BENJAMIN J.

STEIN
NY, NY 10009
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

917.273.2747

BenjaminJStein@gmail.com

Bonobos, NY, NY 10/12 5/13 Maide Golf Principal, Golf Brand Operations Managed creative and product teams through 6-month launch process and was additionally responsible for business development, ecommerce integration, and operations of the brand Conducted customer segmentation analysis which was used by our VP of Marketing to validate strategy to target customers with potentially high life time values Negotiated and coordinated player endorsements that resulted in 2 PGA professionals wearing Maide apparel at the 2013 Masters Produced on-location photo shoot and reduced costs of photo shoot by 10% and launch event by 18% by negotiating 3 accessory partnerships and event location Outlined and executed a wholesale strategy which led to initial orders from 1 green-grass and 1 specialty account resulting in +$14,000 in sales Developed Staff Team of brand evangelists by engaging PGA teaching professionals as part of a grass roots marketing program to generate buzz through word of mouth Sourced product features and reviews on relevant industry golf blogs for our PR team and evaluated opportunities to participate in charity events Collaborated on social media campaigns, displays, product concepts, and marketing collateral Associate, Ecommerce Operations 11/11 12/12 Partnered with Merchandising, Marketing, and Customer Experience teams to execute inventory management strategies and campaign staging as well as ensuring platform and campaign uptime Leveraged a 6 person team to complete 90 projects over 670 hours regarding process improvement, documentation, data integrity, campaign support, and inventory management Built reporting dashboard to measure, track, and evaluate project performance which was used in the more widely distributed Ecommerce Dashboard as seen by Cs and VPs Created on-boarding and training curriculum for new-hires and coordinated team cross training Developed an internal service page to track and manage internal requests to the Ecommerce team which increased first contact resolution by 40% Managed implementation of SEO best practices across home, category, and top 100 product pages to increase organic search traffic Research 2.0, Boston, MA 10/09 11/10 Associate, Technology Analyst Published 5x in Capital IQ, Fact Set, and SharesPost. I built forecasts, operating models and performed market analysis/due diligence on tech companies Referral Key Inc., Boston, MA 3/09 9/09 Product Manager Championed product redesign and increased our Alexa rank by 27% through social media Collected direct feedback from customers, wrote pseudo code, created wireframes and utilized agile scrum project management methodology Kaufman Rossin Fund Services LLC, Boston, MA 6/08 12/08 Hedge Fund Administrator Managed accounting and compliance on behalf of $10 million option/equity master-feeder fund EDUCATION University of Massachusetts Amherst BBA Finance & Operations Management SKILLS Client Services Project Management New Business Development Analysis/Reporting Ecommerce
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