Bret Dotson Email & Phone Number

Stark, Tuscarawas, Carrollton, Wayne, Holmes, Coshocton, Harrison County Ohio

Selling Industrial Maintenance Products for Manufacturing, Auto and Truck Repair, Agriculture and Farming, Food Processing and Safety Products.85% of what we sell is made in the USA.Made sales goals through building relationships with maintenance departments which increased my new business by 30% each year. My account retention is 99%.

Canton, Ohio Area

Operating a service business and consumers assembling and repairing RTA ( Ready to Assemble ) products in there home or business.

• Plant liaison responsible for $1M in annual purchases for a global garage door manufacturing customer producing a variety of residential/commercial garage doors and parts including torsion springs and operating track..
• Within 6-months, captured a 34% cost savings on lowered Safety Product usage on the mfg. floor. With Safety product usage excessively high, department managers requested a way to reduce it thru restriction of daily.
• Department manager requested identifying a new CNC cutting bit supplier in order to lower price. Carried out the task with the existing vendor thru the creative solution of setting up a “carbide tip replacement” work.

• Operated local customer driven convenience store w/annual sales of $600K, supervising a team which included an assistant manager, clerk, cashiers & stockers. Tracked actual sales versus goals and inventory shrinkage.
• Increased annual sales 5% by monitoring items thru cycle counts to have the correct counts for order replenishment. Developed relationships w/many commercial accounts for bulk order sales.
• Reduced annual inventory shrinkage by 1%. Trained employees to reduce theft by providing excellent customer service which included greeting and assisting customers.

Conducted cold calls to construction companies and contractors acquiring new accounts and providing follow-up service. Facilitated orders by purchasing product and arranging delivery to customer.

Assisted contractor accounts with projects and increased add-on purchases as well as special orders. Other duties included cycle counts, setting plan-o-grams, and merchandising.

• Supervised 5 managers and 40 staff in 5 store locations assuring quality products and excellent customer service.
• Existing tool rental centers lacked necessary tool inventory and organization. Revitalization was done by becoming a part of a tool rental center program through True Value that added tools and supplies to the rental.
• Inventory control needed implemented for all stores. Was involved with the installation of the POS system. The online real-time use of data lines between stores for the POS system allowed the employees to know what was.

Bsba, Business Administration

Activities and Societies: Senior Year - On the West Virginia University's - Creative Arts Concert Series Board where I was on the Art.

High School Diploma, Business

Activities and Societies: Captain of the Golf Team, President of the Art Club where I brought many professional artist into the art class.