Andy Higgins Email & Phone Number

Salt Lake City, Ut, Us

Salt Lake City, Ut

What I am doing:★ Hand-picked by leadership to manage relationships with several of the company’s largest key accounts, collaborating with senior representatives on the #1 account, with the goal of eventually taking it over.★ Provided invaluable support to customers in managing their sales by partnering with finance teams to ensure profitability, designing the caps, ensuring orders are taken in a timely manner, and collaborating with production and logistics teams to coordinate deliveries.★ Researched current headwear trends through social media platforms, bringing back data for design teams to utilize to keep products as current and popular as possible.★ Awarded with a top 10 account less than three years after being hired in recognition of excellent management of YoY Sales gains and an acumen for retaining accounts. ★ Additionally awarded with the 2015 Western Regional Rep of the Year Award in recognition of notable sales increases, margin maintenance, relationship management, and market share growth.

What I have done:★ Leveraged creativity and market savvy to develop new and innovative headwear trends while also utilizing internet research to maintain pace with current marketplace trends.★ Excelled at maintaining proper inventory levels across all 62 retail locations in Utah, Idaho, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Kansas, and Texas including the Utah Jazz and Salt Lake Bees stores. ★ Recovered a dying category from the brink of collapse across the 62 stores, recovering it from 20% of overall business into a 35% behemoth in a single season. This was achieved through effective buys, cost negotiations, vendor management, and marking down of slow-moving products to keep inventory clean. ★ One of the key team members responsible for Fanzz being awarded the 2010 NBA Retailer of the Year award at the NBA retailers’ summit by the NBA Commissioner.

Salt Lake County, Utah, United States

What I have done:★ Served as a highly impactful District/Regional manager in charge of 12 stores across 4 states, directly leading store managers, assistant managers, and part-time employees. ★ Maintained strong relationships with the regions staff, listening to concerns, relating information, working on resolutions, and coaching them on how they can best improve for themselves and their store.★ Worked alongside a team of 2 others to develop and directly implement training and operations materials, personally training 12 store managers, 20 assistant managers, and over 50 part-time staff.★ Excelled at financial management duties such as payroll budgets, expense control, and loss prevention.★ Crafted an operations manual for use at the store level that improved productivity and reduced losses.★ Achieved the highest sales volume of any district in the company after only 6 months of management.