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Tom Harder

Larkspur,CO

Summary

Dedicated Sales Professional with a history of meeting company goals utilizing consistent and organized practices. Skilled in working under pressure and adapting to new situations and challenges to best enhance the organizational brand. Passionate sales and operational leader with a true desire to build business and grow others around me.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience

Work History

Sr. Director, Global Client Services

Blend360
05.2021 - Current

As the Senior Director at a prominent Data Science and Engineering consulting/services firm, I play a pivotal role in driving enterprise sales initiatives and providing steadfast support to our global team. Focused exclusively on Fortune 1000 organizations, my responsibilities span end-to-end oversight of the sales cycle, catering to C-level and VP-level buyers.

  • Managing at $10million book of business (annually) focused on Technical Services supporting Fortune 1000 customers globally. Focus areas include – Data Analytics, Data Science, Data Engineering, GenAI / Intelligent Application development and deployment, Product Engineering, Product Strategy, and Data Monetization.
  • Responsible for driving revenue and profit goal within Diamond and Platinum accounts and supporting commercial strategy in tandem with Client Partner teams globally.
  • Leading / Managing a small team of AE's focused on driving net new business within pre-existing accounts and identified new logo targets.
  • Partnering with Client Partner teams to identify and drive new revenue streams within existing Diamond and Platinum accounts.
  • Established and maintained strong relationships with key clients, conducting regular business reviews, identifying opportunities for upselling and cross-selling
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with internal teams to deliver tailored solutions that meet and exceed client expectations, resulting in increased customer satisfaction and retention.
  • Collaborate closely with capability leaders and cross-functional teams to co-create innovative and bespoke solutions that address the unique needs of our clients.
  • Leverage deep industry knowledge and technical expertise to align solutions with client objectives, enhancing overall service delivery.
  • Drive resource planning initiatives, utilizing bench resources effectively across seven countries to meet client demands and ensure optimal project staffing.
  • Implement efficient resource allocation strategies, balancing project requirements with skill sets, resulting in improved project delivery timelines and client satisfaction.

Notable Accomplishments

  • $11 million of revenue in 2023 against an $7.5 million annual target.
  • Successfully onboarded 2 new Diamond (fortune 100) accounts in 2023
  • Onboarded and promoted 2 Enterprise AE's into Global AE' roles in 2023

Partner / Director of Sales

GavinHeath
07.2019 - 05.2021
  • Responsible for leading a team of Account Executives (6 Individual Contributors), Recruiters (7) and Administrative Employees
  • Created quarterly and yearly sales objectives built around revenue, profitability, sales activity and various metrics / KPI’s.
  • Built and trained sales team to focus on solution driven Talent Acquisition strategies to help differentiate GavinHeath from our ever-growing / changing competitive landscape.
  • Created and implemented sales and recruiting strategies for different levels and seniority of individual contributors with a focus on continual professional and personal improvement.
  • Responsible for strategic Business Development within Enterprise and Mid-Size customers resulting in $2 million profit in 2021
  • Partnering with C-Level, VP and Director level customers to provide innovative talent and technical solutions across a variety of industries.
  • Partner with external consulting firms to help provide a suite of services to our enterprise level customers resulting in a highly profitable partnership strategy.
  • Successfully grew Enterprise customer list by 20% and increased revenue by 100% over a 24 month period.
  • Responsible for leading Account Executives to help drive business / revenue and strategic ways to build out their specific recruiting pods to deliver top tier talent to new and existing customers.
  • Implemented weekly, monthly and quarterly goals and managed our team’s outcome through specific metrics that matched the urgency, speed-to-market needs and technical needs of our customers.
  • Working with internal teams to compile and analyze data, then delivering data to C-level executives (internal and external) to help identify areas for improvement, updating internal metrics and to support business decisions at a strategic level.
  • Responsible for educating internal and external customers around full lifecycle recruiting/on-boarding best practices including but not limited to - market research, salaries per skill set and location, number of interviews per hire, interview duration, types of interviews per skill set, etc.

West Region Sales Manager

Medicus Healthcare Solutions
08.2018 - 07.2019
  • Initially hired to expand West Region footprint across Health Systems in New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arizona, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana and the Dakotas.
  • Successfully brought on 28 new Hospital / Health System clients that resulted in over $2million in revenue in under 12 months.
  • Promoted into a Operations Management role which included the responsibility of overseeing a team of 12 Recruiters, 4 Account Executives, 5 Account Managers and 4 Health Care Administrative Workers (credentialing and implementations team).
  • Partnered with healthcare C-Level employees to create, build and implement strategic recruiting initiatives surrounding Locums (contract Physicians) and Contract/Traveling Nurses.
  • Implemented analytical tools within Medicus to help provide our clients with local maret intel, month-to-month travel costs, and other state driven statistics surrounding patient volume with the hopes of creating recruiting strategies based on busy and slow times of the year.
  • Worked with internal C-Level Partners to implement strategic internal recruiting efforts to attract talent in the markets that we served.
  • Partnered with outside Diversity and Inclusion firms to help create, build and implement diverse hiring strategies for internal hires.

Director of Sales

Flowstate Marketing
06.2016 - 01.2018
  • Brought into the company as 1st FTE (outside of ownership) to build a high-functioning sales team and grow revenue in the digital / physical marketing space.
  • Successfully built sales, production and delivery teams totalling 15 new hires in 12 months across 3 different disciplines.
  • Implemented new CRM, Project Management and Production Management tools to help with a variety of data / analytics for internal and external customer use. Most successful analytics provided our clients with data surrounding SEO / SEM functions that allowed them to partner in building marketing / branding strategies from a local, national and global level.
  • Partnered with C-Level Employees and a variety of businesses to help create strategies surrounding marketing plans, physical marketing revenue and new website build outs.
  • Managing / working with B2B Account Executives to act as overarching support and expert for all RFP’s, RFQ’s, QBR’s and other proposals / reviews.
  • Managed all digital marketing projects for over 20+ clients at any given time.
  • Worked with ownership to develop pricing models, sales strategy, sales territories and provided analytics surrounding
    companies' marketing spend per region.
  • Sales team grew company revenue from $250k in 2016 to over $3million in 2018.
  • Working with clients to consult and provide marketing strategies based on quarterly and annual goals

Account Manager

Aerotek
05.2008 - 06.2016
  • Started as a Recruiting Intern in 2008, moved to a Commercial Recruiter in 2011, Promoted to an ARM in 2012, Promoted to AM in 2013.
  • Account Manager (Commercial from 2013 - 2015), Moved to E&E in 2015 selling mainly Construction in Northern Colorado and Wyoming.

Education

Bachelor of Arts - Communication Studies

Colorado State University
Fort Collins
05.2011

Skills

  • Enterprise Business Development
  • Professional Services Sales
  • Collaborative Leadership
  • Practice Operations Management
  • Team Building and Motivation
  • Pipeline Development
  • Marketing Strategy
  • Sales Strategy
  • Stakeholder Engagement
  • Business Planning
  • Contract Management
  • Negotiation

Timeline

Sr. Director, Global Client Services

Blend360
05.2021 - Current

Partner / Director of Sales

GavinHeath
07.2019 - 05.2021

West Region Sales Manager

Medicus Healthcare Solutions
08.2018 - 07.2019

Director of Sales

Flowstate Marketing
06.2016 - 01.2018

Account Manager

Aerotek
05.2008 - 06.2016

Bachelor of Arts - Communication Studies

Colorado State University
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