Damodar Ayala

• Drove growth in key accounts to keep pace with retailer’s sales trends in a continually evolving industry
• Hired and developed a team of junior executive coordinators to drive growth in key accounts
• Successfully planned and executed monthly corporate and store generated events leading to significant improvement in brand awareness and competitive brand ranking
• Built and maintained relationships with retail partner leadership on store and district wide scale resulting in elevated sales and eventing strategies
• Led team in organizing and executing regularly cadenced dedicated trainings on a store and district wide level resulting in increased brand advocacy leading to sustained increases in weekly average sales per door

Key Acheivements

• Successfully led total territory sales growth by over previous year in less than 8 months
• Plan and execute homegrown events that drove brand to top sales rank in key accounts
• Assist in building freelance team for the OC/SD/IE market
• Collaborated with colleagues to form new sales and training systems for elevated store partnership

Achievements

• Increase average weekly sales performance average in highest volume doors by 10-20%
• Meet and exceed previous year's liabilities by strategic events in top volume doors with freelance artist while staying under budget
• Consistently meet and exceed monthly performance objectives for territory

Achievements

• Increase weekly sales performance average in highest volume doors by 20-40%
• Offset year's deficit by over 50% in first two months of acquiring Midwest territory
• Successfully execute events in top volume doors with freelance artists while staying under budget
• Increase and maintain "Top 10" brand rank status within focus doors