Director Of Merchant Development
Current• Catapulted Gross Merchandise Sales (GMV) and Gross Profits (GP) year to date; exceeded targeted goals by up to 80%.• Collaborate with Marketing, IT, Customer Service & Accounting departments daily to ensure awareness and understanding of Trusted Merchant Program (TPM) and its impact on business and profitability. • Developed a stringent TPM prospecting process ensuring alignment of website consumer base and merchant’s product line. • Conduct weekly, monthly & quarterly merchant calls to communicate marketing initiatives, sales results, review of goals by category & SKU, customer service issues and general merchant relationship management. • Review and analyze merchant sales daily managing gross profit goals through increase SKU listings at category level as well as removing merchants for under performance. • Added 26 merchants in 8 months • Managed budget forecasting, goal setting and performance reporting for all accounts.• Identified strategic partnerships and gathered market information to gain a competitive advantage