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Samuel Lee Mingy

Samuel Lee Mingy

Summary

Strong problem-solving abilities, a willingness to learn, and excellent communication skills contribute to team success and achieve positive results. Passionate about tackling new challenges and advancing organizational objectives, dedicated and enthusiastic. Hardworking job seeker with strong organizational skills, eager to secure an entry-level position as Job Title. Ready to utilize abilities to help the team achieve company goals.

Overview

24
24
years of professional experience

Work History

Sales and Operations Project Manager

Gorilla Press.Co
05.2020 - Current
  • Supporting the director of the company in various roles:
  • Creation of new products, OEMs for current and potential customers, spearheading the research and development of the company
  • Building customer relations with current and new customers in aspects of quality, sales, new products to feature
  • Management of fresh ingredients and dry goods inventory and quality standards- pre-processed and processed for customers, ensuring quality checks and standards
  • Learning and development and quality assurance- updating processes, internal audits in alignment with SFA guidelines

Category Manager

Memento vivere, MVLS Singapore
10.2019 - 04.2020
  • Supporting and assisting the sales team in a 360 aspect with:
  • Creation of recipes and beverage for our partners and clients
  • Operations and menu planning for new and existing establishments
  • Training partners and customers on product creation, application and taste profiles
  • Supporting and advisory in operational workflow, deployment in the planning processes
  • Monitoring sales trendings and product stock balance, - Projection of stocks for overseas ordering cycles and shipping
  • Supporting collaborative events:
  • Collaboration with Shin Chap Singapore: Mobile Bartending Event for NDP 2020 Opening Ceremony
  • Collaboration with Singapore Bai Jiu (MouTai) in mobile branding bartending events
  • TLM food expo, mobile bartending and coffee cart

Operations Manager

Huggs Coffee Singapore
11.2017 - 10.2019
  • Creating, streamlining and executing the learning and development department of the company, on site and off site training support
  • Onsite coaching and implementation of standard operating procedures and processes with corporate and franchise owned outlets
  • Assisting the franchisee owners in aspects of human resources, business management, procurement and marketing processes, planning and strategies
  • Spearheading the corporate leadership team of area managers in creating operational processes, training manuals, audits and training franchisees in training, hiring and supporting individual business operational and sales analysis
  • Assigned with a secondary role of an area manager with a cluster of 5 franchised outlets to oversee and support with regards to operations, resources and onsite training and audits
  • Reviewing individual outlet's sales mix and KPI's, assisting in business analytics in areas of improvement, ordering trends and customer and trade area profiling

Floor Manager/Head Barista

Stray by Fat Cat
11.2016 - 11.2017
  • Company Overview: Artisan Pastry, Ice Cream Bar and Restaurant
  • Managing the day daily operations with aspects of overall service experience, beverage quality, ordering of supplies and food and dessert presentations
  • Being a new player in the market, the job responsibilities are focused on training and research and development in beverage selections
  • Upholding and ensuring service standards are of a legendary service experience
  • And consistently maintained regardless of working with a newly formed team of baristas and service crew
  • Meeting the weekly and monthly KPI targets set by the upper management team
  • Artisan Pastry, Ice Cream Bar and Restaurant

Café Manager

Mahota Commune Pte Ltd
05.2016 - 11.2016
  • Overall in charge of the pantry department of Mahota Commune
  • Supporting the company in setting up the structures of operations, standard operating procedures and standards before the grand opening
  • Coordinating coffee workshops and classes for public and corporate clients
  • Restructuring seasonal and core beverage menus
  • Training and ensuring standards with regards to service, beverage and overall customer experience, building the foundations of a sustainable customer base
  • Establishing business strategies for attracting new customer base and retention of existing customers
  • Analysing the trade area for potential awareness tactics to promote the brand
  • Interaction with suppliers to establish the supply and logistic requirements of the company
  • Scheduling and hiring manpower to schedule and arrange operational needs
  • Monitoring and tracking sales trends to analyze sales mix to do forecasting for production and ordering cycles

Assistant Restaurant Manager

The Coffee Academics Pte Ltd
11.2015 - 04.2016
  • In charge of setting up the restaurant before the soft and grand opening of the first flagship store in Singapore at Scotts Square
  • Overseeing daily operations, deployment of daily staffing and stations
  • Weekly scheduling of manpower for the service stations and beverage stations
  • Ordering of operational stocks, meeting suppliers and sales representatives from various companies that offer services and products
  • Creating training structures in the areas of service training and beverage training standard operating procedures, implementing quality control and hygiene standards tracking
  • For service training and operational workflow, training and coaching
  • Ensuring and auditing that service standards are constantly improving and evolving to build a strong customer's base, taking care of the regulars and creating new customers
  • Always seeking customer feedback to meet expectations and continuously improving and upgrading the benchmark for overall customer satisfaction and company's branding and mission principles
  • Workshops: Coordinating basic barista workshops, sensory sessions, latte art workshops as well as coffee appreciation classes for beginners to intermediate levels

Store Manager

Starbucks Coffee Singapore
05.2011 - 10.2015
  • Ensuring that the store's KPI are met according to the AOP set for the store with precise planning and executing, and adding factors of trade area, customer's profile, store's manpower strength
  • Consistently adhere to the company's global quality standard in beverage, food and hygiene by doing monthly audits and random audits
  • To inspire and coach partners in store to provide the great legendary service to the customers and equip them with skills to handle unsatisfied customer
  • Plan, forecasted manpower for the store and performing hiring and managing turnover of staff
  • Timely reporting to the district managers as a store lead
  • Ensuring coffee culture is place in store and district, enabling and empowering each partner with great coffee knowledge that they are able to passionately sharing it with the team and customers
  • Opened outlet at Bishan Community Club, (located opposite junction, Starbucks Singapore first Store located in the Community Centre), independent planning and executing according to time line, and worked with other departments seeking their advice for their area of expertise

Store Manager (Tully's Coffee and Quiznos Sub)

Kitchen Language Pte Ltd.
09.2009 - 05.2011
  • Company Overview: (Far East Organization)
  • Pioneering team, assisting with setting up of new stores at Far East Square, Icon Village, Orchard central and Square 2 (Novena)
  • Learning and development lead, the process of ensuring that all new hires and current staff are trained, accessed as aligned with the standard operational procedures communicated by the main brand companies (Quiznos Sub from US) and Tully's Coffee from Japan
  • Main coordinator of the central distribution store, ensuring that the outlets ordering trends are on par with the operational usage
  • Tracking of the stock balance and product expiry in the main central distribution centre to forecast for upcoming overseas shipments
  • Supporting events and manpower at respective outlets as a trainer and internal auditor
  • (Far East Organization)

Restaurant Team Leader

Marche Restaurant Singapore
04.2008 - 09.2009
  • Spearheading each individual shift as scheduled as a team lead at Vivo city Marche
  • Ensuring the operations in the front of house is running smoothly in various deployment
  • Hosting (issuing of guest cards)
  • Ushering of seating during peak hours and weekends
  • Beverage counters and dessert counters are staffed up sufficiently
  • Counter displays for each individual counter is displayed according to Marche's standards
  • Overall cleaning and ensuring all facilities provided to the guests in house are taken
  • Ordering supplies according to the par levels of operational needs
  • Sourcing for new suppliers with assistance of the senior management team
  • Creations of new limited time offers beverage and dessert offerings at the counters

Shift Manager

Starbucks Coffee Company Singapore
08.2006 - 03.2008
  • Responsible for each duty as scheduled, deploying the staff to respective positions and tasks
  • Ensuring that each customer is being treated with the Starbucks experience
  • Meeting the sales targets set by the outlet manager on a monthly and weekly key performance index
  • Building the coffee culture in the outlet and district cluster as a coffee master specialist, connecting with the team and customers
  • Ordering operational supplies according to par levels and budget provided by the finance management

Automotive Specialist Technician (Armored)

Singapore Armed Forces SAF
06.2001 - 08.2006
  • Primary role of the automotive technician is to conduct outfield and in camp operational as well as major servicing
  • Supporting local and oversea exercises in classified training areas with the armored brigades
  • Leading a team of dual vocationalist (combat and technical) trained personnel on supporting exercises
  • Spearheading the training wing as a team lead, trainer and operator
  • Equipping the active and reserve service man in refresher courses, technical skills, basic soldiering audits and training
  • Deploying a company of 150-200 men during the reservist cycle, in camp and outfield training
  • Ensuring the training exercise during the 2-3 week window is operated smoothly, efficiently and timely with the assistance of the individual platoon sergeants

Education

Diploma - Food And Beverage Management

University Of Las Vegas
06.2011

GCE 'O' Levels -

Fairfield Methodist Secondary School
12.1997

PSLE Certificate -

Fairfield Methodist Primary School
12.1992

Skills

  • Proficient in written English
  • Proficient in conversational English
  • Proficient in written Chinese
  • Proficient in conversational Chinese
  • Microsoft Power Point
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Operational efficiency
  • Project planning and development
  • Relationship building
  • Customer relations
  • Task prioritization
  • Coaching and mentoring
  • Client relations

Job Experiences

  • Gorilla Press.Co, 05/01/20, Current, Sales and Operations Project Manager, Supporting the director of the company in various roles, Creation of new products, OEMs for current and potential customers, spearheading the research and development of the company, Building customer relations with current and new customers in aspects of quality, sales, new products to feature, Management of fresh ingredients and dry goods inventory and quality standards- pre-processed and processed for customers, ensuring quality checks and standards, Learning and development and quality assurance- updating processes, internal audits in alignment with SFA guidelines
  • Memento vivere, MVLS Singapore, 10/01/19, 04/30/20, Category Manager, Supporting and assisting the sales team in a 360 aspect, Creation of recipes and beverage for our partners and clients, Operations and menu planning for new and existing establishments, Training partners and customers on product creation, application and taste profiles, Supporting and advisory in operational workflow, deployment in the planning processes, Monitoring sales trendings and product stock balance, projection of stocks for overseas ordering cycles and shipping, Supporting collaborative events
  • Huggs Coffee Singapore, 11/01/17, 10/31/19, Operations Manager, Creating, streamlining and executing the learning and development department of the company, Onsite coaching and implementation of standard operating procedures and processes with corporate and franchise owned outlets, Assisting the franchisee owners in aspects of human resources, business management, procurement and marketing processes, planning and strategies, Spearheading the corporate leadership team of area managers in creating operational processes, training manuals, audits and training franchisees, Assigned with a secondary role of an area manager with a cluster of 5 franchised outlets to oversee and support with regards to operations, resources and onsite training and audits, Reviewing individual outlet's sales mix and KPI's, assisting in business analytics in areas of improvement, ordering trends and customer and trade area profiling
  • Stray by Fat Cat, 11/01/16, 11/30/17, Floor Manager/Head Barista, Managing the daily operations with aspects of overall service experience, beverage quality, ordering of supplies and food and dessert presentations, Focusing on training and research and development in beverage selections, Upholding and ensuring service standards are of a legendary service experience
  • Mahota Commune Pte Ltd, 05/01/16, 11/30/16, Café Manager, Overall in charge of the pantry department of Mahota Commune, Supporting the company in setting up the structures of operations, standard operating procedures and standards before the grand opening, Coordinating coffee workshops and classes for public and corporate clients, Restructuring seasonal and core beverage menus, Training and ensuring standards with regards to service, beverage and overall customer experience
  • The Coffee Academics Pte Ltd, 11/01/15, 04/30/16, Assistant Restaurant Manager, In charge of setting up the restaurant before the soft and grand opening of the first flagship store in Singapore, Overseeing daily operations, deployment of daily staffing and stations, Weekly scheduling of manpower for the service stations and beverage stations, Ordering of operational stocks, meeting suppliers and sales representatives, Creating training structures in the areas of service training and beverage training standard operating procedures
  • Starbucks Coffee Singapore, 05/01/11, 10/31/15, Store Manager / District Coffee Master, Ensuring that the store's KPI are met according to the AOP set for the store, Consistently adhere to the company's global quality standard in beverage, food and hygiene, To inspire and coach partners in store to provide great legendary service to the customers, Plan, forecasted manpower for the store and performing hiring and managing turnover of staff
  • Kitchen Language Pte Ltd., 09/01/09, 05/31/11, Store Manager (Tully's Coffee and Quiznos Sub), Pioneering team, assisting with setting up of new stores, Learning and development lead, ensuring that all new hires and current staff are trained, Main coordinator of the central distribution store
  • Marche Restaurant Singapore, 04/01/08, 09/30/09, Restaurant Team Leader, Spearheading each individual shift as scheduled as a team lead, Ensuring the operations in the front of house is running smoothly, Ordering supplies according to the par levels of operational needs
  • Starbucks Coffee Company Singapore, 08/01/06, 03/31/08, Shift Manager, Responsible for each duty as scheduled, deploying the staff to respective positions and tasks, Ensuring that each customer is being treated with the Starbucks experience, Meeting the sales targets set by the outlet manager
  • Singapore Armed Forces SAF, 06/01/01, 08/31/06, Automotive Specialist Technician (Armored), Platoon Sergeant, Primary role of the automotive technician is to conduct outfield and in camp operational as well as major servicing, Supporting local and oversea exercises in classified training areas, Leading a team of dual vocationalist trained personnel

Nric

S8025196C

Languages

English
Chinese

Ethnic Group

Chinese

Personal Information

  • Age: 45
  • Date of Birth: 08/29/80
  • Gender: Male
  • Nationality: Singaporean

Timeline

Sales and Operations Project Manager

Gorilla Press.Co
05.2020 - Current

Category Manager

Memento vivere, MVLS Singapore
10.2019 - 04.2020

Operations Manager

Huggs Coffee Singapore
11.2017 - 10.2019

Floor Manager/Head Barista

Stray by Fat Cat
11.2016 - 11.2017

Café Manager

Mahota Commune Pte Ltd
05.2016 - 11.2016

Assistant Restaurant Manager

The Coffee Academics Pte Ltd
11.2015 - 04.2016

Store Manager

Starbucks Coffee Singapore
05.2011 - 10.2015

Store Manager (Tully's Coffee and Quiznos Sub)

Kitchen Language Pte Ltd.
09.2009 - 05.2011

Restaurant Team Leader

Marche Restaurant Singapore
04.2008 - 09.2009

Shift Manager

Starbucks Coffee Company Singapore
08.2006 - 03.2008

Automotive Specialist Technician (Armored)

Singapore Armed Forces SAF
06.2001 - 08.2006

GCE 'O' Levels -

Fairfield Methodist Secondary School

PSLE Certificate -

Fairfield Methodist Primary School

Diploma - Food And Beverage Management

University Of Las Vegas
Samuel Lee Mingy