales

• Experienced in buying both perishables, and hard-good lines direct from

both representative brokers and manufacturers

• Proficient in the management and mentoring of staff, with full

responsibility of hiring, training, and supervising.

• Experience in dealing with vendors.

• Seasoned in Microsoft Office, Word-perfect, Excel, P.O.S. Programs,

Quicken. MYOB, etc.

• Handled human resources and compliance issues on store level

• Coordinated all store visual merchandising efforts with and without

planograms

• Experience in dealing with accounts receivables/payables.

• Managed incoming weekly revenues from $250k to $1 Million

• Excel in community outreach and company sponsored fundraising

initiatives

• Results driven and met and exceeded bottom line revenue quota’s

EXPERIENCE

Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company Kings Park, NY 02.2007- 09.2009

Waldbaum Supermarket-Store Manager

• Increase store sales & profitability by raising number of daily visits,

average tab and loyalty

• Manage all products and services: merchandise, events, store activities,

catering.

• Manage all key cost categories under responsibility to achieve

profitability goals, including: FOH staff, marketing, product ordering,

promotions.

• Develop relationships with vendors to conduct weekly product tastings

and demos.

• Manage and implement Team Schedules while achieving costs

guidelines.

• Maintain a constant pool of potential new hires.

• Constantly coach and develop team for growth.

• Communicate and enforce company policies and procedures

• Get to know customers and develop good and positive relationships with

them .

• Open and/or Close the store when on duty - Ensure store opening and

closing procedures are executed daily, including safety and security

procedures.

• Work with team to ensure store is constantly well maintained and clean

• Ensure all product displays are constantly full and properly replenished

• Ensure that right levels of inventory are maintained in the store

• Ensure POS system is updated and maintained at all times

• Competent to oversee shrink and ensure overall store profitability by

meeting and exceeding company benchmarks

• Oversaw visual merchandising

Royal Ahold Inc., East Northport, NY 02.2003-02.2007

Stop and Shop Supermarket Company-Assistant Store Manager

•Enforce all company policies as per corporate code

•Supervise cash office, file maintenance department, front end department,

and payroll

•Responsible for human resources on individual store level

•Act as store manager designate on closing nights and performs all key

holding functions

•Managed payroll for over two hundred store associates

•Directly handled customer/community relations between store

neighborhood

•Responsible for store and associate productivity in minimum of 19,000 sq.

foot sales space

•Oversee all loss prevention issues and responsible for maintaining shrink

numbers within individual store guidelines set by corporate office.

•Mentored associates for promotion within company

•Ensured that depts. were controlling shrink and meeting sales goals

Responsible for visual merchandising of product

BottleBargains, Northport, NY 08.2001-02.2003

General Store Manager-Liquor and Wine Volume Liquidator

• Directly responsible for merchandising, inventory results, stock loss and

achieving sales goals

• Enforce all the regulations of the store as per retail operation manual

• Make all cash deposits and change pickup’s on store’s behalf

• Do all accounting on store’s behalf; accounts payables, accounts

receivables, sales reports, cost change reports, projections etc.

• Profit and loss responsibilities

• Review all written copy for advertisements, and internal memo’s.

• Handle vendor wine bottle tastings for customers; scheduling, payment

for merchandise

• Order store inventory and maintain inventory control

• Schedule Employee’s and handle vacation/time-off /training requests

• Check and verify all receiving inventory to ensure correct merchandise

received at agreed upon price.

• Responsible for the ordering of supplies, inventory, customer resolution,

and payment of outstanding amounts owed by vendors for breakage.

• Oversee and direct at least 30 employees

ACHIEVEMENTS

Represented Stop and Shop on two separate occasions as company

Spokesperson on News 12 for holiday segments in 2007

Won four separate company sponsored contests for fundraising for

charity organizations attaining first place out of all three banners

owned by A&P

Represented A&P on the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon in Sept.

2009

SKILLS Proficient in MS Word, Excel, QuarkXPress, Lotus Suites,

Peachtree, MYOB, Quicken, and able to read, speak, and write in

Spanish.

EDUCATION Michigan State University, B.A. Degree in English 1995

Internship, WOR, NY, NY

Production Assistant; Arthur Schwartz “Food Talk”

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