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Eau Claire, Wi, Us

Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States

Leadership team member currently leading the Purchasing, Sourcing, Information Technology, and Finance departments of a multi-location full service industrial commercial laundry service company.

Usa - Eau Claire, Wi

Global sourcing of apparel, accessories, home goods, sporting goods, and promotional products.I have performed sourcing for many USA brands companies, retailer private label programs, and licensees providing them with the fully custom made goods for their business. We also market products directly under our three owned brands. • Developed product development process• Developed a sourcing matrix of suppliers and qualified them for production capabilities• Developed and executed factory audits and qualifying of worldwide suppliers• Developed product tech detail packs and built a design team to fulfill client product development needs.• Have developed 100’s of apparel and accessory items from concepts to completed items.• Execute in monitoring the component sourcing, product quality control, factory production, packing, shipping, international importing, USCBP import custom clearance, and final domestic delivery.• Process and monitor order financial documents to insure proper settlement of all parties using negotiated terms and processes.• Post order process and financial reviews• Always working to develop string team members worldwide• Constant process review and refinement.• Developing new production capabilities with suppliers worldwide• Develop and grow client base in a variety of business segments.• Execute in person and on-line marketing and sales efforts and meetings.

Eau Claire, Wisconsin Area

Sales of officially licensed sports merchandise into wholesale clients and three online platforms.• Google certified – Analytics and AdWords• Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint• Shopify• EBay Certified Star Seller• Amazon seller central

Eau Claire, Wisconsin Area

• Developed Deerskin and Elk skin glove catalog with over 57 designs • Designed 45 new glove styles for catalog• Strategically priced gloves for wholesale.• Developed a Marketing plan and customer base• Successfully developed business with new customers• Expanded existing product lines for current customers• Increased sales from $1 million to a projected $3.5 million + by year end,2005• Created a "made to order" private label outerwear line generating approximately $1 million in revenue• Managed freight, logistics, and Customs compliance issues on all imported shipments• Opened International Letters of Credit and negotiated competitive shipping rates with international and domestic shippers.• Created an online inventory system

Bloomington, Mn

• Work with vendors to forecast, plan, manage, set up automated replenishment systems, and purchase items to be sold in retail stores.• Set up and managed “new stores “purchase and stocking plans for over 50 new store rollouts.• Helped develop product ideas and concepts for private label sourcing• Product sourcing of private label items, importing, and arranging all for retail distribution.• Developed and executed on goals for costing, gross margin, and timelines for import programs.• Wrote purchase orders for private label apparel and accessory sourcing programs.

Eau Claire, Wisconsin Area

Product development, international sourcing, importing, and wholesale to major retail accounts nationwide. Managed retail outlet and wholesale inventory warehouse.• Product development and Tech pack development.• Process coordinator – set up product develop process SOP manual• Production tracking and import coordinator• Warehouse development and operation manager• China factory detail auditing

Eau Claire, Wisconsin Area

• Purchasing Analyst – Inventory forecasting, sales projections, purchasing, distribution center special order co-ordination. Handled over 2,000 Skus and $ 100 million in sales.• Product purchasing for retail sales• Product assortment management, and selection• Gross margin evaluation and negotiation in order to meet category goals.• Replenishment system set ups, and ongoing management• Set up and managed “new stores “purchase and stocking plans for over 100 new store rollouts.• Retail – in store merchandising co-ordination for in store placement considerations• Working with the distribution centers staff to co-ordinate special projects as needed. Many items we handled required special systems that needed to be developed.• Merchandise Planner – Store Merchandising for over 200 stores in 7 prototypes• Distribution Center Inventory analyst and Planning Dept. – Special projects