Highly experience Sales Manager known for exemplary team-building and project oversight skills. Gifted at working with all types of personalities. Performance history of developing strong collaborative relationships and delivering impressive results.
Responsible for creating and sustaining relationships with business and industry that results in sales of customized training.
Trained and managed inside and outside salespeople while maintaining an account base that included distributor and direct sales
Obtained the largest account in company history (Direct Brands, New York, NY) that resulted in over $800,000 in printing sales
Increased sales from distributors and print shops by over $400,000 at a time of declining usage of these products
Oversaw entire sales operation with sales totaling over $15,000,000 in 2000.
Established a direct sales force.
Managed a new product offering (pressure seal forms) from inception and established sales of over $1.5 million in 2000 by overseeing advertising and trade shows, personally making sales calls and managing inside sales coordinators.
Increased distributor sales from $2.0 million annually to $6.3 million in 1998, with profits exceeding $1.0 million.
Managed three inside sales coordinators and one outside sales representative and increased the number of distributor clients from less than 200 to more than 600.
Opened Puerto Rico as a sales territory and grew sales in that area to over $1.2 million annually.
Was promoted and transferred to the headquarters in Knoxville.
Managed the order entry department and five inside sales coordinators
Increased sales during tenure from $2.5 million to over $6.5 million
Successful experience in B2B sales
Successful experience in phone sales
Lead generation and account opening
Sales planning and forecasting
Sales training and development
Improving profitability
Client relationship development
Leading team efforts