Ben Willis Email & Phone Number

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Joliet Il

Product forecasting and purchasing of all categories for a large multiple store retailer. Direct responsibility for all vendor programming. Primary point of contact for all merchandise activities in all stores, commercial sales, and online. Designer of all ordering, advertising, sales, and operational processes. Architect and author for all in house systems of digital communication, sales coaching, employee standards, and product education. Focused relationship builder within industry as top 30 major appliance retailer in the country. Experienced in developing team attitudes to resolve complex problems through simple systems. Actively maintained all vendor relationships with travel nationally and internationally for buy fairs, sales innovation seminars, and pre-launch product development. Collaborated and presented on more than 1300 internal conference calls to maintain lean business structures in all departments. Worked closely with four separate outside business assessment companies on retail strategies and best practices.

Joliet Il

Retail Sales Region Executive. Proven success at coaching sales staffs at several locations to achieving goals. Consistently achieved set goals for all locations managed with self implemented accountability structure. General Contractor on all new stores openings from design, layout, merchandising, to hiring and grand opening. Recruited, educated, supported and promoted more than 40+ people into management positions within the company. Maintained top personal individual sales through referral business in conjunction with store responsibilities. Actively participated in merchandising layouts and decisions to directly affect gross margin increases.

Chicago Il

Retail Sales General Manager Chicago in their top volume high profile location as well as #1 in Individual Sales for the entire 40 store, $120m+ chain. Personally developed and maintained an active client list of sales to professional athletes, actors/movie stars, police/fire, and b2b direct all the way to direct one on one fresh customer opportunities daily. Only employee in nationally televised commercial.