Baljinder Singh
Brampton,ON
Summary
Dynamic Produce Manager with a proven track record at Chalo Freshco, excelling in purchasing and planning, and department leadership. Mastered inventory control and waste reduction, boosting department profitability. Skilled in fostering vendor relationships and enhancing customer service, demonstrated through innovative social media promotions. Committed to team development and operational excellence, ensuring top-tier store reputation.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
Work History
Produce Manager
Chalo Freshco
Brampton, Ontario
05.2021 - Current
- Achieved sales profit goals by keeping everything in stock, while checking product movement reports, allocating products three weeks ahead from the warehouse, and considering the seasonal fruits and vegetables.
- Making a list of product shorts at 5 a.m. to ensure all products are in stock for the day, and calling local vendors to bring in shorts by 10-11 a.m. at the earliest, while the store opens at 7 a.m.
- Saving profit margins for the department by calling direct store deliveries to buy products from the market around 8-9 a.m., while breaking down the prices and considering product quality.
- Making relations with locally approved farmers to access low-priced fresh vegetables that have high movement according to the local ethnicity to boost profit for the department.
- Merchandising displays to bring in festival vibes on Christmas, Easter, Diwali, and New Year, while keeping festive fruits and vegetables in stock to boost weekly sales.
- Code dating cooler to ensure FIFO, especially the salad wall, to save the product from expiring.
- Setting up reduced displays to save waste of produce and keep the customers happy at the same time.
- Making a schedule to distribute hours among team members to ensure all-day work duties are covered properly.
- Making sure the team is motivated to perform at its best by creating a positive vibe, while also doing micromanagement sometimes to ensure work is being done properly, is important.
- Accepting failures and recognizing mistakes to learn from them is essential for improving performance.
- Counting inventory every three months to check if the department is running profitably.
- Training new employees to build team strength and develop them for new opportunities.
- Ensuring accurate ordering to avoid filling up the backroom, and bringing in just enough product to keep purchases low and fresh every day.
- Making good relationships with vendors to optimize benefits like donations on any social event organized by the store. Bring in free refreshments for store events and parties with management skills.
- Running the store's Instagram account to enhance store awareness and promote hot sales to outperform the competition.
- Multitasking and spending overnight hours on department tour days to impress store VIP guests, District operator, vice president and any high-level visitors to build a strong reputation for the store/department.
Education
Bachelor of Business Administration - Business Administration
Langara
Vancouver, BC12-2020
Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering - Engineering
RIMT
Mandi Gobindgarh, India08-2017
Skills
- Purchasing and planning
- Produce trimming
- Department leadership
- Ordering procedures
- Customer service
- Inventory counting
- Department supervision
- Waste reduction
- Stock rotation
- Social media promotions
- Conflict Management
Affiliations
- Currently running Chalo Freshco's Social media accounts.
Languages
English
Professional
Punjabi
Professional
Hindi
Professional
Timeline
Produce Manager
Chalo Freshco
05.2021 - Current
Bachelor of Business Administration - Business Administration
Langara
Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering - Engineering
RIMT
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