Lifestyle

Outdoor

Snow

Music

Reading

Indoor activities include cooking

Movies and non-work travel.

Accomplished sales and marketing experience with emphasis on planning, 
analysis, communication & organization.

Strengths: 
- Aggressively travel territory, most recently 7 to 8 state territory
- Strong grasp of merchandise math.
- Demonstrated communication skills and presentation skills 
- Advanced proficiency with MS Office, Web building, and many CRM apps.
- Decent graphic arts skills.

- Launching new wellness footwear brand across 7 western states 
- Branching beyond footwear only accounts to include clients 
specializing in podiatry, pedorthic & orthopedic services

Western US Sales Mgt

- Jump-started the Western US territory for NEF with GoLite Footwear growing it from a handful of accounts to 65% of NEF’s sales volume.
- Diligently traveled an 8-state territory working with Key Accounts; Zappos, Amazon, Nordstrom, Dillards, Online Shoes, as well as a solid & growing independent outdoor specialty & shoe store base.
- Planned and forecasted NEF sales/inventory needs for key account  and independent base using sales tracking & strategic analytics.
- Communicated market conditions for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats.  Integral in planning marketing initiatives.
- Position ended due to combination of: (need to re-brand) loss of license from VF/Timberland+ (manufacturing issue) dramatically reduced revenue in late 2013 due to very bad to unsaleable quality product delivered from our factory+ (increased costs) increased overhead costs due to warehouse/ office/ personnel.  During 2014, I was responsible for selling off our existing inventory- by year end 2014 my efforts accounted for selling off over 2/3 of remaining on hand.

Key Account Sales and US West Territory Sales

- Initiated and managed private label bag and accessory product management with a variety of national catalogs and wholesalers, such as, National Geographic, Orvis, Ariat, Travelsmith, AutoSports, Territory Ahead
- Consistent collaboration with team of designers, management and sourcing/ overseas factory contacts to take a number of custom projects from concept to completion.

National Account Private Label Sales Manager

- Executed nationally, all sales and marketing for a startup K-12 technology consortium, which involved a sales process from cold call to online or at site demos to eventual contract.
- Implemented all facets of national User Group event management from site search, marketing, session materials, customer service, etc.

Director of Sales and Marketing

Orchestrated, executed marketing and merchandising strategies for Game Crazy’s retail video game business as a consultant and employee.

Senior Merchandise Manager

Coordinated all aspects in all divisions of the marketing planning process with senior sales management and executive (US/ UK) management; forecasting sales, product mix and retail segmented marketing programs.

VP Marketing / Western Sales Mgr

Cultivated Northern California Timberland business into an $18 million territory while growing key account business by over 200%.  Named Sales Rep of the Year, Western Region in 1993.

Territory Sales Representative

Responsible for buying and creating product assortments for the three Utah Men’s Shoe departments.  Developed and evaluated branch buyers in their assortment, inventory and turnover plans.

Regional Merchandise Mgr/ Buyer

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Jeffrey Scheid

BackJoy

New England Footwear, LLC.

Ellington Handbags

Timpanogos Technologies

Hollywood Entertainment

Airwair International Ltd - Dr Martens

Timberland

Nordstrom

Muskingum University

University of Utah - David Eccles School of Business