Benjamin Freedman Email & Phone Number

Toronto, On, Ca

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Toronto, Canada Area

Senior Account Executive, specializing in National and Private Label Brands, supplying North American retailers with hosiery & accessories.

Toronto, Canada Area

Beaverbrook provides apparel and fabric decorating solutions, with specialization in screen printing, flocking, sublimation & embroidery. • Develop sales presentations for new customers and proposals for existing customers, achieving 12% top-line revenue growth over previous year.• Aggressively drive sales volume of 150+ accounts and develop strong, sustainable relationships.• Review all major deliverables (ie strategic brief, timeline, technical spec, etc) to ensure quality standards, client expectations and required gross margin are met.• Present other senior management members with oral and written reports on customer needs, problems, interests, competitive activities, and potential for new products and services.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Work closely with Canadian and US-based buyers and designers, to develop and manage private label brands for their upscale fashion conscious, customers. It includes amongst others: HBC, Canada Goose, Roots, Buffalo David Bitton, Dillards, and Coldwater Creek. • Travel to Canada and US-based trade shows, including OFE, WWIN & StyleMax, to meet with customers, show the lines, and demonstrate selling techniques and merchandising strategies to the sales reps. • Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including production/supply-chain and marketing, in order to create merchandising plans and classifications suitable for Parkhurst brand.

• A 70% regional sales increase was achieved due to greater customer focus.• Developed new and successful internet based client sourcing techniques using social media platforms and mining new internet databases.• Introduced and developed one of the company’s top selling products, a less expensive microdermal implant.• Created trade show booth to re-energize brand image and attract new customers, which increased trade show sales from previous years.

• Maximized sales and customer satisfaction through excellent service and up-selling.• Opened second store in Vancouver and was held fully accountable for sales and profits

Certificate, Executive Development Course

Ba, Psychology

Education record