Brad Kaminski Email & Phone Number

Sandy, Ut, Us

Lehi, Utah, Us

• Leads all aspects of Pattern brand partner go-to-market strategies at a global level, working closely with international teams to cater to each region. • Leads a team of cross functional team members to execute on all aspects of international businesses, including inventory management, advertising, content and support teams. • Drives communication and strategy for all brand partners expanding to international businesses. • Serves as the marketplace expert with a deep knowledge of platform capabilities and business levers.• Leads all weekly, monthly, and quarterly meetings with brand partners.• Manages a global portfolio worth ~$100M annually, driving consistent YoY growth. • Appointed as the internal lead to develop a roadmap to assist all e-commerce managers on international expansion and brand performance growth.

Lehi, Utah, Us

- Leads all aspects of Pattern brand partner go-to-market strategies. - Develops and executes business strategies across all major e-commerce marketplaces: Amazon (US and International), Walmart, Target, eBay, etc.- Manages partner relationships, develops and executes business plans, leads a team of ecommerce professionals, and increases operational efficiencies. - Leads all weekly, monthly, and quarterly meetings with brand partners.- Partners with Inventory and Operations teams to ensure optimal in-stock and inventory position.- Partners with Advertising and Creative to bring business strategies to life and continually increase market share.- Manages a current brand portfolio worth ~$70M annually; driving YoY growth across all brands.

Park City, Ut, Us

- Develops strategic direction for the assortment including key items, big ideas, growth areas, and category/brand mix with omni-channel in mind.- Owns revenue, margin, inventory, receipt flow, and in-stocks levels for the business. - Manages vendor relationships and negotiates terms, pricing policies, promotional periods, and site strategies. - Manages the Open to Buy process, hind sighting SKU/Category performance, establishes Pre-Season PO receipt flow, Pre-Season inventory allocation, set in season sell-through targets, manages return to vendor and mark-down dollar requests with vendor, and ensures inventory management strategy aligned with company-wide financial goals.- Manages the marketing relationship by communicating key items and themes for season, brainstorming/hind-sighting promo concepts and reacting to performance, identifying risks in promotional calendar, and building back-ups

Coraopolis, Pa, Us

- Develops and manages the merchandise assortments for Fishing Apparel, in partnership with the buyer. Ensure the assortment meets the athlete’s needs and the brand vision.- Collaborates with business partners in Planning and Allocations to review financial plans and ensure alignment between financial expectations and assortment.- Participates in negotiations with existing and new vendors. Also partners with the Buyer on approach and management of the relationship.- Analyzes the current market to speak to trends, by translating opportunity into actionable assortment and experience decisions. - Presents pre-season line review to executive team members. Demonstrates expertise in product category and financial expectations.- Works closely with Planning and AR on shifts in business trajectory. Leverage performance indicators and open to buy position throughout the season to chase opportunities and mitigate risk.- Discovers opportunities and reacts to trends within the business. Which includes managing advertising, pricing, assortment needs and digital strategies.- Manages the execution of the advertising strategy from promo planning activities to ad proof accuracy- Builds strategic relationships with vendors and cross functional partners to discuss the business, recent trends and opportunities. - Participates in market trips to stores to assess and monitor performance and customer satisfaction. Works with the field leadership and employees to gain additional insights.- Ensures accurate and timely communication with the Visual team on upcoming floor sets to gain alignment with category strategy. This includes offering product placement recommendations and communicating adjustments. - Acts as mentor to Assistant Buyers and Merch Admins within team. Share feedback on projects, tasks and deliverables.

Coraopolis, Pa, Us

Assists the Senior Buyer with the development of merchandise assortments by category, collaborating on all parts of the business. Works closely with key business partners to develop and maintain relationships in order to drive the business. Consistently researches financial, competitive and industry data to be able to speak to current business trends and anticipate new ideas for the business. - Completes product buys for new programs by understanding industry trends and historical data to ensure the right product is available in stores at the right time. - Maintains the responsibility of business ownership by completing sales analysis, identifying business opportunities and making recommendations to drive the success of the business - Works with merchandise planner to confirm all completed product buy programs fit into receipt plans as well ensuring current product in-stock levels are optimal for promotional activity in order to drive sales and gross margin dollars - Communicates with cross-functional partners and vendors to develop strong relationships that will help drive the business unit as a whole - Maintains ownership of the marketing aspect of the business, including: promotion creation/validation, completing marketing ad proofs, developing email promotions and analyzing promotional performance - During Black Friday week, marketing assets were reduced versus the last year amount, therefore new marketing and sales tactics were put into place and resulting in the business being up 15% in sales over the year prior - Trains and develops Merchandise Administrators & MTPs on the team

Hudson, Oh, Us

-Assists in the development of monthly marketing plans for product lines -Utilizes various methods of competitive and consumer research to create inspiration for new product lines -Vendor interaction to discuss options for product sourcing of new category -Completes analysis of weekly financial reports and provides insights into category level performance -Completes article creation and buy plans for new product

Hudson, Oh, Us

Completed ten-week internship program within the merchandising team. Project driven internship focused on developing a new product line to be launched in April, 2016. Completed SWOT analysis to determine "white space" in the industry, created various options for new product line along with financial analysis to determine pricing strategy and liquidation of existing product. -Created multi-year business plan for new product line to generate incremental $8.0M in revenue and $4.0M in profit annually -Final Project Presentation was given to the Executive Team, including CEO, EVP, and CFO -Assisted in the development of monthly marketing plans for product lines -Utilized various methods of competitive and consumer research to create inspiration for new product lines -Vender interaction to discuss options for product sourcing of new category -Completed analysis of weekly financial reports and provided insights into category level performance

Stockholm, Stockholm County, Se

Provided excellent customer service, developed daily and weekly merchandising plans to drive performance to achieve store goals, acted as part of the District Support Team to assist other stores with display, merchandising, inventory rotation and associate training to high volume stores. Acted as lead trainer in home store to new associates. -Developed merchandise assortment plans to maximize sales-Routinely presented recommendations and other analysis to leadership to exceed sales goals-Generated average daily sales of $95,000 with an increase of 15-20% during peak selling periods