Linda Lancaster

***** *** ***, ****** *********, Oregon 978**-***-*** 9730 (H) 541-***-**** (C) acdgxx@r.postjobfree.com

Executive Summary

Accomplished Manager with extensive experience in front of house and back of house operations.

Proven ability to cut costs and decrease staff turnover.

High performing Manager with 10 years of retail experience with Wal Mart. 10 years of food

service experience. Skilled Operation Manager with solid experience managing all levels of

multiple projects including budgeting and administration.

Experienced Shift manager professional with strong leadership and relationship building skills.

Core Qualifications

Big picture focus on company goals

Salary structure/compensation Staff development

Employee scheduling

Inventory control

Hard worker, Team builder, motivator

Budget development, allocation and monitoring

Communications, Customer Relations

Background in retail

Time Management

Successful with staff development Project Management

Experienced in employee scheduling, inventory

control and sales analysis

Professional Experience

Griggs/Ace Hardware

September 2012 to December 2012

Store Manager

Pasco, Wa

Manage supervisors, set daily goals, scheduling, worklists done daily, budgets, inventory control,

hiring, firing, coaching and using the company policies, following up on wages, sales, pnl,

merchandising of the store and setting up clear standards, teaching and training of the

supervisors, following up on safety standards and policies as needed.

Wal Mart

September 2009 to April 2012

Shift Manager

College Place, WA

Supervise 350 associates, overseeing financial growth of super center, compliance, payroll, detail

organization and planning of day to day routines. Schedules for store, knowledge of all new

policies and initiated program that standardized employee training and led to increase in

associate safety. Partnered successfully with [department managers and vendor,] to produce

higher profit using merchandise skills. Strengthened company's business by leading

implementation of and working to get vendor traits that we didn't have in our store. Served as

mentor to junior team members. coached and mentored staff to ensure smooth adoption of new

programs. Reduced and controlled expenses by working directly with associates, management

team.

Wal Mart

April 2004 to September 2009

Assistant Manager

College Place, WA

Managed all the grocery areas, deli, produce, bakery, meat departments for three years, was

making more profit than the other nine stores in our market. Ability to make wages, supervised

fifty associates, was in charge of the monthly inventories, had low shrink numbers, hit or exceed

t he monthly and yearly index pnl numbers set forth by the company. I had the apparel

departments before the grocery areas, made forty percent more profit than any other assistant

manager before me. Had great inventory numbers every year and exceed the scope for the index of

profit and shrink set forth by the company. When I first took over the apparel areas the department

managers were struggling with their sales, inventory, and team work. I sat them down and

starting teaching them about how to control the inventory, how to set up departments to get more

sales, and I worked with them on how to get along with each other and use team work to achieve

more goals.

Wal Mart

December 2002 to April 2004

Assistant Manager

Hermiston, OR

Managed the fresh areas, deli, meat, seafood departments, when I took over the prior five assistant

managers had not made a profit in three years. The areas were one hundered thousand dollars in

the red, in six months I had made up the one hundred thousand, and had thirty four thousand five

hundred dollars in profit. I taught the departments managers how to get inventory under control

and their shrink down, this produced great profits. I start with the company in the seafood

department making the only profit in this area, then was promoted to the meat department

making profit, and then promoted to the assistant over the areas. I was in charge of about thirty

five people, schuduling, hiring, firing, overseeing proper ordering, stocking, inventory.

Wal Mart

August 2001 to December 2002

Department Manager

Hermiston, OR

In charge of the meat, seafood department, doing price changes, modulars setting up departments

daily, stocking shelves, helping do monthly inventory.

Wal Mart

March 2001 to August 2001

Sales floor associate

Hermiston, OR

Worked in the seafood department, was the lead associate in charge of putting the department

together every day, ordering all the fresh seafood for the department, helping with the monthly

inventory and price changes.

Education

Hermiston High School

1976

Diploma : General Studies

Hermiston, OR

Affiliations

Walla Walla Team Penners

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