Blake Thiessen Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Washington, Us

• Procured and developed all supplier relationships, while providing training on the Supplier Core technology so their users could manage their orders and products.• Successfully added over 17,000 products from individual suppliers over a 4-year period. This included building the relationship with the supplier, training the supplier on the MainStem process, building the products in the database and overseeing the orders placed/received.• Managed and submitted purchase orders for all inventory supplies, conducting margin, revenue, and price analyses for inventory purchases.• Oversaw both domestic and international inventory procurement, including setting up FOB shipments and collaborating with manufacturers.• Managed all custom projects, including high-value jobs exceeding $100k with at least 50% profit.• Provided comprehensive product data and taxonomy on MainStem's Marketplace, reporting and resolving over 250 bugs and suggesting improvements.• Collaborated with supplier partners to enhance their product data, resulting in increased sales and customer interaction.• Played a key role in establishing and setting up multiple API/integrated partnerships.• Successfully improved profit margin from 7.7% to 26.4% by the end of 2018, achieving the company's best sales year.

• Initiated and developed sales pipeline for cannabis packaging and supplies in an emerging industry.• Sold through all our inventory within my first 3 months, which led to unhappy customers because they relied on us for their supplies. I was able to maintain and strengthen those relationships through the supplier network I built to be able to fulfill similar or the same products.• Built supplier relationships to ensure customer satisfaction during inventory shortages. This included packaging, growing supplies, retail accessories, laboratory supplies, and traceability sypplies.• Was promoted to Product Line Manager, overseeing product data management, domestic and overseas projects as well as continuing to develop and maintain supplier and customer relationships.• Set up first API partner to offer their retail products at a wholesale -5% price to cannabis businesses (most competitive price available). This first API evolved into other software partners requesting API integrations to further their involvement in the software suite we provided.

Bellevue, Washington, Us

• Assisted warm leads and transfers in finding suitable life insurance or annuity policies.• Quickly promoted from BDR (Business Development Representative).• Certified in life and disability insurance.

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• Picked and organized 30 varieties of breads, muffins, and bagels for over 200 stores. Picks needed to be quick and accurate in order to keep process efficient and trucks on time to their next delivery.• Loaded pallet stacks onto trucks for shipment to Pacific Northwest, Hawaii, and Alaska Safeway locations.- Was responsible for bread coming out of the oven and through the slicers. Needed to load bread into trays so pickers could distribute bread into proper store bins (see above).

• Stocked, organized, and managed all grocery items, including some produce.• Led a team in the final year, assisting with schedules, duty management, and displays.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Financial Economics

High School Diploma