Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
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Awards
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RODOLFO “RUDY” GUANDIQUE

San Antonio,Tx

Summary

Experienced professional in food service and grocery industry with nearly a decade of expertise. Skilled in sales strategies, purchasing techniques, pricing analysis, margin optimization, and forecasting sales trends. Well-equipped to excel in dynamic and competitive market environments.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Prepared Foods Buyer

Whole Foods Market Inc
San Antonio, Tx
10.2024 - Current

•Controlled inventory costs to align with budget.

•Organize, date check, and order perishables

•Reduced shrinkage by implementing effective tracking measures.

•Collaborated with team to meet organizational objectives.

Cheese Team Member

Whole Foods Market
San Antonio
05.2024 - 09.2024
  • Help stock Cheese and Beer/Wine department. Rotate product, cut cheeses, maintain olive bar, and provide excellent guest service.

Prepared Foods Supervisor

Whole Foods Market
Dallas
02.2022 - 05.2024
  • Maintained compliance with food safety standards and company SOPs, planograms, and policies.

Shift lead/grocery buyer

Royal Blue Grocery
Dallas, Tx
06.2018 - 02.2022
  • Order, price, and merchandise grocery products. Mange a POS cash register, ringing customers up. Prepare and serve hot sandwiches and coffee. On some occasions open up the store and set up for the day. Brew the first pots of coffee, dial up espresso machine, and set up pastries in display domes. On other occasions close down the store, shut down coffee machines, clean all work areas, maintain grocery shelves, count the money in the safe and report all sales of the day.

Tribe member

Freebirds World Burrito
Dallas,Tx
01.2018 - 05.2018
  • Assembled tacos, quesadillas, salads, nachos, and burritos for customers and operated the register with a POS system.

Prepared foods buyer

Whole Foods Market
Dallas, Tx
07.2013 - 01.2018
  • Assisted with purchasing for prepared foods department, maintained inventory within budget, and managed production to optimize Sales to Purchase ratio.

Education

Diploma - undefined

Walt Whitman High School
Bethesda, Md
01.2009

Skills

  • Purchasing for store and perishable department
  • Merchandise, cost vs sales, margins, sales vs purchase, budgeting, surveying and counting inventory
  • Leadership
  • Coordinate with team leaders and team member in order to get tasks down as a unit Setting an example for how a department should be run financially

Languages

English
Native or Bilingual
Spanish
Native or Bilingual

Awards

  • Talent Bench(leadership program WFM)
  • Whole Foods Market 2015 6 weeks classes on how to become the next leader for WFM. Learned many skills on the inner works of running a department. Sales, costs, labor, (cross)merchandising, budgeting, forecasting sales, and scheduling.

Timeline

Prepared Foods Buyer

Whole Foods Market Inc
10.2024 - Current

Cheese Team Member

Whole Foods Market
05.2024 - 09.2024

Prepared Foods Supervisor

Whole Foods Market
02.2022 - 05.2024

Shift lead/grocery buyer

Royal Blue Grocery
06.2018 - 02.2022

Tribe member

Freebirds World Burrito
01.2018 - 05.2018

Prepared foods buyer

Whole Foods Market
07.2013 - 01.2018

Diploma - undefined

Walt Whitman High School
RODOLFO “RUDY” GUANDIQUE