ELIZABETH KRAUSS

Dependable Inside Sales Manager skilled at leading a team of salespeople to build professional relationships that will lead to increased sales and company profit. Adept at mentoring and coaching team members and leading market trend evaluations. Highly-motivated employee with desire to take on new challenges. Strong work ethic, adaptability and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills.

• 2015, Sent to AK Steel’s newly acquired mill in Dearborn MI for 6 weeks to learn their A/R and invoicing system to determine how it could be integrated with our existing system to bring these operations to our corporate office without any disruption to customers. Retained all daily responsibilities prior to the acquisition and incorporated new systems into my role.
• 2008, Sent to AK Steel’s Europe office to learn their export business to take over their electrical steel exports to China. Set up new procedures including working with freight forwarders, setting up vessel shipments, auditing letters of credit from foreign banks to establish payment and ensure all international paperwork required for customer to import steel were properly completed and submitted on time to avoid penalties. Received a Vice President’s Award for this work and trained other divisions with these new procedures.