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Kevin Mercado

Kevin Mercado

New Port Richey,FL

Summary

Management professional with 10+ years of experience in sales, renewals, customer success, customer service, training, client management, internal customer management, restaurant management and recruiting. My sales career started in a recruiting role where I was able to become a high-performance representative within 6 months of working there. I was able to do some outside and inside sales roles where I was able to thrive, but due to Covid induced layoffs was cut shorter than anticipated. Technology is one of my passions, so I was able to eventually pilot and create a new role for my current employer where I focused on winning back customers that no longer wanted to renew with us. After creating the role, I worked my way back into management where I now manage a team of 7 pricing specialist in the SMB mountain/central region. I am a fast learning and detail-oriented professional proficient at building and maintaining professional external client relationships. I am looking to build a long-term career where I can enhance my educational and professional skills, along with utilizing my experience and knowledge in sales, renewals, and management to better the team around me.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience

Work History

CSM Renewal Specialist Team Manager (SMB)

KnowBe4
Clearwater / Remote, FL
10.2020 - Current
  • Make genuine recommendations as to the hiring, firing, disciplining, and promoting subordinates within assigned SMB Renewal Specialist team
  • Manage all opportunities within assigned customer portfolio and perform research to understand customer health and account status as it pertains to those opportunities
  • Coordinate with SMB CSMs to strategize on renewals, add-ons, and upsells for their customers to maximize bookings
  • Proactively conduct discovery with customers on opportunities and handle any objections to ensure predictability of successfully closing those opportunities
  • Generate pricing quotes for renewals, add-ons, and upsells
  • Manage assigned 30, 60, and 90 day opportunity pipeline, manage weekly and daily forecasts, and meet regularly with SMB Customer Success Regional Director to review our team's $40M Pipeline – Averaged almost 88% Deal Retention and 114% Net Booking Retention annually
  • Negotiate with customers on opportunities to prevent churn and secure optimal terms.
  • Manage all activity on Salesforce Classic and Salesforce Lightning.

Customer Revitalization Manager

KnowBe4
Clearwater, FL
11.2020 - 12.2021
  • Responsible for successfully managing recoveries of lapsed Channel, SMB and Tech Touch renewals
  • Conduct discovery on accounts, customer health and investigate, track and document root causes and issues related to subscription termination
  • Solicit feedback and listen to the Voice of the Customer (VoC)
  • Educate and resell the value of KnowBe4 products
  • Handle customer objections to renewing their subscription and leverage a deep understanding of the competitive landscape
  • Generate pricing quotes for renewals
  • Manage pipeline, weekly and daily forecasts and meet regularly with Customer Revitalization Director to review.

Inside Sales Representative

TeamViewer
Clearwater, FL
05.2020 - 11.2020
  • In charge of selling TeamViewer software to all qualified candidates
  • Customer base of 2000 or less employees
  • Worked closely with 'Microsoft CRM' to help with our day-to-day business
  • Proficient in product knowledge for TeamViewer remote software core products, remote management, and augmented reality software
  • Worked with our customer service team to help with customer issues daily.

Marketing Associate (Outside Sales Representative)

Freshpoint, Inc - A Sysco Company
Tampa, FL
04.2019 - 03.2020
  • In charge of selling produce to my area of Pinellas county that ranged from Palm Harbor, FL to St
  • Petersburg, FL
  • Met my quota's every month in opening new business and increasing old business total sales
  • Worked on new programs that were being implemented with the company as our operating company was the test facility
  • Worked closely with 'Salesforce' to help with our day to day business
  • Helped with the marketing team and create all Marketing material along with marketing communications through 'Constant Contact'
  • Worked diligently to revamp our operating company and be a part of their cultural change
  • When I started, we were last, and now we are first out of all operating companies within Freshpoint.

National Hiring Manager (Account Executive/Recruiter)

Sunbelt Staffing, LLC. / The Adecco Group
Oldsmar, FL
06.2017 - 04.2019
  • 225k+ in gross margin dollar within first year
  • Works with the Schools Division to help hire Healthcare professionals within public, private, and charter schools across the US
  • Finding qualified candidates to service students within these school districts, with strategic job posting, unique system searches, and outsourced system searches
  • Increase client count by reaching out to new school districts in order to increase opportunities for our qualified candidates
  • Attend National meetings across the US to reach out to candidates through conferences such as ASHA, AOTA, APTA, and NASP
  • Test new systems and programs to provide feedback to upper management on efficiency of new programs that may provide opportunities for our team
  • Help with training of incoming new hires within our division
  • I was able to reach the first milestone within the company within 6 months of starting this position.

Education

Bachelor’s Degree - Food Service Management

Johnson & Wales University
02.2015

Skills

  • Limited Working Proficiency in Spanish
  • Time Management
  • Sales
  • Recruiting
  • Human Resources
  • Hiring
  • Training
  • Public Speaking
  • Event Planning
  • Leadership

References

Full Resume and References Available Upon Request

Timeline

Customer Revitalization Manager

KnowBe4
11.2020 - 12.2021

CSM Renewal Specialist Team Manager (SMB)

KnowBe4
10.2020 - Current

Inside Sales Representative

TeamViewer
05.2020 - 11.2020

Marketing Associate (Outside Sales Representative)

Freshpoint, Inc - A Sysco Company
04.2019 - 03.2020

National Hiring Manager (Account Executive/Recruiter)

Sunbelt Staffing, LLC. / The Adecco Group
06.2017 - 04.2019

Bachelor’s Degree - Food Service Management

Johnson & Wales University
Kevin Mercado