Brad Skipper Email and Phone Number

Action-oriented, self-starting sales professional with more than 25 years of sales & marketing experience, equally suited for business development, corporate accounts or sales and marketing management position. A team player, with an in-depth knowledge of the processes used in successfully launching new brands/products, as well as re-establishing and re-positioning existing product lines. Possesses a superior ability to reach and persuade critical decision makers in the distribution and end user communities, as well as in the Federal, State and Local governments. Well prepared, tenacious and entrepreneurial. Have managed and led both direct and indirect sales teams, as well as having served as the primary liaison for distributor sales forces. A great communicator and motivator that works well with others, has mostly had a primary role in establishing and achieving the sales objectives of the organization. Proactive, forward thinker that endeavors to do things right the first time, has had great success selling manufacturer’s brands, private labeled goods and OEM’d products. Strong, functional knowledge of full-line and specialty distributors, distributor buying groups, GPOs, MCOs, PBMs, Nursing Home Chains, VA/DOD/FSS and state and local governments. Has also had sales success with retail pharmacies, pharmacy wholesalers, laboratory distributors, veterinary distributors, dental distributors, corporate health and wellness and occupational health entities. Always looking to grow distribution and/or add new channels of sales.Specialties: Regional & National Leadership • Strategic & Tactical Planning • Business Partnering • Market & Account Expansions • Consultative & Solution Sales • Technical Sales • Demand Generation • B2B • Client Acquisition & Retention • Revenue Generation • P&L • Talent Development • Goal Setting • Performance Management • Benchmarking •Communications • Presentations • Vendor Management • Consensus Building • Problem Solving