Terrence Tompkins Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Chief Operating Officer for Downtown Spirits and EsquinMy overall goal is to drive sales. Simple to say, complex to execute. But, years of experience have made me a pro in the execution. Some bullet point highlights:
• Work with the CEO to realize his vision for the company
• Oversee operations at Downtown Spirits and Esquin, with 10M+ in annual sales
• Manage a staff of 30
• Oversee purchasing across all departments including beer, wine, and non-alcoholic products
• Directly involved with spirits purchasing

Greater Seattle Area

• Above everything else, create the best customer experience for wine, beer and spirits in Seattle.
• Ensure seamless integration of all channels across the customer journey.
• Oversee operations of $5M+ in annual sales.
• Build close relationships, using a high degree of personal influence to further sales and profit goals, with 70+ distributors, producers, and importers.
• Determine control brand products.
• Manage sales data and reporting to execute purchasing plans that maximize profit and minimize on hand quantity.

• Oversee a department that had $2.7M in annual sales. Manage the selection of wine and spirits at the downtown Seattle Whole Foods.Key Successes Include:
• Growing sales and margin and maintaining inventory in a thousand SKU wine department:
• Grew total wine & spirits sales 48%.
• Increased total wine margin by 0.45%.
• Reduced wine inventory days on hand by 12%.
• Established a spirits department in the store in late 2012. Grew spirits sales to $550K in 2014, a 60% increase over 2013. Maintain lowest inventory days on hand in our Pacific Northwest region.

Founded a retail wine store. Ran all aspects of the business. * Secured necessary financing to initiate business.* Maintained close vendor relationships.* Built store sales from the ground up.* Managed all finances and bookkeeping.* Developed and maintained store website (terryswines.org).* Created a store wine list to be posted on website, and distributed.

Involved in most aspects of the business, including bookkeeping, purchasing, and attending trade events.* Expanded business from an 800 square foot location to a 2,000 square foot location.* Handled all networking and IT needs.* Created Google postings, and engineered AdWords campaign.* Engineered a customer email list; sent out weekly marketing emails.*.

B.A, Creative Writing

Studied abroad; member of Warwick Writing Programme (1 year)

Fiction And Poetry

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