A proven senior level professional with strong sales and sales leadership skills; including over 20 years of sales and management experience, with over 20 years of multi-unit management, business development, and people development experience. Demonstrated ability in change management, effective ability to manage multiple projects consecutively, and drive sales and business development activity through others. Ability to plan, organize and direct sales and operational activities and strategies for assigned region to ensure operational and financial performance is maintained, profit margins, revenue, and profit and loss goals are achieved. Developed highly skilled and functional sales and operations teams through exemplary coaching skills. These attributes are readily transferrable to managing any project or team with similar assignment expectations.
• Developed consultative sales culture in region of responsibility
• Grew market by more than 50% in year over year for 3 years straight
• Created, coordinated, and implemented sales plans throughout region
• Improved new account averages per branch by 19%
• Continually improved national account and strategic account penetration in assigned territory.
• Overall responsibility for up to 12 stores and $15M in annual revenue
• Improved gross margin percentages above company average for assigned markets.
• Effectively reduced costs throughout region through heightened awareness.
• Optimized productivity of staff to reduce payroll costs and improve efficiency.
• Reduced worker injury ratio by 10% for region to reduce frequency of accidents and minimize P&L impact.
• Focused team on attention to detail to minimize credits and maximize billable hours to customer.
• Responsible for up to 30 full time direct reports.
• Developed 20+ staff members to increased levels of responsibility.
• Effectively trained and coached sales team on consultative sales process.
• Improved staff efficiency through improved training and higher levels of accountability.
• Enhanced customer service experience through quarterly business reviews.
• Improved customer retention rates through frequent customer service visits.
• Heightened understanding of customers’ needs through consultative selling techniques.
Leadership
P&L Management
Compliance Management
Consultative Sales
Staff Development
Multi-unit Management
Territory Management
Client Relations
Change Management
Problem Solving
Hands-on Approach
Strong Organizational Skills