Sales Manager

Richard Johnson

Email: *********@********.***

Address: **** *********** ****

City: Bowie

State: MD

Zip: 20715

Country: USA

Phone: 919-***-****

Skill Level: Experienced

Salary Range: $50,000

Willing to Relocate

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Job History / Details:

Richard C. Johnson

2607 Kinderbrook Lane

Bowie, MD 20715

919-***-**** Home

301-***-**** Cell

*********@********.***

Objective

A veteran Meat Manager with extensive meat product knowledge, leadership and interpersonal skills and professional integrity seeking a position with a growing and successful supermarket chain focused on career growth and longevity.

Achievements

Managed the largest profit producing meat department in Safeway`s Eastern Division.

Managed a staff of 12 diverse employees while reaching Sterling Gain in 2000 by 20.08%.

Received the Excellence Award for Productivity and the Sterling Sales Award.

Budgeted gross spending at 37.6% which was below actual target of 42.2%; all exceeding business objectives and helped create long term shareholder value.

Consistent employment of 23 years with Safeway.

Work Experience

Food Lion Rocky Mount, NC May 2009-Present

Meat Cutter and Asst. Manager

Maintains proper signage for displays, new items, specialty items, and value packs; Assess in-stock conditions and customer flow; Conduct daily inspections of products when replenishing displays, removing any outdated, damaged, purged, or discolored items, determine shelf life by comparing color, code, condition, and craftsmanship; Inspect shipments and place products in correct location; Date all incoming products and date cooler boxes to ensure proper rotation; Ensure fresh meat/seafood products are in proper temperature range during the receiving and stocking process; Ensure floors are kept clean, dry and free of clutter and hazards; Ensure all guards, shields and other safety features on mechanical equipment are intact before operating; Keep all display areas clean and sanitized; Scan and discard damaged, spoiled or out of date frozen and fresh meat/seafood products; Monitor cleanliness of sales floor.

Safeway, Inc. Largo, MD and other Maryland sites February 1986-April 2009

Meat Manager

Managed and Developed Personnel: Set and managed department expectations and goals, ensured that clerks had proper access to training and resources, established and managed department communication protocol, and informed clerks on all job-related issues and changes; Helped department employees develop action plans to address developmental needs.

Tracking, Forecasting, and Analyzing the Meat Department: Gathered, monitored, and reviewed reports and data related to Meat department sales, profitability, services, labor and other related operating measures to help track, forecast, and analyze the Meat department; Met with Store Manager to discuss department performance and identify department specific successes and opportunity areas.

Managed Department Assets: Reviewed department operating reports to improve department sales and communicated operating results with department employees; Managed product inventory and communicated with Field Merchandisers on discrepancies; Supervised pricing audits.

Created and Implemented Effective Schedules: Created a department master schedule that maximized employee productivity and covered peak sales periods; Assessed weekly sales projections and daily sales breakdown percents to determine labor hours; Utilized daily labor hours, the master schedule and information about employee availability to develop a department weekly work schedule.

Maintained Displays and Merchandise on the Sales Floor: Maintained proper signage for displays, new items, specialty items, and value packs, as well as reset schematics for seasonal and holiday periods; Culled, rotated, and replenished displays throughout the day, inspected products when replenishing displays, removed any outdated, damaged, purged, or discolored items, determined shelf life by comparing color, code, condition and craftsmanship; Reviewed bulletins and store communications on current meat/seafood trends, communicated with meat department staff and store manager to gather information that could affect sales and order writing.

Received and Stored Products: Followed store guidelines for receiving orders, and retrieving and reviewing invoices; Dated all incoming products with date received, checked and dated cooler boxes to ensure proper rotation.

Handled and Processed Products: Trained and supervised all employees on `handling and conditioning` tasks; Conducted and completed tare checks on random samples of products on the sales floor; Placed separate species on their own individual dollies for wrapping, and wrapped and rewrapped products using automatic and/or manual wrapping machinery.

Supervised Workplace Safety Procedures: Ensured floors were kept clean, dry and free of clutter and hazards, responded immediately to floor spills; Ensured backroom and production areas were kept clean and clutter-free to ensure employee safety; Ensured all guards, shields and other safety features on mechanical equipment were intact before operating; Reported department opportunities/safety hazards to store management.

Cleaned and Sanitized the Department: Trained and supervised employees on workplace safety procedures; Ensured food safety, hygiene and sanitation guidelines were followed at all times; Followed daily and weekly cleaning/sanitizing schedules; Scanned and discarded damaged, spoiled or out of date frozen and fresh meat/seafood products.

Built Customer Relations: Trained and monitored meat employees to ensure that superior service attributes were consistently demonstrated; Demonstrated knowledge of products, offered samples to customers, when appropriate, offered selling suggestions, handled customer complaints and issues, handled special requests, and lead by example to maintain superior service in the department.

Training and Certifications

Safeway, Inc. Management Training Certificate

Safeway, Inc. Frontline Leadership Certificate

Safeway, Inc. Customer Service Training

Safeway, Inc. Meat Cutting Training

Education

Graduate of Eleanor Roosevelt High School, 1980

Greenbelt, MD

References available upon request.

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