Stephen McLelland

Experience

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  Save Mart Supermarkets

  Jan 1973 - Jan 1991

  Store Director

  • Led an under-performing store (ranked 84th out of 89 stores) to one of the top 3 stores.• Implemented the first Hispanic Foods Department and Ethnic Community Relations Program. • Received innovative recognition by "Progressive Grocer's Magazine" as one of top ten retailers of the year 1988.• Supervised in new store acquisitions and directed staff evaluations and training.

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  McLelland Graphics

  Jan 1991 - Jan 1992

  Owner/General Partner

  • Managed all business processes, accounting and human resources.• Directed staff development and training.• Increased business by 300%.

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  Fleming Foods /C&S Wholesale Grocer's, Inc

  Feb 1992 - Jan 2007

  Merchandising Analyst /Vendor Relations Coordinator

  • Managed over 200 vendors: Developed growth initiatives, conducted business reviews, set pricing, sales, profit strategies and wrote and negotiated weekly ads increasing sales by 4%.• Lead negotiator of regional and national sales agreements for a billion dollar division, grew sales by 2%.• Developed and implemented VISIONET national training program.

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  Longs Drugs

  Dec 2007 - Oct 2008

  Category Manager

  • Responsible for new and discontinued items, Plano-gram development, retail pricing, sales, gross margin and weekly ad negations resulting in overall sales growth average of 19% and profits over 4 % over previous results.• Developed key corporate to operations service level monitoring program and store operations training guides in perishables.• Managed all snack foods, DSD vendors and all perishables (Frozen, Dairy and Produce) for a 522 store drug store chain with inventory management of 22 million Show less

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  Otis Elevator Company

  Oct 2008 - Sept 2010

  Account Manager

  • Responsible for sales, customer service and contracts accounting for market share growth of 2%.• Helped grow bottom line by 8% over two years period thru innovative selling.• Through team building united service team to receive superior service ratings on customer reviews..

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  Central Valley Professionals

  Nov 2010 - Jun 2011

  Volunteer

  Central Valley Professionals (CVP) is a Chapter of Experience Unlimited (EU) sponsored by the Employment Development Department (EDD).• Participated group development, professional training and professional networking.• Helped members interview, prepare resumes and job networking.

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  LDS Employment Resource Services

  Jan 2011 - May 2011

  Executive Associate

  Plan and facilitate weekly networking meetings for new employment center, track national statistics, train and coach other staff and volunteers, grow and manage employer relationships.

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  Warnock Food Products Inc (Real McCoy Snax)

  Apr 2011 - Aug 2013

  National Conventional Channel of Trade Sales Director

  Sales forecasting, Marketing Analysis, Retail, Wholesale, Distributor Key Account Management.• Developed a “Go to Market” Strategy for new product national introduction• Managed innovative sales and marketing initiative to both mainstream grocery retail and natural food markets.• Grew and maintained sales in extremely competitive retail categories.

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  LDS Employment Resource Services, Self-Reliance Services PEF

  Aug 2013 - Nov 2016

  Regional Manager

  LDS Employment Resource Services/ Self-Reliance Services PEF• Main focus to increase hope and self-reliance in all patrons, staff and associations.• Lead an under-performing non-profit organization to double the number of patrons served.• Organized and supported a job seeking network that reduced days to employment to less than a third of the time of the national average to find employment.

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  Fresno County Office of Education

  Mar 2017 - now

  Long Term Substitute Teacher

  Responsible to work in the absence of a regular teacher, and to aid students in understanding a subject matter. Recognized for easy adapting to difficult teaching situations.Excels in working with at-risk students.