Bob Muldoon Email & Phone Number

Boca Raton, FL

VP Omni-Channel Retail, Digital & Contract for Office Supplies, Furniture & Technology.

Framingham, MA

• Directed all Merchandise Management and fiscal accountability for a variety of businesses with $1 Billion in retail and online sales. Categories included Office Supplies, Furniture, Technology Business machines.
• Negotiated 28% of Staples 2013 cost savings while managing 12% of purchases
• Envisioned and developed new on-line furniture store front that improved the sales trend by over 1200 basis points in 4 months after launch
• Expert in finding, testing and adding new revenue sources. Proactively launched strategies including doubling front end sales, front of store item of the month program, that led to an incremental $100M in sales
• Initiated industry first cut-sheet paper 5 ream easy to handle case that improved the entire category trend by over 500 basis points
• Launched cleaning & break room initiative with a completely revamped assortment, pricing, marketing, inventory planning, off-shelf and in-line strategy in 2009 resulting in over 25% growth every year for the last 4 years

Framingham, MA

• Directed all Merchandise Management and fiscal accountability for the chairs, furniture and lighting businesses with $350 million in retail sales.
• Developed go-to-market and branding strategies for the furniture category. These strategies led to the turnaround of the business that improved comp 400 basis points better than company trend (2002 – 2004)
• Developed a new ready to assemble furniture assortment for the contract catalog that imporved catalog performance by 18% in the first year
• Increased Staples own brand penetration by over 600 basis points that led to improved sales and margin

Braintree, MA

• Divisional Merchandise Manager Electronics, Technology, Storage, Hardware, Tools, Paint, Pet Supplies (1992-2001)
• Led the retail reinvention and conversion of new growth businesses in TV’s, DVD’s and photography that led to an incremental $40M in sales
• Launched quarterly storage events with strong marketing support and grew to 18% of total company weekly salesBuyer – Hardware, Automotive and Pets (1990 – 1992)Buyer – Housewares (1986 – 1990)Assistant Buyer –.