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Park Ridge, IL, US

Addison, Illinois, US

• Key Responsibilities:1. Strategic Leadership:
• Develop and implement comprehensive sales and marketing strategies that align with the company's goals and objectives.
• Lead market research initiatives to identify trends, competitive landscape, and new opportunities for business growth.
• Provide strategic direction on pricing, product placement, and promotional activities.2. Revenue Growth:
• Set and monitor sales targets, ensuring the achievement of revenue goals.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with key clients, partners, and stakeholders to foster business growth.

Addison, Illinois, US

• Analyze, forecast and prepare all annual budget documents for North American division, including both top-line sales on a customer and product level and bottom-line expenses.
• Review and provide analysis on monthly sales figures and expenses, proposing modifications to increase profitability.
• Create and deliver dynamic business reviews and product training presentations to customer merchants & sales teams, manufacturer’s representatives and internal colleagues.
• Assumed responsibilities for inventory planning, logistics and operations processes.
• Travel internationally to annual marketing meeting, presenting current fiscal status, new initiatives and programs that impact future growth, division goals and best practices for North America.
• Built direct-to-consumer website from scratch, now generating over $25K annually in sales.

Glenview, IL, US

• Analyzed consumer electronics space and select most profitable categories (volume, volume growth, profit margins, etc.). Built and maintained strong relationships with vendors, and distributors while seeking out new.
• Performed analysis, competitor comparison, analyzed sales trends, and defined growth opportunities
• Increased product offerings through 3rd party fulfillment utilizing expanded assortment, secondary source fulfillment, and new product lines and categories.
• Negotiated with vendors to ensure profitability, increase efficiency, and ensure product availability, to maximize profitability and surpass margin goals.
• Provided business-side support during integration with new vendors. Acted as liaison between technical resources, set deadlines and manage project integration.
• Led purchasing team to increase efficiency, enhance automation and deliver excellent customer service to our customers

Avondale Estates, GA, US

• Managed over 54 active etail account placements, including Amazon.com, Walmart.com and Overstock.com, across 15 individual manufacturers with total sales exceeding $15 million.
• Collaborated with manufacturer and Internet reseller partners to create and execute direct-to-consumer marketing and brand awareness campaigns.
• Identified and pursued business opportunities from new Internet reseller customers.
• Developed business plans to drive profitable sales growth within the Internet reseller business segment.
• Built divisional master business plan template to organize and track sales initiatives, goals and responsibilities.

Avondale Estates, GA, US

• Earned responsibility for $14 million annual sales quota for the office commercial channel, including United Stationers, SP Richards, Staples, Office Max and Office Depot.
• Delivered 5.6% revenue increase over two-year period in a down market.
• Developed marketing materials for internal and external sales representatives, such as sales and training presentations, flyers, brochures, sales sample kits and other collateral.
• Drove sales promotions and other demand generation activities.
• Directed onsite quarterly training sessions at customer locations and presented at industry trade shows nationwide.

• Managed all aspects of the catalog review process for the office commercial channel.
• Coordinated information from the regional product managers for catalog availability.
• Developed marketing materials for internal and external sales representatives, such as sales and training presentations, flyers, brochures, sales sample kits and other collateral.

Lake Zurich, Illinois, US

• Responsible for all areas of Wal-Mart, Target, and other mass market retail accounts within the Swingline business unit.
• Managed sales, marketing and financial analysis for product placement at each customer.
• Collaborated with product, graphics and operations teams within ACCO to create unique business solutions for the end consumer.
• Worked closely with customers to schedule and implement promotions and planogram sets.

Lake Zurich, Illinois, US

• Maintained accounts receivable for over 200 customers.
• Ran weekly and monthly financial reports.
• Designed and implemented a report format for entire department.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Psychology

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Psychology