Debbie Jones
Wine Sales Consultant & Wine Educator at Savi Provisions- Claim this Profile
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Credentials
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Certified Specialist of Wine
Society of Wine EducatorsJul, 2009- Oct, 2024
Experience
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Savi Provisions
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United States
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1 - 100 Employee
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Wine Sales Consultant & Wine Educator
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Nov 2016 - Present
Increase the store’s overall sales by assisting customers with their wine choices, providing excellent customer service, and imparting wine education by being available to answer questions. Conduct educational wine tastings in the store’s tasting room. Select the wines for the tastings. Research and prepare informational hand-outs, maps, and tasting notes. Promote the wines included in the tastings for the purpose of increasing sales. Increase the store’s overall sales by assisting customers with their wine choices, providing excellent customer service, and imparting wine education by being available to answer questions. Conduct educational wine tastings in the store’s tasting room. Select the wines for the tastings. Research and prepare informational hand-outs, maps, and tasting notes. Promote the wines included in the tastings for the purpose of increasing sales.
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Tower Beer, Wine & Spirits
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United States
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Beverage Manufacturing
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1 - 100 Employee
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Wine Consultant
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Dec 2015 - Sep 2016
Provided focused and friendly customer service and increased the store's sales by helping customers select wines and by answering questions and educating about wine. Assisted customers in the planning of their events, including parties, wedding receptions, and business events, by suggesting wine, beer, and liquor options and quantities. Placed special orders of wines not carried at Tower for customers, working with the distributors to ensure that the special orders were located and received. Helped with restocking of merchandise and the appearance of the displays and shelves.
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Savor Wine Boutique, Retail Division of Grape Crush Productions
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Greater Atlanta Area
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Assistant Store Manager & Senior Wine Consultant
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Nov 2013 - Dec 2015
Savor Wine Boutique was the Retail Division of Grape Crush Productions. Sold merchandise, answered questions, and practiced friendly customer service. Researched and composed tasting notes for the twice-weekly wine tastings, private events, and monthly wine club. Conducted wine tastings that included wine education for the guests and promoting sales. Developed and maintained working relationships with distributors, importers, and wineries. Assisted store owner/proprietor in the selection of wines for the store's inventory. Attended trade functions to stay up-to-date with trends in the wine industry, to expand wine knowledge, and to discover potential items for the store's inventory. Trained staff on wine tasting procedures and on new products. Ran sales and inventory reports and added new product through the QuickBooks POS system.
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Grape Crush Productions
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United States
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Events Services
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Senior Wine Consultant
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Nov 2010 - Dec 2015
Grape Crush Productions, a division of National Party Starters, is an event planning and marketing firm specializing in wine tastings, events, education, and excursions. Responsibilities included but were not limited to the following: solicit corporate and private wine tastings and other wine-related events; conduct wine tastings; develop and conduct educational series and programs; assist GCP in promotional efforts and represent GCP on-site at promotional events; generate new clients by researching target markets and creating prospect lists.
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Macy's
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United States
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Retail
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700 & Above Employee
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Vendor Demonstration Billing Coordinator
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Jan 1999 - Jan 2010
Asset Recovery, Macy's Corporate Services, Atlanta, GA. Billed vendors under contract with Macy's West for reimbursement for demonstration salary support and commission for sales associates using Microsoft Access. Ran monthly data extract jobs to receive sales and payroll data for all Macy's and Bloomingdale's divisions to create demo billings. Maintained a solid rapport with division contacts and fostered positive working relationships with numerous vendors through customer service practices. Researched and resolved vendor billing disputes. Trained co-workers on new systems and functions. Wrote training manuals and materials on billing systems and other functions. Worked with outside vendor to transfer paper records to CD. Demo billings for Macy's West, 1999 to 2009, totaled ~ $578,900,300.
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Corporate Loss Prevention Store Auditor
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Jul 1992 - Jan 1999
Corporate Inventory Control, Atlanta, GA. Performed shortage prevention/security-related audits within assigned stores and reported audit results to senior management. Worked in conjunction with stores on shortage prevention programs with the purpose of achieving the stores' seasonal inventory shortage goals. Trained assigned stores on physical inventory procedures. Assisted in store and warehouse/distribution center physical inventories using PDT and Telxon equipment and in post-inventory book reconciliations. Wrote and created training manuals and materials and conducted training classes and workshops on shortage prevention and inventory procedures. Trained new audit staff members.
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Supervisor, Physical Inventory and Reconciliation
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Oct 1984 - Jul 1992
Corporate Inventory Control, Atlanta, GA. Planned the company's physical inventories. Worked within the company's mainframe inventory systems. Scheduled cutoff dates. Issued calendars and communications. Wrote and issued manuals on inventory procedures. Arranged for the ordering, printing, and dispensing of inventory supplies to stores and warehouse/distribution center. Conducted training classes on inventory procedureswith corporate associates. Worked with buyers, stores, and data processing/data entry to reconcile the physical and book inventories.
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Head of Sales
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Oct 1979 - Oct 1984
Assistant to the departmental Sales Managers in Housewares, Candy, and Bakery and in Juniors at the Lenox Square branch, Atlanta, GA.
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Sales Associate
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Nov 1977 - Oct 1979
In Ladies' Accessories and Junior Accessories at the Lenox Square branch, Atlanta, GA.
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Education
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The University of Georgia
Bachelor’s Degree, English
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