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Overview
Work History
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Volunteer as a Coach for youth sports. (Football, Soccer, Baseball, & Basketball)
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JAMES E. PLEASANT JR

Lake in the Hills,IL

Summary

Enthusiastic Sales and Customer Service professional with expertise in communication and negotiating. Driven to provide superior quality customer service. Innovative in leveraging extensive knowledge of products and services as well as creating solutions for customers to drive loyalty, retention and revenue. Highly adept at training, managing, coaching and mentoring sales and customer service associates with talent for interacting with staff at all levels of organization and public.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work History

Regional Sales Representative/Customer Service Specialist

Hoover CS
01.2016 - Current
  • Ensures that Customers and Sales Organization receive best service possible with a 99.3% customer satisfactory rating
  • Responsible for processing and following through on open orders, data entry of orders, change orders and general correspondence
  • Coordinate functions with all departments within Hoover CS facilities
  • Having single point accountability between internal and external customers

Duties include but not limited to the following :

  • Entering (Rental,& Sales) orders. While tracking, and follow up with customers and sales professionals for all things related to their orders with zero errors in the past 4 years
  • Maintain current knowledge of all projects in assigned areas
  • Back up for Customer Service Support when needed
  • Follow up with all customer orders from creating/entering until the end when the equipment has left order processing
  • Assures Change Orders are corrected timely and accurately before being sent to all appropriate departments
  • Data entry into CRM
  • Respond to information requests from customers along with all Hoover Facilities and 3rd Party (CBSL, NEC, or APEX) locations
  • Perform other related functions required or assigned by Team Lead or Sales Reps
  • Work with Service or other Hoover Facilities including 3rd Party (CBSL, NEC, or APEX) locations to go over any current or outstanding orders
  • Creating and processing rental return orders as well as return goods authorizations (RGA’s) before off hiring assets upon receiving at facilities
  • Create and send invoices for all 3rd party (CBSL, NEC, and APEX) facilities to customers
  • Communication with all sales representatives on customer requests or order details
  • Create and follow up on all credit needs or requests
  • Determined customer needs and interests to recommend the correct product or services to the customer.
  • Delivered superior customer service to retain existing or new customers

Sales Advisor

U.S. Waterproofing
03.2013 - 10.2013
  • Recommended and helped customers select solutions regarding property damage to their homes meeting with up to 30 or more customers weekly
  • Established customer satisfaction by providing highest quality of products and service by educating and addressing concerns based on their needs.
  • Providing the customer with quotes, and time frame in which it takes to do the service for that specific job.
  • Following up with customers weekly to make sure they were fully satisfied with the work and the crew and to see if there was any new questions or concerns the customer might have developed since our last meeting.

Education

Associate of Applied Science - Associate

Everest College - North Aurora
North Aurora
2011

Skills

  • Item information and Pricing
  • Responsible for sending Invoices out every month
  • Maintaining 500 Rental Accounts
  • Run Reports and have lead Production meetings
  • Supply Item information and Pricing
  • Training New Customer Service Reps
  • CRM's - I am trained and worked with Selltis, Salesforce
  • Other Applications I am trained in and have worked with DocuSign, Icertis, OneSource, ADP, RMI, and NAV
  • Maintaining over 250 rental Accounts
  • Interpersonal skills Resolution
  • Energetic and driven
  • Motivated team player
  • Excellent work ethic
  • Positive outlook
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Superior Organizational Skills
  • Building Customer Trust and Loyalty
  • Issue and Complaint Resolution
  • Excellent customer service
  • Strategic planning - Being more efficient in Perceptive, Performance, and Process
  • Sustainability - Educating customers on the importance of how our company works within this process
  • Fleet AI - Helping customers better manage their fleets and helps keep cost down with zero to minimal loss or cost of an asset

Volunteer as a Coach for youth sports. (Football, Soccer, Baseball, & Basketball)

I truly enjoy working with the youth in my community, helping them understand the sport that they are wanting to participate in so they can not only learn what the game is about but making sure they are having fun and being safe, while helping them develop and sharpen their skills which in return I hope to create a positive influence, along with team building and new friends, and the love for the game.

Timeline

Regional Sales Representative/Customer Service Specialist

Hoover CS
01.2016 - Current

Sales Advisor

U.S. Waterproofing
03.2013 - 10.2013

Associate of Applied Science - Associate

Everest College - North Aurora
JAMES E. PLEASANT JR