Amanda German Email & Phone Number

New York, NY, US

New York

• Oversees Specialty Gift reps and key account sales in majority of US, including special attention to National Parks and craft stores
• Grows sales in person at major seasonal gift trade shows: Atlanta AmericasMart, Shoppe Object, NY NOW, Las Vegas Market, Dallas Total Home & Gift Market, and LA Mart
• Advances gift rep relationships: seasonal sell-in presentations, selling tools, orders & shipments
• Creates promotional materials to highlight themes, top selling brands, and new titles

• Oversaw multiple rep groups in east-coast and southern US regions
• Advanced gift rep relationships: rep training, seasonal sell-in, selling tools, orders & shipments
• Managed key accounts: Learning Express, Hallmark, Becker's, Von Maur, LL Bean, Fat Brain, Buc-ees
• Grew sales at major gift trade shows such as Atlanta AmericasMart and NY NOW
• Created promotional materials to highlight themes, top selling brands, and new titles

Greater New York City Area

Greater New York City Area

• Sold and customized title collections to B&N College buyers
• Prepared sales analyses and materials for all buyer appointments, utilizing Bookscan data
• Tracked co-op by creating title promotion lists, balancing budgets, & examining inventory demand
• Increased efficiency of Print on Demand partnership with Lightening Source
• Liaison between account buyers, production, customer service, and credit

New York, NY

• Attended major and minor S&L nationwide conferences, strategizing in-booth title placement
• Developed social media expertise by constructing daily Fb posts for Mac Kids S&L page
• Coordinated all S&L related author travel and money reimbursement
• Designed activity guides, coordinated team's schedules, and prepared materials for weekly Reading Without Walls diversity campaign meetings

Peabody, MA

• Shelved and assembled displays for all product entering the children and young adult departments
• Created and led biweekly story time and book-themed activities for children of all ages
• Provided catered customer service by recommending and ordering appropriate books
• Constructed weekly social media posts relating to children’s and young adult literature
• Above and Beyond Customer Service Award recipient

Somerville, MA

• Organized and packaged books for awards-committee members, educators, and librarians
• Wrote letters promoting Candlewick titles eligible for ALA and state awards
• Formulated author interview questions for Candlewick CIRC department newsletters

Allentown/Salisbury School Districts, Allentown, PA

• Taught full-time in urban first grade and suburban fourth-grade classrooms
• Designed and implemented original lesson plans in keeping with Common Core standards
• Constructed pencil and paper, alternative rubric, and formative assessments
• Designed and executed unit plans on organizing, representing, and interpreting data
• Organized hallway visual display including student writing and illustrations
• Attended parent/teacher conferences and Journeys curriculum In-Service

Lynn, MA

• Mentored underserved high school students navigating the college admissions process
• Taught weekly classroom of students SAT strategies for reading and writing
• Helped create, advise, and edit each student's personal statement essay
• Distributed original lesson plans to all coaches as duty of Head Coach of Verbal Subjects
• Supervised student college trips including information sessions and college tours

Columbia Publishing Course

• Six-week intensive graduate course on all aspects of book, magazine, and digital publishing • Book workshop sales manager of Knapsack.

Bachelor Of Arts, Psychology, Elementary Education Certification, Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Tour Guide, Campus Delegate, Phi Mu Women's Fraternity • Psi Chi National Honors Society: Established Psychology.