Ben Messina Email & Phone Number

Peoria, Illinois, United States

Lead the Key Account Analytics team in anticipating, developing, and maintaining databases and reportsOwn the day to day management of direct e-commerce relationships including Amazon.comParticipate in account management activities including assortment planning, integration management, and other sales supporting activities

San Francisco Bay Area

Representing brand in rollout of new planning system - collaboration with internal IT partners, business leaders, and external vendors to develop a system most relevant to the needs of the business. Leading the team through the change management process, including adoption and training.

San Francisco Bay Area

Retail Store & Online inventory management for owned categories, including retail B&M, catalog, and ecommerce businesses. Leadership responsibility for 3 direct reports. General duties include forecasting sales, planning inventory, and vendor management.

San Francisco Bay Area

Direct-To-Consumer/Online inventory management for owned areas. General duties included bottoms up sales forecasting, inventory planning to multiple warehouse locations, and vendor management.

Originally hired to plan and manage inventory for key categories. Later recruited as a merchant (concurrent with inventory duties) for the Watch business to lead the re-launch of the category, resulting in 2-3x sales increases with none of the inventory risk.

Contract position. Created a reporting process for the 3rd party distribution center network, as well as advised on selldown strategy for seasonal cup program. Utilized some of the processes I created in planning for a category consolidation project.

Contract position. Purchasing Manager for major envelope manufacturing facility. Purchasing of raw materials (paper, cartons) and production supplies. Provided customer service, inventory qa, and supplier management duties.

PO creation and management for Men's Suiting and Kid's Wear. Planned store level distributions, communicated with stores on stock concerns, and advised merchants on selling strategy.

Planned inventory for the Jewelry & Watches departments. Forecasted inventory needs and managed supplier bids for those needs. Constantly collaborated with the warehouse on qa issues, ring building schedules, and receipt management.

Supervised team of 6 Special Order book buyers. Provided operations support for the department and worked closely with IT personnel on systems development.

Managed segment of the largest publishers in the group. Maintained department's ordering systems in UNIX environment. Special projects as assigned.

Buying responsibility in queue of publisher orders to be placed. Negotiations. Email and phone publisher order support.