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North Vancouver & West Vancouver

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Responsible for developing, launching, and supporting a go to market strategy for a new product category at a start-up company.
• Consistently increase sales by leading B2B initiatives across distinct verticals which include wholesale retailers and promotional product corporations.
• Directly manages notable North American wholesale retail accounts, including national grocery store chains.
• Actively involved in contract negotiations and coordinates complex interdivisional sales processes.
• Hires, trains, and supports a growing sales team

Vancouver, Canada Area

Coquitlam, British Columbia

• LED Candle Division (Retail), NII Northern International, Inc. (NII), Coquitlam
• Successfully meets and exceeds sales goals every year
• Personally succeeded in creating an inside sales initiative in 2016
• Manages thirteen sales representatives across Canada
• Maintains and increases sales with personal accounts which includes both retail chains and small enterprises
• Substantial international and domestic travel experience delivering hands-on sales training

Coquitlam, British Columbia

• LED Candle Retail Division, NII Northern International, Inc., Ontario & B.C.
• Traveled throughout Ontario selling face-to-face to privately-owned retailers; included scheduled meetings and cold-calls
• Grew sales in British Columbia by 21% while cultivating a loyal customer base
• Established protocols to ensure proper merchandising and customer satisfaction, which promoted re-orders
• Learned to quickly adapt and tailor a sales approach for each unique retailer to effectively sell and communicate in any circumstance
• Developed a resilient, positive and passionate attitude towards the challenges of the sales world

Vancouver, Canada Area

• LED Candle Hospitality Division, NII Northern International, Inc., Vancouver B.C.
• Travelled within B.C. selling candle light solutions to restaurants and hotels
• Attained a comfortability for cold-calling and speaking confidently to new people
• Successfully increased quarterly sales by 30%

Burnaby, British Columbia

• LED Candle Division, NII Northern International, Inc., Burnaby
• Managed daily operations at a Metro-Town Mall kiosk
• Learned the intricacies of selling from the retailer perspective to consumer
• Sales from the kiosk helped move stagnant inventory
• Set the ground work for a new division for NII, the Gift Store Division, by proving LED candles could successfully retail in a mall-setting

Coquitlam, British Columbia

• NII Northern International, Inc., Coquitlam
• Acted as a secondary line of quality control by testing product, matching LEDs and salvaging product parts from returned items
• Unpacked containers, packed shipments and helped deliver orders
• Learned to value and respect the work of those who operate behind the scenes

Real Estate Trading Services License

Honours Specialization In History