Chad Lee Email & Phone Number

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Endeavor Retail is a Bentonville, AR based retail consulting firm. We specialize in helping our clients win with their retail partners. Our services range from basic weekly reporting all the way to comprehensive hands on account management and carrying of the bag. We maintain a very small number of clients to ensure we can provide the focus and expertise needed to ensure our clients and their retail partners success.Retail supported include all major and specialty retailers with deep expertise at Walmart, Sam's Club, and Costco.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Division lead for a supplier representation and support company in Bentonville, home office is in Atlanta. We support numerous clients with their partnerships with Walmart, Sam’s Club, and other retail partners. Our support ranges from account leadership, logistics, replenishment, e-commerce, and analytics.• Manage client relationships for 15+ active clients.• Working with and managing business across multiple retailers and in departments like sporting goods, automotive, electronics, celebrations, seasonal, patio, and outdoor cooking.• Manage all client and customer relationship from CEO down. Comfortable working with any partner at any level.• Collaborate on a daily basis with client and customer team members to grow business including product management, engineering, sourcing, accounting, customer service, supply chain, and others.

Oklahoma City, Ok, Us

Responsible for growing the business and fostering great relationships with the accounts under my umbrella. Check out Jasco at www.byjasco.com or on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/jascoproducts/. Jasco is a for profit company that donates 50% of profits to organizations that help positively change the world!

Chino, California, Us

Sales and Marketing Executive overseeing the management of North American accounts. This has included Costco, Sears, Walmart, Amazon, WayFair, and others. Companies revenue in the hundreds of millions. Involved in both the strategic planning components of the business as well as the day to day execution needs of the business.• Grew Walmart business from zero to over $XMM in less than a year.• Team was responsible for opening new customers such as WayFair.Com and Amazon.com.• Worked in an environment of autonomy, reporting directly to CEOs.• Frequent travel to China to work hands on with our owned manufacture and to facilitate customer meetings.• Responsible for inventory and sales forecasting.• Manage over ten different rep agencies that supported our sales team.• Work with operations build and grow our drop ship business.• Coordinated departments involved in the success of new product lines; ID, Engineering, Graphics, Operations, and Sales.• Work with Whirlpool, to grow out KitchenAid branded product line.• Lead for launching new brand, Megamaster, into the North American market.

Kansas City, Missouri, Us

Member of a team responsible for $800MM+ in business with Walmart and Sam’s Club. Business includes international and Omni-channel segments. Responsible for day to day account management for Sam’s Club US/International and Walmart/Sam’s Club.Com Business (Omni-Channel).• Managed relationship of 12 different buyers across multiple segments of business within Sam’s Club and Omni-Channel.• Secured new programs and tests resulting in an estimated 22% increase in sales YOY at Sam’s Club.• Worked in an environment of autonomy, reporting directly to GM/VP.• Strong ability to work across an organization to drive projects from conception to completion.• Solely responsible for business analytic needs in addition to sales.• Lead for Hallmark Club Channel Committee.• Experience working with 3rd party fulfillment companies to manage direct to customer fulfillments for .Com.• Champion for breaking down barriers and silos to bring team together to drive towards success.

Arlington, Tx, Us

Member of a team responsible for $25M USD in business with Walmart, Sam’s Club. Business includes international segments such as Sam’s Club Puerto Rico, Walmart Canada, and Canada Mass customers. Responsible for day to day account management for Walmart US and Canada promotions, Sam’s Club US and Puerto Rico, and Walmart and Sam’s Club E-Commerce business.• Experience in organizing and facilitating annual line reviews and implementing actions items from line review.• Worked with marketing to identify strategic recommendations for promotion and modular assortment.• Executed numerous promotions including sidekicks and end caps resulting in lifts as high as 45%.• Provided industry and market data as well as recommendations to buying team to help with the decision making process.• Worked with internal teams to resolve operation and accounting needs including charge backs, deductions, and warehouse tickets.• Primary manager responsible for e-commerce for both Sam’s Club and Walmart, bringing an in-depth understanding of the needs/desires of an e-commerce customer. • Experience with using scorecards, POS summaries, forecasting reports, shipment dashboards, and etc. to monitor business and proactively address the needs and celebrate the wins.• Experience with Retail Link including pulling reports, market baskets, processing vendor agreements, and etc.

Arlington, Tx, Us

Lead a cross functional team, responsible for managing dog toys, cat toys, bird products, and consumables for the domestic and international market. These categories encompass seven brands and all channels. Full P&L responsibility and accountability to the executive team, board, and private equity firm. Responsible for complete lifecycle management from idea sketch to store and beyond.• Drove category growth through promotional opportunities, saw single item increase of over 200%.• Designed, developed, and rolled out new SKUs across all brands and channels, increasing revenue.• Successfully setup and rolled out items to global regions.• Coordinated all departments involved in the success of new product lines. ID, Engineering, Graphics, Operations, and Sales.• Led an initiative to develop NPD Process and put into place a structure to manage new projects efficiently.• Responsible for building all customer pricing programs for products within my categories.• Worked directly with sales team to support customers; including resetting plan-o-grams with merchants, attending and working trade shows, as well as coordinating line reviews, building the presentations, and presenting to customers, including all major retailers as well as the pet specialty channel.• Experience in enforcing the protection of intellectual property.• Trained in trademarks, copyrights, patents, trade dress, and trade secrets.• Experience in identifying and building relationships with suppliers, both international and domestic.• Led the development of all artwork; responsible for content and layout direction.• Regularly worked with senior staff and executives both internally and with customers.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Responsible for the management of all grilling and fuel categories both domestically and globally. Categories combine for over $150M USD in global revenues. Activities include working with and coordinating a team of 5 Global Product Managers as well as a domestic Product Coordinator.• Increased year over year North American category top line sales by 20%.• Coordinated and reviewed all market research and syndicated data to guide creation of consumer-focused products.• Designed, developed, and launched Coleman NXT grill family, hit market in Feb. 2013. Demand was double forecasts.• Successfully rolled out family of products to global regions including EMEA, Asia/Pacific.• Coordinated all departments involved in the success of new product lines. ID, Engineering, Graphics, Operations, and Sales.• Part of the team that helped successfully transition the company from Wichita, KS to Denver, CO.• Responsible for building all customer pricing programs for products within my categories.• Accountable for category P&L performance from FOB cost to EBITDA.• Worked with sales to support customers; including resetting plan-o-grams with merchants, attending and working trade shows, as well as coordinating line reviews, building the presentations, and presenting to customers including all major sporting goods retailers, Walmart, Target, Home Depot, and Lowes.• Traveled to Asia for fairs, source new suppliers, and strengthen partnerships with existing suppliers.• Worked closely with licensees of other categories to help coordinate our product assortment to appear as one company\​brand.• Responsible for all global new product development and teams associated with respective categories. Including the management of both the Coleman and Campingaz brand.• Directly managed and developed Domestic Product Manager and Coordinator, resulting in promotions for both.

Oklahoma City, Ok, Us

Responsible for managing the Core Wiring Division of the Home Electrical Products Department. The division included 14 categories with over 200 products, and 23 suppliers (both domestic and international). Category value approximately $17M USD. Consistently worked with all departments including engineering, graphics, purchasing, sales, and executive team. Involved directly with suppliers in Asia as well as merchant from most major retailers.• Formally trained in tariff classification of imported product.• Specialized in competitive intelligence research and analysis - identified critical global suppliers, accelerating time to market.• Established numerous well-rooted and respected supplier relationships in Asia and domestically.• Achieved price reductions resulting in millions in annualized savings.• Worked directly with sales team to support customers; including resetting plan-o-grams with merchants, attending and working trade shows, as well as attending line reviews and other customer meetings. Strong emphasis on mass and home center channels.• Traveled to Asia for fairs, source new suppliers, and strengthen partnerships with existing suppliers.• A team lead in multi-million dollar Home Depot launch in an incremental business category which displaced market leader. • Identified new strategic suppliers and created new product segments with JASCO portfolio.• Increased sales both in dollars and units as well as profitability year after year.

Midwest City, Oklahoma, Us

Position held while completing undergraduate degree.

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Position held while completing undergraduate degree.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Marketing, Economics, And International Business

Bachelors Of Business Administration, Marketing

Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Marketing