Jay Hartman Email & Phone Number

Louisville, Kentucky Area

Oversee daily activities of the Inside sales team and warehouse staff. Prepare sales and profitability reports for weekly branch meeting. Liaison between Inside and Outside salespeople. Closely monitor outstanding invoices and collections. Assist customers with invoicing, pricing, product, or purchase order problems. Negotiate with manufactures to obtain the best pricing or rebates. • Develop system to monitor outstanding Purchase Orders to reduce shipping delays and invoicing errors.• Assisted branch in to SAP software roll-out. • Led branch to becoming a consistently growing business while controlling costs and pricing.

Corydon Indiana

Responsible for all aspects running a small business - purchasing, receiving, packing orders, deliveries, sourcing, training, and inventory management as needed to assure success of the business. Developing sales plans that positively effects margins, shipping costs, and operational costs then communicating current goals in order to motivate sales team. Modeling, training, and promoting career opportunities to others so they too can achieve professional and personal goals.• Consistently perform in the top 25% of over 2600 branches in areas of inventory management, profitability, and customer loyalty. • Implement automated supply technologies to manage on-hand inventory at customer’s location. • Maintain contact with vendors pertaining to the issuing of, requests for quotes, purchase orders, pricing, quality, delivery and shipping instructions.• Scored 99% on most recent internal audit of cash handling, inventory accuracy, and invoice protocols.• Three record months of sales in 2014 while decreasing on-hand inventory over 5% by adopting “on-demand” supply chain. • Set and communicate daily goals to staff to exceed previous year’s performance.• Eliminated unnecessary external freight charges through purchasing partnerships and consolidating vendors.

Owensboro, Kentucky Area

Develop new business to become a very diverse digital and 2-D print studio in Western Kentucky. Fulfill wide format giclee prints in house while outsourcing other printing such as mass media and offset lithography. Maintain healthy working relationship with artists and graphics customers to insure on-time and high quality graphics. • Reproduce art and graphics to exacting standards.• Constantly source new quality printing supplies at aggressive pricing and timely delivery. • Prepare sales proposals working directly with designers and artists. • Maintain and calibrate print shop equipment to ensure reliability and accuracy.• Organize work flow according to production limitations in order to meet delivery schedules. • Recruited by Fastenal to open a new branch, sold business, and relocated to Louisville KY.

Worked in many types of residential, industrial, and commercial facilities as a journeyman electrician. Installed, updated, and maintained automated assembly lines, power transmission, fire suppression and security systems at Toyota, Conoco Phillips, Kimberly Clark, Commonwealth Aluminum and more. • Completed a 5-year apprentice program which included 200 hours of classroom training and 8000 hours on-the-job training under the direction of the National Electrical Contractors Association and the National Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. • A Kentucky state certified Journeyman Electrician by the National Labor Relations Board.• Coordinate repairs and maintenance with facilities to accomplish goals in a timely manner and within budgetary guidelines.