BAYARDO VILLEGAS

• Charged with correcting an underperforming store to increase profitability, improve overall store conditions and process related efficiencies
• Responsible for leading over 180 associates. Tasked with achieving a sales goal of $62 million
• Created a store environment conducive to executing all company initiatives and following best practices
• Increased store sales by 4% in a competitive marketplace
• Reduced assets in non-perishable departments while maintaining shelf conditions and demands of customers
• Improved store efficiencies to meet labor budgets weekly, quarterly and annually
• Responsible for the efficiencies and execution of company initiatives for all departments
• Implemented and maintained standard of operations in store while adapting to seasonal and market changes
• Implemented a new e-commerce business
• Executed payroll processes to meet customer demand and company regulated budgets.

Assistant Store Manager

March 2009 – March 2010

• Responsible for the efficiencies and execution of company initiatives for 5 departments throughout the store
• Met sale budgets which exceeded 1 Million dollars weekly
• Responsible for Quality Assurance initiatives in perishable departments
• Assisted Store Director with all supervisory tasks
• In charge of the Grand Opening of a new store in New Rochelle
• Tasked with assisting the onboarding of 350 new associates
• Tasked with assisting store teams in successful grand openings

• Effectively manage $10 million annual retail grocery store in the New York Metro area
• Interview, hire and train new associates
• Supervise all payroll reports and review scheduling
• Establish budgets for weekly, quarterly and annual review
• Merchandising all points of sales areas (perishable and non-perishable)
• Supervise staff of fifty, and run day to day operations
• Produced a profitable quarterly budget in a timely manner
• Provide a profitable payroll expense to executive management
• Maintain an enjoyable atmosphere for associates and customers, to ensure increase in sales and profits
• Enforce all company policies with employees and vendors
• Address customer complaints to ensure maximum satisfaction
• Implement leadership skills with department managers and executive managers

Co-Manager

2003 - 2005

• Effectively assist in running stores of different annual sales levels ranging from $4 - 16 million
• Key member in installation and enrollment of new customer incentive programs
• Assisted store manager in payroll, sales and profit budgets
• Responsible for supervising staff schedules for 30 to 100 employees
• Safety coordinator

Assistant Manager

2002 - 2003

• Effectively maintained grocery department, and managed $1.2 million in annual sales
• Review weekly budgets and schedules
• Train and supervise all associates
• Manually ordered all grocery products
• Core member in the transition from manual ordering to automatic replenishment system