Contract Account Manager eager to help businesses aquire the perfect merchandise for their branding needs!

Territory rep for one of the largest wholesale apparel companies in the promotionalproducts industry, representing over 100 brands including Columbia,Marmot, Spyder, Puma, Under Amour• Develop business relations through visits, product and solutionpresentations and calls with customers, to learn and understand theirbusiness, tracking consistent growth with over 160 accounts in WA, OR,ID, AK.• Educating customers on industry news, trends, and new products andcollaborating with them on various projects, opportunities, events andprograms.• Assist customers with marketing materials, flyers, websites, artwork, branding.• Solution selling - uncovering pain points from day-to-day to big pictureand strategizing across the board to gain marketshare• Partner with over 200 promotional products distributors across apparel andhardgoods• Extensive external work and travel including trade shows (PPAI, ISS)• Increased book of business from $22MM to $33MM in one year• Handle operations for territory including sales calls, invoices, quoting, andmarketing

• Managing bulk orders for gifting and incentives • Maintaining and building current relationships• Executing and consistently brainstorming solutions on growing awareness of brand in promo industry, networking and creating new business opportunities and relationships• Working with companies and organizations such as Boeing, Red Wings Shoes, BMW, New York Yankees, Miami Dolphins, Sacred Heart University, among other charities, sports teams and corporations• Skilled experience working in the promotional products industry with distributors- ASI, PPAI• Managing time frames and deadlines to get orders to customer on time• Coordinating decoration for apparel and hard goods – embroidery, screen-print – scheduling, quoting, executing and delivering on time• Working closely with cross functional teams – finance, merchandisers, buyers, operations, warehouse, shipping• Attending tradeshows with IMEX, ASI, Incentive Live, Northstar Travel • Team up with National Sales Manager to pitch/coordinate Tommy Bahama experiences and pop-up shops

• Managing import shipments domestic & overseas• Moving along information from order stage to goods in transit • Organizing shipment packets, handling packing lists, invoices, BOL’s, audits and HTS codes• Monitoring shipment progress• Updating delays, tracking down shipments, pushing freight along• Costing all invoices for TBGS both USA and Hong Kong inventory• Costing all domestic invoices • Working closely with AP to ensure timely actualizations to pay in terms• FTZ processing (understanding of E214’s, 7501’s, 7512’s) for customs

purchase orders, WIP reports, sourcing, costing, factory correspondence, production coordination and management, shipment coordination/import export preparation, free trade zone management, duty rates/ HTS codes knowledge, licensee projects, LDP cost management, inventory management, customer program/ order management out of China or warehouse, keeping organized!

Small company owned by Carlo Gholami, and I assisted him in daily activities, or helped him out by doing autonomous tasks. In the office: accounts/billing/payroll, secretary work - answered phones, emails/called clients, organized clientele information, took notes in meetings. In the factory: trimming garments/accessories, marking/preparing for buttons/trim, cutting fabric, marking patterns, assisting in pattern-making tasks, preparing for shipments/packaging. Including running errands to pattern-graders, local vendors - thread, sewing needs, fabric, trims/notions, bank and whatever else he may need that day!

Creating visual stories with merchandise for store, assisting customers with clothing/accessories/other merchandise, opening/closing store, creative solutions in organizing, strategizing, managing others

Assisting customers with projects and the differences between which fabrics they want for what!

Providing customers with an overall BBW experience, spoiling them with lotion pampers, promotion ideas and a friendly, enthusiastic employee to help them shop.

Assisting the designers and production with projects and the little things here and there with Excel and Microsoft. As a PC user, I learned how to use MAC. I organized boxes full of production pieces such as trims and closures (this was an excellent learning experience and vocabulary builder).

Assist and create customer relationship through brand and products, help customers with experience in store all the way through cash wrap: last of impressions and help, uncover needs: sizing, organizing, go-backs, re-arranging