Christopher Williford Email & Phone Number

Katy, Texas, United States

Assists buyer in product development and market trends. Responsible for developing and maintaining: technical product packages, category/product standards, labels and packaging, quality testing, and time & action calendars on all product. Also, secured samples and maintained sample library: pre-production, counter, and advertising. Coordinated global shipments with Logistics and assures that global suppliers conform to established product and delivery standards. Skills also led to, designing conceptual ideas and new products with Solidworks engineering software.

Katy, Tx

Assists buyer in product development and market trends. Responsible for developing and maintaining: technical product packages, category/product standards, labels and packaging, quality testing, and time & action calendars on all product. Also, secured samples and maintained sample library: pre-production, counter, and advertising. Coordinated global shipments with Logistics and assures that global suppliers conform to established product and delivery standards. Skills also led to, designing conceptual ideas and new products with PTC-Creo Elements/Direct Modeling 18.1 engineering software.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Assist sales team with inventory control. Responsibilities include coordinating with Import team to ensure that global suppliers conform to established delivery standards and quantities, forecasting, maintaining order fill rates with Retail customers, tracking POS data to improve products and forecasting, and tracking purchase orders. Skills also led to providing comparative shops across the grill and lighting industries and researching possible new business opportunities.

Katy,Tx

Assists buyer in product development and market trends. Responsible for developing and maintaining: technical product packages, category/product standards, labels and packaging, quality testing, and time & action calendars on all product. Also, secured samples and maintained sample library: pre-production, counter, and advertising. Coordinated global shipments with Logistics and assures that global suppliers conform to established product and delivery standards. Skills also led to, designing conceptual ideas and new products with PTC-Creo Elements/Direct Modeling 18.1 engineering software.

Lewisville,Tx

Assist Store Director on all aspects of maintaining retail store operations. Responsible for the planning and execution of projects and maintenance pertaining to Team Sports and Camping departments. Identified d and evaluate new opportunities within departments to better serve customers at the retail level. Managing responsibilities include motivation, discipline, and guidance of departmental employees

Katy, Texas

Assists the Senior Regional Promotions Coordinator on all aspects of marketing and promotions for the assigned region. in the planning and execution of promotions, personal appearances, in-store clinics and store events.. Works with advertising, buyers, graphic designers, public relations representatives, and website designers to promote events. Assists in the negotiation and implementation of sponsorship contracts with local grassroots organizations. Operates under a team structure and assists with marketing projects in other regions. Provide in-person support and coordination of promotional events on nights, weekends and holidays as dictated by business needs.

Katy,Tx

Responsible for All Print Advertising for Field and Stream Dept. including, but not limited to; Magazines, Weekly tabs, ROP’s, Flyers, Direct Mail Prints, and Posters. Skills also led to coordinating with creative team, marketing team, and buying team to create most effective internal signage and visuals for the Field and Stream Dept. within Academy stores. Responsible for having extensive knowledge of fishing and hunting products, to help facilitate product needs for the planning and execution of; Product Shots, Photo Shoots, Lifestyle Photo Shoots, and Television Commercial shoots as they pertain to Field and Stream.

Katy, Tx

Responsible for Merchandising Plan for apparel as it pertains to product placement within stores. Created Planograms for stores to follow. Also, responsible for managing 26 person merchandising crew to reset stores and open new stores.

Katy,Tx

Responsible for training new hires and existing store staff. Writing, maintaining, and implementing training tools for store use in Apparel. Traveling throughout region (West Texas, Oklahoma, and Missouri) giving training classes. Also, trained in Team sports , Hunting/Fishing, and Camping.

Katy,Tx

Associates, Physical Sciences

Education record

Associates, Biology

Diploma, General