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.