Aaron Shooter Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Australia

Australia

Australia

Australia

Bendigo, Australia

Castlemaine, Victoria

Sydney, Australia

Key Responsibilities: • Manage Product Development• Manage Product localisation• Manage Product Marketing• Manage Product Merchandising and POS• Development of promotional offers and strategic product offerings• Sales support• Business development• Train the trainerAchievements:• Actively engaged with National Account Managers to create relationships at key major retail offices.• Worked extensively with National Account managers to win representation in 2 major national retail accounts.• Achieved 120% of Sales whilst exceeding GIM budget in first full fiscal year.• Created unique product offerings contributing incremental revenue to customers and the business.• Managed major packaging transition with minimal impact on sales and resultant incremental profit growth through reduced freight costs to market.• Managed local implications of a brand transition returning brand equity to company identity rather than created sub-brand

Key Responsibilities: • Management of tele-sales call centre• Management of field State Account Managers• Account management• Initiation, communication and management of mark-down process• Management of special offers and promotional follow up• Maintenance of forecasts and allocations• Execution of sales policy change and administration• SAP (IT system) Super User for the sales department• Management of 3rd party point of sale distribution and warehousing partner.Achievements:• Change of focus from a pure data entry/administration team to a Pro-Active Tele-Sales approach to both customers and State Account Managers• Initiated a stock and sales review to better include sales in operational planning (grown further by the employment of a sales analyst)• Managed the set-up of an external POS distribution partner

Key Responsibilities:• Creation and maintenance of a range plan covering three major business categories (Hardware, Software & DVD) and encompassing 300 product lines• Direction and approval of online shop presentation• Initiation and management of relationships with key web portals• Management of a direct to customer e-mail campaign• Liaison with third party providers of call-centre and warehousing services• SAP (IT system) web shop super userAchievements: • Created a complete range plan from scratch• Key managerial role in the implementation of SAP system for both back end systems management and front end web shop functionality• Responsible for a 10 fold increase in sales over a 12 month period

Key Responsibilities: • Open to buy Management• Maintaining planned minimum stock levels (stock days)• Order Determination, Creation and Maintenance• Product System Maintenance; Distribution Liaison• Reporting of Stock related issues• Import liaisonAchievements: • Creation of a unique returns procedure to best utilise available funds to reduce high stock products and ensure all discontinued products were actioned within crucial time-frames.• Initiation of shrink-wrap and data tagging of key high loss, high value product offerings resulting in the retention of high profile retail accounts.

Key Responsibilities: • Product system maintenance• Order administration• Range determination• Sample creation/follow up• Price determination• Import LiaisonAchievements: • Initiation of complex Excel macros to streamline range evaluation

Key Responsibilities: • Product system maintenance• Order administration