Sales Associate Representative
Resume:
John Hughes
**************@*****.***
*** ********* **** *** *** Springfield, M
issouri, 65807
SMS
Springfield, MO
Completed coursework towards General
Business General Basic's (Sep 1974)
EDUCATION
Primus Food Service Certified
CERTIFICATIONS
DIRECTOR OF PRODUCE OPERATIONS
Price Cutter Inc., Springfield, MO / Apr 2017 - Jul 2020 FOODSEVICE SALES REPRESENTATIVE
Price Cutter Inc., Springfield, MO / Mar 1983 - May 1986 PRODUCE SALES ASSOCIATE
Wal Mart Super Center, Springfield, MO / Mar 2015 - Sep 2016 VICE PRESIDENT OF OPERATIONS
Harlin Fruit Company Inc., Springfield, MO / Apr 2004 - Mar 2014
EXPERIENCE
• Manage all retail stores in a profitable, competitive market. Reset all stores twice per year with seasonal item's and coordinate through merchandising team.
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Sales vs man hours per store to insure labor is in line with the stores gross sales.
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Review all monthly produce bonus's and manage sales vs pre determined goals.
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• Hire vacated Produce Managers when applied.
Responsible for reaching sales goals determined for each produce department.
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• To call on current foodservice customers in my territory.
• Keep all customers within terms on receivables.
Sample all customers on new item's and products that applied to them.
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Increase sales at a reasonable rate compared to previous year.
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Create a sales goal based off of the previous year and your action on how this was to take place.
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• Sample,Sample,Sample all customers.
• Rotate displays based on department plan o grams Make sure all product is fresh and displayed correctly for customers
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Rotate all displays,work any blemmished or decayed product out of department always keeping quality and freshness first for the customer.
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Work perisable truck from warehouse, rotate fifo in produce cooler. Date all product upon receiving.
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Always greet customers and ask if they are finding everything O.K.
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• First impressions mean everything!
Oversee all purchasing and selling of fresh produce to retail,wholesale and foodservice.
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Generate a 1 year and 5 year sales goal for the company and how we would achieve with current and future
customers.
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Managed all re-pack item's sold in house by weight,count and description, COO.
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• Responsible for all new customer accounts.
VICE PRESIDENT OF PRODUCE
Banta Fruit Company Inc., Springfield, MO / Jan 1998 - Jun 2003 RETAIL SALES ASSOCIATE / MERCHANDISER
Banta Fruit Company Inc., Springfield, MO / Jan 1987 - Apr 1991
• Responsible for the gross profit and labor hours Receving all inbound loads and each product having a tracking number if any recall should accour.
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• Making sure all product made USDA standards.
Responsible for the hiring and labor hours in warehouse operations.
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Responsible for buying of product,employee's
,sales,inventory turns, admin.monies,freight
contracts,receiving,product contracts by region,sales and sales support.
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All other responsibilities that were not listed above. Basically anything and everything pertaining to the department.
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• Responsible for weekly food sales promotion
• Write weekly retail promotions also in store promotions.
• Re-set retail departments when needed.
• Send out pre-book specials for the following week.
• Retail ad item's to separate them from the competition. Coordinated yearly growing tours for retail customers to visit the quality growers they did business with.
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• Fill in for buyers on vacation or leave of absence.
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