I am a business development professional with a proven track record of delivering profitable revenue growth and client success. I am an exceptional communicator with a consultative sales style, strong negotiation skills, a keen client needs assessment aptitude and problem solving abilities.Throughout my career I have held a series of positions, each with an increasing level of responsibility focused on the financial services, payments and retail industries.At Citizens, I was responsible for developing new business and establishing meaningful partnerships. This included managing a pipeline of prospects, qualifying leads by aligning value proposition with partner needs, presenting to key decision makers and winning new business.At Mastercard, I was responsible for leading business development efforts and growing partner relationships. In collaboration with internal and external partners and cross-functional teams, I developed and executed vertical and account-specific strategies to deliver customer value. Through industry expertise and a disciplined solution sales & account management approach, I was able to identify customer needs and align them with relevant and compelling products & services.During my tenure at Staples, I assumed increasing levels of project work and responsibility within the Payments Marketing team. I played an integral role in growing the Staples private label credit card portfolio and leading business development efforts to build strategic partner alliances with payment brands and financial institutions. I was also responsible for market research and product development efforts for commercial and consumer payment products.Prior to Staples, my experience includes marketing and product management with a start-up credit card issuer and working as an analyst within the market research & consulting industries.