Buford Watson Email & Phone Number

Kentucky, United States

- Lead a field sales team supporting Cricket Authorized Retailers in Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana & Virginia. - Responsible for KPI, distribution, and overall market share growth within my territory.- Work with Authorized retail owners to maximize profit of multi million dollar business Portfolios.- Ensure corporate and Authorized retail initiatives are in alignment, assist in the launch of new initiatives . - Work as a Liaison between Store build out vendors to ensure store launch target dates are met. Utilize build plans to ensure each store meets pre-opening and grand opening criteria.- Forecast sales and speak to results during weekly management meetings.- Work with Marketing Managers to find ways to increase brand presence and drive additional sales to locations. Also assist in coordinating outside events to reach additional audience.

Chattanooga, Tennessee Area

• Manage market owners and sales leadership to exceed growth and quality while holding all accountable to company expectations.• Relationship building and management specialist.• Implement small biz strategy, community outreach/ area sponsorship, while working with local community leadership such as minority groups and Chamber of commerce.• Maximizing gross profits and performance metrics for franchise owners while coaching them on best practices. • Track and report important quality metrics/ content to market leadership.• Head up all distribution in relation to Chattanooga market by opening new business or relocating existing businesses to ensure growth and market health• Communicate all promos, products, and corporate procedures to the field and track compliance.

Knoxville, Tennessee Area

Responsible for supervising a team of Sales Associates which includes setting and maintaining schedules, monitoring and coaching performance , Employee Development, recruiting and training proactively, recommending disciplinary action as required, managing inventory and assets, and professionally interacting with carrier partners and our client’s management and staff. As a General manager, I am Responsible for meeting individual Growth targets and Key Performance Indicators.

Knoxville, Tennessee Area

Assembling and Leading Project Team, Quality and Satisfaction, Monitoring Progress, and Reporting and Documentation of Y DNA tests for all Whaley subjects. Accumulating and compiling data to compare Haplogroups and discover common ancestors for test subjects,

Tennessee

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Tri-Cities , East Tennessee

Business acquisition and account Management for East Tennessee area.

Johnson City-Kingsport-Bristol Area

Manager ATT’s MI60 Call center

Corbin, Kentucky

Retail store Manager Corbin, Kentucky & Pigeon Forge, TN

Tennessee

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Tennessee

Manage AT&T's prepaid service (Cricket Wireless) national retail accounts for Chattanooga, Knoxville, and Tri-cities area. Create/Foster relationships between national retail partners, setting expectations and holding them accountable to company standards. Launched new programs and partnerships developing procedures to properly train new employees on company products.

Knoxville, Tennessee Area

• Exceeded my Goals for Knoxville COS at 110% and raised Customer survivability over 20% • Monitor Growth, ARPU, Churn, and Customer Survival.• Coach Employees on sales strategies. • Assure Store goals are met and exceeded. • Manage customer escalations with the highest level of Customer satisfaction. • Report trending sales and statistics to My RBM and DM. • Greet customers and ascertain what each customer wants or needs.• Open and close Retail Store, performing tasks such as counting money, separating charge slips, coupons, and vouchers, balancing cash drawers, and making deposits.• Maintain knowledge of current sales and promotions, policies regarding payment and exchanges, and security practices.• Compute sales prices, total purchases and receive and process cash or credit payment.• Maintain records related to sales.• Watch for and recognize security risks and thefts, and know how to prevent or handle these situations.• Work closely with safety and security to minimize loss.• Recommend, select, and help locate or obtain merchandise based on customer needs and desires.

Knoxville, Tennessee Area

• Worked as Sales Manager for 3 indirect cricket Wireless Stores.• Supervised up to 14 sales associates to exceed Dailey/Monthly sales quotas.• Organized team meetings discussing weekly goals and objectives.• Coached sales representatives throughout sales process to obtain best results Supervised up to $30,000 in cash flow daily.• Trained Sales Consultants with weekly role plays.• Developed process to increase Time Management and Productivity.• Recruited potential Employees.• Organized logistics of outbound venues and special

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