Steve Schweitzer Email & Phone Number

Denver Metropolitan Area

Greater Denver Area

After a 4-year departure to the sporting goods industry, I have returned to work for Sand Cherry Associates, which I worked from 2000 - 2014.

Greeley, Co

• Responsible for all operations supporting an organization that manufactures and sells shooting optics including rifle scopes, binoculars, laser pointing devices and night vision. o Functions include: Procurement/Purchasing, Receiving, Packaging, Warehousing, Shipping, Product Quality Inspection, Order Entry, Technical Support, Product Repair, IT Support, ERP Maintenance• Managing 35 people in a total organization of 120 people• Developed a 2-year 10-point strategic plan which focused on cost containment and reduction, LEAN efficiency implementation, best practice refinement.• Developed annual operations budgets to support the departments and functions listed above• Developed a sustainable transformation approach to obtain team consensus on goals, energize and focus the team activities and drive implementation LEAN opportunities. Implemented metrics to measure progress and successes. • We conduct continuous improvement cycles using basic Six Sigma techniques in Product Quality Inspection to assist manufacturing to remove defects to improve quality and customer satisfaction (primarily DMAIC define, measure, analyze, improve, and control). Goal is to meet 5-sigma levels.• We conduct continuous review of LEAN opportunities evaluating time, inventory, motion, wait times, over production and processing, defect rates and labor/skill evaluations.

Greeley, Colorado

• Responsible for all sales growth and P&Ls for commercial, law enforcement, government, and tactical markets in the U.S.• Managed 5 senior sales team members, 13 sales representative groups, consisting of over 75 individual reps• Responsible for all digital merchandising and marketing programs to support product introductions and market growth with key partners such as NBS, Worldwide, Sports Inc, Amazon, Cabela’s/Bass Pro, Midway USA, Sportsman’s Guide, Sportsman’s Warehouse, Gander Outdoors, Brownell’s, Big 5, B&H Photo, Adorama, West Marine, Scheel’s, Academy, Dick’s/Field & Stream, and others• Built and implemented national sales programs and promotions for 200+ products driven by continued focus on key accounts and acquisition of new key account targets• Prepared monthly sales forecasts and associated inventory planning; Responsible for all inventory purchases• Developed 3-year rolling strategic plan which included the following elements: product pruning, new product development, staffing, pricing, direct-to-dealer and direct-to-consumer sales • Led product development from inception, development, packaging, pricing and market introduction of new products, considering a 2-3 year lead time on complex product designs• Continuously prepared and analyzed ROIs on promotions, specials and large volume deals• Continuously prepared pricing analyses using most current competitive intelligence and market trend data

Denver, Co

• Led numerous large-scale, multi-million dollar consulting projects in the US and Europe for Fortune 100 clients• Responsible for all client deliverables and overall satisfaction of service• Responsible for developing and growing staff in knowledge of the business and consulting skills• Responsible for developing client opportunity and consulting services sales• Projects includedo Fortune 100 merger & integrationso Supply chain transformation and optimizationo Quality assurance program development, implementation and monitoringo Logistics/transportation planning and implementationo Inbound sales & retention strategy developmento Call center process re-engineering and process improvemento Operations process analysis/development and improvemento Operations performance program development and monitoringo KPI/Dashboard development and monitoringo e-commerce, online ordering and sales platform implementationo Consumer product development, pricing, market analysis and roll-outo Direct-to-consumer, direct-to-business strategy and pricing developmento Distribution channel optimizationo Vendor & trading partner identification selection & managemento IT & Web product testing; agile development, test plans & documentation of results from QA, to User acceptance testing to final deployment

Denver, Co

Sand Cherry Associates delivers actionable solutions and business results to leading broadband, telecommunications and media companies in North America and Europe. We design best-in-class business strategies, lead major tactical initiatives and develop and implement effective operational solutions.Steve was responsible for delivering solutions in following areas of operations:* operations process analysis/development and improvement* operations performance program development and monitoring* KPI/Dashboard development and monitoring* e-commerce, online ordering and sales platforms* supply chain transformation and optimization* product development and roll-out* direct-to-consumer, direct-to-business* distribution channel optimization* vendor & trading partner identification selection & management* logistics and materials planning

Delta, Co

Responsible for developing overall marketing and product strategy, sales campaigns, product pricing, & new product development. Grew sales incrementally by 25% in first year. Whiting Farms raises specialized poultry for the production of fly tying feathers, owning ~80%+ of worldwide market share and operating 3 separate poultry production facilities in Colorado.

Denver, Co

Responsible for client and project development, strategy methodology development, client consulting, project management, overall project and client satisfaction. Engagements include business process re-engineering, fiscal and financial planning, process mapping, systems integration and implementation plans, merger and integration strategy, operations planning, supply chain strategy, demand chain strategy, customer and marketing strategy including CRM and eCM, selection study and ASP strategies, internet startup consulting, product and pricing strategy development.

Elgin, Il

Responsible for all accounting, finance, information technology, customer service and administration. Prepared all strategic planning and financial planning. Was part of 5-person key management team responsible for the re-engineering of entire company workforce and turning around a negative-margin based business into the black. Managed a team of 20+, including consultants, as part of an ERP system installation of a local manufacturing system (BPCS) and integration into a world-wide SAP implementation.

Chicago, Il

Consulted for Fortune 500 companies requiring electronic commerce solutions via B2B, B2Gov and B2C. Developed web cataloging systems using various large-scale web-commerce solutions, provided business process analysis and re-engineering, provided web-enabled solutions to enhance supply-chain management and EDI processes, co-authored several EC/IT strategies for Fortune 100 companies, constantly researched new technologies, best practices and methodologies for the deployment of web-enabled e-commerce solutions.

Chicago, Il

Was responsible for overall purchasing and inventory strategy development of semiconductor products. Managed a team of three. Also was responsible for developing the an online parts catalog of over 150,000 skus, including web marketing and promotions program, development online product promotions and new product/technology research.Specific team and function duties included large product buy analysis, best-buy costing analysis, profitability analysis, strategic pricing planning, inventory level planning, interfacing with business unit managers on development product and pricing promotions, ship-and-debit negotiations, developed strategic product marketing plans, promotions, product mixes, cataloging and layouts, vendor negotiations. Regular responsibilities included monthly report preparation and analysis, product mix analysis, and evaluating low-margin product pricing flags.

New Jersey

Findlay, Oh

Worked on large remediation and environmental restoration job sites as the primary project accountant responsible for:* all project accounting, invoicing and cost management* vendor management and vendor contract negotiations* cost and revenue reporting

Mba

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Information Systems Design, Finance/Accounting

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