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** **** **. *** * New Haven, CT 06511

631-***-****

OBJECTIVE

Leader in customer experience, developing people, team productivity. I have specialized & had been solely responsible for administrative tasks in grocery chains and am currently seeking to impact more local organizations with my skills rooted in having integrity for what I've accomplished daily and influencing others to take pride in the same level of commitment to excellence.

EXPERIENCE

Trader Joe’s

Mate, Assistant Manager 1999-2017

Excelled in mentoring new hires, implementing best practices to more efficiently increase store profits, success in team building, crew tenure & reducing inventory losses.

Upon several promotions over the course of my first 5 years, I had attended multi-day seminars designed specifically for Trader Joe’s management. These set me apart from other management competitors. They were run & uniquely tailored for this “Unique Grocery Store” known for its employee & customer brand loyalty.

First group of managers from my Long Island region to train & give input for new Scheduling HR program, G.O.L.D. Proving my in depth training & problem solving within existing Dayforce program, I was given opportunity to be a leader in training Captains & Mates on GOLD over the roll out in my region.

The “Community Store” concept followed through to the developmental training programs for each Trader Joe’s up until 2014. The store management delegates forming a structure for training staff, outlining procedures, tracking progress to the handful of supervisors & assistants. Many of the processes I implemented have outlasted my own residency at a store. Also, other stores utilized my best practices to better track waste, salvage food & get rescued to local food pantries, build team product knowledge & pass on vital information to our customers.

Best Market

Assistant Manager 2017-2020

Ran 5 of the Long Island local chain supermarket known for it’s high quality made in store fresh selection of deli, prepared produce, seafood, baked goods, and butcher ran meat departments.

Quickly learned and upheld OSHA, DOA, Weights & Measures Dept. certifications. Within months, I got certified in Food & Safety training as well as Best Market’s own management training courses to further development among the staff & inventory.

Designed displays, covered ordering inventory, tracking sales & profits to relay to each individual department manager in charge of daily production & scheduling.

Supervised Building Maintenance & trouble shooted various IT issues with new payment interfaces, point of sale operating systems, and machinery used for food preparation.

I received in depth training, thanks to a very tenured store manager being my first supervisor at Best Market. I learned to run every aspect except butcher responsibilities to operate every department of the stores. No call out or overwhelming fluctuation of business due to weather or holiday could effect my shift because of my experience within months of my own training.

I was able to bring the unique problem solving & proactive de-escalating tactics I learned at Trader Joe’s to the stores I worked in here. Understanding the various roles within the multitude of jobs at Best Market gave me the edge to master any storm of events with strong leadership & calm brevity.

Lidl * bought out Best Market with all employees given option to transition to Lidl employment upon store closing.

Supervisor 2020-2021

Recruited for first wave of training among managers at Best Market for Lidl HQ experience to take back & open stores on Long Island. Declined due to Father’s health 2019, my being only local kin living in tri state area.

Completed the training for Lidl

Led Grand Store opening in my last Best Market location in October 2020 & upon completing my training worked in store 2021 by helping build aisles & set up precise planograms with teams of new hires & crossed over former Best Market part time associates together.

Assign daily tasks to all team members and fellow supervisors, store leadership roles rotate daily, lead Fresh Goods & Frozen products to be received, rotated to sales shelves in very precise design, oversee stocking & cashier engagement with customers, test & record keep team member growth & development, unload deliveries from 3rd party truck loads & set up work flow of product according to store needs.

Oversee plan to reduce waste & never run lower than set amount of goods for various fresh baked items throughout sales day. Inventory any waste at end of day & wrap securely for warehouse pick up & donations.

Bookkeeping tasks to ensure sales are being accurately recorded & Financials are accurately recorded.

EDUCATION

Graduated from Smithtown High School June 1999

Enrolled in Suffolk Community College with several college credits I took while in High School senior & junior year. Studied Fine Arts with a focus on photography arts programs.

AWARDS AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I was continually leading my Trader Joe's store sales to over 10% comp sales consistently in the Long Island region, where other food retailers were closing down, and minimizing staff, I maintained my stores’ growth during tough years for our competitors. At my first Best Market, I was able to increase store profit 6% in a historically low profitable area such as health nuts & snacks hand packaged by our local warehouse employees at Best Market.

I was first female assistant manager to be hired in my role, and who ran Best Market’s top sales stores, such as Commack & New Hyde Park who weren't promoted within the company.

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