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Philip Del Real

Wilmington,CA

Summary

Experienced retail supervisor with 20 years of store operations, customer service, sales, and merchandising. Assign tasks, train employees, provide feedback, mediate interpersonal conflicts, and implement company procedures. Excellent communication and listening skills. Provide leadership and vision which drives teams to meet goals.

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience

Work History

Customer Service Supervisor

Lowes Home Improvment
01.2022 - Current

Store Operations: Supervision and training of new associates, including delegating duties and tasks in multiple departments. Provide advice, feedback, and support to co-workers to ensure timelines and work quality are achieved. Ensuring company safety policies, compliance, procedures, and standards of ethics in business processes and practices. Store opening and closing procedures, pulling daily deposits from cash drawers, and associate scheduling.


Customer Service: Provide training, feedback, and direction to associates on customer service approaches and techniques regarding transactions at registers, self-service technology, mobile apps, and the customer service desk to resolve member complaints and issues according to company guidelines. Assist other departments with customer service needs and provide product questions, answers, and information during peak hours and understaffing.


Sales: Place estimates, volume pricing, special orders, and accounts with companies and contractors. Communicates and provides information on credit card types, programs, and benefits to current and prospective customers, including processing applications and sales checkout.

Team Lead Supervisor

Sam's Club
10.2019 - 10.2021
  • Store Operations: Supervision of associates by staffing, including delegating duties and tasks in multiple departments. Provide advice, feedback, and support to co-workers to ensure timelines and work quality are achieved. Ensuring compliance and executing company policies, procedures, and standards of ethics in business processes and practices by implementing action plans. Develop solutions and practices to meet changing business needs by collaborating with managers and co-workers. Participates in recruiting, hiring, interviewing, scheduling, promoting, coaching, and evaluating associates.


  • Customer Service: Providing direction and guidance to associates on customer service approaches and techniques regarding transactions at registers, self-service technology, mobile apps, and the customer service desk to ensure member complaints and issues are resolved according to company guidelines.


  • Sales: Communicates and supports membership members by providing information on membership types, programs, and benefits to current and prospective customers, processing memberships, upgrades, credit accounts, and meeting and exceeding membership goals. Participating in sales and marketing events, completing and maintaining marketing recaps. Creating and interpreting financial analysis reports, assisting with accounting-related investigations, preparing daily deposits, preparing and overseeing cash fund transfers, and investigating overages and shortages in the accounting office.

Department Lead

Bed Bath Beyond
09.2006 - 09.2019
  • Store Operations: Supervision of associates in areas of responsibility including delegating duties and tasks. Training, coaching, and monitoring employees up to standards and company policies to be reliable and efficient in customer service and job performance. Ensuring compliance and executing company policies, procedures, and standards of ethics in business processes and practices.


  • Sales: Overall product knowledge to upsell and meet sales goals in store and online orders by presenting product demonstrations. Cash control with registers and safe to audit and ensure accuracy, including investigating overages and shortages in accounting.


  • Merchandising: Purchase, plan, and set merchandise to maximize sales by using planograms and analytics. Build and teardown fixtures for merchandise resets in departments according to sales trends. Zoning, restocking, and receiving merchandise to company standards and policies. Identifying, processing, and correcting shrink and damages from merchandise, including protecting high-end merchandise from theft.


  • Customer Service: Providing direction and guidance to associates to deescalate and resolve customer complaints on sales floor, phone, or online to ensure member complaints and issues are resolved according to company guidelines.

Shift Supervisor

Starbucks Coffee
12.2002 - 09.2006
  • Store Operations: Supervision of associates to delegate tasks and duties to stock, clean, and maintain store appearance. Train, monitor, and coach employees up to standards and company policies to be reliable and efficient in customer service and job performance. Schedule breaks, lunches, and necessary staff changes within store guidelines. Store opening and closing procedures. Inspect, store, and safely maintain fresh perishable goods, and monitor temperature of equipment and dairy products.


  • Sales: Cash controlling of registers and safe, and complete daily accounting records. Upselling of products and beverages by food sampling and demonstrations to meet sales goals.

Education

Certificate/ AAPC Certified Medical Coder -

Los Angeles Harbor College
Los Angeles, CA
05.2017

Associate of Science - Graphic Design

Westwood College
Los Angeles CA
05.2004

Skills

  • Supervision, Training, Development, and Coaching
  • Customer Service, Conflict Resolution, Problem-Solving
  • Merchandising, Planograms, Resets, Ordering, and Inventory, Product Knowledge
  • Sales Expertise, Cash Control, Onsite Product Demonstrations
  • Written and Verbal Communication, Active Listening

Timeline

Customer Service Supervisor

Lowes Home Improvment
01.2022 - Current

Team Lead Supervisor

Sam's Club
10.2019 - 10.2021

Department Lead

Bed Bath Beyond
09.2006 - 09.2019

Shift Supervisor

Starbucks Coffee
12.2002 - 09.2006

Certificate/ AAPC Certified Medical Coder -

Los Angeles Harbor College

Associate of Science - Graphic Design

Westwood College
Philip Del Real