MARTIN BLOOM marty.bloom@charter.net • 763-350-2728

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SUMMARY

Business professional focused on executing strategies that deliver on customers needs. Recognized by leadership for ability to organize and prioritize work, while executing all responsibilities without exception. Energized by working in a fast-paced environment and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver desired business outcomes.

• Team Leadership & Development • Budgeting and Forecasting • Strategy Development • Product Merchandising • Business Partnership • Financial Analysis

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Gander Mountain – St. Paul, Minnesota 2010 - 2015 PRODUCT MANAGER - FISHING (OCTOBER 2012– JULY 2015) Responsible for driving highly regional and SKU-intensive business. Responsibilities included assortment planning, marketing, merchandising and managing all financial aspects of the business.

• Successfully developed and implemented private label product lines • Collaborated with vendor partners to develop key item programs driving business results • Implemented regionalized assortment that delivered on the unique needs of ten fisheries • Delivered category strategy presentations to the CEO / Owner of the company

PRODUCT MANAGER - HUNTING / FIREARMS (JANUARY 2010 – OCTOBER 2012) Successfully drove multiple business categories by building internal and external partnerships. Responsibilities include developing and executing assortment, merchandising and marketing strategies. Categories of responsibility included: Optics, Security, Electronics, Cutlery, Lighting & Dog Training.

• Developed new company standard for delivering category line reviews to leadership team

• Successfully implemented new merchandising strategy delivering a new concept for merchandising complex products

• Proven leader in the organization, setting new standards in delivering quality work • Certified corporate trainer – facilitated training sessions delivering a new sales process

to retail staff

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Best Buy – Richfield, Minnesota 1993 - 2009 SR. BUYER – GEEK SQUAD (JUNE 2007 - MARCH 2009) Led a team with two direct reports to achieve 3 to 12-month financial goals. Responsible for driving merchandising and advertising strategies. Collaborated with cross functional business partners to drive in-store customer experience.

• Collaborated with operations team and drove improvements to install van assortment process, resulting in improved product in stocks and profitability

• Delivered promotional strategy that focused on attachment to parent category business, in order to achieve revenue and profit goals

• Developed forecasting tool to improve forecasting accuracy for the warranty business

SR. BUYER – AUDIO / VIDEO (JUNE 2005 – June 2007) Responsible for driving business relationships with external vendor partners. Managed a team of two direct reports to achieve business results. Collaborated with cross-functional partners to drive promotional, assortment and merchandising strategies.

• Delivered a financial business plan that resulted in over $600MM in revenue • Implemented product displays that delivered a unique in-store customer experience • Launched HD DVD and Blu-ray video formats resulting in #1 hardware market share

SEGMENT MERCHANT – CUSTOMER CENTRICITY (JULY 2003 – June 2005) Developed and coordinating all promotional, assortment and merchandising needs for the Centricity stores. Worked cross-functionally to support innovation in the stores. Single point of contact with in Customer Centricity for the Core Business Teams.

• Delivered an expanded assortment to meet specific customer needs • Created reporting that measured performance of solutions created for Centricity stores

PLANNER, BUSINESS TEAM RESOURCES (APRIL 2002 – July 2003) Responsible for supporting processes and tools used by the Merchant Business Teams. Collected feedback from merchants on improvements needed to fulfill business needs. Created documentation for the assortment process and tools used by merchant teams.

• Trained Merchant teams on the assortment process and tools driving compliance • Created transition worksheet to drive compliance to deadlines in the assortment process

BUYER – VIDEO GAME AND EDUCATION SOFTWARE (JULY 1998 – April 2002) Successfully collaborated with members of the business team to execute assortment, promotional and merchandising strategies. Worked with cross-functional partners to drive execution in retail stores. Provided support for the budgeting process. Completed data analysis to understand business trends.

• Launched new hardware platforms; Xbox, Playstation2, Game Cube and Game Boy

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Arts in Communication ST. JOHN’S UNIVERSITY – COLLEGEVILLE, MINNESOTA