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Territory Manager with over twenty years of experience at multiple levels of management in retail, sales, warehousing and inventory. I spent the first nine years after college working for Lowe’s, during my tenure there I spent time managing every department except appliances. I really enjoyed working with salespeople of different backgrounds and I believe they helped me be very down to earth in my management style. In 2009, I accepted a manager position with Beacon Tire, this allowed my wife and I the opportunity to move back to my hometown and start a family, without the retail work schedule. During my time at Beacon Tire I have held a few different positions as well. As I stated before, I started as the manager of our Fort Smith location. I spent five years being the Inventory Manager for our five distribution centers. This was obviously a large job, especially during the pandemic. While in this role I was able to bring in multiple new vendors to not only keep inventory, but to provide a better value to our customers. While I have managed salespeople in different roles and companies, salesperson has actually never been in my job title. I look forward to great opportunity in my new position and meeting the people I have talked to on the phone the last thirteen years. And of course meeting new people and setting up and growing new accounts. So far it is very fun and exciting. God Bless!

Listed skills include Inventory Management, Retail, Merchandising, Inventory Control, and 11 others.

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