Marty Bloom Email & Phone Number

Saint Paul, MN, US

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Develop profitable partnerships with National Accounts by collaboratively building business plans. Responsibilities include strategic planning, relationship management, program management, promotion development, category management, P&L ownership and financial analysis.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Responsible for building strong partnerships with national accounts while driving sales and profitability for both parties. Responsibilities include strategic planning, relationship management, program management, P&L.
• Successfully developed and executed regional advertising campaign, promoting Pure Fishing brands and driving POS sales
• Developed and implemented regional merchandising strategy focused on driving awareness and sales of Pure Fishing brands
• Conducted category analysis identifying assortment gaps, resulting in increased assortment presentations

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Responsible for driving highly regional and SKU intensive business. Responsibilities including assortment planning, marketing, merchandising and managing all financial aspects of the business
• Successfully developed and implemented own brand product lines
• Partner with vendor partners to develop key item programs driving business results
• Implemented regionalized assortment that delivered on the unique needs of ten fisheries
• Deliver category strategy presentations to the CEO / Owner of the company

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Categories of responsibility included: Optics, Security, Electronics, Cutlery, Lighting & Dog Training. Successfully drove multiple business categories by building internal and external partnerships. Responsibilities.
• Developed new company standard for delivering category line reviews with leadership team
• Successfully implement new merchandising strategy that delivering a new concept for merchandising complex products
• Proven leader in the organization, setting new standards in delivering quality work
• Certified corporate trainer – facilitated training sessions delivering a new sales process to retail staff

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Lead a team with two direct reports to achieve 3 to 12 month financial goals. Responsible for driving merchandising and advertising strategies. Collaborated with cross functional business partners to drive in store.
• Implemented in store merchandising solutions that drove a unique in store customer experience
• Collaborated with operations team and drove improvements to install van assortment process resulting in improved product in stocks and profitability
• Delivered promotional strategy that focused on attachment to parent category business, in order to achieve revenue and profit goals
• Launched Geek Squad 3.0 resulting in an improved customer experience
• Developed forecasting tool to improve forecasting accuracy for the warranty business

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Responsible for driving business relationships with external vendor partners. Managed a team of two direct reports to achieve business results. Collaborated with cross functional partners to drive promotional.
• Implemented product displays that delivered a unique in store customer experience
• Negotiated vendor programs to optimize margin in a commoditized category
• Launched HD DVD and Blu-ray video formats resulting in #1 hardware market share

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Developed and coordinating all promotional, assortment and merchandising needs for the Centricity stores. Worked cross functionally to support innovation in the stores. Single point of contact with in Customer.
• Coordinated assortment needs to segment needs and successfully launch Centricity stores
• Delivered an expanded assortment to meet specific customer needs
• Created reporting that measured performance of solutions created for Centricity stores
• Developed a promotional strategy that resulted in segment specific offers being advertised

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Responsible for supporting processes and tools used by the Merchant Business Teams. Collected feedback from merchants on improvements needed to fulfill business needs. Created documentation for the assortment process.
• Subject matter expert, driving improvements and efficiency to merchant processes and tools
• Trained Merchant teams on the assortment process and tools driving compliance to the process
• Documented assortment process to successfully support MSOP project
• Created transition worksheet to drive compliance to deadlines in the assortment process

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Successfully collaborated with members of the business team to execute assortment, promotional and merchandising strategies. Worked with cross functional partners to drive execution in retail stores. Provided support.
• Planned and executed product advertising to drive financial results
• Launched multiple new hardware platforms; Xbox, Playstation2, Game Cube and Game Boy Advance