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Wichita, Ks *****

Phone: 316-***-****

Email: acq0np@r.postjobfree.com

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/pub/van-franklin/12/598/690/

Van E. Franklin

Objective

To further my skills and experience while teaching and assisting others.

Experience

2013 – Present - Builders Inc. d.b.a. Wichita Village Flea Market Wichita, Ks

12/2013 -05/2014 Outside Marketing and Sales Director. Builders approached me with questions on how to revive their 39 year old indoor mall/flea market the Village Flea Market. This was a precursory position to place steps into position for the current management team to make the changes needed for setting up a sellable product.

05/2014 – 06/2015 –General Manager of onsite and offsite operations It became obvious that further management changes were needed to accomplish these goals, as of May 2014. I was put in charge of onsite General Management of the project to bring building and procedures up to industry standards.

06/2015- Present Outside Sales Director Having hired and training proper staff and implemented SOPs I was able step back out to the outside sales.

2012-Present Bargain Hunters of Kansas Wichita, KS

2012– Present - Owner Operator:

Bargain Hunters is an Eclectic Repurposing Store featuring Homemade Furniture Paints and Waxes, Soaps, and a multitude of Reused – Renewed – Repurposed items including Antiques, Boutique Items, & Vintage Finds.

My wife Michelle and I found ourselves needing extra income in early 2013 when my business partner took the capitol and proceeds from a partnership of a small advertising medium I had retired from Indian Hills Hardware to pursue and left the company with zero income and no way to recover it.

We purchased a failing thrift store. We purchased Bargain Hunters and it has been profitable since the second month of purchase. On a shoe string budget we restocked and created the tools to make it a well know name among the repurposing and antiquing crowd of Wichita and surrounding areas. As you can see we are quite proud of our accomplishments with the shop.

Please don’t let this success make you think we are not transferable. We are a resilient family of self starters always willing to seek new adventures and challenges. I hope that this is a testament to my ability to find always find the positive in an apparent negative.

1996-2012 Indian Hills Ace Hardware Wichita, KS

2003 -2012 -Commercial Industrial / B2B Manager

Organized and implemented Commercial Industrial and B2B program.

Increased annual Commercial Industrial MRO sales from $40K to $1.9M

10% – 30% per annum in additional sales growth.

Maintain inventory levels, including pricing and introduction and implementation of new items.

Manage, train and organize 32 Commercial and Retail employees.

Manage and maintain Outside Sales and Fleet

Manage local advertising for B2B

3 annual trade shows

Additional responsibilities include:

Co-Manage 21k sq ft Retail operation.

Manage and add to current 3000+ network in housing industry.

1998 - 2003 - Sales Manager

Manage, hire, train and organize Retail employees.

Manage shipping and receiving operations and duties.

Merchandising and implementing new and existing products.

Additional responsibilities include:

Manage 15k sq ft Retail operation 5 days per week

Maintain and troubleshoot computer network

1996 – 1998 - Sales

Retail sales.

Shipping and receiving operations and duties.

Merchandising new and existing products.

Special Skills

I am that salesperson you have always dreamed of! As one of my customers I will fight to save you time and money which is a giant positive to my employer for customer retention and ROI. I am expedient with excellent time management skills and organization abilities, I have a great ability to set up systems for employees and reporting With thirty plus of retail merchandising and goods, exceptional networking skills, problem solving skills and out of the box thinking.. I promise you will not be sorry for giving me a chance.

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