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David Benson

Henderson

Summary

Sales professional prepared for role requiring focus on client engagement and revenue growth. Skilled in identifying customer needs and crafting personalized sales strategies that drive results. Reliable team player with commitment to collaboration and adaptability, ensuring seamless integration with dynamic team environments.

Professional with strong communication and negotiation skills, adept in building and maintaining client relationships. Proven ability to drive sales, meet targets, and adapt to changing market conditions. Strong team collaborator with focus on achieving results and delivering consistent performance. Skilled in CRM software, lead generation, and customer service.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Inside Sales Representative

Allstate Corp
10.2024 - 04.2025
  • Answered customers' questions regarding products, prices, and availability.
  • Increased sales revenue by building strong relationships with clients and providing insightful product recommendations.
  • Enhanced customer satisfaction through attentive service, addressing concerns promptly, and offering tailored solutions.
  • Maintained up-to-date knowledge of available products to best serve customers and maximize sales potential.
  • Determined needs, delivered solutions, and overcame objections through consultative selling skills.

Tesla Advisor

Tesla Inc.
03.2020 - 10.2024
  • Consistently delivering an incredible educational, immersive, and exciting experience to all our current and future customers as well as creating a memorable experience for our customers every day. I was Tesla’s front line and one of their brand ambassadors, supporting the mission to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy.
  • Maintained up-to-date knowledge on industry trends and regulations, ensuring accurate advice was provided to clients at all times.
  • Developed long-lasting relationships with clients to ensure consistent retention and loyalty.

Direct Sales Representative

Charter Communications - Spectrum
07.2019 - 10.2019
  • Expertly go door to door selling TV, Internet, Phone and Cell Phone to potential customers; completed all necessary training for sales process.
  • Learned about community while delivering advanced TV, high-speed Internet and Voice technologies, matching neighbors with the customized services that best fit their needs and lifestyles.

Career Agent

Humana, Inc.
08.2017 - 05.2019
  • Provided Medicare recipients with the best possible solutions for their health care, met with prospective clients in their homes and gave extensive presentations on how Humana’s products fit their lifestyle and health needs.
  • Provided each customer with the ultimate in customer service experience, so they would remain with Humana.
  • Discovered the root cause for the lack of performance and create processes and procedures to overcome these deficiencies; designed and implemented solution-based sales strategies to increase core metrics to meet and exceed personal and company sales goals.

Tele-sales Agent

United Healthcare
06.2015 - 07.2017
  • Received incoming telephone calls from prospective Medicare recipients.
  • Followed a structured call flow to gauge interest and to uncover their needs to better serve them.
  • After uncovering needs and wants, offered health plans that would help the prospective client(s) enroll in the right plan for them.

Education

Bachelor's Degree - Business Administration

Lakeland University
Sheboygan, Wisconsin
08.2016

Master's Degree - Master of Business Administration

Lakeland University
Sheboygan, Wisconsin
12.2018

Specialized Degree - Graduated from Specs Howard with a specialized degree in broadcasting

Specs Howard School of Broadcasting
Detroit, Michigan
05.1991

Skills

  • Sales operations management
  • While in Cable Sales, never once missed company’s sales goals; always placed in the top 10% of the company; in Healthcare Sales, had a book of business that was well over 125 clients, in a short 2-year span; placed in the top 10% in relationship building with all Sales jobs
  • Value-driven sales strategy
  • Proven experience in a complex sales environment working with multiple decision makers and influences during the sales cycle; sole accountability for customer satisfaction and business growth; outstanding success in building and maintaining long term relationships with key decision makers, establishing large sales volume, and providing exceptional levels of retention and loyalty
  • Excellent Client Service skills include handling customers effectively by identifying needs, quickly gaining trust, approaching complex situations and resolving problems to maximize efficiency; demonstrated ability to analyze complex problems, think creatively, communicate recommendations, influence change, and be able to drive process and structure of extremely complex technical and dynamic environments
  • Establish policies, processes and systems that foster and ensure a smooth workflow, maximum optimization of processes, customer satisfaction, and consistency in communication; consistent producer on sales team with an integral role in exceeding territory production, growth and revenue performance targets
  • Consistently eclipse revenue goals by creatively positioning products while maintaining an in-depth knowledge of Services and Products; innovative, creative, analytical and strategic thinker; enjoy solving complex problems, work effectively with cross-functional teams, Executives, and Senior Managers
  • Build strong customer relationships through effective communication
  • Possess outstanding account retention skills, excellent product presentation and negotiation capabilities, a driving passion for excellence and high quality of work; research trends and market demands identifying untouched markets; determined contractual obligations, including, selling, financing, marketing and sales forecasts

Certification

  • [Area of expertise] License - [Timeframe]

Timeline

Inside Sales Representative

Allstate Corp
10.2024 - 04.2025

Tesla Advisor

Tesla Inc.
03.2020 - 10.2024

Direct Sales Representative

Charter Communications - Spectrum
07.2019 - 10.2019

Career Agent

Humana, Inc.
08.2017 - 05.2019

Tele-sales Agent

United Healthcare
06.2015 - 07.2017

Master's Degree - Master of Business Administration

Lakeland University

Specialized Degree - Graduated from Specs Howard with a specialized degree in broadcasting

Specs Howard School of Broadcasting

Bachelor's Degree - Business Administration

Lakeland University
David Benson