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St Louis, Missouri, United States

United States

St Louis, Missouri, United States

Responsible for overseeing the daily sales activities, meeting with clients, writing sales reports, designing effective sales strategies, and marketing company products and services.

St Louis, Missouri, United States

Saint Louis, Mo

- Create and produce new sales opportunities using consultative selling skills to close complex sales within a given vertical and/or territory.- Identify and deliver solutions for new customers that meet a wide variety of customers needs.- Partners with prospective clients to understand business needs, issues, strategies, and priorities and deliver valuable business solutions. - Build and develop networks to share information and cultivate prospects.- Develops responses to Request for Proposals - participates in presenting products and services .- Leverages industry knowledge and applications in order to find and close opportunities identify key trends and customer needs.- Responsible for the initial account relationship and meeting revenue objectives and other performance metrics.

Greater St. Louis Area

Greater St. Louis Area

Greater St. Louis Area

Responsible for coaching and developing a team of Retail Sales Consultants to achieve daily, monthly and yearly customer and revenue goals. Also responsible for operational success for a multimillion dollar corporate owned location to ensure the store operates at the highest possible efficiency and profitability levels, including staffing, hiring, and discipline with accountability actions.

Greater St. Louis Area

Specialized in new and existing customer attainment by providing an extraordinary customer experience through asking questions to build value for every AT&T customer that walks into the retail store. Handled all administrative aspects of a customer interaction including taking payments, establishing new accounts and build a package based on the customers individual needs. Recognized two out of four quarters for reach for the top award by ranking as top 3 retail sales consultant for the quarter. Top 8% in the nation ranking among all Retail Sales Consultants for the year company wide 20,000+ employees. Also, as a Retail Sales Consultant I earned the highest small business certification offered to specialize in growth of small business for the store. Finished top 5% in overall home solutions attainment for the market in all 4 quarters I was in this role.

• Managed 4 locations with 16 direct reports to exceed sales targets through managing by objective• Managed churn through POS expectations, coaching, and developing• Proactively searched for ways to grow our core business through exploring beyond our stores• Identified best practices within the retail channel to maintain maximum buy in• Designed and rolled out the "Events Team" for the St Louis market• Managed inventory levels and performed weekly audits• Recruited and hired top notch talent to represent the Clear brand• Worked events to build the brand in our local business district

St Louis, Mo

• Obtained Gross Profit targets and Sales Plan targets each month in 2010 • Achieved the highest traffic conversion % as a store for Wireless Vision STL for Q2, Q3, & Q4• Discovered areas of opportunity for reps and developed them to be effective leaders at the next level• Maintained an average of 94% Voice of the Customer for 2010• Ensure store was properly staffed for the needs of the business• Worked closely with other managers to ensure maximum efficiency• Worked daily to manage inventory levels and manage

Business Management

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