Chris Gabel: Owner in Butler, NJ

Responsible to manage multiple projects from start to finish with up to 10 employees at one time. Strategically built sales by approximately 30% from 2013 to 2014 through innovative marketing initiatives. Initiated and maintained relationships with suppliers, customers & professionals within other trades as strategic partnerships.

Met and worked with Fortune 500 companies to small venues booking and promoting our artists. Enthusiastic, self directed, team player. Prepared demo's and spec sheets for artists as a way to book them shows and festivals. Generated and maintained relationships with a variety of venues, promoters and multi-media resources. Supreme ability to find the right talent for the right project.

Performed sales for Fortune 500 company who is an industry leader in voluntary insurance industry. Confidently solicited warm and cold leads to introduce Aflac’s various services, showing businesses how to make a 7% tax savings, worked with employers from opening meeting to final employee paperwork and able to keep relationships for years. Confident performing business to business sales, through warm and cold markets, including cold calls and cold walk-ins. Innovatively created and ran Trade Show booths and Sales Promotions to solicit as many secondary meetings with business owners. Assisted business owners and human recourse managers to construct supplemental insurance plans that best fit the needs of there employees. Co-ordinated and confidently ran presentation meetings to groups of up to 40 employees, demonstrating the value of AFLAC, gaining employees trust and running in person interviews to determine the best programs available to each individual employee. Maintained account profiles, including product offerings, servicing, presenting and enrolling. Provided hiring, training, coaching, and mentoring to new sales agents.

Performed and oversaw daily sales operations and project management for a contracting company with 20 employees at any time. Excellent ability to solve most large or small problems that would come our way. Advised clients on monies needed to start and complete projects and instructed them in the processes we would be constructing there project. Exceptional daily project management skills, working closely with clients and suppliers from the beginning to completion of projects. Ran weekly OSHA safety meetings with all employees which included MSDS Sheets for all products and personal safety. Interviewed, understood new hire paperwork, communicated with, trained, disciplined, developed, and reviewed employees performance for 20+ employees. Managed and maintained all administrative record keeping systems including; time sheets, expense reports, weekly schedules and invoicing.