Navdeep Singh Kang
Black Beech Crescent,Takanini
Summary
Encouraging manager and analytical problem-solver with talents for team building, leading and motivating, as well as excellent customer relations aptitude and relationship-building skills. Proficient in using independent decision-making skills and sound judgment to positively impact company success. Dedicated to applying training, monitoring and morale-building abilities to enhance employee engagement and boost performance.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Buyer
PAK'nSAVE
11.2022 - 03.2023
- Communicated with vendors regarding inventory needs and negotiated prices to maintain profit margins.
- Maintained complete documentation and records of all purchasing activities.
- Managed vendor purchase order dispatch, delivery and invoicing to set contractual guidelines and maintain budgetary regulations.
- Determined lowest possible cost, factoring in quality and reliability and negotiated favorable contracts.
- Analyzed inventory usage and assessed trends to provide maximum coverage for each time period.
- Negotiated policies and contracts with vendors to achieve optimal pricing and consistent availability.
- Documented purchasing information in SAP to maintain detailed and accurate records.
- Removed poor performing items from future buys.
- Collaborated with buyers for special events and seasonal promotions to maintain adequate product stock and drive sales.
- Generated reports detailing sales trends and store performances.
- Standardized inventory quarterly reporting and analysis and instituted corrective action for close-outs and out-of-stock items to keep inventory records current.
- Computed and created purchase orders in SAP to monitor stock levels, verify purchase requisitions and expedite customer orders.
Produce Manager
New World Whitianga
03.2019 - 10.2022
- Assessed supplier quality to maintain tight cost controls and maximize business operational performance.
- Set, enforced and optimized internal policies to maintain responsiveness to demands.
- Applied performance data to evaluate and improve operations, target current business conditions and forecast needs.
- Negotiated with suppliers for favourable prices, terms, quality, and delivery.
- Established and administered annual budget with controls to prevent overages, minimize burn rate and support sustainability objectives.
- Ensure range matches format and customer service requirements whilst optimizing stock holding levels and stock turn
- Ensure all stock is sourced through approved suppliers, all orders placed on time and all product checked on arrival for quality
- Hold suppliers accountable for damaged stock making sure credit notes find their way to office
- Meet annual, monthly, and weekly targets and review with store owner sales, gross profit, contribution to profit and cost targets in line with store targets, proactively taking action to remedy adverse trends
- Manage assigned activities, promotions and initiatives within plan, budget, and resource deployment delegations
- Ensure all staff management practice within department comply with store policies on employment, attendance, health and safety, training, leave, discipline etc., such that all staff in department know they are being treated consistently
Duty Manager/GM Buyer
New World Waiuku
04.2018 - 03.2019
- Undertake necessary administrative functions of role including New line audits, ensuring all paperwork is up to date, running credit reports, loading details of new products.
- Into system and manage stock range including new lines and deletions
- Complete shelf management through reviewing category shelf layouts to ensure maximum sales and profit potential is reached
- Planning new line space allocation and undertake space management e.g., relays / refits
- Build effective working relationships with Department Managers and Individual Employees
- Ensure product merchandising standards in Departments consistently provide attractive shopping experience for customers, meet established criteria, and contribute to overall impact and consistency of store increasing basket purchase size and share per customer
- Actively promote high quality customers service ensuring that staff present themselves professionally to store guidelines and meet agreed service standard always
- Ensure regulatory compliance across departments in all areas relating to regulatory impact, including compliance with store policies, HACCP program and Health and Safety program
- Look after day-to-day operations of store by coordination within organization to provide best customer experience
- Ensure all staff management practices within department comply with store policies on employment, attendance, health and safety, training, leave
Education
Graduate Diploma - Business (Operations Management
Unitec Institute of Technology
Unitec Mount Albert Auckland 08.2016
MBA - Human Resource
Punjab Technical University
CIBM Sanghol07.2010
Bachelor of Arts - Arts
Punjab University
Government College Ropar05.2008
Electrical Engineering Level 3 - Electrical Engineering
Skills Update Campus
Papakura, NZ02.2024
Skills
- Effective Department staff management through adherence to in store policies
- Easily Adaptive to changing circumstances and accepts new ideas and initiatives
- Computer skills (MS Word, Excel, Power Point, ERP, SAP)
- Experience in inventory controller and event organizer
- Experience in operations department while working in hospitality sector Moreover, having knowledge of housekeeping as well
- Have excellent customer service skills, gained over long period of time worked at concierge desk in mall and multiplex and while working with New World supermarket
- Proficient in Process Evaluation, Problem Solving with various tools (Cause & Effect Diagram, Check Sheets, PDCA) and Communication Abilities in written and oral
- Valid Forklift license
- Management professional versed in all aspects of operations management from scheduling and finance to marketing
- Policy Development and Enforcement
Languages
English
Full Professional
Punjabi
Native or Bilingual
Hindi
Full Professional
Timeline
Buyer
PAK'nSAVE
11.2022 - 03.2023
Produce Manager
New World Whitianga
03.2019 - 10.2022
Duty Manager/GM Buyer
New World Waiuku
04.2018 - 03.2019
Graduate Diploma - Business (Operations Management
Unitec Institute of Technology
MBA - Human Resource
Punjab Technical University
Bachelor of Arts - Arts
Punjab University
Electrical Engineering Level 3 - Electrical Engineering
Skills Update Campus
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