Patrick Blakely Email & Phone Number

Chatsworth, CA

• Responsible for buying and selling of grocery related closeout products.

Santa Cruz, CA

• Purchased and managed 1,200 sku’s in refrigerated and frozen categories from 105 vendors and manufacturers.
• Must keep 99.5% product availability at all times to supply restaurants and schools throughout the Monterey Bay area and up to and including San Jose and other areas of San Francisco Bay.
• Work closely with sales force and manufacturers to effectively and efficiently sell off short coded product.
• Strong partnership with vendors to always make sure customers are supplied, whether it is for daily turns, promotional needs or any unusual or exceptional needs that may arise.
• Consistent negotiations with manufacturers for better products, better pricing, and better freight costs and delivery results.

Stockton, California Area

• Purchased and managed 5,000 sku’s in grocery, deli, hbc, general merchandise and frozen categories.
• Supplied product to military commissaries throughout the Far East and the western Continental U.S.

Rancho Dominguez, CA

• Continually searched for new products, and product lines, that would be unique and appealing for the nationwide commissaries at Federal Penitentiaries and state correctional institutions.
• New itemization was achieved by weekly interviews with vendors, sourcing through the internet, but, also by attending several trade shows a year around the country.
• On-going negotiations with vendors for the lowest possible costs, and the highest possible terms and discounts to achieve profit goals.
• Also, accrued promotional monies from vendors to pay for USC catalogs and incentives for the sales reps to better achieve their commissions.
• Responsible for negotiating “special bid costs”, by food and general merchandise categories, from vendors for state correctional bids in all fifty states.
• Responsible, along with the re-order buyers, for maintaining proper inventory levels to keep the customers supplied at a 99% service level at all times.

Arcadia, CA

• Department Head of a six person staff to oversee Vons alternative sourcing.
• Reduced costs to Vons by 10 to 15% by buying inbound product from alternate suppliers. Also responsible for selling outbound product to alternate suppliers at 20% plus margins.

City Of Commerce, CA

• Responsible for the purchase and maintenance of over 1800 s.k.u.’s.
• Monitored service level and itemization through an assistant buyer.
• Interviewed the vendor trade, compiling promotional and advertising funds.

La Habra Heights, CA

• Responsible for grocery/frozen categories contributing to 14% of company sales.
• Oversaw schematic changes and section resets utilizing latest IRI and Nielsen data.
• Set retail prices for all categories under my authorization.
• Developed weekly ad and merchandising planner.