Paula Delgado

Focused on curating product portfolios that blend authenticity with high quality food experiences. Northgate Markets is the premier provider of authentic Hispanic foods and a new Mercado González experience in the USA.

Led growth initiatives for Mainstream, Meat, Seafood, Perishables, and Grocery Organics. Spearheaded new vendor partnerships and devised assortment strategies for multiple departments. Directed team execution for diverse category and sourcing strategies, strategically curating products across various departments. Formulated vendor strategies and guided merchandising departments, resulting in significant revenue and profit growth.

Premier Natural Grocer - Serving customers with the Highest Ingredient & Quality Standards in the US Grocery Industry. Grocery/Perishable Sales & Operations. Purchasing, Vendor & Category Management, Drive Organic brand partnership and first to market product innovation. Drive and exceed sales and profitability targets & best historical.

Manage the cost, performance planning and market share growth with vendors for Produce, Organics and Hispanic Categories across all banners nationally. Corp Lead for Hispanic initiatives working with Category Owners, Sourcing, Analytics , Marketing & Private Label. Build new relationships with a wide variety of suppliers & producers of all scales, drive Local focused programs.

Develop & implement purchasing, pricing, merchandising and promotional strategies. Purchase & Manage the merchandise assortment throughout all stores & DC inventory. Establish minimum sales targets and profit requirements. Develop & drive marketing agendas with sales campaigns and Ad’s tied with in‐store events, demos, social and web media channels to drive millennial and Hispanic customer retention.

Vendor Management, ensuring all forecast and flow requirements are executed to defined targets & standards. Undertake process improvement efforts, primarily with vendors and advanced systems, focused on improving overall supply chain & operations.

Managed all purchase & service contracts for casino including food and beverage. Project Manager for Oracle PeopleSoft implementation.

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