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Sarah Webster

Portland,ME

Summary

Team-oriented professional prepared to take on leadership responsibilities with focus on driving results and fostering collaboration. Proven success in managing teams, overseeing project execution, and adapting to dynamic work environments. Known for reliability, flexibility, and strong organizational skills, ensuring seamless team operations and achievement of goals.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Events Manager

Shipyard Brewing Company
04.2024 - Current
  • Managed budgets effectively, optimizing allocation of resources to maximize event impact.
  • Managed administrative logistics of events planning, event booking, and event promotions.
  • Delivered exceptional customer service to attendees, addressing concerns promptly and professionally.
  • Streamlined event operations for improved efficiency and cost-effectiveness through comprehensive logistical management.
  • Increase daily sales totals driven by events
  • Act as tasting room supervisor for day to day tasks.
  • Assist with onboarding of new hires, manage day to day needs, and balance books at the end of the day.

Customer Success Manager

Bynder
04.2022 - 04.2024
  • Manage a book of business of $4.5 million in ARR through launch, adoption, renewal and expansion process
  • Assisted customers with onboarding and product setup to foster successful adoption and usage.
  • Established strong relationships with key customers and executive teams, resulting in increased customer loyalty at 99% retention.
  • Prepare documentation, reports and logs to identify and manage sales metrics and support process driven
    activities
  • Collaborated with sales team to ensure seamless handoffs, resulting in smoother customer transitions.
  • Conducted regular account reviews to assess progress and strategize future growth opportunities for clients.

Team Lead, Customer Success Managers

Labster
01.2021 - 04.2022
  • Interviewed, trained and mentored new team members to promote productivity, accuracy and long term success.
  • Trained team on forecasting and helped review forecasting to ensure it aligned with format and accuracy.
  • Fostered positive employee relationships through communication, training and development coaching.
  • Drove customer escalations to resolution by engaging directly with clients.
  • Manage a full book of business while fulfilling Team Lead responsibilities.
  • Oversaw multiple accounts and worked diligently to meet and exceed performance goals.
  • Cultivated long-term relationships with clients to accurately quote pricing and terms that achieve customer objectives.
  • Spearheaded building out the new Customer Success Manager playbook that provides guidance to new and existing team members with best practices and all resources needed to do the job effectively.
  • Researched and capitalized on emerging opportunities to build business and expand customer base.
  • Run office hours weekly as a resource to all team members.
  • Integrated process improvements to increase overall workflow.

Software used: Gainsight, RingDNA, Salesforce, Glassfrog, Concord

Customer Success Manager

Datadog Inc.
12.2019 - 01.2021
  • Negotiated short and long-term contracts with sales associates, franchisees and customers.
  • Drove customer escalations to resolution by engaging directly with customers.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with internal Datadog teams - support, product, finance & Legal.
  • Planned various product configurations to meet diverse customer needs.
  • Negotiated tender and contract terms to meet both client and company needs.
  • Monitor and identify usage trends to uncover renewal risks and support greater adoption rates.
  • Run the full sales cycle for any opportunity for any existing customer.
  • Educated existing customers with new product and feature releases regularly.
  • Managed a book of 100 customers with MRR range from $50.00-85,000.
  • Trained and mentored new team members to promote productivity, accuracy and friendly customer service.

Inside Sales Executive

Drizly Inc.
02.2019 - 12.2019
  • Managed entire sales process for inbound and outbound leads
  • Educated clients how to use our platform and technology, and educated them how to improve their own physical retail operations pertaining to inventory selection, pricing, delivery times, and POS improvements
  • Managed clients entire onboarding process and provided support
  • Provided demo's for every deal closed on how to use Drizly's technology via the mobile phone app as well as their stores backend on the website
  • Communicate with clients through outbound efforts in assigned targeted area
  • Collaborated across teams to optimize Drizly's customer and client experience
  • Averaging 130 calls and 75 emails per week for client outreach
  • Hit 97% of quota during first fully ramped quarter by onboarding 39 stores successfully
  • Software Used: Salesforce

Account Executive, National Sales

EZCATER Inc.
12.2017 - 02.2019
  • Delivered an exceptional level of service to each client by listening to concerns and answering questions
  • Worked on converting prospective high valued users
  • Act as day-to-day Account Manager for HVU's specifically those in the pharmaceutical, educational and financial industries
  • Provided effective demonstrations of ezCater's platform so that customers understood how to use each feature
  • Spearheaded the first marketing and sales Collaboration in the company
  • Helped build out the call cadence, templates, and pipeline for the sales process
  • Helped lead the roll out and training of new sales process with sales team
  • Successfully was a top converter during a testing period to prove a sales touch is crucial
  • Successfully closed over 100 deals in 1 month
  • Software Used: Hubspot, Freedom, UberConference, Five9

Technical Recruiter

Motion Recruitment Partners
06.2016 - 11.2017
  • Worked on a team of five specialized recruiters with a focus on placing DevOps and Infrastructure engineers
  • Executed fourteen full-desk placements, which generated $259,000 in revenue with additional contract revenue
  • Independently acquired 45 clients, had a total of 240 interviews, and visited 30 client sites in a 13-month timeline
  • Staffed a range of technical contract, contract-to-hire and direct hire jobs
  • Prescreened all candidates via phone screens and then, if qualified, via in-person meetings
  • Met with C-level executives at client sites to discuss hiring needs, set expectations and establish an effective business relationship
  • Negotiated business contracts between Motion Recruitment Partners and new clients that I acquired
  • CRMs used: Bullhorn, eRecruit, Outlook, SharePoint, Field Glass, Greenhouse

Education

Community Organizational Leadership

University of New Hampshire
Durham, NH
2016

Skills

  • Dedicated Client Advocate
  • Precision-Focused
  • Adaptable in Fast-Paced Settings
  • Technology Proficient
  • Conflict resolution
  • Coaching and mentoring

Timeline

Events Manager

Shipyard Brewing Company
04.2024 - Current

Customer Success Manager

Bynder
04.2022 - 04.2024

Team Lead, Customer Success Managers

Labster
01.2021 - 04.2022

Customer Success Manager

Datadog Inc.
12.2019 - 01.2021

Inside Sales Executive

Drizly Inc.
02.2019 - 12.2019

Account Executive, National Sales

EZCATER Inc.
12.2017 - 02.2019

Technical Recruiter

Motion Recruitment Partners
06.2016 - 11.2017

Community Organizational Leadership

University of New Hampshire
Sarah Webster