National Sales Manager

Top Management

• Utilize excellent customer service skills to facilitate the recommendations, selection and acquisition of merchandise, based on customer's requests
• Partner with the marketing team to provide products to advertise based on market trends to boost sales
• Continuously maintain knowledge of sales and product promotions
• Directly responsible for all sales to all national chains (BB&B, Crate and Barrel and more).
• Spearheaded grocery channel markets, by remerchandising products to fit needs of the grocery market.
• Created full product marketing presentations for the grocery market.
• Provide quality leadership and support for Swissmar's regional sales representation, which entails coaching, mentoring, problem solving, facilitating creative improvements, and inspiring team sales.
• Seek out new avenues for sales and growth.
Key Accomplishments;
- Increased National Accounts sales - 18.3% over last year
- Increased Key account sales - 33.2% over last year
- Increased Grocery account sales - 200% over last year

Evolve - IBB, Northampton, USA, MA
• Sales, Business Development.
• Established distribution for Housewares manufacturers in New England.
• Wholesale and retail sales of kitchen small wares, kitchen equipment and tabletop for commercial entities and the general public
• Developed marketing plans and customer presentations.
• Successfully established and maintained relations with over 60 independent retail businesses along with several larger retails chains in order to achieve sales of over $1.2m.

Sales Representative

Canada, Quebec
• Regional Sales Manager for Key Accounts,
• Developed a comprehensive sales plan that established short and long-term revenue goals and objectives that required knowledge of potential customers and the competition.
• Directly responsible for managing sales of Key accounts: Linen Chest, Loblaws, Home Depot and more.
• Identified, evaluated and captured new customers.
• Established new accounts in the Pharmaceutical industry
• Practiced a "need-based" selling technique that keeps the client's business needs front and center.
• Worked closely with internal groups to gauge customer satisfaction, identify customer needs, develop and present appropriate solutions.
Key Accomplishments-
- Increased Key Account sales - 16.1%
- Increased Pharma sales - 100% all new sales

Regional Sales Manager

Canada, Quebec
• Developed products and marketing strategies for the new product launch.
• Responsible for purchases and inventory maintenance of over 1000 SKUs, JIT stock replenishment
• Key Accomplishments-Responsible for the following departments on the selling floor:
•Managed an open-to-buy of $20 for several product categories.
•Monitored sales, targeted slow-moving merchandise - maximized sales $12M
- Increased Gadget sales - 65%
- Increased Barware sales - 27.2%
- Increased Salt & Pepper sales - 19%

Product Marketing Manager

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