www.scottinmaine.com,Owner, Scott Sanford and Asssociates,LLC
Portland, Maine Area
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- Broker/Owner at Scott Sanford and Asssociates,LLC
- Independent residential real estate broker at Lucas Realestate
- Past
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- University of Southern Maine
- University of Southern Maine
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Scott Sanford’s Summary
Go to my Website: www.scottinmaine.com. Committed to my community and state, I, along with my wife and 4 children, was born, grew up and still live in Falmouth. Scott maintains professional relationships with a network of community leaders, friends and contacts garnered from his past business experience, and his local work as a substitute teacher and sports coach within the school system. Scott draws on this network to provide personal services to his clients ranging from mortgage referrals to moving companies, insurance and all those other incidentals.
An avid outdoor enthusiast, has experienced Maine as he skied its’ mountains and back country, fly-fished wilderness streams and canoed pristine rivers and lakes. From a home in the Greater Portland area, to a cottage on the shores of a Maine lake, a ski chalet or that long dreamed of coastal retreat overlooking the rockbound Maine coast, Scott will share his extensive knowledge of school systems, community issues and Maine life so that your next purchase or sale will be trouble-free.
Objective Senior level management or consulting responsibilities requiring proven organizational, people, systems, management and leadership skills, teamed with a results-oriented approach.
Objective
Senior level management or consulting responsibilities requiring proven organizational, people, systems, management and leadership skills, teamed with a results-oriented approach.
Background Summary
Seasoned senior level manager with extensive mail order, retail store and real estate knowledge and expertise. Twenty-five year career in progressively responsible positions, including product development, merchandising, quality, inventory management, strategic/business planning, retail store management, vendor management, budgeting and system project management. Respected people manager, consensus team player, organized leader and creative problem solver.
Scott Sanford’s Specialties:
business intelligence, business plans, catalogs, cognos impromptu, creative design, data warehousing, decision support, development, directing, forecasting, inventory management, leadership, management, marketing, merchandising, microsoft mail, netscape enterprise server, page, photography, presentation skills, pricing, production, quick, reports, retail, sales, strategic,
Scott Sanford’s Experience
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Broker/Owner
Scott Sanford and Asssociates,LLC
(Real Estate industry)
December 2007 — Present (2 years )
There are many qualities and skills that go into being an excellent real estate professional: integrity, in-depth community and market knowledge, marketing savvy, effective negotiation skills and a high-quality professional network, all of which are hallmarks of how I work.
In my experience as a Portland real estate professional, I've also found that providing the very best service is essentially about putting my clients first. This means keeping myself accessible, being a good listener as well as a good communicator, and responding quickly to your needs.
This "client first" philosophy has always been my approach and it requires me to continually improve my skills and ways of doing business. In addition, I've found that the latest technologies are enabling me to do everything I've always done, only much more quickly and efficiently. They've also helped me to extend the range of services I provide to my clients.
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Independent residential real estate broker
Lucas Realestate
(Real Estate industry)
February 2004 — Present (5 years 10 months)
Consistently a top producer
Secured a Maine broker level license -
Manager
L.L.Bean
(Privately Held; Retail industry)
January 1998 — January 2004 (6 years 1 month)
Retail Store Inventory/DSS
Managed inventory for five stores. With a staff of 20, supported sales of 130 million.
Supported development of new infrastructure (systems, process and organization) for new store rollout.
Implemented new E3 replenishment system and built new merchandising planning process for new store expansion.
Responsible for integrating Arthur planning system into inventory planning process
Worked closely with IS to develop decision support reporting from enterprise data warehouse utilizing COGNOS axis tools.
Worked with IS to develop legacy systems to support dedicated retail inventory for new store rollout.
Scored in the top 2% of all Gallup's scores regarding employee engagement -
Management
L.L.Bean
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Retail industry)
1978 — 2002 (24 years )
Upper level management targeting strategic and tactictal business and product development; budgeting, merchandising, inventory, vendor managment and recognized as a highly skilled and people-oriented manager
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Manager
LLBeann
(Privately Held; Retail industry)
January 1995 — January 1998 (3 years 1 month)
Retail Store Hardgoods
Responsible for providing leadership and merchandising direction for Hunting, Fishing, Camping, Bike and Ski and Home Camp Furnishings in the Freeport store
Managed daily store operations of each department in support of $70 million in sales. -
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L.L.Bean
(Privately Held; Retail industry)
January 1990 — January 1995 (5 years 1 month)
Mail-order Inventory
Gained additional responsibilities for managing $70 million Sporting Goods/Active Sports and $100 million Home Camp Furnishings catalog inventory. Developed, approved and oversaw the implementation of all buy strategies and liquidation. Responsible for both the development of annual inventory plans, which support turnover objectives and sales goals, and for the development of seasonal buy review plans. Administratively responsible for the staff's quick response programs.
Developed, trained and maintained a highly motivated, competent, professional staff of 12 buyers and assistant buyers.
Created a strong team atmosphere and substantially raised morale
Instrumental in coordinating efforts of product development, inventory and the distribution center. -
Manager
L.L.Bean
(Privately Held; Retail industry)
January 1983 — January 1990 (7 years 1 month)
Product Development
Total responsibility for developing and presenting a merchandising strategy and business plan bi-annually to the executive committee for both the fishing and hunting businesses.
Assumed leadership role in moving both businesses from a small retail operation to a leading mail order and retail operations. Fishing went from $500,000 to 9 million and hunting went from $600,000 to 8 million. Also played an integral role in the development and marketing of the hunting and fishing specialty catalogs. Responsibilities included merchandise planning, forecasting sales performance, establishing pricing and directing creative design (i.e. layouts, copy, photography etc) of catalog.
Gained expert knowledge of the entire catalog production process
Directly responsible for development of L.L.Bean's first specialty catalog 1984: Fishing specialty catalog
Managed development of the hunting specialty catalog from 5 pages in the full catalog to a 72 page specialty catalog ($8.2 million) 1989
Built fishing catalog circulation from its initial 100,000 to 750,000 by 1990.
Responsible for addition of firearms to the product line, achieving sales of 1,000 units at $400,000.
Directly responsible for moving a one-day non-fee fly-fishing school to a 3-level school program. Also managed operations of 17 different schools: 13 three-day introductory schools, one intermediate school, and three one-week advance schools. Put 700 students annually through these schools generating revenues of a quarter million per year.
Developed a 16-page fly-tying catalog that was bound into the regular catalog. Increased assortments from small retail shop 300 sku to 1600 sku.
Changed 80% of the product line to private label programs going directly to the manufacturer. -
Control Buyer
LLBean
(Retail industry)
August 1981 — August 1983 (2 years 1 month)
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Assistant Product Manager
LLBean
(Retail industry)
August 1979 — August 1981 (2 years 1 month)
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Product Analyst Trainee
LLBean
(Retail industry)
August 1978 — August 1979 (1 year 1 month)
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Retail Sales Clerk
LLBean
(Retail industry)
September 1977 — August 1978 (1 year )
Scott Sanford’s Education
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University of Southern Maine
BS , Business , 1973 — 1977
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University of Southern Maine
B.A , Business Administration
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