Jim Barr Email & Phone Number

San Leandro, Ca

Key Account Manager partnering with Orchard Supply Hardware representing several leading home improvement suppliers.

Emeryville, Ca

Orange County, Ca

Managed the West and Southwest Retail Division; representing more than 500 Home Depot stores and $150 Million in annual sales. Recruited, trained, developed and managed 20 territory representatives that worked with the Home Depot stores to develop the brand and create an environment where the store associates were comfortable in promoting and selling the Masonite portfolio of products.

San Jose, Ca

Managed the entire Rough Electrical category's assortment and profitability. Designed and implemented strategies for advertising, merchandise layout, vendor negotiations, product selection and pricing, resulting in a sales & profitability increase over trend.

Managed well over 100 Supplier relationships representing over $100 Million in purchases.

Managed a group of 5 Category Managers & 13 Replenishment Analysts. Controlled product mix, inventory turns & fill rates, profitability and GMROI for 21 warehouse locations at a peak of $340 million in sales,

BUYER/BRAND MANAGER - (Computer Hardware)+ Maintained the current product mix on the site and created any new sku’s that were new to market.+ Worked on pricing strategies daily and rotating the hot feature products.+ Worked at a break-neck speed because of the high volume of computer hardware in E-commerce.+ Additional responsibility included creating and maintaining branding/marketing partnerships between the computer hardware manufacturers and AltaVista Shopping.comBUYER - (Home Improvement - Plumbing & Electrical) + Created and maintained the Plumbing, Electrical, Kitchen, Bath and Lighting departments on the Shopping.Com web site.+ Responsible for initiating and developing long term relationships with manufacturers and distributors, including payment and rebate terms as well as creating their sku mix for presentation.+ Actually served up HTML rich products on the website using MS Front Page and several database tools that were created in-house.

+ Responsible for buying and merchandising over $50 million a year in commodity building materials merchandise for 80 warehouse locations+ Managed vendor relationships, product mix, profitability, competitive pricing and merchandising.+ Planned out weekly ads for Building Materials categories.+ Created merchandising schematics for new and remodeled warehouses.