Sales and Marketing Manager
General Manager of China View Corp.
Total des années d'expérience :30 years, 0 Mois
Negotiate contract with factories in China to bring production to client in the US. help in creating the best specification for the client and make sure quality control apply. handle all logistics to bring the containers to client door.
Working with international wholesale factories in construction field. Help creating products specification that apply to US market on behalf of buyers to ensure their product is produced to their specifications.Quality Control. Handle all logistic, customs, duties, clearance from factor door to clientele without any hassle. Negotiation with price cost handling and design contracts on international shipping cut cost. Built a great relationship with China to bring product to US market. Supplying The US Market with laminate floors, hardware kitchen cabinets, Granite, Tile, Stainless sinks, and Etc.
working with 50 plus factories in brazil to bring granite to the US market directly to the client door. we help making the colors decision, shipping and the quality control.
NEGOTIATING CONTRACT, HELP STAFF TO FINALIZE DESIGN PROJECTS, WORK WITH PORDUCTION TEAM, WORK WITH FACTORIES AND LOCAL CLIENT. HANDLE HR WITH MAY MANAGERS. OVER LOOK ALL OPERATIONS.
Managed merchandise within high volume central warehouse, and in compliance with space and time stored limitations. Made judgment calls on identified defective merchandise. Billed manufacturers for minor repairable defects, address manufacturers' questions, and resolved vendor's challenges. Responded to phone calls, faxes, and e-mails. Palletized and wrapped merchandise in preparation for shipped to the clients.
Owner/General Manager (retail and wholesale) 1988- 2008
Charlie's Floor, Stockton, CA
Construction component
Turn Projects around that were behind schedule and over budget to be profitable and completed in through deadlines. Manage to design and develop projects under supervision operations in production though blueprints, specifications on job based material and labor of cost effective and profitable with strong overhead.
General Management
Conducted all phases of HR Services in association with job training and supervision of Job applicants and company staff containing 48 employees and 16 sub contractors on a daily basis. Utilizing of all assets and resources available to maximizing and discuss daily operations with supervisors, foreman and contractors for production strategies, operation and employee productivity and performance to achieve, understand corporate goals. Updates and implemented policies and procedures increase profits. Developed and maintained positive business relationship with contractors, home owners, and business owners, Monitored daily business operations and all aspects of financial side of business.
Manager
Silver Wing Construction and Marketing, Kuwait 1984-1987
Negotiated for projects, handled all communications with foreman for construction projects. Handled government buildings from new construction building, building maintenance projects including mini -clients, elementary schools, Mosques, Gas stations, and government offices. Developed systems to sale off unused government supplies and designed new programs to obtain needed products and services to reduce middleman cost. Assisted on selection of products for projects maintaining quality and contract restrictions. Kept communication lines open to eliminate challenges before they happened. Proficient in negations regarding importing and exporting merchandise from Point A to Point B quickly and cost effective.
Selected Achievements
• Assisted competitors and colleagues as one of the top advisers on floor industries
• Manage merchandise supply chain for assigned categories and coordinate inventory plans with buyers
• Created order calculators to improve speed and efficiency of reordering merchandise
• Composed merchandise training manuals to enhance Sales team's product knowledge; achieved significantly increase in flooring and import/export 1 month time period
• Developed pagination tracking sheet in Excel to improve inventory review and verification for business
• Generate weekly Margin reports for retail/wholesale/Buyer that implemented acknowledgement to reduce occurrences of vendors not entering orders
• •Streamlined forecasting and ordering process with Excel, resulting in superior inventory management
• Became Logic site expert; training manual, and appointed to answer all Logically related inquiries
• •Designed and implemented system to prevent stock outs of priority merchandise in California, China, and Kuwait
Middle East Institute Associate of Art Degree Interior Design, Beirut, Lebanon 1984