Marcela Saldana
MONTEBELLO,California
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Sales and Programming Coordinator
AEG / LA Galaxy
Torrance, California
01.2025 - Current
- Event Development & Execution: Assist in planning, organizing, and executing LA Galaxy and partner events, including youth clinics, community programs, and premium fan experiences. Coordinate logistics for facility programming such as corporate activations, group sales events, and theme nights.
- Sales Support & Business Development: Collaborate with the sales team to create programming and event packages that drive new business opportunities.
- Identify and cultivate relationships with local organizations, schools, and businesses to increase participation and ticket sales. Programming Oversight: Support the day-to-day operations of the programming department, overseeing signups, registration, and payment
- Oversee select programming initiatives and ensure alignment with LA Galaxy brand standards.
- Administrative & Communication Duties: Manage budgets, invoices, contracts, and inventory related to facility and events
- Create event recaps, participant communications, and promotional materials as needed. Support marketing efforts through social media, email, and in-market appearances.
Coach
LA Galaxy
Torrance, California
05.2023 - 12.2024
- Lead Coach to over 70+ youth over the course of a week. I manage, train, engage, and develop plans for the activity of the day and follow through with the planning session. Work with age groups up to six years of age.
- Patience, loud voice, organization, multitasking, time management, calmness, etc is needed to thrive in the place I work
- Created culture of good sportsmanship, cooperation and responsibility among athletes and coaching staff.
- Conducted recruitment efforts to identify and attract promising athletes to the program.
- Fostered a positive and motivational environment to boost team morale and cohesion.
Operations Manager
FedEx Ground
06.2020 - 01.2023
- Smart post
- Participated in the rearranging of employees to facilitate the operations at FedEx to hit certain goals set by higher management
- Additionally, the job description entitles being a safety manager in where I would assure employees are using the correct techniques and guidelines in being safe.
- Directed day-to-day operations by spearheading implementation of short-term and long-term strategies to achieve business plan and profitability goals.
- Improved morale and management communication by creating employee recognition and rewards practices.
- Developed initiatives for process improvement and reviewed and assessed ongoing operations.
Education
Master of Science - Sports Management
Long Beach State University
Long Beach, CA06-2024
Bachelor of Arts - Business Administration
California State University, Stanislaus
Turlock, CA05-2020
Skills
- Process Improvement Strategies
- Customer support
- Training and mentoring
- Scheduling
- Resource allocation
- Written communication
- Decision-making
- Employee work scheduling
- Team building
- Adaptability and flexibility
- Planning and Implementation
- Program development
Languages
English
Native/ Bilingual
Spanish
Native/ Bilingual
Timeline
Sales and Programming Coordinator
AEG / LA Galaxy
01.2025 - Current
Coach
LA Galaxy
05.2023 - 12.2024
Operations Manager
FedEx Ground
06.2020 - 01.2023
Bachelor of Arts - Business Administration
California State University, Stanislaus
Master of Science - Sports Management
Long Beach State University