The Company is the premier online marketplace for outdoor sports equipment and supplies, specializing in shooting and survival gear. The Company offers an unparalleled section of approximately 95,000 products through its website and catalog, selling products from every manufacturer within the industry and directly purchasing from nearly 300 vendors. More than 95% of The Company’s SKUs are inventoried by third-party distribution partners. In addition to featuring one of the web’s widest arrays of shooting equipment and accessories, the Company’s website offers unique content and community features. The Company’s website and brand name are extremely well-known to its target market.
Founded in 1993 by its CEO and two partners, The Company began as a mail order-based retailer of ammunition and firearms accessories. With the growth of the Internet and electronic commerce, The Company began selling its products online in 1999. Online sales now represent the majority of The Company’s revenue, followed by retail and catalog. The Company mails more than 10 million catalogs annually to customers and prospective customers in its target market.
The Company also has a small but growing retail storefront presence in several major cities in Texas.
The market for hunting and shooting equipment is more than $5 billion according to the National Shooting Sports Foundation, with firearms and ammunition representing the largest segments of the market.
Firearms sales are regulated at the federal, state, and local level. In addition to legal restrictions on sales, major online and offline media outlets restrict advertising of firearms, ammunition, and other shooting related gear. While these restrictions serve to increase the complexity of the market, they also create barriers to entry and give established, experienced retailers a competitive advantage.
The Company has expanded into outdoor sports enthusiasts’ gear and equipment, further expanding the size of The Company’s addressable market.
The Company is profitable, rapidly growing, and financially solid with a long and successful operating history. The Company pursues an attractive, scalable merchandising and fulfillment model that supports rapid growth, yet keeps capital expenditures and working capital at modest levels. This strategy is highly valued as evidenced by financial markets’ valuation of similar ecommerce models used by Amazon, eBay and other drop-ship e-tailers.
The Company offers a vast array of shooting sports products and accessories on its website and in its catalog. Currently, The Company sells approximately 165,000 SKUs and offers firearms, ammunition, and other products from approximately 300 different vendors.
Ammunition is the largest product category sold through The Company’s website and catalog. However, as the table below illustrates, The Company’s website and catalog generate significant product sales from a wide range of categories geared towards the shooting sport enthusiast.
To offer the greatest breadth and depth of products, while minimizing inventory and therefore working capital investment, The Company has formed partnerships with third-party distributors that will fulfill and ship non-firearm products directly to The Company’s customers and ship firearms to Company’s warehouse for shipment to the customers. Products are featured on the The Company’s website alongside The Company’s inventoried products, and in some cases, identical products are shown with different price points from different vendors. This implicitly communicates to customers that there is no need to look elsewhere to compare prices or selection. Approximately 98% of the SKUs that The Company offers are inventoried by third -party distribution partners.
The Company’s go-to market channels include website, catalog, and retail. Revenue is split across these 3 channels with the largest being website (75%+), catalog (10%+), and retail store presence (10%+). In most recent year’s data, website represented more than 85% of all revenue.
All of The Company’s website and catalog sales, marketing, and fulfillment operations are housed in its Ft. Worth, Texas, headquarters facility where The Company has approximately 125 employees including seasonal temporaries as needed. The Company’s corporate functions are also based at this location.
When The Company receives an order via its website or call center, the order is processed and fulfilled (pulled, packed and shipped) from The Company’s warehouse or a distribution partner warehouse based on the specific item ordered. Orders for products warehoused by third-party partners are electronically transmitted to the partner’s inventory system. The partner completes fulfillment of the order using packaging and invoices carrying The Company’s brand.
The President, in conjunction with the CEO and COO, serves as the executive core of The Company’s team. This core team is charged with determining and realizing The Company’s strategic vision and with delivering world-class shareholder/investor, customer, employee, and strategic partner satisfaction.
The President has full authority and day-to-day responsibility for planning, implementing, managing and controlling all activities of the company. The key mission of the President is to accelerate revenue and profitability growth and transform The Company’s business from its current focus revenue, profitability and scope of offerings to a larger and more profitable enterprise meeting virtually all the needs of its consumer base.
The President also has executive leadership responsibility for all the company’s operations and staff.
Highlights of the new President’s track record and experience will include the following:
Detail of Responsibilities
The Company is seeking a seasoned and accomplished sales executive with an unusual combination of skills. However, there is no question that the most critical skill is a proven ability to build, top-grade, and expand the functional teams responsible for delivering The Company’s products to their customers. The President will have a passion for and experience working with marketing team members and ecommerce experts to increase market penetration.
Key skills, experience, and segment background include the following:
General
Finally, this individual should have as many as possible of the traits required to succeed in this leadership position:
Ideal Candidate Profile
The diagram below illustrates the intersection of competencies critical in the position:
Compensation is competitive with the position’s requirements. In a performance-based environment, this will include base salary, bonus structure based on corporate qualitative and quantitative business development targets, and a stakeholder position in the company.
Please contact:
Clark Waterfall, BSG Team Ventures
Diane Amador, BSG Team Ventures
Please also submit your resume here.