Brian Taylor Email & Phone Number

Cleveland, OH, US

Hudson, Ohio, United States

Performance Coatings Group

✦ Serve as an integral executive leader responsible for overseeing a team of 7 direct reports, including influencing the VPs of Marketing for 6 business units, leveraging expertise to establish strategy alignment, expand business, and build business synergies across the business units, achieving 14% growth in 2 years.✦ Established an in-house Marketing.

Paint Stores Group

✦ Promoted to Senior Vice President of Sales and Marking for the North America Paint Stores Group with 4.6K stores, responsible for leading a team of 8 VPMs, 3 Sr. Directors including the Market Research and Sales Excellence teams driving the sales process supporting 3K+ Sales Representations, focusing on the customer journey, points that matters, and.

Mid Western Division

✦ Oversaw the Midwest Division, which included over 1K+ company owned stores and 700+ Sales Reps, reporting to the division president and leading a team of 8 direct reports and indirect influence of 5 VPs of sales. ✦ Utilized expertise to write the operating plan for the $1.5B+ business division from a strategic perspective, directing all segment marketing.

Ohio & Michigan

✦ As the Vice President of Sales for Ohio and Michigan, oversaw a team of 8 District Managers, providing strategic guidance to support 200+ organizational stores and 150+ representatives. ✦ Established a team culture and solid foundation that delivered a performance exceeding goals and targets and earned top-performing areas for consecutive years, driving.

Greater Chicago Area

✦ Transitioned to Metro District Manager in Chicago, taking over a $100M+ business territory with 70+ stores and 40+ territories that had not achieved target goals in over 20 years. ✦ Pivoted the business unit that was behind plan for the year and transitioned the performance to finish the year $3M over PBT plan, earning the Circle of Excellence Award, the.

Orlando, FL

✦ Performed as Metro District Manager in business unit with declining performance, transforming focus and pivoting team into 1 of organization’s top performers in sales and PBT, generating $5M+ in PBT improvement annually, earning Circle of Excellence Award.

Meriden, CT

✦ Functioned as District Manager throughout a very challenging economic time, taking over and transforming 2 districts into 1 Metro Connecticut District, consolidating 23 stores and 14 sales reps, focusing on reducing SG&A and improving the service model. ✦ Drove strategy that supported opening of 3 stores and expanded into new territories, becoming 1 of.

✦ Built top-performing team with 70% of representatives achieving targeted goals, exceeding sales and profit goals for all 3 years.✦ Recognized as the only sales manager in the entire Eastern Division out of 80+ District Leaders to achieve the Circle of Excellence Award and the Eastern Division Sales Manager of the Year.

Mba, Business, Management, Marketing, And Related Support Services

Bs, Marketing Management

Activities and Societies: SHU Lacrosse Team - 1995-1997