Warehouse Manager
HoustonNovember 2, 2009
Clarence B. Harrison
12711 Muir Woods Trail
Humble, TX 77346
205-246-2059
Clarenceharrison23@hotmail.com
SKILLS SUMMARY Confident, motivated operations manager with strong interpersonal skills, excellent written and verbal communication abilities. Skilled in ensuring prompt, efficient and accurate handling of merchandise as well as developing and implementing team goals. Experienced in hiring, evaluation, development, discipline, and termination of hourly associates. Efficiently manages all responsibilities for 45-65 hourly associates. Proven background with fortune 100 organizations, hands-on knowledge in all phases of warehouse operations, shipping, receiving, and inventory control, delivery scheduling, hiring warehouse personnel while assembling a highly productive team. Strong knowledge of Microsoft Windows, and different types of warehouse management systems.
EMPLOYMENT Grocery Director July 2009 - Present
Randalls (Safeway Inc.)
Houston, TX
Train grocery associates in store policies, department procedures, and job duties.
Perform necessary controls regarding opening or closing a store.
Organizes bank transactions as well as regular sales reports.
Coordinate grocery sales promotions. Prepare merchandise displays.
Meet preset goals for departments in the areas of labor, sales, and productivity.
Plan daily operation, monitor production process following company procedures and profitability guidelines.
Initiate personnel actions such as transfers, promotions, and disciplinary actions.
Maintain excellent customer and associate relations
Control inventory and shrink.
Maximize sales, gross profit and merchandising to the fullest extent possible.
Operations Group Leader Feb 2006- Dec 2008
Target Stores Inc. Distribution Center
Huntsville, AL
Responsible for hiring, training and developing an hourly team of 55 direct reports, while providing internal customer service to the entire distribution center
Maintains a high degree of efficiency by safely and productively providing quality service to 79 Super Target stores. This facility is over 1.4 million square feet.
Ability to interpret and understand policies and procedures and relate them to others
Develops operational policies and procedures on issues that affect team member safety and productivity
Evaluates current work methods and find ways to eliminate inefficiencies involved that inflate departmental costs and reduce profitability
Analyzes operations, processes and needs of department to make appropriate recommendations to enhance efficiencies
Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in all situations with great interpersonal skills
Proven experience working in a team-oriented environment using strong reasoning, analytical and problem-solving skills, and the ability to motivate teams and manage conflict
Accomplishments: Top Rated Outbound Department in the entire Target Distribution Network, two years in a row in all productivity and financial measurements. Piloted revamp of Trailer Load Process for Target Distribution Network. This revamp saved 44 shipments per week to 79 Super Targets. This equates to a yearly savings of 1.4 million dollars.
Quality Assurance Assist. Mgr Dec 2003- Feb 2006
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Distribution Center
Brundidge, AL
Supervised, managed and trained 23-person office staff
Responsible for ensuring efficient movement of 37 million dollars of residual inventory while in compliance of company policies, procedures and federal laws
Ensured current and accurate inventory, maintained and retained logs and files coordinated with all parties involved in materials movements
Prepared correspondences, reconciliation of movement discrepancies, maintained line of communication between buyers and vendors
Controlled departmental costs associated with profitability
EDUCATION B.S. in Information Technology - Herzing University, Birmingham, AL
