Katia Gaudichet

• 9+ years experience supporting sales department.
• Point of contact for out of state, local and general agents to receive and assign requests for proposals.
• Contact sales leads and assign to agents or to sales rep internally.
• Attended sales product training, staff meetings and wag calls, gaining exposure to our department sales and renewals goals and needs.
• Monthly meetings with Florida Combine Life representative to go over ancillary sales and team ancillary goals.
• Create monthly renewals alignment report to be added to GSR and share with sales enablement team.
• Developed and updated spreadsheets and databases to track, analyze, and report on performance and sales data.
• Restocked supplies and placed purchase orders of promotional items
• Coordinated and scheduled meetings and conference calls.

• Sales Coordinator for Circana Health Passport - Contact international customers, update Salesforce and Sharepoint.

• Process New Sales, Renewals, Quotes and all necessary group updates in Siebel. Organize all paperwork, follow up and support new sales and renewals representatives.

• Collected and computed all South Florida office pledges for the 2004 United Way campaign, a Six Sigma project, and generated reports to the corporate office
• Inserted all invitations and gifts information into Microedge Gifts program and ran reports.
• Created and posted presentations on the Blues TV, viewed by all South Florida employees including the Ft. Lauderdale, West Palm Beach and Port Saint Lucie offices using Enterprise Site Manager
• Involved in special projects like organizing the SCIT Meeting held at The Biltmore Hotel attended by over 30 Blue Cross and Blue Shield Nationwide Managers, Directors and Vice-Presidents; member of the Wellness Advisory Board, helped coordinate events throughout the year and various employee driven campaigns e.g. Food Drive, Toy Drive and United Way Campaign.
• Maintained the Calendar of Events. Designed and updated the South Florida office Community Relations website.
• Developed PowerPoint presentations for the Community Relations department, the Wellness Advisory Board, and for various employee-driven campaigns e.g. Blood Drive, Food Drive, Toy Drive and United Way.

• Administer Grants database, upgrade software and successfully implement new modules to better track charitable contributions and budgets throughout the State including Local Presence offices. Assist in implementing new charitable contribution process, providing fast and accurate reports on community investments to various departments and senior management.
• Compiled and creatively combined several spreadsheets into our GIFTS database generating more effective reports and also automatizing letters and custom reports for The Blue Foundation.
• Organized on-site training for other GIFTS users.
• Assist in managing department budget and variance reports and generating check requests using Invoice Manager.
• Maintain Blue Community Champions website by compiling and posting new volunteer opportunities throughout the state.
• Support the team with the company's annual United Way campaign with total pledge of over $1.6 million. Analyze monthly payroll report and enter United Way payment distributions for the State.
• Member of The Blue Rewards Program Team, helping implement along with 5 other colleagues, new guidelines for rewards program.
• Organize team buildings for Public Affairs Department

• Managed 10 employees and day-to-day operations, including accounts receivables/payables of $100K per month.
• Negotiated with international vendors, improving time of receiving perishable goods containers.
• Introduced customers (200 Nationwide) to new products in the market.
• Administered and coordinated shipping and receiving of containers.
• Developed efficient Inventory Control

• Assistant to the President, organized travel, meetings, communicate with associates in South America.
• Processed accounts receivables, payables, and bank reconciliations.
• Prepared sales reports.

Purchase Manager

• Led Purchasing Department with annual inventory of over $ 25 million.
• Conducted and oversaw all operations-requisitions, purchase orders, price negotiations, receiving and delivery verifications. Commodities consisted of Computer Hardware, Software and Peripherals.
• Prepared weekly and monthly reports of dollars committed and delivery status. Ensured inventory was current and needs were met.
• Researched competition related to pricing and merchandising.
• Implemented efficient inventory control improving customer satisfaction.
• Responsible for accounts receivables, accounts payables, vendors and customer credit reports.

• Handling all aspects of bookings including airline and hotel reservations, group tours, bus and cruise travel.
• Knowledgeable and experienced in all phases of the domestic and international travel industry.
• Utilized System One, proprietary reservation system, Internet, and vendor websites to research and report on pricing, availability, features, hotel profiles, resorts, cruise lines, tour itineraries, geographical facts, sightseeing tours, health issues, weather forecasts, currencies, entry-requirements, travel advisories, and special events.
• Keep up to date with knowledge of vacation, tour, and cruise areas, tour packaging, preferred vendors and in-house groups.

• Created, maintained and updated filing systems for paper and electronic documents.
• Updated reports, managed accounts, and generated reports for company database.
• Oversaw office inventory activities by ordering and requisitions and stocking and shipment receiving.
• Managed all daily operations, accounts payables and receivables, sales and purchase orders.
• Oversaw all documents for imported goods, including letter of credit with Banks.

• Handling all aspects of bookings including airline and hotel reservations, group tours, bus and cruise travel.
• Completed travel arrangements for clients with air, hotel, cruise and ground transportation vendors.
• Responsible for answering all phone calls from members traveling or needing information to any destination and booking such reservations in a timely and efficient manner.
• Collected fees, and provided customer with travel documentation.
• Kept informed of airline rules and regulations, tariffs and other industry requirements.