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Accomplished outdoorsman deeply familiar with the needs of small businesses looking to bring 5+ years of experience within the outdoor industry to a growing company.

Major Responsibilities:
• Wholesale Prospecting & Sales
- Develop creative strategies for large scale digital sales campaigns
- Conduct personalized reachouts to qualified and interested prospect accounts
- Trade show pre-planning, set-up, attendance and sales
• Creative Consulting and Operational Strategic Assistance to Creative Priority Partners
- Interpret real-time trends within the current booking season to provide insight to design teams for future product development of in-house brands
- Manage 3PL partners and assist in troubleshooting all issues including inventory discrepancies, delayed shipments, and return authorizations
- Reconcile inbound inventory with in season demand to identify supply/demand gaps. Create and execute remediation plans
- Weekly, Monthly, and Seasonal Data Analysis and reports
Additional Responsibilities
• Identify areas of improvement in the company and assist in creating and implementing solutions. Responsible for managing data on multiple platforms (ERP, B2B, and DTC systems)
• Complete ad hoc analysis requests and provided meaningful business insights to support business objectives
• Work closely with in-house design and production team to assist with future seasonal DTC buy plans based on insights from wholesale demand
Creative Priority Clients I was assigned to:
• Arbor Apparel, Roamers Brand, Iron and Resin, Roamers Brand, Blundstone, Glerups, The Ridge,

Sales and Operations Administrator

Major Responsibilities:
• Wholesale Prospecting & Sales
- CRM Organization & Management
- Order processing
- Trade show pre-planning, set-up, attendance and sales
Additional Responsibilities
• Creative Consulting and Operational Strategic Assistance to Creative Priority Partners
• Creative Priority marketing efforts
• Product review, wear testing and design consultation
Creative Priority Brand Clients I was assigned to:
• NAU, United by Blue, Vivobarefoot, Iron and Resin, Arbor Collective, Roamers Brand, Faribault Woolen Mills

Sales Associate and Office Manager

Major Responsibilities:
• Made appointments with suppliers and vendors to stay up to date on new products and innovations within the industry
• Attended Outdoor Retailer's 2017 Summer show and met with existing and prospective suppliers
• Developed working relationships with sales representatives and communicated directly with manufacturers
• Managed Purchase Orders and negotiated with suppliers to obtain best pricing and terms

Manager and Buyer

Major Responsibilities
• Upgraded the hardware used for Point-of-sale terminals so that they would be compatible with a cloud-based POS system
• Responsible for data entry and management of products within the POS system.
• Handled the inventory integration, setup items, and supplier information into the new Vend POS software
• Developed and integrated new policies and procedures for inventorying and receiving of product
• Worked with buyers to establish an efficient reporting system and reorder points.

Assistant Manager and IT

• Promoted to management within one year of starting with the company
• Interviewed, hired, and managed the schedule of the employees for three stores
• Assigned employees to specific duties to best meet the needs of the store
• Coached, and developed new hires by teaching them store policies, procedures.
• Investigated and reconciled any drawer discrepancies when opening and closing the store
• Reviewed all time cards and acted as liaison to payroll for three of the four Nomad Ventures location

Nick Fitzpatrick: in Encinitas, CA

Nick Fitzpatrick

Creative Priority Brand Management

Creative Priority Brand Management

Nomad Ventures

Nomad Ventures

Nomad Ventures

Nomad Ventures

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