James Kretsinger
Coon Rapids
Summary
Senior management professional equipped for impactful leadership. Strong emphasis on team collaboration and achieving results, adapting seamlessly to changing needs. Skilled in strategic planning, operational efficiency, and performance optimization. Known for reliability, problem-solving, and effective communication.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Assistant Store Manager
Aldi Inc.
07.2023 - Current
- Conducted regular audits across multiple locations for accurate stock levels, reducing excess inventory.
- Hiring and training employees across all levels of management structure, ensuring all locations maintain staffing levels.
- Guided team members across multiple districts through challenges with clear communication and support.
- Fostered a positive work culture by promoting teamwork and recognizing individual achievements among staff members regularly.
- Write and evaluate schedules to unsure efficiency quotas are maintained.
- Coordinate with District Managers throughout the Twin Cities to ensure stores are maintaining performance goals.
- Provided support to store managers in budgeting processes, helping maintain financial stability for the business.
Store Manager
Aldi Inc.
09.2020 - 07.2023
- Direct and supervise employees engaged in sales, inventory-taking, reconciling cash receipts, or in performing services for customers
- Hire, train, and evaluate personnel in sales or marketing establishments, promoting or firing workers when appropriate
- Plan and prepare work schedules and keep records of employees' work schedules and time cards
- Perform work activities of subordinates, such as cleaning and organizing shelves and displays and selling merchandise
- Confer with company officials to develop methods and procedures to increase sales, expand markets, and promote business
- Take, maintain, and update store inventory daily as well as full quarterly inventory
Manager Trainee
Aldi Inc.
02.2019 - 09.2020
- Hire, train, and evaluate personnel in sales or marketing establishments, promoting or firing workers when appropriate
- Plan and prepare work schedules and keep records of employees' work schedules and time cards
- Direct and supervise employees engaged in sales, inventory-taking, reconciling cash receipts, or in performing services for customers
- Perform work activities of subordinates, such as cleaning and organizing shelves and displays and selling merchandise
- Confer with company officials to develop methods and procedures to increase sales, expand markets, and promote business
Shift Manager
Aldi Inc.
09.2017 - 02.2019
- Opening and closing the store independently to ensure all procedures are implemented as intended
- Ensure all trucks are unloaded and stocked within a tight timeframe
- Train and develop new associates in all aspects of the store to uphold a high quality of service
- Maintain all store departments up to the highest cleanliness standards
- Assist store director with planning of displays, budgets, and schedules
- Deliver excellent customer service for all guests, making sure any needs are met
- Take, maintain, and update store inventory daily as well as full quarterly inventory
Shift Manager
Coborn's Marketplace
04.2012 - 09.2017
- Building, setting, and merchandising new displays across several departments of the store
- Training and developing new staff in company policies and procedures
- Closing the store independently, and ensuring excellent store conditions
- Maintaining a high level of cleanliness throughout the store
- Unloading and stocking trucks as they arrive, ensuring shelves are filled to customer expectations
- Fulfilling yearly performance evaluations for employees under my direct leadership
- Delivering excellent customer service for all guests
- Handling implementation of loss prevention policies and communication with law enforcement
Education
High School Diploma -
Little Falls Senior High School
Little FallsSkills
- Excellent inventory experience : My current store is ranked 3rd out of173 stores in the division
- Flexible with work duties : I am able to adapt in a variety of situations and locations; I have been sent to several underperforming stores across multiple states to assist in renovations, training, and new policy implementation
- Coordination : I currently travel to and assist over a dozen stores across the Twin Cities with responcibilies ranging from daily routines to divisional planning
- Business development and planning : I help store managers across new and preexisting stores to plan out their next fiscal year as well as mapping out plans for new policy rollouts and and potential staffing changes
- Operations oversight : Evaluating budgets, schedules, and timeliness across districts to divisional standards
- Issue resolution : Extensive experience with resolving all manner of issue every level of operation
Accomplishments
- Test store leader of ALDI curbside pickup, assisting with both SOP creation and assessment of store capabilities
- Built up the Bemidji locatiom from a new store in 2020 to the 3rd best performing store in the division in two years time.
- Trained and assisted in training several store managers and district managers across multiple districts.
Timeline
Assistant Store Manager
Aldi Inc.
07.2023 - Current
Store Manager
Aldi Inc.
09.2020 - 07.2023
Manager Trainee
Aldi Inc.
02.2019 - 09.2020
Shift Manager
Aldi Inc.
09.2017 - 02.2019
Shift Manager
Coborn's Marketplace
04.2012 - 09.2017
High School Diploma -
Little Falls Senior High School
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