Barton Lindberg Email & Phone Number

Denver, Co

• Manage all car lines portfolios to meet sales and productivity-related goals for Dealer Tire in the Pacific Northwest, Nevada, Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming.• Build and maintain professional relationships with Dealership Management in line with commitments for dealer initiatives, targets, and goals to ensure objectives are met. • Create awareness by communicating key initiatives of the Dealer Tire program's value to ensure continued commitment to the program. • Implement company solutions that match the dealership's needs while maintaining open lines of communication on the company's value through metrics, training, and corporate involvement. • Produce and deliver market reviews, which have helped the dealership identify strengths and gaps to reach their potential. • Create and communicate strategies, goals, and action plans to drive results that increase dealership productivity and follow-up to ensure all progress or gaps are apparent each month. • Develop and maintain professional, long-term business relationships through collaboration with OEM field contacts and other program resources and engagement with each dealership, showing unity and inclusion. • Orchestrate and coordinate the necessary operational teams into dealerships to ensure their needs are met. • Diagnose opportunities at each dealership to an accurate return on investment (ROI) can be established for continued growth within the assigned portfolio.• Assess, reinforce, and implement processes and elements across the service lane so that each dealership is aware of its benefit to the program. • Ensure service advisor effectiveness and overall retail strategies through coaching the training to maximize the business opportunity across all products. • Analyze and correctly identify training needs of dealership staff and engage the appropriate teams from Dealer Tire to improve the program. • Develop/implement strategies and procedures to support dealerships in their Effective Selling Strategy.

Aurora, Colorado

• Managed a high-performing team of 23 employees comprised of assistant managers, a sales team, and automotive technicians, providing coaching on store management functions, retail, automotive, and corporate processes. • Maintained responsibility for profit and loss (P&L) budgeting, management, and forecasting and the scheduling, hiring, and firing of staff.• Led in terms of shop safety management, customer satisfaction, and store compliance. • Performed leadership training for new General Managers hired into Pep Boys for open stores and led teams to meet sales goals and key performance indicators (KPIs) throughout the district. • Provided wide-ranging corporate executive support in training and initiative rollouts. Notable achievements while in the position included:- Delivered results that increased monthly revenue and streamlined operations while maintaining full profit and loss (P&L) accountability.- Recognized as a “Leader in Sales for Retail, Commercial, and Service.”- Developed and implemented inventory controls that decreased shrinkage.- Produced results that continually met and exceeded sales goals and targets while in the position.

Longmont, Colorado

• Maintained full responsibility for increasing sales within the local and district stores, the management of daily operations functions, internal Human Resources, and the training and development of employees in the Colorado district. • Managed a high-performing team comprised of 8 automotive technicians and assistant managers through a committed approach to training on store management functions and retail, automotive, and corporate processes and procedures. • Responsible for profit and loss (P&L) budgeting, management, and forecasting, staff scheduling, hiring and firing, shop safety management, customer satisfaction, and store compliance. • Developed and implemented inventory controls designed to decrease shrinkage throughout the stores. Notable achievements while in the position included:- Delivered results that met and exceeded defined growth and sales targets.

Denver, Colorado

• Served as an automotive industry leader managing sales, operations, human resources, and employee development for Bridgestone and its subsidiary Tires Plus.• Provided leadership for a high-performing team comprised of assistant managers, sales teams, automotive technicians, and state inspectors.• Responsible for profit and loss (P&L) budgeting, management, and forecasting and staff scheduling, performance management, staffing, and employee relations for local and district-wide locations. • Coached and trained staff, store managers, and regional management on store management functions, tires, and processes to achieve targeted key performance indicators (KPIs) and industry updates/standards. • Led shop safety management relative to strict OSHA and company standards.• Developed and implemented inventory controls that decreased shrinkage through the stores/shops within the districts and regions. • Managed multiple stores when store management was not present and trained new management staff in-store management best practices.