Brian Bowden Email & Phone Number

Pleasant Hill, CA, US

Participate in phone meetings on a consulting panel. Provide sales assistance to small independant contractors to help with product placement in retail accounts.

• California State Chain Sales and Merchandising Tahoe Blue Spirits 03/2022-09/2022Responsible for communications between the distillery and distributor to make sure instocks are covered. Covered reporting to share with.
• Work with chain Account Executives to prepare for meetings with the chain buyers for new item placements as well as merchandising opportunities.
• Create new item presentations as well as fill out any retailer required paperwork
• Review data and analyts to determine next California chains to expand into.
• Follow up with the distributor merchandising manager to insure that displayactivity in the stores is in compliance.
• Create scan spreadsheets for the distributor

Concord, CA, US

Promoted and responsible for reporting to my direct report in management. Focus was on achieving weekly and monthy sales, margin, and margin dollar goals for the company. Worked closely with category partners to create incremental sales opportunities within categories either by marketing or cross merchandising. Participated in corporate holiday plans with.

Concord, CA, US

• Responsible for reporting to my direct report to achieve goals managing my portion of the wine department at 150M budget. DEvolped and curated a new schematic process that reduced overlap of new skus in the department.
• Acheived sales targets for the suppliers and distributors that I was responsible for.
• Partnered with other buyers in creation of the wine merchandise display program.
• Created new schematic guidelines for cold/chilled wines.
• Worked with operations to help develop a local wine schematic.
• Partnered with marketing to develop seasonal plans based on location and Nielson information.

Concord, CA, US

• Promoted and responsible for reporting to senior management, $160M budget, managing two employees, creating national merchandising and market plans, California and Arizona purchasing, pricing strategy, buying meetings.
• Achieved all goals year over year.
• Created 4th quarter holiday gifting program.

Concord, CA, US

• Promoted and responsible for reporting to the executive team, managing a retail store operations, managing 12 employees, achieving daily sales targets, money handling, deposits, scheduling, extensive knowledge of.
• Exceeded all store, salary, and sales expectations in all stores.
• Executive team increased responsibilities to include in all new store planning and openings in three states (CA, NV, FL), working with contractors, inspectors, construction, reset teams, suppliers, local distributors.