Andy Bennett: International Wholesale Manager in Seattle, WA
Andy Bennett
International Wholesale Manager
Seattle | United States
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Fashion
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Outdoor
Snow
Streetwear
Work experience
Filson
International Wholesale Manager | 01/2017 - Current
• Establish and maintain distributor and retailer relationships for 40+ international accounts
• Build and manage two-million-dollar export sales plan
• Raised sales by $600,000 in two years
• Build/maintain NuOrder wholesale ordering system, including data manipulation, ATS builds/sends, main point of contact for all 700+ domestic and export accounts
• Review and classify product HTS codes and ship methods to ensure product is shipped utmost frugally
Amazon.com
Business Development - Amazon Fashion | 04/2016 - 01/2017
• Prospecting and developing strategic business partners for Amazon Fashion
• Daily phone calls with potential vendors vetting and selling the appropriate Amazon platform based on the information I gather about their company
• Negotiating terms, creating contracts, and walking vendors through the on-boarding process
• Organize and manage monthly vendor trainings averaging 75 attendees
• Worked on the development and launch of Amazon Vendor Express including beta for the bulk upload tool
zulily.com
Assistant Buyer | 06/2014 - 04/2016
• Establish and maintain vendor relationships for a 10 million dollars a year buying team
• Negotiate buying terms with vendors: price, quantity, payment terms, and delivery of goods
• Source and grow new business by acquiring new vendors and business partners
• Analyze sales data and implement findings to affect future events and grow business year over year
• Manage calendar; includes planning with other teams and balancing demand per day while ensuring product types don't overlap and compete
• Daily sales analysis including Tableau reporting, and Excel pivot table usage
Nordstrom Direct
Product Coordinator | 05/2013 - 06/2014
• Working with buying teams, studio, marketing, site coordination, merchandise coordination, and vendors to obtain samples, product knowledge, and necessary assets to get a product from initial buy, on the website live
• Support Direct by executing and managing all details throughout the lifecycle of a product, including tracking of all samples, swatches and other vendor assets
• Prepare and present internet turnover meetings
• Drive the internet selling schedules and adhere to allocated annual studio budgets for photos to meet and exceed company strategies and objectives
• Collaborate with buying office, site merchandisers and site coordinators to ensure accuracy and product outcomes align with priorities and direction
• Coordinate product and photos for on figure and editorial features such as catalogs, email marketing campaigns, website landing pages, advertisements
zulily.com
Merchandising Assistant | 01/2012 - 05/2013
• Negotiate pricing, profit margin and product selection based on season, trends, color and target market
• Manage calendar balancing sales events evenly throughout each month to ensure monthly sales goals are reached
• Gather all product information correlating with ecommerce business to sell products online including pricing, product information, and images
• Build SKU heavy event using heavy Microsoft Excel equations and formulas
• Manage each event including inventory level, homepage image, and some customer inquiries
American Apparel
Store Manager | 07/2010 - 01/2012
• Daily PC skills to track reports, customer inquiries and dialogue between home office
• Problem solving and analytical thinking to improve sales with reference to sales reports
• Providing strong customer service and sales by building relationships with customers
• Utilize problem solving skills to increase sales on certain merchandise and foot traffic into store
• Adjusting inventory on sales floor depending on sales trends and area goings on
• Managed employees and daily operations of a multimillion dollar company in a fast paced environment