Christopher Miele Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Walton Hills, Ohio, Us

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Us

Since my start at Icahn in 2018, I have been promoted twice for demonstrating success in senior-level sales leadership; and I have currently had my leadership-reach increased to now direct sales in a Northeast and South region spanning NY / NJ / CT / MA / PA / DE / TX / MS 🔹 In this role while I continue to perform all of my Senior Area Director functions that I held in my New York centric area role, they are now at a scaled-up, increased responsibility, to cover a Northeast multi-state, regional reach. I embrace the new challenges ahead, and continue my determination in exceeding expectations.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Us

Having demonstrated tremendous success in maintaining retention of my Auto Plus Area’s top-earning employees and driving increased sales revenue for that metro NY area, I was promoted to Senior Area Director of Icahn Automotive’ s NY Metro / Hudson Valley / Long Island, NY territory. This promotion increased my span of responsibility as a leadership executive to have sales oversight of a very large volume area in the organization, and to have management-reach touching approximately 200 employees.🔹 As Senior Area Director, I delivered top-notch, executive level leadership and program management. In order to succeed I believe having strong managerial teams is pivotal, and I always have eyes on our talent pool, maintaining an active pipeline of viable candidates for when a need arises for location management. Another strength of mine is sharing knowledge both up and down within the organization: I provided this area’s locations’ internal management teams with consultative advisement and strategic leadership, for sales plans enablement, to further develop business growth; I also provided upper management and the C-Suite with business development and operational improvement thought leadership, communicating what I hear from the location managers and what I see during those engagements, in connection with my input on implementing new process - in this way I am strategic in helping to drive change to steer our locations in the right direction to be profitable.🔹 I maintained adaptability, to ensure that whatever comes our way from changes in industry or technology, or from the state of the global economy, we are prepared to adjust our business model as needed. Even during the challenges of the current COVID pandemic, we have been able to sustain profit.

Kennesaw, Georgia, Us

A pivotal time in my career was when I started at Auto Plus, being hired directly by then Icahn CEO to sustain and increase the success of a key territory. My years of success in business ownership and management within the auto parts industry, in conjunction with my strong people management and sales operations experience qualified me for this opportunity, but I knew that coming into an organization in a senior managerial role from the outside can be challenging ….- so I hit the ground running and proved my ability to effectively direct large volume sales and distribution, attaining respect and trust from the South Bronx, NY locations’ management team and staff that I was tasked with leading. 🔹 Over two years, I strategically and tactically led the maintaining and the improvement of profitability. I directed my Area’s store managers and outside sales team to drive: increased sales, organic growth and margin, as well as to manage expense control. My formula to manage toward positive cash flow, was in driving the achievement of forecasted sales, maintaining payroll costs within budget and controlling operating expenses, as well as managing all corporate assets - including accounts receivable (AR) and inventory.

The experience I gained during 10+ years of managing the general operations and having shared ownership in our independent, family-owned and operated multi-location aftermarket auto parts distribution business, was invaluable! It is during this dynamic tenure that I leveraged and grew my leadership expertise across: customer acquisition / retention / satisfaction; sales and business development; and in managing teams (totaling 45+ employees), to bring out their top-performance. 🔹 I was hands-on in thoroughly assessing P&L, and then proactively finding innovative ways of improving productivity and profitability. This continuous improvement of sales and operations, in conjunction with my spearheading and establishing of an ecommerce channel, not only broadened our market-reach, but it resulted in achievement of multi-million-dollar revenue, year-over-year (YOY). 🔹 My forte of building genuine trust with customers, internal staff, alliance partners and vendors, afforded our business a reputation of reliability and commitment in product delivery that exceeded our competitors. While I held broad-reach responsibility, my strength in business development was quickly recognized, and throughout my career has been a marker of professional distinction.